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THE MESOPOTAMIAN GAME OF UR was lost to the modern world until its excavation from the ancient Sumerian city of UR in the 1920’s, for which it is named after. It rivals the African “Mancala” as the “oldest game in the world.” Its discovery is credited to the British Archaeologist Sir Leonard Wooley when he unearthed an...
a blog for teachers who follow the Master Teacher 250 pounds of potatoes! Potatoes are almost always part of LEAPAsia’s book project visits to impoverished areas, but one trip stands out. That time we came home with five 50-pound bags, gifts from a Seed Fund scholarship family and the schools we visited. Yesterday some...
The Hawaiian Islands lack true lobsters with distinguishing enlarged pincers on the first pair of legs. Instead, spiny lobsters are more predominate here in Hawaiian waters. They are covered with forward pointing spines on the carapace and antennae for protection. During the day, spiny lobsters inhabit crevices of rock...
arsenical(redirected from arsenically) Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia. 1. pertaining to arsenic. 2. a compound containing arsenic; arsenicals were once widely used in medicine, but have now mostly been replaced by antibiotics. However, some are still used to treat infectious diseases, especially tho...
Article Contents :: Details Descriptions About :: familial mediterranean fever hereditary inflammatory disorder Familial mediterranean fever (hereditary inflammatory disorder) causes symptoms treatment Description of Familial Mediterranean fever (Hereditary inflammatory disorder) Familial Mediterranean fever, or heredi...
Metformin is a common medication given to people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. This group also happens to be considered high-risk for the coronavirus. Studies indicate the medication may help protect the vulnerable diabetics patients from some of the most severe symptoms of COVID-19 and reduce the number of fatalitie...
This paper analyses the processes by which organisms form groups and how social forces interact with environmental variability and transport. For aquatic organisms, the latter is especially important - will sheared or turbulent flows disrupt organism groups? To analyse such problems, we use individual-based models to s...
…But it is making great strides forward …But it is making great strides forward From the Archaeotech podcast: An in depth conversation with Chris Webster and Dr. Steven Holen, we would love to hear your thoughts regarding this topic Dr. Steven Holen, the primary author on a letter in Nature at the end of April, 2017 de...
5 edition of Adolescent behavior and society found in the catalog. Adolescent behavior and society Rolf Eduard Helmut Muuss December 31, 1999 by Random House . Written in English |The Physical Object| |Number of Pages||547| Soon their friendship becomes romantic, and Wendy is torn between her genuine affection and desi...
When one of our nurses knocked on my office door to tell me that the mandatory Hand Hygiene class for all hospital staff was starting, I sighed: “Oh, for Pete’s sake! I already know how to wash my hands!” But off I went, muttering. The class started with the instructor teaching us how to scrub-scrub-scrub our hands, in...
Generalization of Neural Networks – The topic for today’s article is how we can generalize a particular neural network. So in the last video, we saw how we represented weight in a matrix representation so that our computation becomes very easier for our Computing engine. Especially our Tensorflow or Pytorch. So in toda...
Born: c. 1758 Birthplace: Kohala, HI Location of death: Kailua, HI Cause of death: unspecified Race or Ethnicity: Asian/Pacific Islander Sexual orientation: Straight Executive summary: Established Kingdom of Hawaii After Captain James Cook's discovery of Hawaii in 1789, the islands were used mostly as a stopping point ...
Although Beowulf and Saint George are the most famous dragon slayers in British mythology, even they cannot defeat all the dragons that appear in the larger folklore of England, Wales, and Scotland. Many of these dragons, or “worms” as they are frequently called, have stories which link them with fixed locations throug...
Let’s face it – you just can’t go wrong with Lego! Now as technology advances, we’re blessed with better options for both you and your children when it comes to Legos. When I was young I spent hundreds of hours putting these things together, and now that Lego is letting us build robots, I’m over the moon. Not only can ...
Week 1: Introduction to Ruby · Lesson 1 · A quick overview of what we'll be doing in this class. Welcome to One Month's Learn Ruby course. I'm really excited to have you as a student, and I hope you're excited to learn some pretty cool stuff over the next month. By the end, if you stick along with it and do the work, I...
Regulating 'Quack' Medicine and Decision-Making for Children Re-Visited Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2016; 13(4):467-471 Posted: 10 Sep 2018 Date Written: September 3, 2018 We live in a world where we are finding it increasingly difficult to accept that we cannot cure every disease, and death itself represents the la...
Breaking Down Myths About Cerebral Palsy Cerebral palsy is often thought of as being a disease. In fact, it’s a group of disorders that can involve a range of symptoms and impairments related to nerve functions such as movement. Cerebral palsy can range in severity from mild to debilitating, often children with this di...
Single source essay citing Mla citation research paper I do this in sentence 1 in this paragraph. The title is different because "works consulted" pages are meant to complement "works cited" pages, and bibliographies may list other relevant sources in addition to those mentioned in footnotes or endnotes. They cite refe...
51 percent of people in Germany are women, but just 17 percent of supervisory boards and 6 percent of executive boards are female. Women in executive positions remain rare in Germany which regularly leads to a debate (at the moment among the Green Party members) about abolishing the splitting income taxation between co...
Why you should care This debate goes to the heart of America’s relationship with incarceration. This week: Should we make prisoners work for free? Let us know by email or in the comments below. When U.S. politicians talk of helping workers earn higher wages, they’re almost never referring to a group of people who const...
Both Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma brought a lot of destruction to the areas they recently moved through. These hurricanes created an awareness among Minnesota homeowners about how well their home could stand up to a tornado, if it were to hit their neighborhood. We have heard and seen on TV tornadoes ripping apa...
What Parts of the Body Are Affected When You Do Not Treat Gum Disease? The effects of gum disease are most evident in the mouth. Pink and swollen tissue, bleeding gums, and loose or missing teeth are all symptoms of gum disease. However, many people do not realize that the problems caused by gum disease do not stop in ...
Most APIs for online applications (Facebook, Twitter, Shipstation, etc) are in the form of an HTTP API. An HTTP endpoint is an online URL you can make requests to, similarly to how a browser would make requests to a normal website. The HTTP server would take requests with parameters and return relevant data. For exampl...
Gold has been extracted from carbonaceous ore by using cyanide, a chemical which is highly toxic to organisms, since 1887. Conversely, a less toxic method to extract gold from carbonaceous ores was researched and developed, utilising knowledge from the 1970s and further refining the information to achieve the desired o...
The book ‘Northing to Envy’ is about the lives of 6 North Korean defectors under the North Korean regime. With these accounts, the author portrays the regime very negatively, narrating their harrowing experiences and hardships in order to explore the system. The issue she highlights is that the regime is brutal, oppres...
432/9 = b the base dimensions are 48 in^3 it has rotational symmetry about the origin. if we rotate it 180 degrees about the origin we get the same graph. another rotation of 180 degrees also gives the same graph, so we have a rotational symmetry of 2. if a coin has two sides x and y the chance of it landing on x would...
UPDATE | This listing is an update of our 2017 state minimum wage information. In the U.S., states set minimum per hour wages an employer must pay its employees. However, the federal government sets a national minimum wage that supercedes the state rate. In other words, if the state has set a $5.25 per hour rate, the e...
Children Intelligence : How to Learn Languages Fast and Never Forget It The ultimate rapid language-learning guide! For those who’ve despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick.At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn th...
by Darla Hillard The Land of the Snow Leopard (LOSL) Network, now in its third year, is part of a groundbreaking collaboration between Western and Indigenous science. Our goal is to create pathways for Indigenous people to be equal partners in research and planning for conservation of snow leopards. This past September...
Lead is a toxic metal that is common in our lived environment, particularly in paint and soil (which can convert to dust) in older neighborhoods. The presence of lead in water is a growing concern among many people. Lead may also exists in many household items such as dishware, toys, spices, and cosmetics. This page is...
COVID-19 treatments are a better bet than a vaccine Health & Biotech Health & Biotech Link copied to COVID-19 vaccines are driving markets but treatments are where most people believe a solution to the pandemic lies. However, use of the two most famous treatments to date — Gilead Sciences’ HIV drug remdesivir and US Pr...
Palaeontology Sibelle MAKSOUD © Dany Azar Introduction • - Fossils very common in certain kind of rocks beautiful objects found high in the mountains? How are fossils formed?? Sedimentary layers (strata) in which the fossil is trapped are formed in an aquatic environment (basin, lagoon, lake…) Introduction How a perfec...
* Your assessment is very important for improving the work of artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project Before the bell… Take out your notes sheet from yesterday Look at the following pictures and think about things that must be considered Pre Harvesting of Trees and Post Harvesting of Trees. Eco...
Your screen time before bed is keeping you awake If you’re accustomed to zoning out before bed in front of your TV, phone, or computer, you are significantly hindering your brain’s ability to produce sleep hormones. A recent study found the blue light emitted from digital screens play a major role in sleep disturbances...
3 Act Math Tasks For: 7.G.6 - Grade 7 - Geometry Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume. Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cu...
We all know that smoking is bad for you, but what you might not know is that it is very bad for your pets as well. Secondhand and thirdhand smoke can be fatal to your furry friends. Secondhand smoke is smoke that is exhaled into the air and inhaled by your pet, while thirdhand smoke is the residue that is left on fur, ...
Everybody has heard about Wuhan. This big Chinese city has become famous overnight due to the novel virus. But few people know what Wuhan is all about. Located in the middle of China, in one of the country’s main traffic corridors, Wuhan serves as a major connection between east, west, north, and south. Nature wise, Wu...
The US Midterms is an interesting time in the American political cycle. Whilst Senate Races and Congressional Races are ways of viewing presidential approval, Governor races are a sort of wildcard. This is because governors do not conform to national politics of a state. Red states can vote for Democratic governors, su...
The US Food and Drug Administration – FDA – has recently approved a therapy, the first of its kind, to be effective for curing a rare type of thalassemia. The therapy uses Reblozyl (luspatercept – aamt) to treat anemia in grown patients having thalassemia type Beta. These patients require blood transfusions on regular ...
31 March 2016 – A year of conflict in Yemen has left an estimated 3.4 million women of reproductive age between 15 and 49 years in need of humanitarian assistance, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has reported, expressing growing concern about the situation. Of them, nearly 500,000 are pregnant and will give ...
Fatigue tests in simulated LWR environment of carbon and stainless steels were performed under high water flow rates between 7 to 10 m/s. For carbon steel, high flow rate of water clearly mitigated the environmental effect on a fatigue life at the high sulfur concentration of 0.016 wt% which caused high environmental e...
The immunoglobulin-like receptors provide positive and negative regulation of immune cells upon recognition of various ligands, thus enabling those cells to respond properly to extrinsic stimuli. Murine paired immunoglobulin-like receptor (PIR)-A and PIR-B, a typical receptor pair of the immunoglobulin-like receptor fa...
Table of contents: - 1 Ground floor – usable area - 2 Types of socles - 3 Calculations - 4 Types of foundation - 5 Width of basement - 6 Waterproofing - 7 Step by step instructions - 7.1 Base tab - 7.2 Filling - 7.3 Waterproofing and insulation - 7.4 Wall cladding - 7.5 Sex - 7.6 Overlap - 8 Concrete block basement con...
There are many light related phenomena in the sky, beyond those that we have learnt during our Physics tuition classes, such as Light Pillars, Parhelic circles, Zodiacal light and Auroras, just to mention a few. Let’s look at these events in more detail! Light pillars are an optical wonder where segments of light are s...
Meet the scientist who agreed to a unique experiment: volunteering to grow a tapeworm inside his intestines and monitor the effects on his health. - After swallowing a tapeworm cyst, Dr Leahy lived with a tapeworm for 11 weeks. - After three weeks, Dr Leahy began to lose weight. - By week 10, Dr Leahy began passing tap...
The McNamara Line In September 1967, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced a plan for the construction of an electronic anti-infiltration barrier south of the DMZ in Vietnam. The stated purpose of the barrier was to “sound the alarm” when North Korean troops attempted to enter the protected area. Once ...
Black holes have long captured the public imagination and been the subject of popular culture, from Star Trek to Hollywood. They are the ultimate unknown – the blackest and most dense objects in the universe that do not even let light escape. And as if they weren’t bizarre enough to begin with, now add this to the mix:...
The NSW Food Authority is advising consumers who are most vulnerable to Listeria infection such as older persons, and people who have weakened immune systems due to illness or pregnancy, to avoid eating rockmelon after a recent spike in listeriosis cases in elderly people has been linked to the fruit. As a precaution, ...
Herbs. Why are they essential for us & our pets? Herbs. What can they do for us? Why are they important? Holistic Vet Nick Thompson, MRCVS explains. Imagine a world without coffee. Without tea, or green tea or jasmine tea or mint tea after dinner. We would come to a grinding halt. Herbs are not just used in the kitchen...
Vorpal Hexapod Quick Links: - One or more Vorpal Hexapods with Gamepad equipped with SD card - Some small objects to use for obstacles - Masking tape or other tape to mark robot starting and ending positions. Preferably a kind of tape you can easily write on. - A marker that can write on the tape. For masking tape, mos...
by Ignacio Martinez on March 1, 2018 In a previous post, I talked about email phishing — a scheme used by hackers to try to gain access to your sensitive information, by imitating or impersonating a legitimate organization. With phishing, the bad actor convinces you to key in your sensitive information which they then ...
Predicting the future In a joint opinion paper, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, the Aix-Marseille Université, New York University and the University of Geneva call for the revision of previous theories on neuronal mechanisms of the temporal processing of music and language. They pres...
MALNUTRITION: PREVENTION, CAUSES, SIGNS AND HOME REMEDIES Malnutrition is most certainly nothing to be taken lightly. It’s important to know that this is not something that just comes about in third world countries as so many of us think of. While it is true that malnutrition is associated with children in these less d...
Adopted in 1927, the Kansas flag is a dark-blue rectangle including the state seal and a sunflower. The seal, located in the center of the flag, tells the story of Kansas with its motto, “Ad Astra per Aspera,” meaning “To the Stars through Difficulties.” The thirty-four stars above the motto signify Kansas as the 34th ...
THE VALUE OF WATER Water is necessary to life itself. Much as the human body relies on water to survive, virtually every aspect of society depends on water in order to function. Without it, there would be no fire protection, no agriculture, no manufacturing, and no power grid. Yet, this most precious resource is much o...
Most male breast conditions encountered in daily practice are benign, such as gynecomastia and pseudogynecomastia. However, eccentric breast masses as well as solid and cystic masses in male patients are usually suspicious, and workup should be initiated if encountered, according to Dr. Shaza Alsharif, a radiologist at...
AGATHA f English, Ancient Greek (Latinized) Latinized form of the Greek name Ἀγαθή (Agathe) , derived from Greek ἀγαθός (agathos) . Saint Agatha was a 3rd-century martyr from Sicily who was tortured and killed after spurning the advances of a Roman official. The saint was widely revered in the Middle Ages, and her name...
It’s long been known that the bacteria in our bodies have a major impact on our health, with studies suggesting that our microbiome can affect our physical and mental wellbeing. To help you achieve a healthy balance of bacteria, there are now a whole range of products on offer that contain probiotics or prebiotics. But...
- Art (6) - Comedies (4) - Context (6) - Deception drama and misunderstanding (4) - Devotional texts (3) - Elizabethan England (2) - Ethnicity and identity (1) - Gender sexuality courtship and marriage (4) - Global Shakespeare (4) - Hinduism (3) - Histories (1) - Illuminated texts (1) - Interpretations of Madness (2) -...
Diane Edith Watson was born November 12, 1933 in Los Angeles, California and has spent the majority of her life in the Los Angeles area. Her father was a Los Angeles policeman and her mother worked nights at a post office after her parents divorced when Watson was seven. In 1950 Watson graduated from Dorsey High School...
Tomorrow is the start of another year, in fact, another decade. Since this is a good time to reflect upon our lives, not to mention a good excuse to party, many traditions have arisen over the millennia to stimulate our celebrations. If you’ve ever wondered how some of these traditions have originated, The Writer’s Alm...
India is famous as the home to many ancient civilizations. Aryans, Moguls, Dravidians and many more civilizations have reached their apex in India. Chinese art, and in particular, Chinese painting is greatly treasured around the globe. Chinese painting can be retraced to as far back as six thousand years ago in the Neo...
Vaping – A Serious Safety Signal There is a major safety issue being discussed widely in the US on e-cigarettes and vaping. There have been significant adverse events and deaths in the US with them. In Europe and elsewhere this seems to be less of an issue because these events have not really occurred there (yet). [See...
The sun vitamin One billion people around the world suffer from a lack of vitamin D. We can only acquire enough of the important vitamin with sufficient sunbathing, or by taking the right supplements. Hair loss, depression, fatigue, skin diseases, cancer are among the health-related phenomena associated with vitamin D ...
Right to Privacy - November 6, 2017 - Posted by: admin - Category: General Knowledge The recent Supreme Court judgment that recognized the Right to Privacy as safeguarded under Article 21 of the Constitution is momentous in more ways than one. The judgment was pronounced by a nine-judge bench led by the then Chief Just...
Source: Forbes.com, by James Conca, February 26 A new company in Seattle, CTFusion, was recently awarded a $3 million grant by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency in Energy to help it develop the first commercial fusion reactor on this planet. CTFusion seeks to provide flexible, carbon-fre...
Please click on the title of the website to access the resource. The following document was compiled by select members of a team that developed the National Science Teaching Organization position statement, The Teaching of Climate Science (NSTA 2018). It expands on five important ideas related to the understanding and ...
The Espresso Of History A Brief Coffee Luigi Bezzera, the espresso owner of a manufacturing business invented espresso at the turn of the century. Luigi Bezzera was simply trying to figure out a way to brew coffee faster. He figured if he could just add pressure to the brewing process it would speed things up. Thus the...
Wheat is most commonly affected by nitrogen deficiency. This occurs especially during cold, wet conditions, and in well-drained soils in high rainfall areas. Light green to yellow colored plants can be commonly observed in sandy soils. If a plant is experiencing a potassium deficiency, it will have pale green leaves wi...
A five degree of freedom, robotic, radiosurgical system dedicated to the brain is currently under development. In the proposed design, the machine is entirely self-shielded. The main advantage of a self-shielded system is the simplification of the system's installation, which can reduce the cost of radiosurgery. In thi...
The institution is well prepared to handle and respond to gender sensitive issues and provide an environment where men and women can work together with a sense of personal security and dignity. For this purpose the institute has setup gender sensitization cell in April 2016. The cell engrosses the awareness about gende...
There are two major categories of living organisms such as prokaryotes and eukaryotes. They differ from each other by their cellular organization. Accordingly, prokaryotes have a simple cellular organization. They lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles. On the other hand, eukaryotes have a complex cellular organi...
Humans Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally (The New York Times): No one yet knows to what extent natural selection for local conditions may have forced the populations on each continent down different evolutionary tracks. But those tracks could turn out to be somewhat parallel. At least some of the evolutionary c...
Those three blind mice from the nursery rhyme might have a chance to see the farmer’s wife coming after all. For the first time, vision has been partially restored in blinded mice. The feat raises hopes that similar techniques might restore nerve-cell function not only in the human eye, but also in the spine and brain....
Comet Hyakutake’s close pass by Earth in late March brought more than spectacular sky watching for backyard astronomers: it was the first time a comet was found to emit X-rays. Aiming the X-ray-detecting rosat satellite at Hyakutake, astronomers from nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Max Planck Institute for E...
Brussels, 9 May 2016. On the occasion of Europe Day, a day to celebrate peace and unity in Europe, ECRE calls on European leaders to remember and uphold the values that contributed to the creation of the European Union. Renewing the EU’s respect for values will also help protect its interests and contribute to peace an...
Hi, and welcome to today’s webinar. For those of you who are new, hello. My name’s Haylie and I’m the Education Consultant here at EducationCity, and for those of you who have listened before, welcome back. So, today, we’re going to be looking at strategies to identify misconceptions and hopefully ways in which we can ...
Artificial intelligence could play a decisive role in stopping the Covid-19 pandemic. To give the technology a push, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is funding 10 projects at MIT aimed at advancing AI’s transformative potential for society. The research will target the immediate public health and economic challenges of this ...
One of the convictions that drew law professor and former EFF board member, Lawrence Lessig, to co-found Creative Commons was that a narrow and rigid application of copyright law made no sense in the digital age. Copying digital information over long distances and at virtually no cost is what the Internet does best; in...
The AI (adequate intake) of the DRI (dietary reference intake) for calcium ingestion ranges from 210mgs for an infant to 6 months old (what an infant will receive from its mother’s milk) to 1200 mgs per day for people over 51 years of age. A large number of Americans are following this protocol in daily calcium supplem...
Secure CheckoutPersonal information is secured with SSL technology. Free ShippingFree global shipping No minimum order. Topology Design Methods for Structural Optimization provides engineers with a basic set of design tools for the development of 2D and 3D structures subjected to single and multi-load cases and experie...
The field of computer-augmented reality is heating up, fueled both by system capabilities and consumer demand. The realm of extended reality (XR) has various fiefdoms, labelled Virtual reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), depending on how much they intrude into and modify the user’s world image...
Large-Scale Forest Experiment (image) University of Basel Share Print E-Mail Caption In a forest near Basel researchers study the effects of climate change on the most important and sensitive part of the trees - the canopy. A total of 450 trees between 50 and 120 years old grow on the 1.6 hectare research area. Credit ...
Science Activities help children to learn while having fun. These activities help in the development of a child from a very early age. The purpose of Science Activities is to make a child have a better understanding of things happening around them and develop problem solving skills. Since children are generally curious...
West Virginia (/vərˈdʒɪniə/ (listen)) is a state located in the Appalachian region in the Southern United States and is also considered to be a part of the Middle Atlantic States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and O...
- Walking immediately after eating is wrong as the digestive system needs extra blood to help digest the food that you ate. If you walk immediately , the blood goes to other organs, which is not good for digestion and absorption, as a result sometimes you might feel like vomiting & dizzy. - Before walking take at least...
If you start with the premise that many of the solutions to our global sustainability challenges require smart design and systems thinking, it doesn’t take long before you find your way to Autodesk. The 29-year-old design software company has made a series of impressive moves into the sustainability realm over the past...
Cucumbers fresh from the garden, sliced with a little bit of salt, are so much better than what you get from the grocery store. Garden cucumbers are so fresh and delicious and pretty straightforward to grow on your own! We’ll only warn you on one thing, when it comes time to harvest, unlike those grocery store cucumber...
The Emperor Penguin is a penguin that lives in Antarctica. It is the tallest and heaviest of all penguin species. Emperor Penguins are black and white like all penguins but the sides of their neck are golden. Emperors live in the coldest climate on earth. They breed at the beginning of the Antarctic winter (March and A...
Like our tulip fields in spring, acres of beautiful blooming sunflowers are another unique and stunning photo opportunity. Sunflowers typically bloom August-September in Western Washington. Several farms hold festivals during the blooming season. Enjoy self-guided field trips and u-pick opportunities. Below you will fi...
In November 1944 168 Allied airmen were being held in the concentration camp at Buchenwald. They were scheduled to be executed and cremated on orders from SS Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler. By sheer luck, it seems that Luftwaffe Oberst Hannes Trautloft was the German officer who discovered them during an inspection tou...
A Japanese university has broken its 70 year silence on the vivisection of US prisoners of war by its medical students and staff in the Second World War. In an exhibition in a new museum on its campus, Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, decided to broach the crimes for the first time after a vote by university professors, ...
Ikerbasque Professor Dr. Mazahir T. Hasan at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and his team and Professor Dr. José M. Delgado García and researchers at the Pablo de Olavide University from Seville have demonstrated for the first time the functional activity of this brain center during learning and memory tes...
Teasing, harassment, and bullying based on real or perceived religious differences have become an increasingly prevalent problem on school campuses. According to a poll conducted in 2017 by ISPU “more than two in five (42%) Muslims with children in K-12 school reported bullying of their children because of their faith....
I was a bit of a car nut when I was a boy, and while I’ve moved on to other interests, my eyes still tend to be drawn to automobiles. This is why, on my first visit to Japan just recently, I couldn’t help but notice that Japanese taxi cabs have their rear view mirrors mounted all the way forward over the front wheel we...
The color amber is a pure chroma color, located on the color wheel midway between the colors of gold and orange. The color name is derived from the material also known as amber, which is commonly found in a range of yellow-orange-brown-red colors; likewise, as a color amber can refer to a range of yellow-orange colors....
The Future of Electric Car Charging Our electric vehicle infrastructure project manager, Hugh Pickerill, takes a look at future technologies for electric car charging. The Electric Vehicle industry is a constant environment of change and innovation. This is after all, an industry spanning back to the 1800’s when the fi...
L.A.’s First Automobile | KCET L.A.’s First Automobile J. Philip Erie and Samuel D. Sturgis were about to make local automotive history, and no one would be around to see it. That was the way the two inventors planned it, afraid a gawking crowd would interfere with their test drive – or worse, witness its failure. At 3...
Archaeology, Art and Visual Culture, and the Question of National Identity in Modern Iran Seyed Keivan Moussavi Aghdam The role of archaeological excavations in the formation of modern Iranian identity has been significant since the mid-nineteenth century. Western archaeologists began research on the Iranian plateau by...
Reading Genesis Well What does it mean to be a good reader of Genesis 1-11? What does it mean to take these ancient stories seriously and how does that relate to taking them literally? Can we even take any of this material seriously?... Available for immediate download. You may also like What does it mean to be a good ...