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In 1897 at Coligny, near Lyon, a lunisolar calendar used by the Gauls (the name given by Caesar to continental Celts) was discovered. What were the features of this calendar, when was it made and how important was this calendar to the Gauls? In the first century BC the Sequani occupied the territory between the Saone, ...
In his farewell address before leaving office, President George Washington warned his countrymen to remain neutral in European affairs and to avoid alliances that might drag the young nation into devastating wars. But by the first decade of the 1800s, it was becoming impossible for the United States to stay out of Euro...
Most teachers approach teaching in a child-centered way so dictation goes against the grain. It may seem old-fashioned and yes, a bit dictatorial. But actually, is it a really powerful tool which is particularly useful for struggling or emerging readers and spellers. What more, kids enjoy it because it consolidates the...
22 December 2020 A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases – for example, plants, the ocean and soil. In contrast, a carbon source is anything that releases more carbon into the atmosphere than it absorbs – for example, the burning of fossil fuels or volcanic eruptions. Car...
Learn to Read for Kids ages 2-6 Learning to read is about listening and understanding as well as working out what’s printed on the page. This helps children build their own vocabulary and improve their understanding when they listen, which is vital as they start to read. Why is learning to read so important? Learning t...
Scientists say some carbon-rich exoplanets could be made entirely of diamonds and silicon, according to a new study recently published in The Planetary Science Journal. “These exoplanets are unlike anything in our solar system,” lead author and geophysicist Harrison Allen-Sutter of Arizona State University said in a st...
In electronics, the Miller effect accounts for the increase in the equivalent input capacitance of an inverting voltage amplifier due to amplification of the effect of capacitance between the input and output terminals. The virtually increased input capacitance due to the Miller effect is given by where is the gain of ...
All of us probably heard about blood and blood circulation. We are aware of the heart pumping blood throughout the body our whole life. Blood’s constant traveling brings oxygen and nutrients to the organs, and takes away waste products, including carbon dioxide. The heart and the net of vessels, meaning arteries, capil...
On this day in 1942, on the advice of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler orders all Jews in occupied Paris to wear an identifying yellow star on the left side of their coats. Joseph Goebbels had made the persecution, and ultimately the extermination, of Jews a personal priority from the earliest day...
Flowers, the reproductive structures of angiosperms, are adaptations designed to attract insects and other pollen-bearing animals to the plant to aid in pollen dispersal. For this reason, flowers are most often colorful and showy; not surprisingly, plants that rely on wind (instead of insects) for pollen dispersal have...
.The ancient conditions necessary for the formation of petroleum were both environmental and geological, and these conditions were sometimes but not always met in areas where desert now covers the surface. Actually, it was offshore sedimentary basins on continental shelves, and only to a lesser extent some river deltas...
Atomic-scale computers that exploit the bizarre rules of quantum physics have the potential to process enormous quantities of data far more quickly than today’s devices. In June, researchers at Yale University announced progress toward this goal, creating the first quantum processor that is built into a conventional si...
Rocket scientists who have plotted a course for a human mission to the largest known asteroid, Ceres, say that such a voyage may not be much more challenging than sending people to Mars, according to a new study. Research investigating human missions to asteroids blasted off in 2010, when President Obama proposed a hum...
On the 11th of May 1939, Canadian citizens were greeted with the headline: Canada Declares War! on their newspapers. Many Canadians were shocked that Britain and France were at war with Germany yet again. In World War I, many Canadians paraded the streets at the declaration of war, but now, very few did. Many Canadians...
Webisode 7. Introduction What is Freedom? The end of the Civil War, which meant economic and ideological ruin for the former Confederacy, meant new expectations for liberated African-Americans. The work of the Freedmen's Bureau and the passage of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments fed the hope that African-Americ...
Pathways to Reading and Writing The reading program at Ashburn Elementary, called Pathways to Reading and Writing, applies a balanced literacy approach. This approach to instruction involves teaching children to use the three cueing systems (meaning, sentence structure, and letter sounds) all together, in learning to r...
big tree, also called giant sequoia, or Sierra redwood, Grant Heilman/EB Inc.(Sequoiadendron giganteum; as distinct from the redwood of coastal areas, genus Sequoia), coniferous evergreen of the cypress family (Taxodiaceae) and the only species of the genus Sequoiadendron, found in scattered groves on the western slope...
Phase Diagrams of Pure Substances: In thermodynamics, a system is a region of space of which we have some interest. Often the system will consist of one or several pieces of equipment that we wish to use to accomplish a particular task. It may be a boiler that we want to use to make steam, a pump to circulate water, or...
By focusing in on just two suffixes, your students will surely grasp the meaning of new words with these suffixes when they encounter them. After you conduct a short review of the meaning of these suffixes, students will read, write, and organize a list of words by their suffix. Once they grasp that these suffixes have...
For the past nine months, Curiosity has been acting as a stunt double for astronauts, exposing itself to the same cosmic radiation humans would experience following the same route to Mars1. “Curiosity has been hit by five major flares and solar particle events in the Earth-Mars expanse,” says Don Hassler of the Southwe...
Cryptography/Brute force attack A brute force attack against a cipher consists of breaking a cipher by trying all possible keys. Statistically, if the keys were originally chosen randomly, the plaintext will become available after about half of the possible keys are tried. The underlying assumption is, of course, that ...
Those of us living and working in the Southwestern U.S. have recently experienced a prolonged, extreme drought persisting over several years. We have witnessed large, destructive and catastrophic wildfires that have taken both lives and property, observed expansive areas of forest tree death as a result of massive inse...
1. The American Revolution, also known as the Revolutionary War, began in 1775. 2. British soldiers and American patriots started the war with battles at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. 3. Colonists in America wanted independence from England. 4. The British government attempted to pass some laws, enforce several...
World's largest land crabs tracked using GPS Using GPS technology, scientists have tracked 55 huge robber crabs on Christmas Island, south of Indonesia. They found that these land crabs, which have a leg span of up to 3.3 feet (1 meter), typically stay within a small home range, living in crevices or between tree roots...
Tyrannobdella rex, which means tyrant leech king, is less than two inches long and lives in the remote parts of the Upper Amazon. It has 8 large teeth lining a single jaw and was discovered three years ago in Perú when a 44.5mm leech was plucked from the nose of a girl who had recently been bathing in a river. Although...
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Program Vaccine-preventable Diseases - Plague Plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis), a bacterium found in rodents and their fleas in many areas around the world. People usually get plague from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by h...
Who are People with Disabilities? People with disabilities are — first and foremost — people. People with disabilities are people who have individual abilities, interests and needs. For the most part, they are ordinary individuals seeking to live ordinary lives. People with disabilities are moms, dads, sons, daughters,...
What must it have been to be a leper in ancient times! In Jesus’s day, lepers and others with virulent skin diseases were shunned and segregated to special ghettos on the outskirts of the village. They dared not move out of these. And if they needed to use a common road, or the market-place, they had to ring a bell to ...
One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere. Weird Oblong Crater Deepens Mars Mystery This amoeba-shaped depression on Mars, called Orcus Patera, has had plan...
Literary Criticism/Reading Novels Develop a sensitivity to the 'voice' telling the story. From whose perspective is the story being told? Is there a first person narrator? How does the way in which he or she describes events reflect his or her perspective and attitudes, and is his or her narration 'reliable'? If the st...
Vulpes lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758) Arctic fox (English), Blue fox (English), Ice fox (English), Polar fox (English), White fox (English) Conservation and Management Arctic Foxes face several types of threats resulting from global climate change. The most significant of these threats is probably the loss of the tundra habi...
Make inferences and draw conclusions from text. SPI 0501.5.6 Links verified on 3/5/2012 - Artifact Bags: Teaching Students to Make Inferences - lesson plan designed for grades 3-4, could be adapted for grade 5 - Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison - students review several texts...
view a plan This math lesson involves dates and pennies Grade level: 1 – 2 Time Length: One Class Period (60 minutes) Objectives: Students will: *Locate dates on money *Arrange dates in chronological order Materials: *Pennies (one per child) – - variety of dates between 1 – 15 years *Post – it notes The class will be s...
Diffusion is the net movement of molecules because of a difference in the chemical potential or concentration between two regions. Molecules move faster when the difference/gradient is larger. Molecules tend to move to the region where their chemical potential or concentration is lower. Osmosis is the diffusion/movemen...
Methane leaks during production may offset climate benefits of natural gas. When US government scientists began sampling the air from a tower north of Denver, Colorado, they expected urban smog — but not strong whiffs of what looked like natural gas. They eventually linked the mysterious pollution to a nearby natural-g...
Air Quality Workshop for Teachers: A Toolkit for Facilitators This Toolkit is designed for anyone who would like to conduct an air quality workshop for teachers. The materials are taken directly from the workshop provided each year by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards...
AS MAPS showing the distribution of animals make clear, two main factors limit critters' range: latitude and altitude. Distance from the equator and height above sea level affect things that many species are directly sensitive to, like temperature and humidity. Brett Scheffers, an ecologist at James Cook University in ...
Keeping Score explores classical music compositions in the context of the composer's biography, the historical era in which it was first presented, and the present moment at which it is played and received. The series offers insights into political, social, and cultural phenomena, the training of musicians, the way mus...
Feudalism was a form of political dominancy that existed in Europe in medieval period ranging from 9th century to 15th century. The feudal system structured the society into various categories and followed a set of military & legal customs. Medieval feudal hierarchy or the feudal system was organized in the form an inv...
Begin the mission by asking students what practices people should adopt to stay healthy. Suggest that students focus on activities they think have something to do with the brain. Look for ideas like the following: - Eat 3 meals a day. Make sure you eat food from each of the food groups at every meal. - Exercise at leas...
Filed under: Infectious Diseases Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhi bacteria. Typhoid fever is rare in industrialized countries. However, it remains a serious health threat in the developing world, especially for children. Typhoid fever spreads through contaminated food and water or through close contact with ...
Social Narratives are an evidence based intervention that describe a social situation using a story base. We have created audio Social Narratives that contain 3 rules to assist the child to learn what is socially expected of them in certain scenarios. The narratives are meant to be listened to with a parent at first an...
|Name of Activity||Mini Turbines| |Keywords||mini turbines, turbines, construct, wind, wind farm, alternative energy| |Grade Level||K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6| |Time||1 Hour Total| |Brief Description||Students build mini turbines and the class splits into two teams to construct competing wind farms. The farm with the most “en...
Romulus is given the credit for founding Ancient Rome – so legend has it. Children in Roman schools were taught the story and it became almost set in stone. What is legend of Romulus and Remus? Romulus and Remus were twin brothers. They were abandoned by their parents as babies and put into a basket that was then place...
Sephardi Jews in Salonica Before the outbreak of World War II, there were around 56,000 Jews living in the Greek port city of Salonica. By the end of the war, nearly 98% of the Jewish community from Salonica had perished from gassing, forced labor, starvation and disease in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in ...
The 1967 War (The Six-Day War) After a period of relative calm, border incidents between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan increased during the early 1960s, with Palestinian guerrilla groups actively supported by Syria. In May, 1967, President Nasser, his prestige much eroded through his inaction in the face of Israe...
September 17th marks Constitution Day and commemorates the day in 1787 when the Founding Fathers penned their names to the U.S. Constitution. When the Founders placed their names at the bottom of the document, there was little reason to believe that this document would yield a government that would survive over two cen...
- How to form relative clauses Level: lower intermediate - Relative pronouns Level: lower intermediate - Subject pronouns or Object pronouns? Level: lower intermediate - Relative adverbs Level: intermediate - Defining relative clauses Level: lower intermediate - Non-defining relative clauses Level: upper intermediate -...
Print this page. Home / Browse / Marquette-Joliet Expedition In 1673, Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader, undertook an expedition to explore the unsettled territory in North America from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico for the colonial power of France. Leaving wit...
Radian Measure of Angles - Problem 3 We're talking about radian measure of angles. I have a problem here that asks me to express one degree in radians and one radian in degrees. This is a useful problem because as a result of it we'll get some conversion factors that will make it really easy to switch back and forth. O...
A "super-Earth" is a planet around another star (an "exoplanet") whose mass is less than about ten times that of the Earth. Of the 480 or so extrasolar planets now known, most have masses larger than the mass of Jupiter, which is 318 times more massive than the Earth. About two dozen, though, appear to have masses that...
Fossils belonging to an ape that lived 10 million years ago have been discovered in Ethiopia. They give clues to the evolution of our closest living relatives, the other great apes. Scientists from Japan and Ethiopia uncovered the nine fossilised teeth in the Chorora Formation in the Afar region of Ethiopia. This area ...
Students will learn about the Canadian legislative process by reviewing the steps required to introduce a bill in Parliament and make it into law, looking at the Medical Care Act of 1966, brainstorming about and researching the people who played a role in the creation of this law, and then discussing the contributions ...
Learn something new every day More Info... by email Momentum is a measurement of motion that determines how much force an object of a given mass will exert when traveling at a set velocity. The equation for straight-line momentum is simple: p = mv, where p is momentum and m and v are mass and velocity. Angular momentum...
Less than a week after the disastrous defeat of Texas rebels at the Alamo, the newly commissioned Texan General Sam Houston begins a series of strategic retreats to buy time to train his ill-prepared army. Revolutionary Texans had only formally announced their independence from Mexico 11 days earlier. On March 6, 1836,...
The square root board shows in a simple way the essence of squaring a number and calculating a square root. For both operations, children should already have multiplication experience. Performing square roots becomes very easy with the board, because one can see that is it the opposite of squaring. In order to square a...
Deccan Traps flood basalts as seen by satellite from space. Long ago, a giant pillar of hot, molten rock from deep within the Earth may have played a role in the extinction of the dinosaurs by triggering massive volcanic explosions. That deep jet of magma may still be around, and researchers are now deploying a vast ar...
What is the FAIR Education Act? What does it mean for my school? Why is it important for GSAs? Find out here! The FAIR Education Act updates California's education guidelines to integrate age-appropriate, factual information about the role and contributions of people with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and tra...
Understanding Animal Design Explore Dino Quest as never before as the students get to use the transmitters to discover the mysteries paleontologists are trying to solve, such as why dinosaurs had some of the horns, shields, crests, and tail designs that they had. Standards: LS 3 a, e – pg 9. Explore Fossil Footprints &...
Study Discovers How Massive Black Holes Grow So Rapidly Black holes that grow to masses billions of times greater than that of our sun most likely reached those sizes by consuming objects from multiple locations at the same time, researchers from the UK and Australia claim in a new study set for publication in the jour...
Researchers from Princeton University working at NSLS have solved the mystery of how molybdenum, one of the elements needed to prepare nitrogen for plant consumption, is available in soil. Nitrogen is key to cellular growth and the functioning of proteins and nucleic acids in plants and other organisms. Pure nitrogen m...
Project Cirrus was the first attempt to modify a hurricane. It was a collaboration of the General Electric Corporation, the US Army Signal Corps, the Office of Naval Research, and the US Air Force. After several preparations, and initial skepticism by government scientists, the first attempt to modify a hurricane began...
Two annually dated ice cores drawn from the tropical Peruvian Andes reveal Earth's tropical climate history in unprecedented detail—year by year, for nearly 1,800 years. Researchers at The Ohio State University retrieved the cores from a Peruvian ice cap in 2003, and then noticed some startling similarities to other ic...
Stargazing describes an unusual body position that is seen in some reptiles, especially snakes, which suffer from a disease or injury that inhibits the normal function of the central nervous system (i.e., the brain and spinal cord). This, in turn, causes the affected reptiles to twist their heads and necks and look upw...
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY The Basics of Evolution Natural Selection – If Mutation is Random, Why Does Evolution Occur at All? Every time that scientists have examined the process of mutation, seeking to learn if there are recognizable patterns, the answer seems to be that mutation is essentially random. If we think of the ...
Thalassemia is actually a group of inherited diseases of the blood that affect a person's ability to produce hemoglobin, resulting in anemia. Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen and nutrients to cells in the body. About 100,000 babies worldwide are born with severe forms of thalassemia each y...
Labor unions experienced success in the early 1900s in America as native-born and immigrant workers petitioned for higher pay and better working conditions. Individual workers didn’t have a voice in most industries, so unions provided a way for laborers to unite into a strong, powerful force that couldn’t be ignored. T...
We generally find it irritating and hard when we experience pain but scientifically pain is good for an individual. It helps to locate any ill effect inside the body that is generally left negligible by us. If the exterior of our body have any kind of wound or cut we immediately notice it and get the treatment on time,...
Ecological restoration—the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes—is a bright spark in the effort to achieve sustainable development. If given a chance, damaged ecosystems can recover rapidly. Research shows that forest ecosystems recovered in 42 years on average, while ocean bottoms recovered in less than ten years. Ec...
Before the 1800s, music was mostly only heard in church. The only songs that were performed outside of church were but they were old songs with new lyrics. In the North, orchestras played classical music from Europe and they provide music for cotillions. In the South, slaves combined the hymns of white churchgoers and ...
By Amy Kuessel, TLC Teaching Assistant Responsive language is a way of speaking with children that uses reason and logic, encourages independence, uses nurturing control, and encourages elaboration. Responsive language helps children develop oral language skills, self-expression, and social-emotional skills related to ...
In the 19th century landlords exercised unrestricted control over their tenant farmers. They controlled the way that land was used for agricultural purposes, and had the power to evict tenants. During the 1860s and 1870s, however, farmers began to campaign, through bodies such as the Farmers’ Alliance, for greater fair...
Some pictures of volcanic eruptions are iconic – this is one such example. On 12 June 2009, Sarychev Peak erupted explosively. During the eruption, the International Space Station luckily passed overhead and the astronauts on board took this spectacular image of what appears to be a eruption column punching through the...
Play A Video Game That Is Truely Worthwhile. Learning a new language can be a daunting challenge. It is even harder if you do not have anyone to practice with or immediate need to communicate in the particular language. New game based computer learning programs may make the whole process easier and more fun. Using a la...
One of the oldest depictions of civil disobedience is in Sophocles’ play Antigone, in which Antigone, one of the daughters of former King of Thebes, Oedipus, defies Creon, the current King of Thebes, who is trying to stop her from giving her brother Polynices a proper burial. She gives a stirring speech in which she te...
NASA researchers have found the building blocks of DNA, the genetic molecule that is essential to all life forms, in meteorites, pieces of space rock that have fallen to Earth. The discovery suggests that similar meteorites and comets may have impacted Earth and assisted in life formation here. With minimal chance for ...
A late date set between 1600 and 1500 BC has been proposed for the most famous eruption of the Santorini (Thera) volcano, which famously had a major impact in the history of Bronze Age Aegean cultures. Through the scientific journal Antiquity, an international team of researchers led by Paolo Cherubini (the Swiss Feder...
Amur leopards species: Affected by: Illegal wildlife trade , Climate change , Habitat loss and fragmentation , Deforestation Not many people ever see an Amur leopard in the wild. Not surprising, as there are so few of them, but a shame considering how beautiful they are. Thick, luscious, black-ringed coats and a huge f...
American Standards of Living:1918-1988 Consumption Norms and Economic Distance In 1918, American families daily lives were filled with hard physical work both on the job and at home. After a long workweek, laborer husbands brought home only enough money to buy some, but not all, basics; their wives spent 69% of their b...
Any two charged objects will create a force on each other. Opposite charges will produce an attractive force while similar charges will produce a repulsive force. The greater the charges, the greater the force. The greater the distance between them, the smaller the force. For two spherically shaped charges the formula ...
The human genome (the entire DNA code of a human) was first mapped fully in 2003. When it was started in 1990, it was envisioned that by sequencing an entire genome we would rapidly gain an understanding of the workings of genes and quickly start to develop new medicines and techniques to deal with not just genetic dis...
The 300-feet sand dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan have been a puzzling mystery for years. The dunes look a lot like the sandy hills in Sahara desert. But two different groups of scientists have found that their origins are quite different. Those on the Earth were formed continuously over time, but Titan’s dunes were forme...
They may have tiny brains, but bumblebees are capable of some remarkable learning feats, especially when they might get a tasty reward, according to two studies by University of Guelph researchers. PhD student Hamida Mirwan and Prof. Peter Kevan, School of Environmental Sciences, are studying bees’ ability to learn by ...
The oldest, and still the most powerful, teaching tactic for fostering critical thinking is Socratic teaching. In Socratic teaching we focus on giving students questions, not answers. We model an inquiring, probing mind by continually probing into the subject with questions. Fortunately, the abilities we gain by focusi...
As the fourth grade math year runs to it end, consider this: Were fractions at least a quarter to a third of the math you covered during the year? Did you know that fractions: equivalence, like denominators and mixed numbers are one of 3 focus standards in the new Common Core Standards adopted by many (almost all) of t...
What could a nuclear bomb test site and the moon have in common? Scientists say nuclear development could hold new answers to old questions about our moon. —How did the moon form? Scientists base their models largely on data from moon rocks and meteorites. But those just provide momentary snapshots, not geological proc...
The Volgermeerpolder, located near Amsterdam in the Netherlands, is a toxic waste site that was capped with foil and an artificial wetland on top. According to researchers at Radboud University, six years after the opening of the wetland, it appears that the new site is already forming peat, which can capture and store...
Most people will have two sets of teeth in their lifetime, 20 primary teeth (a.k.a. "baby teeth" or "deciduous teeth") and up to 32 permanent teeth. As the primary teeth get ready to erupt into the mouth a process called "teething" occurs as the gums get hard, red and swollen. This process can cause discomfort, excessi...
Blood pressure is the measurement of the pressure exerted by the blood against artery walls. Blood in the arteries is under pressure due to the contraction of the muscles, so that it reaches all parts of the body. It is measured in milimetres of mercury (mmHg). There are two blood pressure measurements: - SYSTOLIC PRES...
On November 8, 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced plans to create the new Civil Works Administration which, he said, would provide up to 4 million jobs for the unemployed while doing important work building roads, bridges, sewer lines, and other infrastructure. In a 5 month run over the winter of 1933-3...
The seed growing process begins with pollination. Once pollinated the plant forms a zygote and endosperm nucleus. The nucleus develops into the endosperm and the zygote into the embryo. The plant provides nutrients that convert into stored food for the embryo. A seed coat forms and hardens due to water loss. Seeds cont...
An ocean once covered half of the northern hemisphere of Mars, according to NASA scientists. This makes it far more likely that the red planet was once blue – and teeming with alien life. The ocean covered more than one fifth of the planet’s surface, making it about as large as the Atlantic Ocean. In total, it held 20 ...
The world of carnivorous plants is far stranger and more extensive than the commonly known examples of the Venus flytrap and pitcher plant. The criteria for considering whether a plant is carnivorous include its adaptations to capture prey and the presence of digestive enzymes, helper bacteria, or another way of benefi...
When you open a science textbook or magazine, it’s often the images that capture your attention. Some of these images help you visualise the topics, while others - such as diagrams - can be instrumental in helping us understand difficult concepts. Creating scientific illustrations can require collaborations between sci...
Geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey and MIT have homed in on the precise event that set off the end-Permian extinction, Earth’s most devastating mass extinction, which killed off 90 percent of marine organisms and 75 percent of life on land approximately 252 million years ago. In a paper published today in Natur...
On a 25-kilometer stretch of coastline in Western Australia lies a prehistoric treasure trove. Thousands of approximately 130 million-year-old dinosaur footprints are embedded in a stretch of land that can be studied only during low tide, when the sea — and the sharks and crocodiles that inhabit the region — can't hide...
Challenge and engage your students with this wonderful resource! It includes questions to a video about the abandoned towns in Mexico as a result of the drug trafficking. This activity is targeted at Spanish 2 or 3 students and will challenge them to extend their knowledge of "comunidad/ciudad" vocabulary to a higher l...
Counting is an easy way to start teaching a new language, since the order and meanings are the same in every language. Linguistics professors start by learning numbers when they know nothing else. Numbers were the first words deciphered in Mayan glyphs. Try the numbers 1-100 in a language you do not know (Turkish? Chin...
Currently, there is a lot of interest and research about a coordinated brain process called executive functioning. It seems that executive functioning has a lot to do with our life’s achievements. And, while it is a long-term building process of the brain, the foundational components are developed early in life. As par...
A plasmid is a DNA molecule that is separate from, and can replicate independently of, the chromosomal DNA. They are double-stranded and, in many cases, circular. Plasmids usually occur naturally in bacteria, but are sometimes found in eukaryotic organisms (e.g., the 2-micrometre-ring in Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Plas...