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AKRON, Ohio — It's easy to get caught up in a more-is-better fitness philosophy--more weight on the bench press, more repetitions on the abdominal machine, more time on the treadmill, more intensity in the aerobics class... |
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Are You Ready to Spring Forward?
Every March Daylight Savings Times starts and the time moves forward an hour.
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Eco-Friendly Swimming pool decks
eco friendly pool decksAs a follow up to our popular article two years ago on the same topic, let's revisit the question of what makes an eco-friendly pool deck.
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Equilibrium from my perspective…
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Equilibrium, is a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces. Classic comic book relationships are examples of equilibrium in its purest form, but to understand the comparison I make it clear to forget any pr... |
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There was a major, 6.3 on the Richter scale, earthquake in central Italy close to the town of L'Aquila (the Eagle) on Monday. The devastation is huge and the death toll is 250 and climbing. The photos and videos of the tembler and the aftermath are striking. It clearly is a major tragedy.
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Although the icy landscape of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean may seem distant, scientific research in this region can yield insights on changes that are important to the entire planet. The Antarctic region also holds the promi... |
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EffectiveCommunication Games_The TelephoneMany people often struggle to express themselves in an effective way. While there are some individuals who communicate quite easily with others, there are also some people who have no idea as to how to begin engaging conversations. H... |
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Slavery, Genocide and Nuclear War
Disney/ABC radio personality Paul Harvey, one of the most widely heard commentators in the United States, presented his listeners on June 23 with an endorsement of genocide and racism that would have been right at home on a white supremacist shortwave broadcast.
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Wall Street traders, like high-stakes poker players, are a different breed. The constant pressure, the appetite for risk, the ability to think and react in split seconds, all the while calculating odds in their heads that most can't do with an HP12C.
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Periods of extremely hot weather (like the heat waves currently blanketing the country) can cause serious health problems for everyone.
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Tsunami speeds depend on how deep the ocean is. The tsunami that hit on December 26, 2004 was measured at about 800 km/hr, with the Pacific Ocean’s depth averaging at about 5km. Considering some areas of the Pacific Ocean are even deeper, potential future tsu... |
Function Surfing - Derivatives
The derivative of a function $f(x)$ at a point $a$ measures the slope of the tangent line to the function at that point. To help visualize the derivative, imagine the function as a wave that you are surfing. The tilt of your surf board is the slope.
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A sourdough pancake is made from sourdough which has many nutritious values. Pancakes act as a tasty and complete breakfast meal. Sourdough gives the dish a flavored aspect as compared to any other baked delicacy. It also helps in reducing phytates in the food. How to make a sourdough p... |
Hubble's Demolition Derby Of Galaxies
A smaller galaxy blasts through a larger one, like a mega-bullet, sowing disruption in its wake, in this image of Arp 148. The Hubble Space Telescope released 62 images of galaxies smashing into each other, to celebrate its 18th anniversary in space. Galactic collisions were more ... |
Guest Post: Paul Appleby on Fruits, Vegetables, & Cancer
On April 7, I linked to an NPR report about a European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC) paper that found that eating more fruits and vegetables cuts the risk of cancer by only 4%. After reading his comments elsewhere, I invited Paul Appleby, Senior S... |
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God as Male Priest
"In his actions in and toward the world of his creation, the one God and Father reveals himself primarily and essentially in a 'masculine' way."-- Fr. Thomas Hopko (Women and the Priesthood, p 240)
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Gunshot Wounds to the Face Not As Lethal As You Might Think
Jun 1, 2012
He said treating trauma injuries is “a team sport” and involves close work with specialists.
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Can anyone tell me how to find all normal subgroups of the symmetric group $S_4$?
In particular are $H=\{e,(1 2)(3 4)\}$ and $K=\{e,(1 2)(3 4), (1 3)(2 4),(1 4)(2 3)\}$ normal subgroups?
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We have permutation $p$ of elements $1,\ldots, n$. What is the minimal number of operations required to sort this permutation (in ascending order), where permitted operations are:
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This is actually a computer science question in that I need to create a program that will determine the center of a circle given $4$ points on its circumference.
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This morning a collegue of mine came to me with the following question: does there exist any elliptic operator of order $2m$ with real (variable) coefficients that is not strongly elliptic?
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I want to prove the following statements:
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Many Missouri counties are named after people, but Saline County is named after a mineral, salt. That's appropriate, considering the salt of the earth wells up here.
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Mouse Follower – Javascript Tutorial
In this tutorial, we will make an object follow the mouse using Javascript. This is similar to the startDrag command in Flash that some of you may be familiar with. It is a fairly simple effect and will be a good starting point for this Javascript animation tutorial series.
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Its been stated in Wikipedia regarding Reynolds number(Re) that "laminar flow occurs when Re<2300 and turbulent flow occurs when Re>4000. In another wiki file related to Kármán vortex street it has been stated that "A vortex street will only be observed over a given range of Reynolds numbers (... |
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How can light be called electromagnetic if it doesn't appear to be electric nor magnetic?
If I go out to the sunlight, magnets aren't affected (or don't seem to be). And there is no transfer of electric charge/electrons (as there is in AC/DC current in space).
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The barn owl: Natures Pied Piper
The barn owl: Natures Pied Piper
By Robert A. Hedeen, Naturalist
The barn owl, or monkey-faced owl, may be called a flying cat because of the great numbers of destructive rats, mice and other rodents it eliminates. The face of this predator resembles that of a toothless, hook-nos... |
Solstice moon illusion tomorrow night
Photo: Edmund E. Kasaitis.
Tomorrow night’s full moon will be very low in the sky, and will give a strong illusion of being far bigger than it actually is.
Exactly why we experience this phenomenon is unclear; NASA provides several explanations, including this one:
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Working out whether software based calculations involving floating-point values delivers a sensible answer requires lots of mathematical sophistication and in practice is often impractical or intractable. The v... |
Aren't the lessons in violent or sexual media damaging regardless of how graphic they are?
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The Wolverine State is MICHIGAN. The wolverine (Gulo luscus) is very rare in Michigan, so much so that many have challenged the truth of them ever having been native to the state at all. However, wolverines are solitary hunters with vast territories, so they are not very abundant ANYWHERE. Alaska, Canada... |
If Your Car Is Old, You Might Be Wasting Money on Insurance Coverage
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More than a million people die around the world in car accidents each year but experts in the industry now believe fatal smashes could be eliminated. Some hope there could be an end to car crashes altogether.
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The Protection Racket
A quarter century after the advent of AIDS in America, Professor William Darrow's sense of urgency about one thing remains undiminished: This state, this country, isn't doing enough to stop the disease.
Although new treatments have made AIDS less deadly, a vaccine remains chimerical, and prevent... |
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Revamped system recognizes gender and sex are not synonymous
For many of us, identifying as male or female is simple. But for some, what’s in their pants doesn’t match up with what’s in their minds. I applaud Facebook for recognizing that gender is not clearly black and white; it’s ... |
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At Bletchley Park, breaking Enigma codes and winning WW II
This is one of just a few surviving photographs of the original Colossus. Based on this and the few others, vintage computer experts and World War II historians have been able to recreate the Colossus machine that helped break the Enigma codes and win the war... |
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Don’t Look to Seigniorage to Save the Euro
From time to time, there are suggestions that the future seigniorage income of a central bank is an asset that is available for current lending. Buiter (2008) argues that the discounted present value of future seigniorage should be included as an asset on the balance sheet of... |
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Public Release: IFA 2012: Mobile perspective in regional public transportation
Did we miss it, or is it just delayed again, that bus? How often have you had to ask yourself the same thing, incredulously, while waiting for your bus. In a project with the VBB, developers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communicat... |
Shaun Hautly of St. Louis, Mo., has struggled with anxiety and eating problems since he was in the fourth grade. “Whenever my anxiety would get bad, my appetite would disappear,” he remembers. “The thought of eating would make me sick.”
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Humans don’t need to learn the ability to move to a rhythm, according to a new study. They are born with it. Two researchers from Finland and the United Kingdom wanted to find out how soon in life people begin to dance to rhythms. They were surprised to find that babies as young ... |
New Zealand is a paradise for nature lovers. The North Island, where Auckland is situated, offers sailing, beaches, and hot springs. On the South Island, where Christchurch is located, wild rainforest, the Southern Alps, glaciers, and gold towns await your exploration.
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Remote Ukraine Village Honors Memory of Yitzchak Rabin
A tiny village in western Ukraine honored the late Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel laureate Yitzchak Rabin, whose family originated in the hamlet.
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HESHIN, SHNEUR ZALMAN (1903–1959), Israel jurist and Supreme Court justice. Heshin, who was born in Jerusalem, studied law in the United States. In 1937 he was appointed a magistrate in Tel Aviv and from 1944 to 1948 served as district court judge there. He became a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel in 1948, and f... |
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San Jose
San Jose
San Jose is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. It is also the capital of the San José Province. San José is located in the center of the country at 9°56′N 84°5′W; it is on a mountain plateau at an elevation of about 1,170 meters (3,839 feet) above sea level.
According to the 2000 census, t... |
Repurposing the Los Angeles Aqueduct: A Pathway for Sacred Pilgrimages
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Effects Of Tornadoes
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