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Food Science Degree
Food science and nutrition degrees tend to ficus on the biological and chemical components of the food and the ways in which these parts are affecting human health. Dietitians and nutritionists also study the social impacts of the foods people eat, which includes how this food is affecting our cultu... | <urn:uuid:a02e8034-ff16-4460-8e61-39343a213960> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allnutritiondegrees.com/12/food-science-programs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940901 | 999 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2003 October 18
Explanation: In 1865 Jules Verne predicted the invention of a space capsule that could carry people. In his science fiction story "F... | <urn:uuid:0e615a94-7764-481e-95ed-49e9da038de1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031018.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911311 | 245 | 3.703125 | 4 |
The GSC offers a variety of workshops on healthy sexuality, LGBTA awareness and sexual violence prevention. Contact Chloe (zelkhac) if you are interested in scheduling a peer led workshop!
The Anatomy of Pleasure
The SexEd class you always wish you had: a one hour introduction that affirms sexual pleasure as a natural,... | <urn:uuid:a9bf4f06-2adf-4865-a095-d2e03f2e223a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/peereducation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926939 | 454 | 2.515625 | 3 |
A New Discovery Answers an Old Question
JANUARY 25, 2012
The transition-metal monoxide FeO is an archetypal example of a Mott insulator—a material that should conduct electricity under conventional band theories but becomes an insulator when measured, especially at low temperatures—and a major iron-bearing component of... | <urn:uuid:9376ae27-c29d-4383-b30f-f30d3005c1b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20120125.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93176 | 534 | 3.203125 | 3 |
They were humble farmers who grew corn and dwelt in subterranean pit houses. But the people who lived 1200 years ago in a Utah village known as Site 13, near Canyonlands National Park in Utah, seem to have had at least one indulgence: chocolate. Researchers report that half a dozen bowls excavated from the area contain... | <urn:uuid:f738e72a-5559-4299-aa3a-2ec707bba80e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archaeologicalnews.tumblr.com/tagged/chocolate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971772 | 981 | 3.6875 | 4 |
It was an archaeological hoax that fooled scientists for decades. A century on, researchers are determined to find out who was responsible for Piltdown Man, the missing link that never was.
In December 1912, it was announced that a lawyer and amateur archaeologist named Charles Dawson had made an astonishing discovery ... | <urn:uuid:7b8a8dfa-153a-44f3-9309-a766637b6e57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archaeologicalnews.tumblr.com/tagged/hoax | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973472 | 663 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Biological Control of Invasive Salvinia sp.
in the United States.
The floating fern, Salvinia molesta D. S. Mitchell, is one of the world’s most invasive aquatic weeds. Native to south-east Brazil, it has spread around the world to Africa, India, South East Asia, and Australasia where it has formed thick mats in canals... | <urn:uuid:60b779e0-5e1f-41b3-b17f-162f3277015e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=3770 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950663 | 1,396 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Christian largely exonerates the United States of responsibility for earlier interventions in Nicaragua, arguing that they were at the invitation of local factions. The same, of course, could be said of the English in Ireland, which has not prevented eight centuries of bitterness and violence. She concludes that Americ... | <urn:uuid:ffa34e01-b23c-4f5a-a9e6-0df1c3e9da51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-07-21/entertainment/8502170467_1_lester-d-langley-augusto-sandino-omar-cabezas/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971324 | 851 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Use the Star Dome to track the rocky asteroid
August 24, 2004
|On September 29, Toutatis will fly silently past Earth, coming no closer than four times the Moon's distance. Toutatis won't linger for Northern Hemisphere observers. Plan accordingly for early September when it lies at higher declinations and the Moon inte... | <urn:uuid:1dc56cbd-99ed-4e8e-8109-0aa975605d4a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://astronomy.com/en/Web%20Extras/2004/08/Tracking%20Toutatis.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86539 | 236 | 3.03125 | 3 |
The sighting of a large group of right whales in the Gulf of Maine adds credence to suggestions that more research must be done before deciding that lobster gear near the shore is a threat to the endangered cetaceans.
Late last year, more than 40 of the whales were seen in the Jordan Basin during an aerial survey by th... | <urn:uuid:df8070ec-ea8c-4b12-a6a4-b0fd7fe9db53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bangordailynews.com/2009/02/01/opinion/lobsters-and-whales/?ref=relatedBox | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950845 | 404 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Henry Gray (18251861). Anatomy of the Human Body. 1918.
of the embryo. The chorionic villi are at first small and non-vascular, and consist of trophoblast only, but they increase in size and ramify, while the mesoderm, carrying branches of the umbilical vessels, grows into them, and in this way they are vascularized. B... | <urn:uuid:2d1ec9d2-0288-45d2-bca8-471f0f753d51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bartleby.com/107/pages/page61.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949343 | 258 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Roget's Int'l Thesaurus
Fowler's King's English
The King James Bible
Brewer's Phrase & Fable
Frazer's Golden Bough
Shelf of Fiction
The Victorian Age, Part One
The Book of Snobs
INDEX OF ALL CHAPTERS
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes
Volume XIII. The Victorian Age, Part One.
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FREE EAST BAY HERB WALK! (Tilden Regional Park Botanic Garden)
California is home to a diverse array of native edible & medicinal plants long valued for their nutritional/therapeutic effects. In this field class we will explore many of the more common (and lesser known) edible/medicinal plants found growing around the ... | <urn:uuid:72204ad1-c3f9-40cb-954a-bcb61eca363e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://baynature.org/event/free-east-bay-herb-walk-tilden-regional-park-botanic-garden/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905379 | 334 | 2.78125 | 3 |
21 October 2009
Michael J. Behe
A new paper from Richard Lenski’s group has appeared in Nature http://tinyurl.com/ygtcflq and has garnered a fair amount of press attention (for example, here http://tinyurl.com/yh7nqht ). Some people asked me for my thoughts about it.
The new paper continues the grand experiment that Le... | <urn:uuid:a639b92d-6c95-46df-899e-a0218c572440> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://behe.uncommondescent.com/2009/10/new-work-by-richard-lenski/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961812 | 931 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The idea of wellness are likely to be made use of interchangeably, however the symbolism are slightly different from the other person. Wellbeing serves as a a situation of the bodily currently being, no matter whether whether positive or negative. Our health depends on several factors like inheritance, the environmenta... | <urn:uuid:4e741b31-c82c-407b-9b81-5706706a45b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bestandworstofokc.com/author/Admin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953465 | 3,445 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Since there was evidence the cancer had already spread to other parts of my body, she was now incurable.
With a family history for breast cancer, Leighton started mammograms at 35. The tests didn't show cancer, but there was one thing her doctor didn't tell her. Her breasts were dense, which can makes the x-ray difficu... | <urn:uuid:6fe80924-3cbc-4803-9736-8391e421e101> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bigcountryhomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=508622&nxd_237113_start=10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98409 | 257 | 2.59375 | 3 |
October is Stop Cyber Bullying Month. At Build-A-Bear Workshop we want to do everything we can to ensure all children are safe, whether it’s at home with their furry friends or when playing online. To help answer some questions about bullying prevention, I went to our very own 2012 Huggable Hero Ceilidh Millar. Ceilidh... | <urn:uuid:44eac511-bcbb-4505-a61c-2c5bbb15210a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.buildabear.com/2012/10/02/working-together-to-end-bullying/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=0772592eec | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955763 | 1,210 | 3.25 | 3 |
Their reward is really a gift: the intact brain and spinal cord of a multiple sclerosis patient.
The brain bank at the Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research is one of only about a half-dozen like it in the world. It has gathered brains and spinal cord tissue from 69 donors since... | <urn:uuid:0f61131c-872b-4dc9-b725-84bf68aef5f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.cleveland.com/health/2008/11/ms_patients_donate_brains_to_t.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960584 | 665 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Husbands don't often write letters to judges telling them they are leaving their new wife and her children behind and taking off for greener pastures. However, that is exactly what George Fennan did in the late spring of 1856 in Warsaw, Illinois. Why George wrote the letter begins approximately six months earlier in th... | <urn:uuid:3505de86-b6ec-4c50-b017-1fd7320cfe6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/06/casefile-clues-by-michael-casefile-clues-by-michael-john-neill-judge-im-leaving-the-wife-and-kids-be.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980605 | 424 | 2.65625 | 3 |
“Election time is an ideal opportunity to sneak in a little learning, no matter which candidate gets your vote.” -Amy
The voting process is so hard for kids–and even adults!–to understand, so what better way to help kids begin to understand the process just a little bit more than through the use of puzzles. In any situ... | <urn:uuid:f2fc1307-9b8b-41eb-b7e8-da9659c23e9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.melissaanddoug.com/2012/11/02/votingprocessforkids/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=d763d6158f | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938002 | 627 | 3.15625 | 3 |
If you’re anything like me, you have a whole collection of books you want to read, but the opportunity cost of spending 4-5 hours reading a book is too high. If you could drop that time down to 1h30, then suddenly it would become worthwhile.
Why do some people read faster than others? My father and best friend Alexandr... | <urn:uuid:c7bf5c36-e371-408a-8bd3-0a13681e273e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.stadil.com/accelerated-reading/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948986 | 237 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Q: How does a pressurized filter and pump system work? – Jill of Massachusetts
1. With the filter connected to the pump, water enters the unit through a water inlet.
2. Water then passes along an integrated UV lamp, where it is exposed to ultraviolet rays that inhibit the growth of planktonic algae (green water algae) ... | <urn:uuid:d9ad1f11-c11f-4615-ad57-0c0e6086a4d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.thepondguy.com/tag/pressure-filter-and-pump/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91831 | 209 | 3.0625 | 3 |
How important are museums, TV shows and after school clubs to teaching kids science? Ira Flatow and guests look at “informal science education” and what researchers are learning about learning science. Plus, what’s the best way to keep undergraduate science majors in science?
There has to be a mind shift from the famil... | <urn:uuid:de0cfae3-5e3f-4e01-b480-102e420ea13c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bloggingonthebay.edublogs.org/category/teaching/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979784 | 4,934 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Fortnight of Freedom: Religious liberty and St. Thomas More’s death remain meaningful 500 years later
St. Thomas More is the kind of historical figure who captures the imagination of nearly every generation.
A scholar, lawyer, father and a Christian martyr, More is depicted in literature, theater, film, and yes, even o... | <urn:uuid:db8bba83-227c-4d3f-a9f9-a2ac703d258d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.denverpost.com/hark/2012/06/24/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98317 | 253 | 3.140625 | 3 |
What’s Organ printing? What’s Bioprinting? Does organ printing really mean what it says in itself?? Pr-in-ting organs? What do these technologies have to offer? What would the implications of these technologies be on the state of the industry, the general public and the entire humanity? Let’s just break the fourth wall... | <urn:uuid:e058d0c2-b412-4b29-82da-468929127502> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.dolcera.com/blog/category/biotechnology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933203 | 1,218 | 2.625 | 3 |
University of Florida vs. Herpesby Kim Miller
The Gator Nation is tackling a new foe _ the herpes simplex virus.
According to a press release from the Gainesville school, a new therapy being developed by UF researchers, in time, could produce another weapon in the fight against herpes.
The HSV-1 strain of the herpes vi... | <urn:uuid:640fc7b6-81cc-48ef-a969-0508cd2ee12a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/extracredit/2009/02/05/university-of-florida-vs-herpes/?cp=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928718 | 163 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.02.41
Louis Maurin, Milagros Navarro Caballero, Inscriptions latines d'Aquitaine (ILA): Bordeaux. Pessac: Ausonius, 2010. Pp. 688. ISBN 9782356130259. €70.00.
Reviewed by Hagith Sivan, University of Kansas (firstname.lastname@example.org)
This is a useful and beautifully produced additio... | <urn:uuid:b3454148-37e0-4b23-aef9-d5a18f96a218> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-02-41.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93192 | 1,595 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Psaiku is a new form of poetic expression, based on an ancient form of poetic expression: Haiku. Haiku, for those of you who may not have heard of it before, is a very short, structured poem. It is three lines, and has a rhythm that is unique. The first line typically has five syllables, the second line has seven sylla... | <urn:uuid:ebaad137-3fd5-442c-b8c7-e9eb7f94e44b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bobmeyers.com/psaiku.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957919 | 400 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Marie de Flavigny (1805-1876), countess d'Agoult, in later life was called by her friends "an Amazon of thought." One of nineteenth-century France's free and independent women long before feminism came into its own, she was Franz Liszt's lover, a friend of George Sand, and a writer under the name Daniel Stern. She bore... | <urn:uuid:3c6fb5a9-8904-459f-ae93-9ba5232a54d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://books.google.com/books?ei=6r00Sr-XNoXuzATnqInGDA&id=eYdcAAAAMAAJ&dq=Agoult+homeopath&q=homeopath&pgis=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984026 | 257 | 2.703125 | 3 |
June 7, 2004Link
Wireless technology lets us talk on cell phones with people thousands of miles away, surf the Web without a cable and control our stereos, DVD players and televisions. But none of this technology works without pushing buttons or giving voice commands. Imagine what it would be like if we could turn our ... | <urn:uuid:eeadd5d0-b881-4019-9a23-5f8c90ed83ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://carlzimmer.com/articles/2004.php?subaction=showfull&id=1177190510&archive=&start_from=&ucat=7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954602 | 927 | 4.15625 | 4 |
The ancient Celts had hundreds of deities, but as with most cultures, they had their demons as well. Some of the Celtic “monsters” were originally gods, but were later demonized as pagan creatures when many of the Celts became Christians. But the Celtic culture has always feared an array of evil forces.
How many did yo... | <urn:uuid:8d79cd1a-1f95-4a8c-a511-a675756617aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://celticmythpodshow.com/blog/tag/fun/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964386 | 2,352 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Updated 08/09/2012 10:39 PM
Integrating mental health with primary care
Mental and behavioral health issues are becoming an increasing concern for both patients and society as a whole. But the bigger problem is that many people aren't getting treatment, and those who do, aren't necessarily getting better. As our Katie ... | <urn:uuid:424da9c0-3cd9-42a4-bb07-6e1dc0353b5e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://centralny.ynn.com/content/top_stories/594747/integrating-mental-health-with-primary-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953775 | 703 | 2.703125 | 3 |
"Mass in Latin" vs. "Latin Mass"
It's important to understand that the term Latin Mass is almost always a colloquial and somewhat imprecise reference to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
This is the form of the liturgy that, in its essentials, was used by almost all Western Christians from at least the early Mi... | <urn:uuid:3cadfaaf-2ab3-4a69-abf9-cdd0be41e06e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/12267/is-there-a-special-significance-attached-to-a-latin-mass?answertab=active | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974674 | 393 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Countdown 2010 - the best thing that can happen to biodiversity
16 June 2008 | News story
The readers and the executive board of the Spanish Magazine REDLife chose Countdown 2010 among the ten best initiatives to save biodiversity and conserve nature. Countdown 2010 was included for its ability to mobilize resources to... | <urn:uuid:fe002cd0-5d94-4e85-bc59-ea15f91d6257> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cms.iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/europe/resources/news/?1169/Countdown-2010-the-best-thing-that-can-happen-to-biodiversity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888084 | 666 | 2.546875 | 3 |
View the content: Introduction to Electromagnetic Waves
|Name:||Introduction to Electromagnetic Waves|
|Subject:||Science and Technology|
|Keywords:||Amplitude, Amplitude modulation (AM), Carrier wave, Electric field, Electric field lines, Electric field strength, Electromagnetic spectrum, Electromagnetic waves, Electr... | <urn:uuid:e43e0d00-cd4d-4873-8822-837d700adb0c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cnx.org/content/m42434/1.3/content_info | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.670426 | 1,019 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The theory that cutting carbon emissions costs us growth is bunk, in fact, it’s an economic opportunity
The Vattenfall-operated Thanet offshore windfarm, situated off the Kent coast – the largest of its kind in the world. Photograph: Handout/AFP/Getty Images
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Here's a cool site from the University of Toronto. It features stuff like:
These days astronomers aren't just picking up signals from a time shortly after the universe began – they're creating maps of those signals to answer some of our deepest questions about the cosmos.Just remember that when deciding how to dispose ... | <urn:uuid:c640a701-6e63-41a0-8b3e-c8cab97bed03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://collidinguniverses.blogspot.com/2009/01/universe-old-fashioned-tv-static-is.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971016 | 270 | 3 | 3 |
What visual features help to
move the viewer's eye across the page?
The illustrator's use of:
Wiesner employs a narrow spectrum, emphasizing various shades of blue with accents
of green and yellow. This helps to give the illustrations in this book unity,
as well as helping the eye to flow easily across the illustration... | <urn:uuid:aaa1f9aa-1eb0-45b5-bd02-796b2dfb711d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/childlit/visint1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929706 | 604 | 3.125 | 3 |
Category: Spanish Teachers
Practical and low-hassle Spanish class activities
Whether you’re a Feliz Navidad or Felices Fiestas person, it’s nice to do some special activities around the holidays in your classroom; the trick is pulling it off in a meaningful and low-hassle way.
Not only is it fun to do something unique,... | <urn:uuid:6130c4cc-112a-4823-b7d1-bc80cf02f975> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://commongroundinternational.com/category/spanish_teachers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934355 | 2,000 | 2.8125 | 3 |
All about Bankruptcy Mediation
What is mediation?
Mediation is a way of resolving conflict between two or more people. The parties involved in the disagreement agree to work with an impartial person called a mediator who helps them settle their dispute.
Why is mediation included in the consumer bankruptcy process?
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Children's Special Health Services (CSHS)
The CSHS program is the principle public agency ensuring that children and youth who have special health care needs in Louisiana have access to health care services designed to minimize their disabilities and maximize their probabilities of enjoying independent and self-suffici... | <urn:uuid:75b17f09-e891-4483-b79f-5a8de34a1847> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dhh.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/page/740 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959064 | 211 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.|
|a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical questio... | <urn:uuid:a906dfcb-cf00-4c48-9069-22f0fd04f069> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Canberra | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907922 | 241 | 2.578125 | 3 |
RadicationRad`i*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. radication.]1. The process of taking root, or state of being rooted; as, the radication of habits. 2. (Bot.) The disposition of the roots of a plant.
|the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.|
|a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.|
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A surprising (or not?) report from the BBC:
Reaching for a mug of coffee may be the worst thing you can to do to try to sober up, a study suggests.
Research on mice indicates the drink may make you feel that you are coming to your senses – but it is only an illusion.
In fact, it makes it harder for people to realise th... | <urn:uuid:2c7544ef-77ee-440c-97f8-b85b65b0e27a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://disinfo.com/2009/12/drinking-coffee-when-youre-drunk-is-the-worst-thing-you-can-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955701 | 146 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the most popular standard for securing Internet communications and transactions. Web applications use HTTPS (HTTP over SSL), which uses digital certificates to ensure secure, confidential communications between server and clients. In an SSL connection, both the client and the server encryp... | <urn:uuid:ffcea2b1-838b-4381-988c-dda4ce6919af> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19159-01/819-3671/ablom/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.8999 | 729 | 3.9375 | 4 |
In sub-Saharan Africa, arid soil coupled with a rapidly increasing demand for food has driven the development of small and large-scale irrigation schemes. Irrigation development has the potential to increase or decrease local malaria infection rates and this paper uses two conflicting case studies to identify four fact... | <urn:uuid:40c08b42-579f-4921-8b53-27a3bfb84cc5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/fall-2007/does-irrigation-development-decrease-local-malaria-infection-rates | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929793 | 4,579 | 3.09375 | 3 |
An experimental biomass crop of Nicotiana tabacum was grown over a nine-month period inside a greenhouse situated in Almería, south-eastern Spain. Two irrigation methods corresponding to treated urban wastewater and groundwater, were arranged. No significant differences were observed in the total biomass produced on th... | <urn:uuid:3365f03e-a673-4979-a52f-becbedc576a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://econpapers.repec.org/article/eeeagisys/v_3a103_3ay_3a2010_3ai_3a1_3ap_3a1-9.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961255 | 353 | 2.84375 | 3 |
(CNN) -- It's one of the top 10 most-visited sites worldwide, with over 2 million articles in its English language edition. But is online encyclopedia Wikipedia's strength -- that anyone can edit it -- also its greatest weakness?
Wikipedia: an invaluable repository of global knowledge or a magnet for digital vandals an... | <urn:uuid:440592a5-dcd0-4876-9686-eac0d68561d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/02/perils.wikipedia/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965766 | 1,623 | 2.765625 | 3 |
ENG: The Labour Party is a centre-left, social democratic and democratic socialist political party in the United Kingdom. It overtook the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 t... | <urn:uuid:b77bddd1-78c7-478c-b5e2-13f59e4d5ff4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://electionsmeter.com/polls/labour-party-uk?show=analyticsc&amz2=&amz3= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944485 | 839 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Reactive oxygen species
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are chemically reactive molecules containing oxygen. Examples include oxygen ions and peroxides. ROS form as a natural byproduct of the normal metabolism of oxygen and have important roles in cell signaling and homeostasis. However, during times of environmental str... | <urn:uuid:f0ae540a-8f37-455d-b24c-c4351e7b1d1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_oxygen_species | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.85249 | 6,603 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Robert W. Paul
|Robert William Paul|
3 October 1869|
Liverpool Road, Highbury
London Borough of Islington
|Died||28 March 1943(aged 73)|
He was born in Highbury, London, and began his technical career learning instrument-making skills at the Elliott Brothers, a firm of London instrument makers founded in 1804, followed... | <urn:uuid:8f58ed21-caf2-4952-827c-573aa5c44480> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Paul | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961511 | 1,714 | 2.921875 | 3 |
||This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (April 2009)|
|Part of the prelude to the American Civil War|
Union territories not permitting slavery
Border Union states, permitting slavery
Bleeding Kansas, entered Union
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Bonsai (盆栽, lit. plantings in tray, from bon, a tray or low-sided pot and sai, a planting or plantings, pronunciation (help·info)) is a Japanese art form using miniature trees grown in containers. Similar practices exist in other cultures, including the Chinese tradition of penjing from which the art originated, and th... | <urn:uuid:80ece4f6-3784-4b6f-a60b-4bc2fde139af> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912934 | 12,795 | 3.15625 | 3 |
|Area||2.1 km2 (0.81 sq mi)|
|Coastline||4.9 km (3.04 mi)|
|Highest elevation||8 m (26 ft)|
Baker Island (pron.: //) is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about 3,100 kilometers (1,700 nmi; 1,900 mi) southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii an... | <urn:uuid:c3c04543-97de-4b8b-99d8-f755972010c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Baker_Island | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925606 | 2,174 | 3.328125 | 3 |
A high-pressure area, high or anticyclone is a region where the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the planet is greater than its surrounding environment.
Winds within high-pressure areas flow outward from the higher pressure areas near their centers towards the lower pressure areas further from their centers. Grav... | <urn:uuid:beea9aa7-9574-4696-8d9f-41fcfe5aece6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_pressure_area | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894116 | 2,903 | 4 | 4 |
|First flight||6 November 1929|
The Junkers G.38 was a large German four-engined transport aircraft which first flew in 1929. Two prototypes were constructed in Germany. Both aircraft flew as a commercial transport within Europe in the years leading up to World War II.
Design and development
Structurally the G38 confo... | <urn:uuid:38717c3a-f917-49a9-a020-cb37b802e9cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_G_38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949388 | 1,510 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Macedonian culture (Slavic)
|Part of a series on|
|By region or country|
Macedonian culture is the culture of the ethnic Macedonian population of the Balkan region, known in the 20th century as Vardar Macedonia or the current Republic of Macedonia. Old Church Slavonic, developed in the 9th century AD by the Byzantine G... | <urn:uuid:e72663b3-39a2-4a27-81aa-f84a0c3f5b26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_culture_(Slavic) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875245 | 4,854 | 3.46875 | 3 |
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|Classification and external resources|
Cutaneous leishmaniasis in the hand of a Central American adult
|DiseasesDB||3266 29171 3266 7070|
Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by proto... | <urn:uuid:18bc95a7-6368-42dd-9cce-a8d77e66d098> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucocutaneous_leishmaniasis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891453 | 6,550 | 3.46875 | 3 |
|One of the Seven Basic Tools of Quality|
|First described by||Joseph M. Juran|
|Purpose||To assess the most frequently occurring defects by category†|
A Pareto chart, named after Vilfredo Pareto, is a type of chart that contains both bars and a line graph, where individual values are represented in descending order by... | <urn:uuid:2f625d36-6af7-4d16-be89-3df66a30d518> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_chart | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.858473 | 535 | 3.015625 | 3 |
In German Language and Usage we just had the question German analog for “That's no rocket science”. As a native German Speaker, I do not know which situations this phrase is used in. I understand it means the problem isn't too difficult. But can I conclude something about the time needed to solve the problem? Can it fo... | <urn:uuid:90e69545-2edf-4d46-8502-3f2665ec6e96> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37026/which-kind-of-problems-are-described-as-thats-no-rocket-science/37029 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971614 | 428 | 2.8125 | 3 |
I've always thought that an anecdote was a short funny story that had actually never happened, but was rather created by common people in order to satirize, ridicule or to laugh at someone. But recently I noticed that native English speakers usually call it simply "joke". For example "Let me tell you a joke. One day a ... | <urn:uuid:db6d42fc-a622-4926-9f79-a2aa11033f41> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5769/what-is-an-anecdote-as-opposed-to-a-joke/5770 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956404 | 322 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Rudimentary forms of material safety data sheets (MSDSs) have been available since the 19th century. Some experts trace their history even further back to hieroglyphics found inside the Egyptian pyramids regarding the effects of various chemicals. But the modern MSDS is a relatively recent invention, appearing a little... | <urn:uuid:dacfb252-7ebb-4fcb-ab83-daca83975961> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://enviro.blr.com/msdsSearch.aspx?ref=find | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931679 | 1,299 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Interview: DEQ On The Safety of Fracking
Host: Rebecca Williams
Show date: 05/10/2012
Hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – is a method of drilling for natural gas. Drillers use fracking to get to the gas that’s trapped in tight shale rock formations below the water table. Fracking pumps a mixture of water, sand and che... | <urn:uuid:bf0af41a-9b16-422b-a1b7-fa83acab1438> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://environmentreport.org/show.php?showID=638 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948438 | 999 | 2.71875 | 3 |
[erlang-questions] Two beautiful programs - or web programming made easy
Sun Feb 13 15:33:36 CET 2011
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:18:53 +1100, Florian Weimer <>
> * Joe Armstrong:
>> How the heck can you easily send an an asynchronous message from a
>> client to
>> a server?
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Call it “Open House” or “Parent Night”, this one evening greatly influences the relationships you will have with parents.
Last year, I posted on how to get parents involved in Parent Night. Parent involvement keeps the night active. But, at the end of the night, parents want to see what their children are doing in scho... | <urn:uuid:d0b66036-d697-4a21-8f67-be32e0dea965> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://expateducator.com/2012/09/21/how-to-plan-a-memorable-parent-night-classroom-videos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948917 | 884 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Maracatu is a term common to two distinct performance genres found in Pernambuco state in northeastern Brazil: maracatu nação and maracatu rural.
Maracatu nação (also known as maracatu de baque virado: “maracatu of the turned-around beat”) is an Afro-Brazilian performance genre. The term, often shortened simply to naçã... | <urn:uuid:77cbaa3c-4cfe-4d3b-874f-4cc077c051f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eyesonbrazil.com/2008/05/30/a-little-maracatu-for-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939673 | 851 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Fun Facts About Pablo Picasso
Born on October 25 1881 in Málaga Spain, Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, Pablo Picasso was without question one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Together with Georges Braque, he also created Cubism.
- Picass... | <urn:uuid:7da711f3-b47b-4332-8c48-9c94147bfe01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://factsofun.wordpress.com/tag/traumatic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991936 | 1,038 | 3.109375 | 3 |
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|Common Name: ||tennessee walking duck |
|Scientific Name: ||anas platyrhynchos polycrural|
The Tennessee Walking Duck is an interesting specimen.
In one specific pond on the grounds of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, for a documented 8 generations, at least one duckl... | <urn:uuid:063a9c2d-64fc-48ea-a745-026e1584d969> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fiendishcuriosities.com/viewitem.php?selectItem=71 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886615 | 155 | 2.546875 | 3 |
A study recently published in the American Journal of Psychiatry reveals that compulsive buying disorder affects more than one in twenty people in the U.S. Although it might sound harmless, this often-misunderstood condition can be very detrimental to one’s health and personal life. It is often associated with depressi... | <urn:uuid:dcd1a068-5a87-4166-b00b-a1b8d8ad7f67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forensicpsyc.blogspot.com/2007/02/csd.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959207 | 1,161 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Fort Porter (1)
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Fort Porter (1) (1841-1921) - First established as a large two story stone blockhouse in 1841 at the terminus of the Erie Canal in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. Named after General Peter B. Porter (1773-1844), officer in the War of 1812 and U.S. Secretary of War (1828-1829... | <urn:uuid:d34f443f-69bd-445c-8ce6-1efeff60f819> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fortwiki.com/Fort_Porter_(1) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96163 | 746 | 3.25 | 3 |
ABC Path Generator is a program and a Perl library that generates layouts of ABC Path based on the input of a random number generator. Giving different seeds to the generator will yield different layouts. ABC Path is a puzzle game in which one should position the letters from "A" to "Y" in a 5*5 grid based on clues. It... | <urn:uuid:48e27d17-ffaf-4136-ad83-fc1c1ad692f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freecode.com/tags/amusements?sort=popularity&with=&without= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923905 | 108 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Solar toys are animated by the sun. Of course, with modern technology, it's tempting to connect a motor to a solar cell via wires and a microprocessor to power the toy. But that's inelegant (though effective). These solar toys directly convert sunlight to motion through mechanical linkages and elementary physics. The m... | <urn:uuid:e09f340d-db52-49b9-8582-8a6ed0e6f621> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://genuineideas.com/HallofInventions/solartoys.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889651 | 339 | 3.234375 | 3 |
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson clearly described the role of American Indians in the American Revolution. In addition to his other oppressive acts, King George III had “endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undisti... | <urn:uuid:96b0cbc2-f817-430d-b09b-3d0d31e0d69b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/war-for-independence/essays/indians%E2%80%99-war-independence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967025 | 3,726 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Birds can be found almost everywhere. No single place is best. You can see them in many different habitats - in a city park or an open field, along the riverbank, or at the
shore. Many bird-watchers make their observations in the early morning when birds are most active. While bird-watching, care must be taken not to s... | <urn:uuid:822ca00d-0988-4865-9546-993b68be71d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://glencoe.com/sec/science/lep_science/lep2002/national/life/wwwlinks/interactivities.php?iRef=416&iChapter=15&iUnit=1403&iUnitNumber=3&iArticle=416 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958519 | 131 | 3.109375 | 3 |
- Dec 22, 2011 1:40 PM EST
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing a new type of solar cell that can simply be painted on to a surface.
The team has created a "power-producing nanoparticle" called a quantum dot, which can be combined with a spreadable paste that can then be painted onto any conductiv... | <urn:uuid:e88452a0-9096-4814-bfb7-bddbcd730a79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://goodcleantech.pcmag.com/tag/45724-solar-paint | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930146 | 110 | 2.640625 | 3 |
We all appreciate an odorless environment and a clean, fresh scent. Most household and business restrooms provide an air freshener in an attempt to make your experience more comfortable, and yet we see information like this coming from the National Resources Defense Council: “An analysis of more than a dozen common hou... | <urn:uuid:2a068bab-bda7-436d-a72c-8e4afde43cfa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://greeninhygiene.com/2012/01/13/breath-of-fresh-air-the-reality-of-air-freshener-chemicals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948686 | 1,093 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Before you purchase your child’ s backpack, there are some things you should consider. While backpacks are one of the most convenient and popular ways to carry books and school supplies, an overloaded and/or improperly worn backpack may be injuring your child.
Injury can occur when a child, in trying to adapt to a heav... | <urn:uuid:99d1a508-8c3d-4996-9c9b-b47b6cf84158> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://haverford.patch.com/blog_posts/backpack-making-the-grade-7e3b95f2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944369 | 742 | 3.328125 | 3 |
What do we know about physical activity among older adults?
For starters, physical activity is a powerful means to help prevent age-related loss of function, reduce the risk of chronic disease, improve mental and physical health, and support quality of life.
Older adults who exercise can:
- Reduce their risk of heart d... | <urn:uuid:84bd3ba9-3fdb-4fe4-a376-15a2dcd885e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://health.gov/paguidelines/blog/?tag=/aging | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942038 | 792 | 3.390625 | 3 |
|Cost Terms, Concepts, and Classifications|
In this chapter, we have looked at some of the ways in which managers classify costs. How the costs will be used—for preparing external reports, predicting cost behavior, assigning costs to cost objects, or decision making—will dictate how the costs are classified.
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That's a Wrap!
How a French anthropologist fell for an unusual sari and rescued dozens of Indian drapes from extinction
It is a blustery, cold afternoon as I make my way to the Goldstein Gallery and the University of Minnesota's School of Apparel and Design. Opening the auditorium door, I make out the silhouettes of ro... | <urn:uuid:3d6149e8-1918-4be6-b0e1-dd324f97baa8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=4606 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964779 | 3,333 | 2.71875 | 3 |
As might be expected of a lively, sociable people, the Romans enjoyed a great variety of games and entertainments. Activities such as wrestling and ball games were indulged in by adults as much as children. Indeed, playing some form of ball game was one means by which a Roman gentleman might work up an appetite for din... | <urn:uuid:9285884b-8c48-457e-8153-7ea9f8ea2909> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://historum.com/ancient-history/19470-roman-entertainment.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990177 | 776 | 2.96875 | 3 |
The first settlers in America measured out their lands for individual or public holdings on the basis of "metes and bounds," the shape of a tract being determined by natural features.
The present rectangular survey was adopted under the Land Ordinance of 1785 , which provided for the survey of all public land into town... | <urn:uuid:69d4af76-59da-4527-ace2-bf9e815b2dd1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://history.nd.gov/archives/genlandsurveys.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918557 | 535 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Sunny Day, Sunny Bee
The UC Davis Aboretum--particularly the Storer Garden--is full of color--and sunflower bees.
A recent trip to see the New England Asters (Aster novae-angliae from the Asteraceae or sunflower family) yielded a Nikon moment: fuzzy-wuzzy sunflower bees foraging on the striking purple flowers.
The sunf... | <urn:uuid:17c92573-0465-40e3-a241-4eb2a6ec4fcb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://homeorchard.ucdavis.edu/?blogpost=1850&blogasset=45538 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887581 | 223 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Naadi Shastra, an ancient system of prediction provides indepth guidance and knowledge about your past and your future. Can you really find out who you were and how your life was in the past? You sure can! That’s what Naadi Shastra is well known for. This ancient astrological branch has amazed millions with its special... | <urn:uuid:96346a89-b887-4eef-807e-ecbb4b8400ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://in.msn.astroyogi.com/articles/AstrologyArticles/naadi-shastra.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97718 | 450 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Many advocates of Sharia cite Islam’s “fundamental respect for women” as one of their religion’s greatest benefits. The prophet Mohammad is known for ascribing women a right to own property, receive education, and hold a job. When asked by an adherent whom he should give his greatest respect to, Mohammad said, “your mo... | <urn:uuid:e35e7161-b6cb-484b-9935-0fa18d44b6f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://insideislam.wisc.edu/2008/11/womens-rights-under-islamic-law/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956757 | 406 | 2.875 | 3 |
The Black Presence in the Writers' Project
Patsy Moses, Age 74
During the Depression, an awakened appreciation for the cultural diversity of the American people heightened interest in and sympathy for American minority groups. The broad egalitarianism of the New Deal both reflected and inspired this attitude. The Roose... | <urn:uuid:bbf63b20-a631-439b-b998-76696c2b5a42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://international.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snintro08.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965944 | 891 | 3.375 | 3 |
Animals seem to use migration to escape the spread of deadly pathogens...so it's bad news that many animals have stopped migrating.
Billions of animals migrate across the world every year, with some taking months to get to their destination. Along the way, animals expose themselves to potentially deadly pathogens, enco... | <urn:uuid:c4fb38db-b29a-4cd2-8d8b-a22ef7013a4d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://io9.com/5738643/animals-have-stopped-migrating-+-and-that-could-cause-a-disease-epidemic?tag=dystopia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958202 | 738 | 3.28125 | 3 |
An easy experiment with a gas range and a box of paper clips can give you a good understanding of how to strengthen, and soften, steel. Should you ever be hurled into a medieval world of elves and sorcerers, you can make your living as a smithee.
Metallurgy isn't just a matter of melting things down and pouring them in... | <urn:uuid:0e2b02ef-7277-4661-bde3-fc74ed69df57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://io9.com/5819227/learn-to-make-a-sword-++-using-science?tag=swords | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96293 | 978 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Exactly one hundred years ago today, an ocean liner struck a block of ice and sank in the North Atlantic. The story of the ocean liner has been told hundreds of times. This story is about the block of ice.
The photos you see up top and down on the left are quite possibly the only known photographic evidence of the actu... | <urn:uuid:7d0eae94-d57a-4abc-8521-57481575be6d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://io9.com/5901952/whatever-happened-to-the-iceberg-that-sank-the-titanic?tag=titanic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980177 | 981 | 3.921875 | 4 |
At the Heart of Hartley-2, a New Breed of Comet?
At the heart of every comet lies a remnant of the dawn of the solar system. Or is that remnants? Astronomers don't know, but the answer would give them a clearer picture of exactly how comets were born eons ago at the birth of the Solar System. Did thin tendrils of dust ... | <urn:uuid:85afc11f-942a-420b-98fe-efc2f843463e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ipv6.nasa.gov/mission_pages/epoxi/hartley-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966547 | 1,640 | 4.125 | 4 |
OverviewWhite supremacy (or "white supremacism") is the belief that lighter-skinned individuals ("whites") generally of western European descent are somehow genetically "superior" to darker-skinned individuals whose ancestors were indigenous to other regions ("inferior races"), especially those referred to as "black" o... | <urn:uuid:b1a90cf4-2c20-42f4-9bc3-b1d9c12f1067> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://issuepedia.org/White_supremacy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919333 | 204 | 3.296875 | 3 |
A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.
- Are white lies good or bad?
- Can you lie with out lying?
- Is a white lie still classified a lie?
- Is it okay to tell white lies?
- Does telling a white lie make you a bad person?
- When is a white lie acceptable?
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June 6 2011
Constituting America Essay on Amendment XIII
IWF is proud to contribute to the "Constituting America" project with an essay about the 13th Amendment. Constituting America is a project intended to reach, educate, and inform America's youth and her citizens about the importance of the U.S. Constitution and th... | <urn:uuid:bb88cfa8-92ca-4d24-ac96-2eef8dd5b380> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://iwf.org/news/2432865/Constituting-America-Essay-on-Amendment-XIII | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952938 | 965 | 3.40625 | 3 |
The elders formed Kapululangu on 12 April 1999, but trace its history back to 1983 when they held a series of Women’s Law Camps in the east Kimberley.
These camps developed into the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture’s Desert Women’s Project (DWR) in 1986. DWR was so successful that it was incorporated as the Manungk... | <urn:uuid:dbddca62-8040-4fb7-b8ef-c25419f49472> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kapululangu.org/History.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965251 | 377 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Oscar was adopted as a kitten from an animal shelter and grew up in the third-floor end-stage dementia unit at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The 41-bed unit treats people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses, most of whom are in the end stage of life an... | <urn:uuid:1c90eddf-7558-47a3-8d78-232248fb5aee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kathychinchilla.tumblr.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979482 | 997 | 2.65625 | 3 |
When should I schedule my child's first trip to the dentist? Should my 3-year-old be flossing? How do I know if my child needs braces?
Many parents have a tough time judging how much dental care their kids need. They know they want to prevent cavities, but they don't always know the best way to do so.
When Should Denta... | <urn:uuid:2ad95626-49a3-4de5-af65-a6a25ac11a5d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?lic=175&dn=GirlsHealthDotGov&article_set=22528&cat_id=191 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945261 | 1,564 | 3.21875 | 3 |
The Case Against Adolescence SEP 26 2007
In every mammalian species, immediately upon reaching puberty, animals function as adults, often having offspring. We call our offspring "children" well past puberty. The trend started a hundred years ago and now extends childhood well into the 20s. The age at which Americans re... | <urn:uuid:750628c7-ca3e-4671-a2ec-4ed7a8404506> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kottke.org/07/09/the-case-against-adolescence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959909 | 384 | 2.71875 | 3 |
History of Halloween? It's not so ghoulish
Halloween history quiz: Is Halloween an American holiday? Absolutely not. In fact, Halloween is considered to be one of the oldest holidays in the world, and one celebrated around the globe in one fashion or another.
Of course, it's not always labeled "Halloween" and doesn't a... | <urn:uuid:eccb6462-da82-474a-92bd-2953c07ae84d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/history-of-halloween-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933461 | 358 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Last Updated on Monday, 14 December 2009 13:47
Common Name: Rough-legged Hawk
Also referred to as: American Roughleg, Rough-legged Buzzard
Genus species: Buteo lagopus
Recognized subspecies: Buteo lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin)
- Total length: 47 to 59 cm.
- Wing chord: 372 to 438 mm.
- Tail: 210 to 235 mm.
- Weight: ... | <urn:uuid:6399bef2-f95a-41f1-bed4-41b983f9b743> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lcvirtualwildlife.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=114&Itemid=135 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89089 | 1,486 | 3.4375 | 3 |
On April 19, 2011 from 12-1 pm Dr. James C. Nieh spoke about “The Decline and Fall of Bees: Pollinators in Peril” in the Events Room at the Biomedical Library.
Honey bees face multiple natural and manmade dangers in their environment. Ironically, they are highly successful because of their use in modern agriculture, ye... | <urn:uuid:6f2e4e09-b1a8-4294-b671-bb08278ba4f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/bml/events/lecture-nieh.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959898 | 389 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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