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* Catholic teaching emphasizes the dignity of work, as a participation in God's creative and saving plan. Our work ennobles us; in our work, we realize the potential of our own gifts and talents, and our own selves; our work is a means to improve the lives of others and to make our world a better place. Work is a worth... | __label__hq | 0.580416 |
Okay, not everybody has a religion, but if you’re looking for ancestors who lived before the twentieth century they almost certainly had a religion and if they didn’t you’ve got one interesting ancestor and you ought to be looking into his/her life more thoroughly.
According to the 1870 census there were about 72,459 c... | __label__cc | 0.138444 |
Ongoing research on the true underlying cause for the skin condition known as Hidradenitis Suppurativa suggests that it may have some genetic source. Contrary to most people’s belief, HS is not actually a result of poor health hygienic practices (although it most definitely will contribute to worsen the condition).
Acc... | __label__cc | 0.058787 |
What you may not know about all this is the news of Komen's decision to change their grant structure was not released by Komen, but by Planned Parenthood. And given the way they operate, I guarantee you they had already notified their allies in the media and Congress that this news was coming so they could get the desi... | __label__cc | 0.204082 |
Bear with me, ok?
A lot of the time, understanding the philosophy behind a given system is necessary in order to understand the system itself. The more complex, the more this is true. Once you reduce a system to its essentials - the 'core' of the system, so to speak - it becomes much easier to understand the more compl... | __label__hq | 0.942448 |
People who have a homestead and raise chickens kept in a pen or free range need to be concerned with predators. These are animals that will eat eggs, kill small chicks, and even full grown chickens. Most predators are stealthy animals and often stay just out of sight. Even animals that are not seen can usually be ident... | __label__cc | 0.121069 |
Being an oldest child in a medium large to very large family is often extremely precarious. You are often the family's second parent or in locos parentis. You often have no life of your own to speak about. Your childhood is often compared to the total hours of daylight in the winter solstice. You are usually on call to... | __label__cc | 0.096981 |
iCrowdNewswire - Jan 3, 2017
By Dr. Niaz Murtaza
Jan 3 2017 (Dawn, Pakistan)
Pakistan has had its fair share of street protests, some of them even toppling rulers. Decades before the Arab Spring, Pakistan had its own ‘spring’ in March 1969 when protests toppled Ayub’s regime. Street protests also toppled Bhutto and wea... | __label__cc | 0.330288 |
The material that causes death or severe illness when used, inhaled, eaten or touched in small amounts for just a small period of time are termed as the most toxic substances.
How do we classify most hazardous substances?
We can differentiate these fatal substances acute toxicity by a term called LD50. While LD50 is th... | __label__cc | 0.404429 |
announced EU support programme and debt exchange proposals by major financial institutions implies that private creditors will incur substantial economic losses on their holdings of government debt. considrando que "The announced EU programme along with the Institute of International Finance's (IIF's) statement (repres... | __label__cc | 0.417154 |
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It's Just Money Forget the debt ceiling, what’s that smell in the basement?
As long as politicians continue looking up at a debt ceiling and forward at future spending, they will nev... | __label__cc | 0.135325 |
Finally, I can't help but think these plans also feed off the perniciousness of the same anti-profit sentiments discussed by Roberts and Munger on this week's EconTalk. There's a common disposition in a large swaths of society that making a profit on something is greedy, conducting commerce is crass and that if you're ... | __label__cc | 0.094846 |
Visit Freedom's Zone Donate To Project Valour Friday, September 09, 2005 Please Think Hard Overall, I cannot do justice to all the good I saw today just by writing. I wanted to try though. Basically, the operation set up down there at the New Orleans Airport is one eerily similar to that of Baghdad Int'l airport when I... | __label__cc | 0.184291 |
Senseless: A False Sense Of Perception Essay, Research Paper
Senseless: A False Sense of Perception
I feel as though I have no choice but to be a skeptic about our ability
to know the world on the sense experience given the information that is being
presented.
Our senses are touching, hearing, smelling and tasting, I b... | __label__cc | 0.367782 |
Ford using plasma to refurbish dead engines
When an engine fails or becomes very worn, it is usually pulled from the vehicle and scrapped. Ford wants to change that by utilizing a high-tech plasma process to remanufacture broken engines. The process reduces carbon emissions by about half when compared to making a new e... | __label__cc | 0.300956 |
Clay M. Armstrong, MD, professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will share the 1999 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Armstrong was named with Bertil Hille, PhD, professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washingt... | __label__cc | 0.159697 |
Evaluating the President’s proposals to raid, ruin or-as he prefers to say-“reform” Social Security should begin by contrasting what his minions tell the public with what they tell each other in private. They are manipulating us with images while they mislead us about their purposes.
The most inspiring and venerable im... | __label__cc | 0.145266 |
Community colleges provide a way for you to receive college credit, learn new skills or complete requirements for professional development programs required of your work. Many successful people attended community colleges including actor Tom Hanks, space shuttle commander Robert Gibson and poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Whethe... | __label__cc | 0.112096 |
Well, if you live in the Mid-Atlantic region, no doubt you have been experiencing some of the most extreme cold/snowy weather we have ever had. With that said, as a severe anemic, the issues are compounded by the sustained cold weather.
Everyone gets cold hands and feet sometimes, especially during winter. The differen... | __label__cc | 0.261481 |
A bad day? When you stall your model airplane close to the ground. Let me explain what a stall really is.
Definition
The most common technical definition of a stall is when an increase in angle of attack does not result in an increase in the amount of lift produced. For the typical airfoil, this is about 15 degrees. Ve... | __label__hq | 0.710859 |
Most people don’t know that Sigmund Freud was a frustrated neurologist. Before he abandoned himself to abstraction, the father of psychoanalysis was a practicing physician, intent on developing “a neural model of behavior.” (Kandel Interview) But Freud found neuroscience too blunt a tool, in the early twentieth century... | __label__cc | 0.183616 |
A nail, when exposed to the elements for any extended length of time, undergos some familiar changes. The silvery sheen of a new nail gives way to reddish-brown spots, which then spread to cover the entire nail. The sharp outline softens, covered in rough scale and eaten away with tiny pits. Eventually, the rust reache... | __label__hq | 0.966054 |
The “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) concept has remained frustratingly vague since it appeared in late 2013. One of the few things that can be said about it with any confidence is that it outlines the possibilities of a common economic zone among the 65 or so diverse member states. The heart of OBOR is an invitation for al... | __label__cc | 0.102415 |
Our mobile lab space will broaden data collection, enabling cognitive scientists to extend studies beyond university walls.
we can ensure that theories of the mind reflect a more representative group of humans. In an era where policymakers are increasingly consulting cognitive scientists to make decisions, more represe... | __label__hq | 0.955829 |
A few months ago, I received an email from a reader. He wrote he was having considerable difficulty accepting himself as a gay person and was thinking of turning to his church for the support he needed. At the time, I felt deeply concerned for him and his potential course of action--what he wrote staying with me for we... | __label__cc | 0.087686 |
“Ti-ah pi-ah” which means in Kiowa, “Ready to go ready to die,” is the preamble of the Gourd Dance. The men form an inner circle and the women an outer circle. They shake painted gourds and the Pow-Wow begins.
The Kiowa Gourd Dance was outlawed by the federal government in 1899. By the 1930’s it was only a memory but l... | __label__cc | 0.057123 |
War can be described as a breakdown of communication. When arguments fail, weapons speak their own language. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn’t. In Afghanistan obviously it didn’t. Thirty years of war without a victor and it seems that we have not reached an end yet.
The second Bonn Conference which took place on... | __label__cc | 0.088961 |
Hormones are the chemicals produced within the body by some specialized cells and have specific effects on the activity of target organs through specific receptors. There are 2 types of hormones:
After passing through the cell membrane, a) Lipid soluble: Can pass through cell membrane Act via intracellular and intranuc... | __label__cc | 0.38445 |
Mario Biagioli asks why, after spending so much time
in my earlier published writings deconstructing the reified notions of
“culture” and “traditional knowledge,” I am now offering a
cultural theory of intellectual property to stand beside and illuminate
the dominant economic account.
The continuing centrality of
cultu... | __label__cc | 0.070622 |
It’s been said that astronaut training means a lot of time and money spent preparing a very small number of people for something they’ll do only a few times in their career. In terms of actual space travel experience, this is generally true. Neil Armstrong, for instance, flew only two space missions. The second of thos... | __label__cc | 0.114407 |
Tax collectors have the difficult but important job of collecting money that people and businesses owe the government. People can get hostile when their accounts reach collections, which means you must have the ability to ignore their unpleasantness and complete your job with professionalism. Taxes serve a vital functi... | __label__cc | 0.151739 |
moreis "needed to be done to allow corporations to protect their intellectual property." What, do they want i4i to be able to get sextuple, instead of just triple, damages? To jail Microsoft board members?
Microsoft's lawyer repeats the tired old bunk about patents being necessary to promote innovation, yada yada -- "B... | __label__cc | 0.367912 |
Investing Through Mutual Funds
Most of these individuals are first time stock buyers that don't have the expertise, or the funds to purchase a diversified portfolio.
The solution for most people is to buy mutual funds. The concept of buying mutual funds allows you to sit back and let a professional portfolio manager pi... | __label__hq | 0.742625 |
Multiple Features Offer Beauty and Versatility
Outdoor storage sheds are an essential accessory for today’s homes. Whether you wish to store yard tools, gardening supplies, or pool chemicals, outdoor storage sheds (also known as garden sheds) provide additional space for your outdoor equipment, making it much easier to... | __label__cc | 0.098588 |
Crystal ball is cloudy and the future a worry Published 26/01/2010
Remember the 'wealth effect' during the boom? People were becoming more wealthy as the value of their houses and (particularly in the US) their shares, rose rapidly.
The question was to what extent this encouraged them to spend, thereby adding to the ma... | __label__cc | 0.199825 |
Guest Author - Tracey-Kay Caldwell
Miriam Edelson is an author, mother, and activist. She is the mother of two children, Emma-Maryse and Jake. Jake was born with a severe neurological disorder. I had the opportunity to interview her about activism.
Question: Most of my readers have ordinary lives. They struggle to bala... | __label__cc | 0.051024 |
Ancient History of Tamil LanguageThe oldest accounts in ancient Tamil language are short inscriptions on pottery and in caves that dates back from around 2nd century BCE. The inscriptions are composed in a deviation of the Brahmi script known as Tamil Brahmi. Tolkappiyam, the earliest text in ancient Tamil language, is... | __label__hq | 0.529386 |
We have some evidence, as reported by Ed Morrissey, that EITs were useful in getting information from detainees, a point reinforced by a statement from former Vice President Cheney. As I have said and written in the past, I am against torture and waterboarding, and believe that FBI interrogation techniques–which stay a... | __label__cc | 0.056731 |
On the CC LinkedIn group page, Steve Soderberg asked this question and, boy, did he get soe answers! Here are summaries of a few:
• Dr. Osama M. Shawa: I used chemical curing on a slab on grade in a large factory project. I shall never do that again! The chemical placed stains on the slab and prevented treatment afterw... | __label__cc | 0.13287 |
Natural Resources: Agriculture
Given the large areas and relatively shallow soil depths associated with agriculture, the industry standard has long been two-dimensional analysis. However, over the past decades many of C Tech’s customers have discovered the advantages of analyzing and understanding soil properties on a ... | __label__hq | 0.826951 |
Let's put away our personal opinions on the abortion topic for a second. Let's say for sake of example that abortion is not murder. In that case there would be no reason for any restriction on abortion and Latin American abortion laws would be oppressive. However, if abortion is murder (and this is the claim of the pro... | __label__hq | 0.993288 |
Future of E-Mail and Google's Gmail This is part two of a two-part column.
Last month I wrote about Google's Gmail service. For those who came in late, Google intends to offer free e-mail with a large amount of storage. The price that users pay is accepting contextual marketing with their incoming e-mail based on the a... | __label__cc | 0.054301 |
Guru Madhavan is a biomedical engineer and senior policy adviser. He conducts research at the National Academy of Sciences and has been named a distinguished young scientist by the World Economic Forum. In this interview with Swetha Amit, he talks about his book Applied Minds and discusses whether engineers make good m... | __label__cc | 0.244678 |
Palmistry, the art of reading palms to tell about your destiny, is there for centuries. For some it is hard to believe that lines on your hands can tell something about your personality and future. It is even harder to believe that some parts of the foot can also reveal interesting facts about your personality. The sha... | __label__hq | 0.566197 |
Brain-like Circuits Made, Capable of Performing Human Tasks Pratyush Shrivastava/ 2 years ago
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara successfully constructed a circuit of about 100 artificial synapses, which was proven to perform a simple version of a typical human task like image classification. It is said to be a significan... | __label__hq | 0.525703 |
Advocate extraordinaire to Beelzebub. It would be very useful if we could come up with other measures of participation and any increases, as funding from Sports England could be increased if we were able to show a significant increase in numbers. Graham We have no exact figure on how many people fence in this country, ... | __label__cc | 0.077147 |
TheBUZZ
Artificial sweeteners can cause adverse health effects.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING The use of artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose and saccharin have been found to cause adverse health effects such as headaches, seizures, changes in mood, cognition and behavior, certain cancers and allergic reactions.
WH... | __label__cc | 0.082507 |
Palestinian militants have fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel during the latest bloodletting, and are believed to have thousands more in stock. Where do all these rockets come from, when Gaza is a tiny sliver of land that has no major manufacturing and is constantly monitored by Israel's military... | __label__cc | 0.281534 |
BRISBANE—West Indies star Deandra Dottin showed no ill-effects from a three-week layoff due to surgery as she lashed a classy half-century in a Player-of-the-Match performance to... You are here Profiting from social media
The following guide is intended to aid readers in analysing the case profiting from social media.... | __label__cc | 0.05035 |
What is a hand X-ray? It is a plain X-ray of one or both hands. Usually the entire hand including the wrist is shown, and often both hands are imaged together, as assessment of both hands is usually necessary when searching for disease.
If closer attention needs to be paid to a certain finger or joint, e.g. injury or f... | __label__cc | 0.1408 |
No doubt you have seen or read stories about innocent Americans who have become casualties of Obamacare. The law that was supposed to help middle-class families is now asking them to pay unreasonable premiums and sky-high deductibles. In many cases, they had perfectly good coverage that has been cancelled because it di... | __label__cc | 0.061673 |
Hi, thanks for using healthcare magicGastroenteritis
is usually viral though it can also be caused by bacteria as well.
In bacterial infections, the symptoms are often more severe and associated with blood in the stool or vomitus.
The rash
that you are currently experiencing is likely related to the infection. Infectio... | __label__hq | 0.819867 |
March 27, 1997 | Executive Memorandum on Missile Defense
According to Webster's dictionary, a spree is an "unrestrained
indulgence in or outburst of an activity." By all measures,
President Bill Clinton and his foreign policy team embarked on a
veritable spree at the Helsinki summit when the agenda turned to
arms contr... | __label__cc | 0.096008 |
Spielberg & Anderson 23-25; 29-30 Booth & Bloom 7-11 1. What are moral principles? Describe one. 2. Why did Socrates think astronomy was a waste of time? 3. According to the allegory of Plato's cave, what is the task of the philosopher? 4. What did Plato mean when he spoke of being 'reverse of blind'? 5. What did Plato... | __label__cc | 0.291963 |
The media had fun, as it periodically does, when a fundamentalist preacher declares the end of the world. But there was a jittery feeling, too, because for the first time since the end of the Cold War, when the world might have ended in nuclear winter, global warming makes secular people feel doomed. There's a slender ... | __label__cc | 0.128885 |
'Instead of the nice quiet boy you were, you now talk out of your turn . . . think of it, you might have had a wife to look after you instead of this new life. When I wanted to take you somewhere you always had that damn dog with you.'
Beryl says she now has a new blind boyfriend, Clive. She implores Christopher not to... | __label__cc | 0.050246 |
The human woman, we all know, is pregnant for 9 months. But how long is a cat pregnant for? How long is a dog pregnant for? How about a horse? What is the longest pregnancy? What is the shortest? Let’s look at some common animals, as well as some uncommon ones.
Gestation period
Gestation is just the act of carrying a s... | __label__cc | 0.414391 |
Mowing the green way always starts with an electric lawnmower. Electric models do not emit smog like their gasoline brothers and are very quiet. Instead of a gasoline engine block, these mowers have an electric motor. The motor is directly connected to the blade, spinning it around at high speed. The most popular type ... | __label__cc | 0.095897 |
Economic upheaval is upon us, and regardless of rescue plans, bailouts and motivational speeches by politicians and political candidates, we are in for a long and deep recession. Companies are already implementing layoffs, while others are being bought out, going bankrupt, or going out of business completely. The quest... | __label__cc | 0.069973 |
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Ok thank you leave it with me I need to look up a few things and then get my advice ready.I will post back on here when done there is no need to wait and you will recei... | __label__cc | 0.292337 |
Thank you for contacting Just Answer. It would be very hard to know that never having seen you for a consultation in my office. By that I mean one would need to conduct a detailed history to understand why this has happened.
Let me ask you a few questions --- maybe that will shed some light on what is going on with you... | __label__cc | 0.161446 |
The Experienced DWI Lawyers of Kurtz & Blum Discuss Whether You Are Likely to Get Jail Time If You Are Convicted of DWI
Wake County DWI Lawyers Talk DWI Sentencing
Whether folks call it DWI, DUI or Driving While Impaired, one of the biggest questions on the mind on anyone facing the charge is will I end up behind bars ... | __label__cc | 0.054614 |
Lung is one of the vital organs in a human body that helps in breathing. Lung or lungs can develop several health problems....|
Stomach helps in digestion of foods. It provides nutrients to build up good health. Organs and body parts of stomach help in excluding...|
Skin is the important body part that covers a human b... | __label__cc | 0.396278 |
The health of your teeth and gums depends in large part on regular and correct brushing. To accomplish this, the American Dental Association recommends daily flossing and brushing twice a day. Although the toothpaste, rinses and floss you use have an impact on successful cleaning, the type of toothbrush and the brushin... | __label__cc | 0.05619 |
How to Get the Outside of Your House Ready to Sell
Selling a house is not high on the list of things people like to do. If you have called it home for many years, the task of getting it ready to sell can seem downright ugly. There are certain areas of the lawn that need work, some weeds you have ignored for years and t... | __label__cc | 0.082793 |
Carol Galante, a thought leader in affordable and multifamily housing circles, was named deputy assistant secretary of multifamily housing at HUD. Galante, most recently president of San Francisco-based BRIDGE Housing Corp., will be responsible for managing HUD’s financing support for the development and preservation o... | __label__cc | 0.050584 |
L. Neil Smith'sTHE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE
Number 312, March 27, 2005
"The sooner the better"
Special to TLE
I... am a terrorist. No, no, not that kind of terrorist, but apparently a terrorist nonetheless. You may be even more surprised to learn that you might be, too.
Before we can really talk about terrorists and terr... | __label__cc | 0.269054 |
Neuroscientists don't know when your brain is a legal adult.
While the law has to draw a line between adolescence and maturity, ranging globally from 10 to the early 20s, different parts of the brain mature at different rates, rather than growing up entirely overnight.
In an Opinion published in
Neuron, Harvard psychol... | __label__cc | 0.436664 |
What is An Unincorporated Nonprofit Association? Find out what it takes to create one and how they operate.
What happens, legally speaking, when a group of people get together and decide to perform some task without filing any legal paperwork or establishing any formal legal structure? Whether they know it or not, they... | __label__hq | 0.614763 |
You can qualify for an Obama Phone even if you do not participate in any of the government assistance programs discussed above — if your total household income is low enough.
It is far easier to sign up for an Obama Phone if you participate in one of those programs for the simple reason that your participation, in and ... | __label__cc | 0.086682 |
We have tyranny.
The People’s Republik of Maryland (PRoM) has gun control laws that infringe on the rights of law abiding citizens. Those laws are pushed by liberal law makers who can apply for and receive carry permits based on their political office (and many are lawyers, another protected class) or are protected by ... | __label__cc | 0.247369 |
When deciding whether to use an auction service or an estate sale company, our conclusion after 26 years of service and research is simple.
Estate sales do not work.
They just do not work.
Often referred to as a "tag sale" or "conducted garage sale", these types of sales may be a solution for those who are not moving f... | __label__cc | 0.062248 |
Retrograde Motion Retrograde Motion — Retrograde motion is the orbital motion of a body in a direction opposite that which is normal to spatial bodies within a given system. ‘Retrograde’ derives from the Latin words retro, backwards, and gradus, step.
In the Solar system, mostly everything rotates in the same sense: al... | __label__hq | 0.808342 |
This was created in partnership with Environment for Development .
Abstract
This paper analyzes the economic impacts of climate change-induced adjustments on the performance of the Tanzanian economy, using a countrywide CGE (computable general equilibrium) model. The generalequilibrium framework enables comparison of t... | __label__cc | 0.067225 |
Ringworm in the armpit or armpit fungus is caused by the family of dermatophyte fungi such as Trichophyton, Microsporum, and Epidermophyton. These thrive on keratin of the hair and stratum corneum of the skin in the armpits. The armpits are also naturally moist places having continuous supply of sweat or perspiration. ... | __label__cc | 0.091756 |
Cancer Misdiagnosis
Cancer is a disease where abnormal cells reproduce and invade different areas of the body, traveling through the lymphatic or circulatory system. A study reported in the online journal
Cancer concluded that roughly 12 percent of cancer patients in the United States are initially misdiagnosed. It was... | __label__cc | 0.079191 |
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You work at a large MNE that operates in every one of the top 100 metropolitan areas worldwide. One of the most pressing concerns in your firm at the moment is to control costs. Therefore, you have been asked to develop a forecast for the coming year that identifies the markets in which the firm can expect an ... | __label__hq | 0.865463 |
Albert Einstein said “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Our planet is in trouble! Pretty much everywhere you look today you will hear or see something reminding you that our planet’s health is failing. If our planet where a person it would be about time to buy the burial plot and w... | __label__cc | 0.092821 |
but Who can Find a Smart Crowd?
In The Wisdom of Crowds, author James Surowiecki contends that the “smartest people” are often not as smart as a group of individuals formed under the right circumstances (XIII). Surowiecki backs up his claim by giving numerous real life examples of crowds that meet the criteria of havin... | __label__cc | 0.063065 |
On the eve of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, I published an article entitled
Twelve questions about Hong Kong's press freedoms. It has now been more than six years since the handover. Looking back on those questions and considering the current situation, I can't help answering eight of the questions myself.
1. The peo... | __label__cc | 0.082264 |
Subtitles and Transcript
0:15 I'm going to talk to you today about the design of medical technology for low-resource settings. I study health systems in these countries. And one of the major gaps in care, almost across the board, is access to safe surgery. Now one of the major bottlenecks that we've found that's sort o... | __label__cc | 0.123574 |
Preclinical research
Preclinical research is a key step in the development of new disease treatments. Most frequently, a compound will only be tested in patients once it has been shown to be efficacious in an animal model that reliably reflects the human disease. Therefore, the choice of an appropriate animal model and... | __label__cc | 0.084927 |
Test sensitivity is approximately 81%, and specificity is approximately 99%. Newer rapid influenza testing can detect both influenza A and B viruses, but it cannot differentiate between the two. The total cost for these tests is between $15 to $20. The role of rapid influenza testing in influenza management is unclear. | __label__cc | 0.136538 |
The voices on the radio are chilling.
"I shot a guy this morning," says one child, "then I caved his head in with a bat."
"I ran over this old lady," another confesses, "and she was still alive, so I just set her on fire."
"I broke into this house and killed everyone," admits a third youngster, "and then hid the bodies... | __label__cc | 0.064994 |
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Tropical savanna climates have monthly mean temperature above 18°C (64°F) in every month of the year and typically a pronounced dry season, with the driest month having precipitation less than 60mm (2.36 in) of precipitation. In essence, a tropical savanna climate tends to either see less ... | __label__cc | 0.470355 |
From the
Smithsonian:
Today the potato is the fifth most important crop worldwide, after wheat, corn, rice and sugar cane. But in the 18th century the tuber was a startling novelty, frightening to some, bewildering to others—part of a global ecological convulsion set off by Christopher Columbus.
Compared with grains, t... | __label__cc | 0.053167 |
Many scientists believe that how a person reacts to another person’s scent is one of the ways a mate is chosen, and throughout history, sweat has been used in perfume and love potions as potential means of attracting mates. One study found that women who wore a perfume laced with artificial sweat had three times the am... | __label__hq | 0.522831 |
I tried brainstorming, webbing, cubing, triangulating and even pulling my hair. Still, that one character in my mystery novel remained stubbornly skeletal. The details of his life continued to elude meuntil I decided to explore his family tree to see what his siblings had to say.
Creating a family tree is a great metho... | __label__cc | 0.145368 |
"Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Russell Glass, CEO at Bizo .
Yes, the B2B advertising campaign is in the last throes of death.
Don't believe me? I’ll explain.
It all started with the buyer's jou... | __label__cc | 0.058235 |
Over beers at late night physics teacher gatherings, conferences like the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) or Physics Teacher Camp, it seems someone almost always pipes up to say, “I just love lab practicums. They’re great! I wish I could do all lab practicums rather than textbook type problems.” Well, I... | __label__cc | 0.083995 |
Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660
This study analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies.... | __label__cc | 0.068857 |
Overview and Facts
Colon cancer is a cancer that starts in the large intestine, or colon, which is part of the digestive system. A similar type of cancer is rectal cancer, which affects the last inches of the colon, or the rectum. Together, these cancers are known as colorectal cancer. Cancer of the colon and rectum ar... | __label__cc | 0.086616 |
Democracy, patriotism, internal and external wars, all political tactics based on factional conflict are supported by a worldview which I call the manichean worldview (“manichean” referring to an ancient religious dualist movement, but nowadays applied to any polarizing, black/white belief).
Government propaganda, Big ... | __label__cc | 0.10839 |
Is there a correlation between education and health? Studies do in fact indicate that there is a positive relationship between advanced education levels and health outcomes. This association has been well-documented in many countries and for many different metrics of health.
Jobs that require a particular level of educ... | __label__cc | 0.223218 |
Probably the hardest thing for companies to do nowadays; customer service. I can appreciate it’s difficult, and usually I’m not too upset when I don’t get a response or only after a long time – as long as I get a feeling the company is trying.
A few days ago however, I visited a presentation from Lithium. It’s a pretty... | __label__cc | 0.29082 |
During our lives, we have a one in three chance of developing a heart rhythm abnormality. In cardiology, the field of electrophysiology focuses on heart rhythm disturbances—or heart arrhythmias as they are called. While the heart muscle may not be damaged, a heart arrhythmia can cause serious functional problems.
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I have been searching for simplified ways to express to you the risk from CT scanning without getting overly technical. I hope you all got my prior message that the younger you are and if you are female the risk goes up particularly using the age criteria. Below is a simply put video that gives a brief way to think abo... | __label__cc | 0.214235 |
In the late 90s Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls dominated the basketball court. They were the key players of the Chicago Bulls, and dominated the NBA offensively and defensively. When exploring a social network you’ll want to find who the key players are for a variety of reasons:
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When buying cable, most companies offer bundled channels, i.e. a group of channels. Your favorites ones (say, ESPN) might be in a bundle, but you end up paying for channels you don't need like the Soccer Channel. To do away with such complications, Canadian Industry Minister James Moore will propose new legislation tha... | __label__hq | 0.526896 |
I AM at the age when many of my friends are pregnant. I thought I had a pretty good idea of what pregnancy entails: the cravings for pickles and chocolate, the abstaining from wine and coffee, the nausea and stretch marks, the aloof but well-meaning husband.
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