text stringlengths 151 620k |
|---|
Take the 2-minute tour ×
What books would you recommend to learn physics, being a a Math major, from classical mechanics, electricity, etc. to modern physics?
share|improve this question
This might be a better place for your question... – Guess who it is. Dec 30 '10 at 5:05
This might be too: phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theo... |
Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have no problem understanding the basics of the linear algebra, but I also know that the linear algebra it's still an analytical approach to real world scenarios that can be solved with matrices and vectors.
Since I'm studying linear algebra exclusively because of virtual 3D world applicati... |
Take the 2-minute tour ×
I want to calculate the area displayed in yellow in the following picture:
circle area
The red square has an area of 1. For any given square, I'm looking for the simplest formula to compute the yellow area in this picture.
(Squares are actually pixels in an image processing software, and I ... |
Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm having some difficulty getting an understanding of this issue: I have an inclusion map $i : S^1 \vee S^1 \hookrightarrow S^1 \times S^1$. So this is an inclusion map from the figure eight to the torus. If the leftmost circle of the figure eight is called $b$ and the rightmost circle is cal... |
Drexel dragonThe Math ForumDonate to the Math Forum
Ask Dr. Math - Questions and Answers from our Archives
The Wrapping Function, Unravelled
Date: 06/29/2012 at 20:11:20
From: Zack
Subject: How do you graph the Wrapping Function?
When graphing the wrapping function, what coordinates do you use?
Could you graph th... |
Take the 2-minute tour ×
Assume a set of $n^{r}$ points $X_{r} = \{ x_{1}, \cdots, x_{n^{r}} \}$ is given occupying a codimension $t^{r}$ subspace in $\mathbb{R}^{n^{r}}$. Let $M_{r}$ be the set of $t^{r}$-tuples of these points. So $|M_{r}| = \frac{n^{r}!}{(n^{r}-t^{r})!t^{r}!}$. Each $m \in M_{r}$ lies in a hyperpla... |
Take the 2-minute tour ×
Say $f:X\to C$ is a family of curves. More precisely, $C$ is a smooth projective irreducible curve over a field, $f$ is a flat morphism of schemes and $X$ is a normal projective irreducible surface.
Say I take a section $P:C\to X$. Does the image of $P$ lie in the nonsingular part of $X$?
Wh... |
Page last updated at 15:19 GMT, Monday, 8 February 2010
What makes a great TV theme tune?
Only Fools and Horses, The Avengers and Tomorrow's World
By Rajini Vaidyanathan
BBC News Magazine
Johnny Dankworth, who has died aged 82, was lauded for his jazz but was also a noted composer of TV theme tunes, including The A... |
Is 4G Better Than 3G?
3G phones were first introduced in 2001, but it wasn't until six years later, with the introduction of Apple's iPhone in 2007, that 3G exploded.
AP Photo/Paul Sakuma
You've heard it on TV commercials: "our network is the largest 3G network in the United States" and "Which network would you trust... |
How Much Is U.S. to Blame for “Made-in-China” Pollution?
Air pollutants generated in China during the manufacture of goods destined for export travel across the Pacific, contributing to U.S. smog.
Buildings are blanketed in heavy smog in China's capital, Beijing, earlier this month. A new study says part of China's p... |
Ole Seehausen
Competing colors. Blue male cichlids (top) live close to the surface of Lake Victoria, whereas red males dwell in deeper water.
Red Fish, Blue Fish, One Fish Becomes Two Fish
Beauty, as the saying goes, is in the eye of the beholder--and some fish have taken this idea to the extreme. Cichlids in Lake V... |
Being a vegetarian doesn’t have to be boring!
Vegetarianism is becoming more common as people become more aware of where their food is sourced, how, and their religious orientations. But a lot of people who do feel the need to go veggie, don’t because they think that the food will be bland, boring and all the same. So... |
• condensation;
• silica;
• silicic acid;
• speciation
Biomineral formation is widespread in nature, and occurs in bacteria, single-celled protists, plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. Minerals formed in the biological environment often show unusual physical properties (e.g. strength, degree of hydration) an... |
Oxford University Press
English Language Teaching Global Blog
Video cameras in the hands of learners
Filmed presentations
From teacher’s to students’ hands
Group of adults watching class presentation
1. Students’ own devices
2. An open learning space
3. Less stress for students
4. Technological cont... |
Hearing Tests (Audiometry)
marty23724 brian1993 morieba83041 518 Users are discussing this topic
Audiometry involves the testing of hearing. There are various different ways to test hearing depending on the age of the person involved and the type of hearing loss.
The ear is roughly divided into three parts. The ou... |
Under the bright lights of an aging sun
July 4, 2014 by Aaron L. Gronstal, Astrobio.net
Venus can be seen as a black dot eclipsing the Sun in this image from 2012. Venus orbits too close to the Sun to the planet to be habitable for life as we know it. Venus experiences a runaway greenhouse and the average surface temp... |
NCPEA - National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
Elder Care
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is an escalating pattern of violence or intimidation by an intimate partner, which is used to gain power and control. Several categories of domestic violence against the elderly have been identified:
"Domestic... |
Take the 2-minute tour ×
also: defs, java fields, agents
The clojure website has documentation for these concepts:
I understand the words, but I don't conceptually get the purpose / meaning of these. When should I / how can I know when to use them?
share|improve this question
1 Answer 1
up vote 9 down vote accept... |
An ear for crime
Chicago introduces USC-engineered neural gunshot sensors in high crime areas
A University of Southern California biomedical engineer's pioneering brain cell research has led directly to a patented system that is now being rolled out to stem gun violence on the streets of Chicago and Los Angeles.
Th... |
Power Markets Work to Clear Bottlenecks
| Mar 25, 2013 | 6:00 PM EDT | Comments
• Comment
• Print Print
• Print
Stock quotes in this article:
Power markets are the new killer app. They are rewarding efficient producers and punishing laggards. Regionally, these markets work well. Nationally, they ... |
Scientific Controversies
It seems like everything is coming in twos the past couple of days. Yesterday we mentioned two books on the evolution of genomes and two stories involving either Wolbachia or sex determination. Today, we have two stories involving criticisms of scientific papers. One deals with the evolution o... |
Katydid Ears Have Structures Similar to Mammalian Ones
November 23, 2012
Copiphora gorgonensis, a South American katydid found to have remarkably human-like ears. Photo by Daniel Robert and Fernando Montealegre-Zapata.
Katydid ears have evolved components resembling those of human ears, on a smaller scale. This is... |
AEA biplanes
Red Wing
The great inventor Alexander Graham Bell, by then extremely wealthy, established the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) in October 1907 to bring bright young engineers together in a creative environment. The AEA, composed of Bell as mentor, Douglas McCurdy, Frederick Baldwin, Lt. Thomas Selfrid... |
Take the 2-minute tour ×
Most commands in Latex are written with the arguments inside braces following the command: \command{arguments}. But text formatting options, like \em, or \scriptsize are usually written inside the braces, like {\em some italicised text}. Why is this? What makes these commands different? I'm pa... |
Feed Your Mind Right: What You Listen To, Read and Watch Matters
reading bookMost of us totally disregard what our mind does for us every day. Scientifically, the mind is responsible for all of the actions that we do and the emotions that we are feeling every day. In the context of what the mind does and can do for us... |
SAN FRANCISCO - By now, seeing one of Google's experimental, driverless cars zipping down Silicon Valley's Highway 101, or parking itself on a San Francisco street, is not all that unusual. Indeed, as automakers like Audi, Toyota and Mercedes-Benz make plans for self-driving vehicles, it is only a matter of time before... |
Saturday 5 September 2015
When coal goes up, gold comes down
, February 14, 2013
By Marcus Holland
China and India, the world’s two most populous countries, are having to endure the coldest winter in decades this year. As a result, there has been a tremendous demand placed for greater production of coal.
Each c... |
How veterinary medicine can save the world, Part 3: Serving the public
Natural disasters. Disease outbreaks. Terrorist bombings. When crisis hits, these veterinarians are on the scene.
Nov 01, 2013
Scott Mason found his passion in the bombed-out shadow of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 19... |
The ethanol production industry is in the midst of a long "winning streak" in terms of profits. The current run of historically high profits began in March 2013 and was punctuated by a spectacular spike during February-April 2014. As highlighted in two recent farmdoc daily articles (here and here), the high profits ha... |
The same hormone that primes new mothers to connect with their babies can put couples in the mood to communicate and solve their problems. Beate Ditzen, a psychologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and her colleagues had 47 couples inhale preparations of oxytocin or a placebo before discussing an emotiona... |
Astronomy Now Online
Home Magazine Resources Store
Spaceflight Now +
How do I sign up?
Video archive
STS-120 day 2 highlights
STS-120 day 1 highlights
STS-118: Highlights
Full presentation
Mission film
STS-120: Rollout to pad
Dawn leaves Earth
Full coverage
Dawn: Launch preview
Launch | Science
... |
Causative Agent:
Glanders is a zoonotic disease caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia mallei. Though primarily a disease of horses, mules, and donkeys, human illness can sometimes occur. Glanders is endemic in parts of Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central and South America.
Routes of Exposure:
Humans are ... |
Viewpoint: Is UK GDP data fit for purpose?
• 27 April 2012
• From the section Business
UK economy pictures
The UK economy has slipped back into recession, according to official figures released this week. They are an early estimate and highly likely to change. But the size and frequency of past revisions may have... |
Need help?
We're here to answer your questions.
What are the benefits of generic drugs?
Who is this for?
Learn more about prescription drug and pharmacy coverage.
If you're trying to save money on your Medicare prescription drugs, learn how generics can help.
You've probably heard of Lipitor®. You may even be tak... |
Suffering from ‘boomeritis’
The baby boomers are a generation that won’t stop. They golf, ski, run, curl, cycle, play soccer, hockey and slow-pitch, do triathlons, and have even been seen sweating in a hot yoga class! These boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, have worked hard and now they have learned to play hard. G... |
Smart Woman: Benefits of Running for Your Health
Published 07/28 2014 04:42PM
Updated 07/28 2014 05:51PM
According to a new study published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, running, even for a few minutes, can reduce your risk of death from heart disease compared to those who don't ru... |
A 25-Year Retrospective on Bio-Engineering
Steven S. Kuwahara, PhD, principal consultant at GXP BioTechnology LLC, gives an update on "Engineering the Cell-System Interface."
Jul 01, 2012
Volume 25, Issue 7
In a prescient article titled, "Engineering the Cell-System Interface" published in the July/August 1988 issue ... |
The Leadenhall Street Mosaic
Roman Britain, 1st or 2nd century AD
Found in Leadenhall Street, London (1803)
Bacchus on a tiger
This mosaic is of earlier date than most surviving mosaics from Roman-Britain. It features Bacchus, riding on a tiger rather than the more usual spotted leopard, referring to the myth that t... |
"Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day's newspaper," a news anchor said in a 1981 KRON San Francisco broadcast
Well, none of our readers have to imagine that scenario. They do it everyday.
Back in 1981, however, the concept of online media seemed far... |
Namon NassefPhoto courtesy of Namon NassefNamon Nassef, inventor of the Zero Liquid Discharge Sewage Elimination System.
Sewage is nasty work, but Namon Nassef has built his career on finding innovative ways to clean it up. The 64-year-old engineer is the inventor of the Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) system, a product t... |
Jenny McCarthy on claims her son was never autistic: ‘irresponsible & inaccurate’
In 2008, Jenny McCarthy claimed to have cured her son of autism through a gluten and dairy free diet and vitamin regimen. She published a book called Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds and later went on ... |
How to Build an Urban Icon ... Out of LEGOs
Brick City, released today, offers models of buildings and infrastructure that span continents.
Image Courtesy of Brick City
Courtesy of Brick City
LEGO blocks are often a child's first foray into architecture, creating an ad-hoc barter system and a mini-exercise in city p... |
Need to relax? Just breathe: Words on Wellness
Email the author
on April 03, 2014 at 11:03 AM, updated April 03, 2014 at 4:08 PM
daniel neides-question from cleveland clinic.jpgDr. Daniel Neides, Medical Director and Chief Operating Officer at Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.
LYNDHURST, Ohio -- Every week I have... |
College can be a difficult time. Not only are many trying to “find themselves,” but students are also forced to decide on what career path their lives will take. Because of this, many students often switch majors in an attempt to figure out what works best for them. While this practice may be common place, a new resear... |
Improve your CSS with the Sass @extend directive
Watching a CSS veteran discover Sass for the first time is always entertaining. Concepts like nesting, variables and mixins seem so natural and, once the syntax is committed to memory, it's difficult to remember a time before their availability. Relief is the most comm... |
Spectral Interpolation Synthesis
Spectral Interpolation Synthesis is based on the idea that the power spectrum produced by a wind instrument is mostly determined by the pitch (or more properly, the fundamental frequency) and the loudness (intensity of sound). As the loudness changes, the (short-term) spectrum evolves.... |
A Window Into The Past
1769 Thomas Jefferys Map showing colonial St. Augustine.
Welcome to the City of St. Augustine's Archaeology Program website. St. Augustine's archaeological heritage is unparalleled in the quantity and diversity of remains buried beneath its buildings, streets, and backyards. These deposits not ... |
Cartwright: US Must Better Sat Awareness
Cartwright: US Must Better Sat Awareness
The United States should improve the quality and sharing of data about the location of satellites and space debris with other countries, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. James Cartwright told a space conference... |
Living in Truth:
Archaeology and the Patriarchs
Chapter 3 Book Navigator Chapter 5
by Charles N. Pope
Copyright ©1999-2004 by Charles Pope
United States Library of Congress
All rights reserved under International and
Pan-American Copyright Conventions
Chapter 4
"Deadly Drought, Fatal Flood"
(Noah to Nimrod)
Si... |
Cheat Sheet
Piano Exercises For Dummies
From Piano Exercises For Dummies by David Pearl
Piano exercises can improve the way you play and heighten awareness of your mental and physical approach to the piano. Warm up before piano exercises by stretching and contracting your wrists; and then try your hand at chord rela... |
Words of Wisdom:
Prostitution Should Be Illegal
1. Why Prostitution Should Remain Illegal In The United States
why prostitution should remain illegal. The practice of prostitution presents many dangers: to prostitutes, to customers, and to society at large. Prostitution is...
2. Prostitution Legal Or Illegal... |
Francis Everett Townsend
Townsend, Francis Everett (tounˈzənd) [key], 1867–1960, American reformer, leader of an old-age pension movement, b. Fairbury, Ill., grad. Univ. of Nebraska medical school, 1903. He practiced medicine in several Western states before he settled (1919) at Long Beach, Calif. In 1933, at the heig... |
What Vegetables Should I Grow in the Winter in South Alabama?
The southern part of Alabama is rated Zone 8 by the United States Department of Agriculture. This means that the lowest winter temperatures do not dip below 10 degrees F. Alabama's mild winters are warm enough that with careful preparation--including using ... |
Asturias Academy Library: Reading for Change
$34,875 $15,125
Raised Remaining
By creating a community library in Xela Guatemala to serve students, their families and patrons of the community, the Miguel Angel Asturias hopes to foster a love of reading and promote education.
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?... |
Read or download Miracles Of The Qur'an - volume 3
< <
2 / total: 6
The Scientific Miracles of The Qur’an
Fossilization and Iron Content
"They say, 'What! When we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up as a new Creation!' Say: 'It would not matter if you were rock or iron or indeed any created th... |
In the Northwest, innovative projects use trees to cool streams
• Native trees and shrubs planted along a tributary of the Rogue River in an effort to reduce water temperatures, part of Medford, Oregon's water quality program.
The Freshwater Trust
• Staff of The Freshwater Trust gather pre-project baseline da... |
Search form
Medicaid Expansion
Printer Friendly and PDF
Medicaid Expansion
Medicaid Expansion
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed in 2010 it mandated that states expand existing Medicaid eligibility to all US citizens up to age 65 with incomes below 133% of the federal poverty level (FPL) (include hover fun... |
Syrupus Picis Liquidae (U. S. P.)—Syrup of Tar.
Botanical name:
Preparation.—"Tar, seventy-five grammes (75 Gm.) [2 ozs. av., 282 grs.]; water, one hundred and fifty cubic centimeters (150 Cc.) [5 fl℥, 35♏]; boiling distilled water, four hundred cubic centimeters (400 Cc.) [13 fl℥, 252♏]; glycerin, one hundred cubi... |
Lieutenant Zenji Abe: A Japanese Pilot Remembers
Zenji Abe, one of the pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor, was born in 1916 in a small mountain village in Yamaguchi prefecture on the southern tip of the island of Honshu, the son of a sake brewer. He grew up in a time of worldwide depression, and his father was financially... |
Is this your business? Update now
Contact details Are these details correct?
Website - None provided
Email - none provided
About Philippines-archipelago
The Philippines is an archipelago of 7,107 islands located in Southeast Asia. It is a democratic unitary presidential republic with diplomatic relations with most ... |
HumanitiesWeb HumanitiesWeb
Periods Alphabetically Nationality Topics Themes Medium Glossary
pixel - Millais' <I>Ophelia</I>
Sort by Period
Sort Alphabetically
Sort by Nationality
Themes in Art
Get Your Degree!
Powered by Campus Explorer
& etc
All Rights Reserved.
Site last updated
28 October, 2012
Real Time An... |
How can I reduce my capital gains taxes on the sale of vacant land?
Pencil on income tax form
Q. How much must I pay in capital gains taxes from the sale of a piece of undeveloped property? Are there things I can do to reduce my tax bill?
A. If you held the property for more than one year, the profit from the sale i... |
Royalty Interest
DEFINITION of 'Royalty Interest'
In the oil and gas industry this refers to ownership of a portion of the resource or revenue that is produced. A company or person that owns a royalty interest does not bear any of the costs of the operations needed to produce the resource, yet the person or company ... |
Introduction to Ajax4Jsf
Java Server Faces provided a Component Based Architecture for building User Interface Components for the Web Application. Ajax aims in providing Faster Response to the Client Applications by reloading only the needed Data. Wouldn’t be nice to take the advantages of both Jsf and Ajax for develo... |
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Stream: i) Constant flow of water is called as stream. ii) In computer stream is a flow of data items of unlimited length. A Set of classes is used by some programmers or some program users, memory as its source as well as its destination. IO Stream (or) package consists of a set of classes a... |
Monday, September 5, 2011
Labor Day - Talk About Fatigue!
In the beginning when researching my ancestors, I didn't pay too much attention to the mundane, every day work that needed to be done. I was more interested in the personal stories of family, military and special talents that made them real to me. Then I rea... |
Resources: Creatinine | Treatment | Experts
Call Us for More Information
Contact Us | About Hospital
Home > Chronic Kidney Failure > Food and Fitness > Diet >
Can Kidney Failure Patients Take Coconut Oil
2013-06-09 11:44
Can Kidney Failure Patients Take Coconut OilCan kidney failure patients take coconut oil? It ... |
(865) 637-5331
African Elephant
(Elephantidae Loxodonta africana)
Elephants are the largest, most powerful terrestrial mammal in the world. African elephants were added to the endangered species list in 1988. The main reason for this status was that increasing ivory prices caused a tremendous increase in poaching du... |
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English homepage
Date: 1400-1500
Language: French
Origin: capacité, from Latin capacitas, from capax; CAPACIOUS
Related topics: Business Basics
ca‧pac‧i‧ty S3 W2 plural capacities
1 [singular] the amount of space a container, room etc has to hold things or people
capacity of
The fu... |
Did you know?
sync - definition and synonyms
What are red words?
verb [transitive] sync pronunciation in American English /sɪŋk/
Word Forms
present tense
present participlesyncing
past tensesynced
past participlesynced
1. to make sure that a computer has an exact copy of the data on something such as a cell ... |
• Join over 1.2 million students every month
• Accelerate your learning by 29%
• Unlimited access from just £6.99 per month
To What Extent Was The United Kingdom Successful in Negotiations at the Congress of Vienna
Extracts from this document...
To What Extent Was The United Kingdom Successful in Negotiations a... |
The Scholar Warrior
by John Leporati
Not everyone, of course, accepts these legends. (Debates usually center on when Bodhidharma actually lived, what he actually taught the monks at Shaolin and what historical accounts recounting his life and teachings can be said to be accurate.) Although the historicity of the ac... |
Aerobic Exercise: Learn Examples and Routines
Aerobic Exercise
Medical Author:
Medical Editor:
Aerobic exercise facts
• Aerobic exercise is sometimes known as "cardio"- exercise that requires pumping of oxygenated blood by the heart to deliver oxygen to working muscles.
• Aerobic exercise stimulates the heart... |
Insulin Pump Therapy
Insulin pump therapy can give you the better control you want for your lifestyle.1, 2
What Is Insulin Pump Therapy?
What is Insulin Pump Therapy?
1 2 3 4
How does the insulin get into your body?
1. Insulin pump
2. Flexible tubing delivers insulin from the pump reservoir to the infusion se... |
White Tigers- What the Zoos Don´t Tell You
This Video cannot be played on this device.
Uploaded on June 20, 2009 by AnimalMedia
Across the world, especially in the United States, a massive deception about white tigers and their origin is taking place.
Did you know that there truly is no such thing as a royal white... |
News and Features
Hooray for HP
Hewlett Packard takes a stand for global social justice in e-waste
By Juliane Poirier
Hewlett Packard's value just skyrocketed. Not in that myopic measuring tool known as the stock market, but in the realm of social justice. Last week HP banned the dumping of toxic electronic wast... |
Winning an Olympic medal is hard. Surprisingly, winning one when you're fasting for Ramadan is not that much harder.
At least not for Suleiman Nyambui of Tanzania, who took silver in the 5000 meters at the 1980 Summer Olympics while fasting for the Islamic holy month.
“Once you decide to do something, Allah is behind... |
Cheap Water Filter for Everyone
The Australian National University (ANU) scientist Tony Flynn has developed a process to create water filters from commonly available materials. The materials need to also be fired, which can be done without a kiln or other western technology, by using common manure.
An estimated 80% ... |
School Resource Division
The School Resource Deputy Program is a proactive, innovative, problem-solving approach to assist in reducing crime by assigning specially trained certified Deputy Sheriff's to each middle school, freshman campus and high school in the county. The program follows a national trend to responding... |
Justice in Oregon: Courts go high-tech, but people still reign supreme
enterprise.JPGView full sizeThe 1909 Wallowa County courthouse in Enterprise, Ore.
People in the Oregon court system waste many hours dealing with paper. They haul, file, lose and find paper all day long, to the tune of about 50 million pieces a ye... |
Posts in this category
Sat, 12 Dec 2009
Defined Behaviour with Undefined Values
Permanent link
In Perl 5 there is the undef value. Uninitialized variables contain undef, as well as non-existing hash values, reading from unopened or exhausted file handles and so on.
In Perl 6 the situation is a bit more complicated... |
phrases, sayings, idioms and expressions at
Phrases, Sayings and Idioms Home > Discussion Forum
Re: "to throw a switch"
Posted by Pamela on February 02, 2007
In Reply to: Re: "To throw a switch" posted by pamela on February 02, 2007
: : : : : What's the origin of the phrase "to throw a switch"? Why are switches "t... |
Urban Fold
World's Most Successful Subway?
This video takes a look at what may be the world's best subway system - Hong Kong's MTR. Riders hold shares in the public-private entity. And, as the video explains, it is profitable.
More than 4 million riders use Mass Transit Rail (MTR) daily.
"New mass transit systems i... |
poem index
Six Poets, Six Questions: Timothy Donnelly in Conversation
Written by
Timothy Donnelly
Contributor Page
September 18, 2012
Printer-friendly version
Timothy Donnelly, Randall Mann, and Ben Mirov presented a panel titled "Poetry in the Age of Social Media" at the sixth annual Poets Forum in New York C... |
Business, Finance & Economics
Worries for Argentine soy farmers
Young soy (Photo: Julia Kumari Drapkin)
By Julia Kumari Drapkin
Player utilities
Listen to the Story.
When the wind rustles through the trees and the air smells like wet earth, everyone in the Argentine farming town of General Villegas stops what th... |
August 6, 2009
Vanishing Act
Getting data onto the internet is one thing; the real trick may be getting rid of the data. I mean when you write an extremely sensitive e-mail or chat message, you really have no idea where that information could turn up may be even years later.
University of Washington researchers hav... |
Netherlands // The south and Zeeland //
Pressed between Belgium and Germany, Limburg, the Netherlands’ southernmost province, is shaped like an hourglass and is only 13km across at its narrowest. By Dutch standards, this is a geographically varied province: the north is a familiarly flat landscape of farmland and woo... |
Peanut Butter A Great Runner's Food
It sticks to your mouth—and to your muscles.
Friday, May 4, 2007, 12:00 am
We all know that peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth. But do you know that peanut butter might also help you "stick it out" during a hard workout or an intense race? It's true. In fact, peanut bu... |
The Stress Trap
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:00 am
Work has piled up, your kid is sick, and your car needs an expensive repair. When you have a miserable day, you probably make a beeline for your favorite route and try to work out your frustrations over a few miles. But there's a chance the very thing you're doing... |
60-Second Science
Money Can Buy Happiness Sometimes
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]
They say that money can’t buy happiness. Ryan Howell believes that it can—sometimes. Howell is a researcher at San Francisco State University. He thought that maybe money matters if it’s spent on things that... |
Insulin that doesn't need a fridge or a needle?
A young Monash University chemist and her colleagues have successfully strengthened insulin's chemical structure without affecting its activity. The new insulin structure means that it won't need refrigeration.
The team from Monash University's Chemistry Department in t... |
Read the poems
The Poet
List of poems
Your Comments
Read the poems
The Poet
List of poe... |
Pharmacy robots: Will my father lose his job to a gigantic pill-packing machine?
Will these machines steal your job?
Sept. 26 2011 4:21 AM
Will Robots Steal Your Job?
My father the pharmacist vs. a gigantic pill-packing machine.
The first computer I ever saw was the one my dad bought to manage prescriptions in hi... |
The First “Teflon” Hero
What July 4th, 1754 reveals about George Washington’s survival skills
French and Indian War: "The Night Council at Fort Necessity." Ilustration (© Bettmann/CORBIS)
Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe
The Other July 4th, or "Washington's Confession"
Adapted from Chapter 3 of American's Hidden His... |
My Tooth is Suddenly Sensitive to Cold… What Does This Mean?
Three ice cubes on white background.As surprising as this may sound, tooth sensitivity can be affected by age; and we’re not talking about old age, either. Tooth sensitivity is highest between ages 25 to 30, so if you’ve been taking good care of your teeth, ... |
Browsing habits of screen reader users
A while ago I read the article “Observing Users Who Listen to Web Sites“. In that article the authors report that visually impaired users scan web pages with their ears instead of reading them top to bottom. This may not come as a surprise to you if you read Jakob Nielsen’s “How ... |
Compare and contrast: Dogs and Cats.
Owning a house pet can be an enjoyable experience, if a potential owner takes time before purchasing the animal to research what type of care will be needed for the type of animal he or she chooses. Dogs and cats are among the most popular pets; however, their care is drastically ... |
What the debate about women's role in the military looked like in 1990
This portrait of deceased U.S. Army soldier Sgt. Shawna M. Morrison was part of a 2005 collection of paintings of military men and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan (Larry Downing/Reuters)
What we do know a lot about are differences between t... |
The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource
Professionals >> Visit The Body PROThe Body en Espanol
• Email Email
• Comments Comments
• Printable Single-Page Print-Friendly
• Glossary Glossary
Keep Your Ticker Tocking
As if Living With HIV Isn't Enough, It's Becoming Increasingly Clear That HIV-Positive People Ha... |
Higgs hunting - what happens next?
Unlike, for example, most things Ben Goldacre writes about, lives don't hang in the balance. But many of the same issues apply - statistical confidence, systematic bias, blinding of experiments and so on. Real knowledge about the fundamental nature of the universe will emerge from ru... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.