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Coping with Vestibular (Inner-Ear) Trauma
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Salts: The Good and The Bad
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Scores of Bay Area ham radio operators will aim high this weekend to see who can bounce their signals off the moon in an effort to talk to friends far away.
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Atapuerca is a small municipality located 18 kilometres away from Burgos, on the northern slope of Sierra de Burgos, famous for the prehistoric archaeological sites found in its township. Declared a World Heritage by UNESCO on November 30th, 2000, the archaeological sites of Sierra de Atapuerca are the only ones in Eur... |
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Our economic security can be 'sustainable'.
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Noun: darling pea
1. Either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep
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Astronomical Regulators: Clocks Built to Keep Solar Time
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A favorite "progressive" trope is that America's middle class has stagnated economically since the 1970s. One version of this claim, made by Robert Reich, President Clinton's labor secretary, is typical: "After three decades of flat wages during which almost all the gains of growth have go... |
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How Obamacare Benefits Older Workers
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India’s Grand Solar Plans Threatened By Ugly US Trade Spat
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Gandhi with Sardar Patel (Bardoli Satyagraha) in 1928.
The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928, in the state of Gujarat, India during the period of the British Raj, was a major episode of civil disobedience and revolt in the Indian Independen... |
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The encoding specificity principle provides a framework for understanding how contextual information affects memory and recall.[1] The principle, proposed by researchers Thomson and Tulving, states that memory is most eff... |
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This article is about the gastric H+/K+ ATPase. For the vacuolar H+ ATPase, see V-ATPase . For the plant/fungal H+ ATPase, see Proton ATPase.
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James Saurin (1677–1730) was a French religious leader, and the father of James Saurin, an Irish Anglican bishop in the 19th century who was the last Bishop of Dromore before it was merged with the Diocese of Down and Connor.
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A new study says mercury is commonly found in corn syrup.
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Snake Killed in Hawaii, Where There Are No Snakes
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Free-living Cucurbita pepo in the United States
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Material Culture
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Club owners collect a wealth of data, but often, all of it is not fully used. To be used, data must be relevant, timely and in a form that is usable by key staff members. The challenge is to identify a few select drivers for each person, provide timely data in a usable form and then encourage that person to make approp... |
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Today is primary day in Washington, D.C. Don’t expect a heated battle for Senator or Representative, though. D.C. does not have those offices. That’s because D.C.’s a federal city, not a state.
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A Detailed Critique of “Race Against the Machine”
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A commonplace computational practice in quantum mechanics generates the most profound conceptual challenge to the theory. The challenge is called the measurement problem. Here are some quotes summarizing the problem.
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Control Pretty Much Any Electrical Device with Your Computer
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National Poetry Month: Poetry Frame
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North Korea: Map
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I am not a mathematician and the last time I used a formula complexer than sin(x) was during my university time about 10 years ago.
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Let $v$ be a binary vector of dimension $n$. Assume that $n$ is a perfect square, then $v$ can be thought of as a function $f:[\sqrt n]\times[\sqrt n]\to \{0,1\}$, where $[\sqrt n]=\{1,\ldots,\sqrt n\}$. Choose a prime $q\in[n,2n]$, then it is well known(*) that $f$ has a unique extension $\ti... |
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Equations of lines $L1$ and $L2$ are $y = x − 2$ and $y = −2x − 2$. If $y = −x$ is the angle bisector of lines $L2$ and $L3$, then what is the area enclosed within the 3 lines $L1, L2$ and $L3$?
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When singing in languages like Italian or Latin (which don't run to diphthongs the way English does), I sometimes find it hard to sing pure vowels, particularly when holding a note for a while. Should I attack this as an "ear" problem (and I need to listen to more music in these languages), or... |
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The Scale of the Universe as Evidence for Naturalism?
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Big-brained birds survive better in nature
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Sometimes I heard people talking about how "that guy is not a programmer, he is just a coder."
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Reading ArsTechnica this morning I learnt of the passing of Dennis Richie.
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Baumol, Goldin, and benchmark choices
A bit of an extension on Saturday’s entry: As an historian of education, I find Claudia Goldin to be a much more interesting economist than William Baumol, because she does not rely on arbitrary choices of starting points for her economic stories. Like many economists (and histori... |
Designing a net zero energy building from the outset is easier than retrofitting an existing building, according to this article, but retrofits are indeed possible. It looks at four buildings that were retrofitted to become net zero energy. "Retrofitting existing buildings can be expensive, but the price is worth it to... |
Christian History – Augustine, Neo-Platonism, and the Power of Scripture
Next, Augustine subscribed to a form of philosophy known as Neo-Platonism. This is different from the world of ideas as described by Plato in an earlier entry of Christian History, even if it shares the same name and similar concepts. However, t... |
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Wildlands once spread far and wide across the Earth. Today, only fragments of untrammeled lands remain. In North America, we find these lands mostly in wilderness. In 1964 Congress designated America’s first federal wilderness areas. Collectively, these areas are called the Nat... |
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weird (adjective)
\WEERD\ Hear it!
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1 : of, relating to, or caused by witchcraft or magic2 : very unusual or strange : fantastic
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When Julia visited the medieval Scottish castle, she had a weird feeling that she had been there before.
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Men who have had a vasectomy might opt for a reversal. While the procedure is most often successful, there are no absolute guarantees.
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Parables of Matthew 13 (Part Two):
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Silver-bordered Fritillary (Boloria selene) ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
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Area doctors said a highly contagious virus is spreading through the Madison area at a strange time of year.
Hand, foot and mouth disease primarily affects children under age 5, and doctors at clinics around Madison say they have seen an uptick in cases the last few weeks.
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From the Editor: How Do You Replicate Human Behavior?
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While realistic graphics and immersive environments are improving, properly replicating human behavior continues to challenge both model and simulation developers.
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A device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves. Invented in the United Kingdom, the “Anaconda” is a totally innovative wave energy concept. Its ultra-simple design means it would be cheap to manufacture and maintain, enabling it to produce cl... |
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A mapping from to the set of real numbers, which satisfies the following conditions:
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Children with disabilities of every kind need to learn hygiene and self-help skills as soon as they are able. These skills should be taught from the time the child is very young, because the sooner and in more ways the child can become independent, the happier he wil... |
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Originally from the Limousin region, this country-French dessert is made by topping a layer of fresh fruit with batter. After baking it's served hot, sometimes with cream. Some styles have a cakelike topping while others are more like a pudding. Th... |
How Successful Humans are (Number-Wise) When Compared to Other Species?
There are now more than 7 billion human beings on Earth, and that got me wondering: How successful are we compared to other species? I take a look at out how our numbers stack up to some other domains of life. It turns out that biomass, or what t... |
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