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Progress 48 Cargo Spacecraft Set for Expedited Cargo Delivery To Space Station
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image Everything is set at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for Wednesday's launch of the ISS Progress 48 cargo ship to the International Space Station. Loaded with 1,962 p... |
Food's goodness lost in message
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Astronaut Alan Shepard's Last Nights On Earth Before Mercury-Redstone 3
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A NASA flight surgeon tracked Shepard's every activity in the days before he became the first American in space.
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OK, the headline overstates the case a bit. But the same way that having heavy friends makes you more likely to put on weight, having unemployed friends makes you more content to remain unemployed, according to a new World Bank study (via Economix):
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Birds on song; They may not have the feathers of their real-life cousins, but Christopher Proudlove finds demand is sky high for these mechanical music boxes.
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Men fight or flee, women tend and befriend
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Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Won’t Solve Nuclear Power’s Safety, Security and Cost Problems, New Report Finds
WASHINGTON (September 26, 2013)—Nuclear power proponents pinning their hopes on small modular nuclear reactors to resurrect the industry’s fortunes will likely be disappointed, according... |
GMAT Tip of the Week: The Most Logical Way To Study Sentence Correction
As someone reading this GMAT study blog, I hope that you’re cringing as you read this very sentence. Why? Because that sentence contained a classic GMAT sentence correction error — the modifier to begin the sentence “As someone reading this blog” ... |
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The city of Nha Trang is becoming more popular with the tourists in recent years. Yet, with a population of 300,000, Nha Trang still retains its small town atmosphere. This resort town is well known for its miles of beach and the friendliness of its people. The city is flanked by nearly ten kilometers of prim... |
The wilds of Scott County, Virginia are a little bit wilder with the introduction of two new bears to the Creation Kingdom Zoo.
As we discovered, these bears weren't really classified as bears when first found, and they're more endangered than the panda.
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Constraints on Overturning Strength in the North Atlantic during Times of Rapid Climate Change
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Taxpayers fret about filling out the forms and writing out checks to pay taxes when the time comes, but savvy taxpayers learn how to save money on taxes to reduce the pain. Taxpayers learn how to save money on taxes from their accountants, knowledgeable friends and experts in the media. Taxpayers need not... |
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Wild areas with spiky rushes, carpets of moss and wet, peaty soils, blanket bogs are a familiar feature of our dramatic upland landscapes. They smother large areas of level... |
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1. A very dark black
- ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black
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1. Of the blackest black; similar to the colour of jet or coal
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Restoring sight to the blind has proved particularly challenging for scientists, but a new technology combining an eye implant and video-camera-enabled glasses may soon be available in the U.S.
Researchers have been pursuing the development of... |
candida esophagitis | yeast infection in throat
Candida esophagitis, more commonly known as yeast infection in throat, usually appears due to an oral infection induced by the overgrowth of yeast fungi. The infection carries the name of the microorganism that creates the condition, which is Candida. This yeast infection... |
Study Guide for Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993)
1. Jane Campion’s “The Piano” takes place in mid-19th century New Zealand. Do some research about the colonial history in New Zealand and see how it helps you understand film.
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phylogeny-d3 is a phylogeny viewer implemented with the d3 javascript library ( There are already many excellent phylogeny viewers out there, this project is an experiment to see how well-suited the unique dynamic interactive features of d3 are to phylogeny visualization.
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Batak languages
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For the language of Palawan, see Palawan Batak language.
Sumatra, Indonesia
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ISO 639-2 / 5: btk
Glottolog: toba1265[1]
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An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field.
Standard arrangement of positions[edit]
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Kamchatka Peninsula
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Coordinates: 57°N 160°E / 57°N 160°E / 57; 160
The Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Камча́тка, Poluostrov Kamchatka) is a 1,250-kilometre-long... |
Pyramids of Güímar
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The Pyramids of Güímar refer to six rectangular pyramid-shaped, terraced structures, built from lava stone without the use of mortar. They are located in... |
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For other uses, see Sonos (disambiguation).
SONOS, short for "Silicon-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon", is a type of non-volatile computer memory closely related to Flash RAM. It is one of Charge trap flash variants. It is distinguished from mainstream flas... |
Suite française (Némirovsky)
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Suite française
First edition
Author Irène Némirovsky
Translator Sandra Smith
Cover artist Roger Viollet
Country France
Language French
Publisher Denoel
Publication date
31 October 2004
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The New International Encyclopædia/Know-Nothings
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KNOW-NOTHINGS. In American history, a secret political party or society, which after 1852 suddenly gained the ascendency in several States, and then as rapidly declined. Its work was closely allied with the movement of the ‘A... |
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International criminal tribunals
International criminal tribunals are temporary (ad hoc) or permanent courts convened for the purpose of deciding cases arising under international criminal law. Examples of international criminal tribunals include:
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Net Ionic Equation
1. Problem: When a solution of sodium hydroxide is added to a solution of ammonium carbonate, and the solution is heated, ammonia gas, (NH3) is released. Write a net ionic equation for this reaction. Hint: both NaOH and (NH4)2CO3 exist as dissociated ions in aqueous solution.
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Prove 1x = x from linear space axioms
"Prove that Axiom 10[, the existence of identity in a linear space,] can be deduced from the other axioms."
2. Relevant equations
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (sädäm´ hōōsān´), 1937–2006, Iraqi political leader. A member of the Ba'ath party, he fled Iraq after participating (1959) in an assassination attempt on the country's prime minister; in Egypt he attended law school. Returning to Iraq in 1963 after the Ba'athists briefly came to power, he... |
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Ghetto Brothers
The Ghetto Brothers were a gang (or club) founded in New York City's South Bronx in the late 1960s. They eventually spread to much of the Northeastern United States. Like the Young Lords, they were involved in Puerto Rican nationalism, including, in the case of the Ghetto Brothers, a... |
Alice Austen (1866 - 1952) was one of America's earliest and most prolific female photographers, and over the course of her life she captured about 8,000 images. Though she is best known for her documentary work, Austen was an artist with a strong aesthetic sensibility. Furthermore, she was a landscape designer, a ma... |
Living snowflakes: bacteria important to snow formation
Scientists have found that bacteria play an important role in snow formation. …
With winter still in effect, the enthusiasm with which one greets fresh snowfall has tended to diminish. Every snowflake may be unique and beautiful, but when millions of them are st... |
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Mary Delfino and her twin, Jean DeAngelis, were sure about one thing: Even if they were turning 100 on Valentine's Day, they did not want the congratulatory letters from President Clinton read at their party. Devout Roman Catholics, the sisters think little of the preside... |
Prenatal Vitamins for Men
Liquid or chewable prenatal vitamins are obviously designed for expecting mothers and those women who are trying to conceive. However, since prenatal vitamins include various essential vitamins and nutrients the question is can men take prenatal vitamins as well? Can prenatal vitamins provide... |
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Even though your brain can't feel pain, thingies in your head are installed to compensate for that.
Once I thought your head starts to hurt when your brain is tired. I can't believe this any more. Several times I happened to skip sleep completely - while intellectually working (not just watch... |
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Prevention vs. Prosecution: Creating a Viral Underclass
Since the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we have known that social stigma has been a major obstacle to accessing care and... |
In the shadow of Clinch Mountain in Scott County, Virginia, lies what is called Poor Valley. Out of this hardscrabble environment emerged the legendary musical pioneers the Carter family. A.P. (Alvin Pleasant) Carter, his wife Sara and her cousin Maybelle sang and played their way to fame and fortune, creating in many ... |
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The Nail That Sticks Up...
Will Be Hammered Down.
So goes an old Japanese saying, meant to illustrate (as well as inculcate) a sense of conformity among the Japanese people. Westerners (especially Americans) are supposed to place much more value on non-conformity and individuality.
But th... |
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Composition Forum 26, Fall 2012
Beyond Knowledge and Skills: Writing Transfer and the Role of Student Dispositions
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Stanford Law Review Online: Anticipating Patentable Subject Matter
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The Stanford Law Review Online has just published an Essay by Dan L. Burk entitled Anticipating Patentable Subject Matter. Professor Burk argues that the fact that something might be found in nature should... |
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Millennium 1998
Diaspora begins in 2975, when there are three major strands to humanity: fleshers, who retain biological bodies; gleisners, who have moved to humanoid robots; and citizens of the polises, who live as software running on central polis hardware. Within these there are further divisions. Some fl... |
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A Brief History of Ranching & Farming in Montana
Native American tribes of Montana exercised a certain unique agricultural tradition. For example, botanists know that tribes harvested... |
The ideas that brand embryo screening or the addition of genes as problematic are:
Concern over accurately implanting the genome during the scientific process. True, scientists can add enhancing genes, such as the NR2B gene, which makes us smarter, in a reasonable place in the genome where it would be most effective, ... |
Gabapentin Recreational Use
When I first heard about gabapentin recreational use at first it seemed bizarre, but recently there have been more reports of the diversion of prescriptions for gabapentin recreational use. This makes some sense because the one of the primary problems with the use of gabapentin for neuropa... |
OSHA defines a confined space as any space you can bodily enter and work in but has a restricted means of access/egress and isn't designed for continuous occupancy. This definition isn't precise, but OSHA gives examples (e.g., tanks, bins, and vaults) and assumes employers will "fill in the blanks."
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Euclidean algorithm (Java, recursive)
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Minority (LGBTQ Edition)
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This may come as a surprise to heterosexuals of this generation, but the same thing is happening within the LGBTQ movement, as trans* people demand to be acknowledged as human beings, to have access to better and more humane healthcare, and to receive better and more humane t... |
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10.20 RTL Representation of Function-Call Insns
Insns that call subroutines have the RTL expression code call_insn. These insns must satisfy special rules, and their bodies must use a special RTL expression code, call.
A call expression has two operands, as follows:
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Humans want to have friends. This need for companionship in a soul-crushingly indifferent world can lead us to confuse mechanical motion with human emotion, as shown in this video by researchers at the University of Calgary.
Researchers John Harris and Ehud Sharlin set out to test the limits of human capability to see... |
Mars 4 & 5
photo of Mars 4 or 5 in the clean room
* Mission Overview
Mars 4 was launched by the USSR on 21 July 1973 and its twin, Mars 5, was launched 4 days later on 25 July. As Mars 4 approached the red planet on 10 February 1974, its retro-engine malfunctioned. Alas, rather than going into orbit around the plane... |
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The definition of προορίζω in the Enhanced Strong's Lexicon is:
4309 Six occurrences; AV translates as “predestinate” four times, “determine before” once, and “ordain” once. 1 to predetermine, decide beforehand. 2 in the NT of God decreeing from eternity. 3 to foreordain, appoint beforehand.
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Octopuses rewrite their RNA to function in frigid Antarctic waters
We all know octopuses are clever, but a recent study reveals that the brainy beasts are crafty even at the molecular level. In a study published in the latest issue of Science, researchers reveal that octopuses living in the hypothermic climes of Antar... |
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Since my intuition for high dimensional geometry is not always right:
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