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One of the most compelling paragraphs I've read in support of vaccinations (read the entire outstanding article at http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/correlation_causation_vaccinat.php).
Leaving children unvaccinated means going back to:In class we had a professor tell us that we will encounter parent... |
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As a long-time documentary producer, I’ve come across countless films about war and conflict. But few of those narratives captured the larger picture of warfare. War Redefined, the final episode of the five-part series Women, War & Peace (which airs tonight- c... |
Have you noticed persons who do scary things are scared themselves? In the movie series, “Star Wars,” Master Yoda observes this very human emotional response when he says, “Fear is the path to the dark side.”
Fear can take us in one of two directions.
Whereas low levels of fear can energize us to achieve our goals in h... |
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It’s often said that we know less about the bottom of our own ocean than we do about the surface of Mars. The governments of the world, and our government in particular, seem presently much less than enthusiastic about exploring the oceans of our own planet than in exploring other planets (ocean r... |
October 30, 2012
Here at the Smithsonian, we’ve got quite a sweet tooth. From Wayne Thiebaud’s fixation on all things sugar to astronaut candy, the collection is full of treats. So this Halloween, look back on the trick or treats that might have been and ahead to the sure-to-be glorious tradition of outer space candy c... |
Enter your weight in pounds and your height in inches
in the form below and press the "Compute BMI" button.
What your BMI means
Body Mass Index (BMI) is one of the most accurate ways to determine when extra pounds translate into health risks. BMI is a measure which takes into account a personís weight and height to gau... |
- Health Songs International
Health Songs International is a not for profit organization dedicated to bringing vital health messages to vulnerable communities throughout the world through the use of songs.
Cutting Trees In The Amazon Triggers A Jump In Malaria
If a tree falls in the Amazon, does it matter to malaria-ca... |
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Contents Introduction 1. The Gr... |
NetLogo's logging facility allows researchers to record student actions for later analysis.
Logging in NetLogo, once initiated, is invisible to the student. The researcher can choose the type of events logged through a configuration file.
NetLogo uses the log4j package for logging. If you have previous experience with ... |
The simple act of placing the fingertips of either hand
together in front of you to form a steeple is a very effective gesture that is
rarely offensive and will establish you as someone [who is] both evaluative and
in control. --Susan Bixler (The
Professional Image, p. 238)
Gesture. A position in which the tactile pads... |
The clap of the hands is an important part of both the science and practice of North Indian music. It has a hoary past. An elaborate system of clapping and hand movements is mentioned in the Natya Shastra (circa 200 bc) where it is part of the system of timekeeping known as "kriya".
The clap of the hands is very import... |
CHIPS Questions and Answers
Why is it important to study diffuse emission in the CHIPS wavelength band?
The CHIPS band contains the significant majority of the radiated
power from diffuse hot interstellar plasma in its most probable
temperature range. Although X-ray and UV studies can detect plasma
at greater distances... |
Sherman in Georgia!
IMMEDIATELY after his return to Atlanta from Jonesboro, Sherman determined to make that city a military camp, and issued orders accordingly. "The city of Atlanta," these orders read, "being exclusively required for warlike purposes, will at once be vacated by all except the armies of the United Stat... |
Prevalence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are localized, blood-filled dilations (balloon-like bulges) of the aorta. Approximately 90% of abdominal aortic aneurysms occur infrarenally (1). It is most commonly asymptomatic and can be detected rand... |
The Effects of Genetic Differences Among AIDS Patients on Cytomegalovirus Retinitis
This study will evaluate the role of certain gene variants on the onset and course of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis-a severe infection affecting the eye-in patients with AIDS. Symptoms include blurry vision, eye pain, photophobia, flo... |
IUCN releases Report on Indigenous and Traditional peoples
04 March 2008 | News story
IUCN has just produced a report called Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Climate Change, to be released on 14 March 2008. Using as a reference the map Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the World and the Global 200 Ecoregions,... |
Avalon is the Founder of Conserve It Forward which can be followed on Twitter @conserveitforwa or Facebook at www.facebook.com/ConserveItForwardWithAvalon
This summer, our family traveled to Washington State so we could learn how to make and use biosand water filters. This training was given by Friendly Water for the W... |
|Title||Demonstrators with signs outside Seattle Chamber of Commerce during WPA strike, Seattle, 1937 |
|Caption||In 1936, the federal Works Progress Administration hired some 9, 000 unemployed King County residents on 271 different projects ranging from improving roads and parks to serving school lunches. Congress red... |
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A traditional herbal plant, calendula produces a fast-drying oil that can be used in paints and varnishes, surface coatings, lubricants, pesticides and cleaning solvents. Calendula oil is a safe substitute for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which have been banned or restricted in Californi... |
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Editor's note: On Jan. 19, 2012, the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb announced that the FDA rejected their approval request for dapagliflozin, calling for more research data on the drug’s benefits and risks. Both companies say they remain committed to developing the drug and will work with... |
Gertrude Fitzgerald was born April 1, 1876 in Fulton, Illinois to Ebenezer Baird and Sue Mussina. In 1896 she married Benjamin Fitzgerald, an engineer. His job led the family to various locations in Latin America, especially in Mexico. The Fitzgerald family lived most of the time in the small mountain community of Made... |
DLTK's Crafts for Kids
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Karate-do translated means way of empty hand. It's origin is traced to the 6th century A.D., when a monk, Bodhidharma, traveled overland from India to China, across the Himalayan Mountains. After settling in Hunan Province, China, he established a monast... |
Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic (long-term) disease. Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms can come and go, and each person with RA is affected differently. Some people have long periods of remission. Their rheumatoid arthritis is inactive, and they have few or no symptoms during this ti... |
There are no guidelines for preventing autism. This is because the cause is unknown. Scientists are actively searching for a better understanding of autism and ways to prevent it.
Reducing the Risk of Autism
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Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available... |
Congestive heart failure (CHF)
Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema - Congestive heart failure (CHF) is an imbalance in pump function in which the heart fails to maintain the circulation of blood adequately. The most severe manifestation of CHF, pulmonary edema, develops when this imbalance causes an increase i... |
The aim of this paper is to examine the factors associated with the belief that vegetarian diets provide health benefits. A random population mail survey about food choice was conducted among a sample of 1000 South Australians. An additional (non-random) survey of 106 vegetarians and semi-vegetarians was also conducted... |
by Sarah Pike, Cross Posted from Aeon Magazine
Julia Butterfly Hill spent 738 days living in a 55m California Redwood tree in a successful attempt to prevent the clearing of surrounding forest. Photo by Eric Slomanson
One day last summer, a young woman looked down on a small crowd of vocal supporters and police officer... |
Curriculum & School to School Connection
Corps - World Wise Schools
Peace Corps global education resources for educators. Videos and accompanying
teacher guides, or pen pals with students around the globe help students
gain understanding of cultures and regions of the world.
The National Peace Corps Association's proje... |
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|Cyrillic letter Ze|
|Cyrillic numerals: 7|
|List of Cyrillic letters|
Ze (З з; italics: З з) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, like the pronunciation of ⟨z⟩ in "zoo".
Ze is romanized usin... |
27th Infantry Division (Poland)
The 27 Infantry Division (Polish: 27 Dywizja Piechoty), was a unit of the Polish Army in the inter-war period. It was created on 18 October 1920, as a result of reorganization of the Army, from units of the 2nd I.D., 3rd I.D., and 13th I.D. Its headquarters were located in Kowel, with un... |
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A hot spare or hot standby is used as a failover mechanism to provide reliability in system configurations. The hot spare is active and connected as part of a working system. When a key component fails, the hot spare is switched into operation. Mo... |
Orthodox Jewish man with untrimmed beard and Pe'ot
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|Mishneh Torah:||Avodath Kokhavim 12:6|
|Shulchan Aruch:||Yoreh Deah 181|
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Tritheism is the belief that cosmic divinity is composed of three equally powerful entities. As generally conceived, three gods are envisioned as having ... |
Family: Dipluridae, Funnelweb Mygalomorphs view all from this family
Description 1/8" (3-5 mm). Tan to yellowish-brown to reddish-brown, hairy. Large body. Belongs to the group of primitive spiders commonly called tarantulas. Constructs tube-shaped webs.
Habitat Mature coniferous (spruce-fir) forest.
Range Southern App... |
Controlled burn done at elementary
In the interest of safety, a controlled and permitted burn took place on Monday, April 25 at Otsego Elementary School prairie land and adjoining fields.
The contractor, Prairie Restoration, notified school district officials that morning that the weather conditions were expected to be... |
A New Kind of Neutrino Transformation
ESnet Helps Scientists Discover How Neutrinos Flavor-shift
March 8, 2012
Neutrinos, the wispy particles that flooded the universe in the earliest moments after the Big Bang, are continually produced in the hearts of stars and other nuclear reactions. Untouched by electromagnetism, ... |
MITCHELL-BARRETT, RHONDA (2010) An analysis of the Storyline method in primary school; its theoretical underpinnings and its impact on pupils’ intrinsic motivation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
This study explores the relationship between the Scottish Storyline teaching method and pupils’ levels of motivation wh... |
Navy Lieutenant Edgar G. Osborne looked at his watch. It was 8:20 in the morning of April 18, 1942. The flight deck officer flagged Lt. Col. Doolittle in the lead aircraft to take off into the 40 knots headwind. One after one the 16 aircraft accelerated down the deck of the carrier, reaching takeoff speed in just 450 f... |
Grigory Dolinin (Григорий Долинин)(1893-1943) was a Russian poet.
*1917, Yasnaya Polyana, Lenin
*Death & Reception
Dolinin was born in Pochinok, a small Jewish community 50 kilometers (31 mi) southeast of Smolensk. As a child he lived in the same street as El Lissitzky, who would later prove to be a key figure in his a... |
1 Streams and lazy evaluation (40 points)
We know that comparison sorting requires at least O(n log n) comparisons where were are sorting n elements. Let’s say we only need the first f(n) elements from the sorted list, for some function f. If we know f(n) is asymptotically less than log n then it would be wasteful to s... |
Until recently, Western scholarship ignored West Africa. The blind spot reflects Europes historical view of Africa as a continent to be exploited, not examined. To Europe, Africa was a market for products and a source of raw goods. In short, it was an object of mercantilism the economic system by which colonial powers ... |
Grow your own tree
Give your tree seedling the best chance to grow into a healthy tree by following these simple steps below (or download a pdf version).
1. Register your tree
- Use your unique tree-code on your instruction booklet to register your tree in ForestNation.
- You can give your tree a name, place it on a ma... |
Mike Kaspar web site
Fort Craig was one of the largest forts constructed in the west, and was critical to both the Indian Campains and the
Civil War.Established in 1854, the primary function of the fort was to control Apache and Navajo raiding, and to protect the
central portion of the Camino Real, a trail which stretc... |
I'm stuck on a problem where I have to provide x86 code for a switch statement given in C. My instructor gives an example in one of his lectures, but I am having difficulty understanding this example. We use Red Hat Linux for this course.
In the first section (which is red)
The code checks if a is less than 1, and jump... |
BugOS is a microkernel operating system. It has a kernel, device drivers, a file system, and an Internet module. The main concepts are that every process has its own computer with its own console, security, and modularization. If a process wants to read the file, it asks the kernel. The kernel forwards the request to t... |
Financing a Free State
NOTE: The opinions and commentary expressed in this essay are those of the author and are an exercise of free speech. They do not necessarily represent the views of Free State Project Inc., its Directors, its Officers, or its Participants.
Financing a Free State
by John Martin Oct 2, 2003Once a f... |
I thought it should be “Je viens du acheter”. Is it because “acheter” has a vowel at the beginning?
De le becomes du only when le is an article, meaning "the". In this case le is a pronoun, meaning "it" (the book).
This sentence contains the particle de (part of the verb venir de) followed by the personal pronoun l' fo... |
As a teenager I spent hours in my room listening to arch-miserabilist pop band the Smiths. I felt they really understood my teenage angst, and my love for them withstands even David Cameron’s unrepentant fandom and Morrissey’s regular and unsavory announcements.
We spend a lot of time and money trying to feel good, but... |
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PinothyJ wrote:Some of those do not follow the usual haiku formula…
The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru). This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separati... |
A growing understanding of the role microRNAs (miRNAs) play in brain development and function and in synaptic plasticity, combined with the recognition that a single miRNA can regulate the expression of multiple genes across networks of biochemical pathways, is fueling interest in miRNAs as targets for intervening in p... |
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Which came first? Test your invention smarts!The school bell rings and you take your seat in the comfy recliner in the family room. You hold your portable keyboard on top of your lap.
You put on your headset and listen to your robot virtual teacher robot. You chat with your classmates who are actually sitting in their ... |
When the Long Island Power Authority said last summer that it was going to need new power capacity in the next few years, most people assumed that meant new generating stations or new transmission cables. But of the 16 companies that submitted proposals, one, AES Energy Storage, took an entirely different tack: it prop... |
Fluoridated tap water and toothpaste are oftentimes considered the main sources of fluoride exposure, but it turns out that common food items could actually be largely contributing to your fluoride intake. According to fluoride expert Jeff Green, who has been actively protesting and studying the effects of fluoride on ... |
Drones come in many shapes and sizes, but now they can also be 3d printed! To make these drones, the [Decode] group used a selective laser sintering process which is pretty interesting in itself. Once the printing process is done, these little planes are built with only five structural and aerodynamic components. Becau... |
Each year, nearly 6,000 motorists suffer serious eye injuries or even blindness because of improperly jump-starting a dead vehicle battery. Learn how to safely jump-start a vehicle and what to do if battery acid gets in your eyes.
Review Date: March 15, 2013
Sight and Hearing Association
Just like drugs or alcohol, sle... |
Section 8: The New Housing Choice Voucher Program
The Section 8 program is one of the most important federal housing programs available to assist people with disabilities. With Section 8 housing assistance, people with disabilities can become more independent and have the opportunity for full community integration. It ... |
Posts Tagged: feeding one another
We can all learn from the honey bees.
Worker bees--sisters--are like feeding machines. They not only feed each other, but feed the queen and their brothers, the drones.
It's a marvelous sight to see, nectar being passed from one bee to another.
Honey bee expert Norman Gary, emeritus pr... |
Most complete Neanderthal skull
The excavations at the La Ferrassie rock shelter in the Dordogne Valley, France in the early 20th century produced the remains of an adult male and an adult female, providing scientists with the first evidence of sexual dimorphism in Neanderthals. In addition, the remains of the child an... |
Bagworms have hatched in central Illinois, so it will be time to treat for these insects in central Illinois about June 10. This is 2 to 3 weeks earlier than normal. Now is the proper time to treat in southern Illinois, where the bagworms would have hatched a couple of weeks ago.
Bagworm eggs overwinter in the old fema... |
Why is mold growing in my home?
Molds are part of the natural environment. Outdoors, molds play a part in nature by breaking down dead organic matter such as fallen leaves and dead trees, but indoors, mold growth should be avoided. Molds reproduce by means of tiny spores; the spores are invisible to the naked eye and f... |
LAND SURVEYING HAND WRITTEN PLANS IN THE STOCKS OF THE MANUSCRIPT DEPARTMENT OF THE RUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY
The manuscript department of the Russian State Library is in possession of a unique collection embracing both archival materials and hand written books, music manuscript, maps. According to the make-up of the holdi... |
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What it is: The Office of Naval Research has a great interactive site filled with science and technology explora... |
Joan Houghton, Ed.D.
Hearing is the second primary distance sense that is responsible for how learners gather information about events occurring in their environments. This module is an introduction to learners who are deaf or hard of hearing. It is divided into six sections including the (1) federal and state definiti... |
Civility is at the very heart of civilization. Those two words, along with other words such as “city” and “citizen,” come from the Latin “civitas,” which means a body of citizens bound by common laws and rules. In other words, civilized people agree to be nice to each other. Think of how both you and the cashier usuall... |
Introduction to Sociology
How does society affect individual behavior and how does individual behavior affect society? Influence of social institutions and arrangements (family, school, workplace, politics, etc.) on roles, groups, values. Basic sociological theories and methods. Careers, specializations. Required for m... |
Goh Keng Swee
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Goh Keng Swee (Dr) (b. 6 October 1918, Malacca, Malaysia – d. 14 May 2010, Singapore) has often been called the "economic architect" of Singapore, contributing greatly in shaping the development of Singapore into a prosperous nation as Minister for Finance and Minister o... |
During the 1870s to the 1920s, the affluent
Vanderbilt family commissioned the very best
and most expensive architectural and
interior design firms to build a seriess of
townhouses in New York and mansions in the
East Coast. Most of the Vanderbilt houses,
because of their unequalled historic beauty
and breathtaking mag... |
She was called “Tiny,” weighing only three pounds when she was born in 1893, the seventh and last child of a poor farm family in Granville County, North Carolina. Georgia Ann Thompson was married at 12, a mother at 13, and a school dropout. After her husband was killed in an accident, she had to work 14-hour days in a ... |
Ocean Contamination in the Wake of Japan's 3.11 Disaster
by Miguel Quintana
Radioactive particles released after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continue to spread along the seashore and rivers of eastern Japan, creating underwater hotspots as far as Tokyo Bay, according to recent scientific s... |
Thalassemia, one of the world’s most common genetic diseases, affects red blood cell production, causing anemia. One group of thalassemias is called non-transfusion-dependent thalassemia (NTDT) syndromes, which predominantly affect people of South and Southeast Asian, Mediterranean or Middle Eastern origin. People who ... |
The Pacific sea cucumbers (Stichopus Holothurioidea species and other family members) of the revered Chinese cooks since ancient days. In particular, the sea cucumber dishes for special occasions, mainly in New Year’s Eve celebrations. An old Confucian recipe, loosely translated The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea and... |
As the funeral train carrying the casket of Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled into Washington’s Union Station, a reporter for a local paper approached one mourner and asked, “Why are you here? Did you know the President?” The man raised his moist eyes and muttered, “No, but he knew me.” The truth of this infamous story ... |
“. . . the water was not merely transparent, but dazzlingly, brilliantly so.”
- a description of Lake Tahoe by Mark Twain, Roughing It (1871)
The focus of the League to Save Lake Tahoe is water quality and clarity in Lake Tahoe. The clarity of Lake Tahoe was first made famous by Mark Twain in the 1880s. Tragically, the... |
AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a disease that makes it difficult for the body to fight off infectious diseases. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS by infecting and damaging part of the body's defenses against infection, namely the white blood cells known as CD4 helper lymphocytes (p... |
Overwhelmed by classwork? Scared because your parents are splitting up? Worried about a friend? Feel like you don't fit in?
Sometimes it's just not possible to sort through tough times alone. Problems can build up and you may lose sleep, find you can't concentrate on homework, or even become depressed. When you need to... |
The Medicis were a powerful family from Florence, who, with the hereditary ruling system in place, influenced Italy
and Europe from the 13th to the 17th century. Popes Leo X, Clement VII, and Leo XI were of Medici descent. The family
achieved power through The Medici Bank with Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, which was on... |
Forestry is an important and interesting subject of study. Forests form part of the vital natural resources of a country. From time immemorial forest resources have been a source of human sustenance. They are home to the most amazing herbs, medicinal compounds, natural cosmetics etc. Forestry and Wild Life go together ... |
Pub. date: 2008 | Online Pub. Date: April 25, 2008 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412963893 | Print ISBN: 9781412958783 | Online ISBN: 9781412963893| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
Impacts of Global Warming
IMPACTS FROM THE phenomenon known as global warming include environmental, social, and economic eff... |
At a Glance
Why Get Tested?
To help detect or rule out a Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in pleural fluid in order to assist in the diagnosis of tuberculosis; rarely to detect the infection in other body fluids such as peritoneal fluid or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
When to Get Tested?
When a doctor suspects that so... |
Section 504 is part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Section 504 is a federal statute that prohibits discrimination against “otherwise qualified handicapped individuals” in any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance, such as public schools. The main purpose of Section 504 is to prohibit discrimina... |
The purpose of screening is early diagnosis and treatment. Screening tests are usually administered to people without current symptoms, but who may be at high risk for certain diseases or conditions. Since glaucoma usually has no symptoms and can occur in anybody regardless of risk factors, everybody should be screened... |
Data and Information
- Data Initiatives
- Satellite Sensing Systems
Data Systems for LCLUC Research
The unprecedented large volumes of data for land use research have necessitated the development of innovative data processing, delivery and analysis systems. The evolving EOS Data and Information System and a number of c... |
shoddy •\ˈshä-dē\• adjective
1. of inferior workmanship and materials
2. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
The word shoddy has appeared in 141 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 12 in “Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives,” by James Glanz and Norimitsu On... |
In the introduction to Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life, former NEA chair and current interim Chair Bill Ivey writes about piano sales in 1909: 364,545, “an impressive total in a country with a population of less than 100 million.” By 1934, “sales had plunged to just over 34,000 in... |
How to write a book review
There are two approaches to book reviewing:
- Descriptive reviews give the essential information about a book. This is done with description and exposition, by stating the perceived aims and purposes of the author, and by quoting striking passages from the text.
- Critical reviews describe an... |
A database is a searchable, organized collection of information. Library databases are great tools for finding articles on specific topics because:
You can access and search them on the Internet, from the library’s website.
They cover a wide range of topics.
They are structured for finding information more precisely th... |
The best way to find articles on a specific topic is to search in a database, most of which index thousands of articles in hundreds of different journals. Here are some recommended databases for CADV, which can be accessed from Databases A-Z. All databases require a valid student ID and password to be accessed from off... |
sensitive and can be susceptible to both "sunburn" and "frostbite". If a tree that has grown for many years in deep shade is
suddenly exposed to hot sun (when all the trees around it are cut down, for example), the bark may become red and flake off,
injuring the tree. In northern regions, a frost too late in the spring... |
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Nanotechnology is considered to be the most important theoretical and
applicative framework of human knowledge in the near future, breakthroughs are
restricted to few applications.
One is being the conservation and restoration of
For the architecture profession nanotechnology will be able to
chan... |
In Europe, especially in Germany, hoisting a swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers, who were responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people.
Here’s my question: Why are the horrors of Nazism so well-known and... |
[APIA, Samoa] Pacific Island researchers will be trained in skills such as coastal hazard mapping as part of a programme to use science to make coastal communities safer and more resilient.
The US$1.3-million programme is part of an expansion of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Stor... |
Sigmund Freud avowed:
“One can’t express aggression and sexual drive directly, as it is prohibited in the society, so these desires get sublimated in telling “jokes.” If you look at jokes, they are either about somebody getting hurt, or they have sexual connotations.”
Marvin Minsky, a pioneer of artificial intelligece,... |
There are three levels of burns:
First-degree burns affect only the outer layer of the skin. They cause pain, redness, and swelling.
Second-degree (partial thickness) burns affect both the outer and underlying layer of skin. They cause pain, redness, swelling, and blistering.
Third-degree (full thickness) burns extend ... |
In a couple of nights, the best meteor shower of the year will sweep down on the High Sierra, bringing stars to earth, as 60 to 80 meteors an hour streak across the sky.
The Geminid meteor shower, one of some half-dozen, annual, prominent meteor showers, begins in earnest in the very late evening of Dec. 13, although m... |
Books, Software, Resources, DVDs to Learn Math
Steps to Doing Well in Math
Here are some quick steps to help you get better at doing mathematics. Regardless of age, the tips here will help you learn and understand math concepts from primary school right on through to university math. Everyone can do math, be positive a... |
ok but then il try say for x=1 and y=2
i find f(x+y) not equal to f(x)+f(y) which makes 10 not equal 14. so this is not linear also? can someone give me an example of a linear function that works.
......... wait so the these properties cannot be satisfied if there is a constant, but i thought a linear function could be... |
The Quick 10: 10 Amazing Discoveries by Kids
It’s all over the news the past couple of days: some astronomers spend a lifetime looking for a supernova, but a 10-year-old-girl found one on her first try. Here’s Kathryn Gray’s story and the stories of nine other talented (or lucky) kids who have made important discoverie... |
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