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GARMENT INDUSTRY - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
GARMENT INDUSTRY. As early as 1860 the manufacture of ready-to-wear clothing became one of Cleveland's leading industries. The garment industry probably reached its peak during the 1920s, when Cleveland ranked close to New York as one of the country's leading cen... |
A useful technique for exploring any kind of dilemma faced by a character, providing an opportunity to analyse a decisive moment in greater detail. The class forms two lines facing each other. One person (the teacher or a participant) takes the role of the protagonist and walks between the lines as each member of the g... |
Bogdan Popa, a research scientist in electrical and computer engineering, shows off the 3D acoustic cloak he helped design and build as a member of Steven Cummer’s laboratory.
Credit: Duke University
Cloaking devices, a staple of science fiction (think Harry Potter), are getting closer to reality. Researchers at Duke U... |
A membrane is a thin soft layer of material. A membrane separates two things.
Membrane as tissue[change | change source]
A membrane can mean a thin layer of cells or tissue. This layer covers, separates, or lines a tissue or organ. An example is the mucous membrane that is the skin that lines the inside of your nose an... |
I like to refer to this standard as the How do you know?standard. The focus here is on proving that what you see in the text is true. Backing up your claims with facts is a powerful cognitive step for students.
In grades, K-2 students are simply to use the text to answer questions about who, what, when, where, and why.... |
Henry AinsworthArticle Free Pass
At first a Puritan, Ainsworth joined the Separatists who broke entirely with the Church of England. Driven abroad in the persecution of 1593, he settled in Amsterdam. When part of the London church of which Francis Johnson (then in prison) had been pastor was reassembled in Amsterdam, A... |
Rutherford's classic experiment consisted in bombarding a thin gold foil with particles (helium nuclei). He expected that some particles would be slightly deflected by the positive charge inside the atoms. Most went through without much change, some were deflected, and surprisingly, some came straight back. This led Ru... |
Chapter 12: Thermal Energy
Secton 1: Temperature and Thermal Energy
Thermal Energy and States of matter
What makes a Hot Body Hot?
Although the effects of fire have been known since ancient times, only in the eighteenth century did scientists begiin to understand how a hot body differs from a cold body. They proposed t... |
Social learning theory is a theory that attempts to explain socialization and its effect of the development of the self. There are many different theories that explain how people become socialized, including psychoanalytic theory, functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction theory. Social learning theory, ... |
This article assumes basic programming experience with delegates.
Delegates are a .NET framework feature that allows for type-safe function pointers. Actually, they are a bit more than function pointers, because they are object oriented, as their second name -bound method references- expresses. It means that the method... |
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists have until now not fully understood how animals see in color, since visual pigments in eyes contain exactly the same chromophore (light absorbing segment of the molecule) and yet can absorb different wavelengths of light.
The chromophore retinal (Vitamin A aldehyde or retinaldehyde) is used ... |
King James Bible - New Testament Plot Summary
The New Testament tells the story of Jesus' birth and life. His mother Mary conceived him through the power of the Holy Spirit. He was born in Bethlehem because his parents had traveled there for the census. Around age thirty, Jesus began to preach to the men of Judea. He g... |
Phasor is a vary important mathematical concept used frequently for Alternating Current(AC) circuit analysis. I will try to explain some basic properties of phasors that you studied(or did not study) in school. My main purpose is to help you build up sufficient background for the next article to be published which is a... |
You can learn a lot about sonic booms by looking at the wakes boats leave in the water.
If you toss a pebble in a pond, little waves will form in concentric circles and propagate away from the point of impact. If a boat travels through the pond at 3 to 5 miles per hour, little waves will propagate in the same way both ... |
Tapeworms are large, flat parasitic worms that live in the intestinal tracts of some animals. They are passed to humans who consume foods or water contaminated with tapeworm eggs or larvae.
Six types of tapeworms are known to infect humans, usually identified by their source of infestation: beef, pork, dog, rodent, fis... |
August 19, 2010
Although developers and government often tout dams as environmentally-friendly energy sources, this is not always the case. Dams impact river flows, changing ecosystems indefinitely; they may flood large areas forcing people and wildlife to move; and in the tropics they can also become massive source of... |
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Continuity Equation 6,713 views
The continuity equation deals with changes in the area of cross-sections of passages which fluids flow through. Laminar flow is flow of fluids that doesn't depend on time, ideal fluid... |
A Climate of Extreme Weather Events
A Climate of Extreme Weather Events
A white paper on U.S. impacts and vulnerability
Much of the discussion of climate change focuses on slow changes in average temperatures and precipitation over time. But this focus masks the larger changes in weather variability and extreme weather... |
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Reading 1: The National Womanís Party and Lafayette Park
In 1917, Alice Paul and her National Woman's Party (NWP) set out to use their First Amendment rights to gain the vote for all American women. They chose Lafayette Park as the stage for their protest because of its location. It was right across the stre... |
Each of the thirteen states that make up the United States commit to a firm "friendship" with each of the other states. They are united for the purposes of defending themselves against military threats, protecting their independence, and ensuring the general well being of all of the states and good relationships betwee... |
Put your first grader on the fast track for counting and drawing, plus get him familiar with money starting with coins!
Help Dennis Duck by counting up the coins in each group and marking the correct value.
How many coins can you count? Help your little cashier learn to add up coin amounts to figure out the price of th... |
The objects known as brown dwarfs are oddballs. They’re heavier than planets, but not heavy enough to trigger the nuclear reactions that would make them shine as true stars. In fact, they’re often described as failed stars.
Yet they share some traits with both stars and planets. Like stars, their surfaces are hot, with... |
Adolescent Literacy Glossary
Adequate Yearly Progress, Small Learning Communities, Explicit Instruction do you know what these phrases mean? Find these and other commonly used terms related to reading, literacy, and reading instruction in our glossary.
A strategy in which students read story scripts aloud during an inf... |
Asthma 101: What Parents Should Know
May is Asthma Awareness Month
May is Asthma Awareness Month, and Driscoll Children's Hospital wants you to know as much as you can about the disease so you can recognize it and, if necessary, help your child better deal with it. With proper treatment and a team approach to managing ... |
Kenya 's Rift Valley is synonymous with the evolutionary ascent of man. It was in the African savannah that the first humans emerged and there is evidence of humanoid habitation in Kenya dating back 2.5 million years. It was not until three thousand years ago that the first human settlements became established. Kenya '... |
In the first major discovery by the new Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the world's most powerful telescope, astronomers reported today what they said was the first confirmed sighting of a brown dwarf, one of those elusive theorized objects bigger than a planet but not quite a star.
So small and dim are the supposed brown ... |
Purpose. To make models of atoms and molecules.
Materials. Two lemon-size pieces of modeling clay of different colors - one red, one yellow; ruler; pen; one sheet of copy paper; two crayons - one red, one yellow; toothpicks.
- Divide the red clay into four equal parts. Shape each clay piece into a ball. Each part repre... |
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:
- Salmonella (sal-mo-NEL-ah) infection, also called salmonellosis, is an infection that affects the lining of the small intestine (bowel). Salmonellosis is a common gastrointestinal (digestive) infection caused by a bacteria (germ) called Salmonella. Salmonella bacteria enter the small intestine a... |
FUEL cells could become smaller, more efficient and cheaper, if carbon nanotubes replaced the expensive platinum catalysts the cells currently rely on.
Fuel cells have been hailed as a saviour of the environment, because they can turn hydrogen and other fuels into electricity cleanly and efficiently. But the technology... |
This chapter presents poems, stories, and sayings, as well as brief discussions of language and literature.
The best way to introduce children to poetry is to read it to them and encourage them to speak it aloud so they can experience the music of the words. A child’s knowledge of poetry should come first from pleasure... |
An uncommon infection transmitted through contaminated food
The bacterium that causes listeriosis, Listeria monocytogenes, is widespread in the soil and is present in most animal species. It can pass to humans through food products, particularly soft cheeses, milk, meat pâtés, and prepackaged salads. The risk of lister... |
November 12, 2008
Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
The evidence comes in the form of tiny crystals. Spitzer detected crystals similar in make-up to quartz around young stars just beginning to form pl... |
Hugh O’Neill, 2nd earl of Tyrone, byname The Great Earl (born c. 1540—died July 20, 1616, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), Irish rebel who, from 1595 to 1603, led an unsuccessful Roman Catholic uprising against English rule in Ireland. The defeat of O’Neill and the conquest of his province of Ulster was the final step in t... |
The term hydrocephalus comes from the Greek "hydro," meaning "water," and "cephalus," meaning "head."
Hydrocephalus, then, is an abnormal accumulation of water-like fluid in the head.
The fluid, called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), is made in the spaces of the brain called ventricles.
CSF circulates around the brain and s... |
Flame Colors as Chemical Indicators
Though not as definitive as the spectral fingerprints from atomic spectra, the colors produced by chemicals when inserted into a flame can be used to identify some constituents of minerals. One procedure used was to put a small amount of the chemical on a small loop of platinum wire ... |
SOME birds learn to recognise members of their own species by comparing feathers.
Most birds learn to identify their species by studying their nestmates and parents. But parasites such as cuckoos and cowbirds are reared by complete strangers, so they must have a different system.
Mark Hauber and his colleagues at Corne... |
Influenza, or flu, is a respiratory infection caused by a variety of flu viruses. The most familiar aspect of the flu is the way it can “knock you off your feet” as it sweeps through entire communities.
The flu differs in several ways from the common cold, a respiratory infection also caused by viruses. For example, pe... |
States of Matter Teacher Resources
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The three states of matter are the focus of this chemistry video. Sal uses the example of a water molecule, and explains in great detail what forces are present to make that molecule change back and... |
How to make a stratigraphic column
Stratigraphic columns can be made by using two types of observations
- actual field observations, where a geologist can actully look at and
touch the rocks in front of them, and observations made from well logs.
Becuase well logs come from rocks that are up to 5 kilometers or more
bel... |
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found the building blocks of solid planets that are capable of having substantial amounts of water. This rocky debris, currently orbiting a white dwarf star called GD 61, is considered a relic of a planetary system that survived the burnout of its parent star. The fi... |
Megalaosaurus, meaning “Great Lizard”, from Greek megalo, meaning ‘big’ or ‘tall’ and sauros, meaning “lizard”, is a genus of large and meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe. It’s significant as the first genus of dinosaur, outside of birds, to be described and named.
Megalosaurus might... |
The most influential writer in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle-class glove-maker in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582 he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three chi... |
We’re learning a lot more about how planets interact with each other gravitationally. ‘Resonance’ is the operative term here. When planets are locked in a 2:1 orbital resonance, the outer planet orbits the host star once for every two orbits of the inner planet. A 3:2 resonance occurs when the outer planet orbits the s... |
Sustainability is defined by the Environmental Protection Agency as “an attempt to provide the best outcomes for the human and natural environments both now and into the indefinite future.” How do we explain this concept to our kids in terms they can grasp?
As kids grow, they’ll better understand complex ideas, so what... |
SpinosaurusArticle Free Pass
Spinosaurus, a genus of theropod dinosaurs belonging to the family Spinosauridae, known from incomplete North African fossils that date to Cenomanian times (roughly 100 to 94 million years ago). Spinosaurus, or “spined reptile,” was named for its “sail-back” feature, created by tall vertebr... |
Researchers at the Institut Laue-Langevin have used neutron scattering to work out how stretchy DNA is,
after many previous studies produced very different answers. The
results can help to explain how DNA can bend and split in order to
establish traits in living organisms and then pass these on from
generation to gener... |
What kinds of microbes live beneath the surface of the open ocean? What are they doing down there? These are the sorts of questions that MBARI researcher Chris Preston has been trying to answer in her research. But instead of using a microscope (even under a good scope, most bacteria just look like little dots or squig... |
Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed or brevity of writing as compared to a normal method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow) and graphē or graphie (writing). It has also been called brachygraphy, from Greek... |
18 CCSS Literacy Strategies for Struggling Readers – Defining, Summarizing and Comparing
I’ve been working with teachers to develop learning strategies to support the Common Core literacy and comprehension skills that students commonly use across the content areas. This pdf includes 18 lessons organized in two ways: by... |
Swinepox is an acute, often mild, infectious disease characterized by skin eruptions that affects only pigs. It is present in the USA, particularly in the Midwest, and has been reported from all continents, although the incidence is generally low.
Historically, vaccinia virus was involved in some outbreaks; currently, ... |
Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of
England's cipher-cracking organization, Bletchley Park, were mathematicians,
crossword-puzzle fanatics, and other super-brains. For decades what these men
and women did at "B.P.," and how they managed to break the Germans' seemingly
impregn... |
Humans may have evolved during a few rapid bursts of genetic change, according to a new study of the human genome, which challenges the popular theory that evolution is a gradual process.
Researchers studying human chromosome 2 have discovered that the bulk of its DNA changes occurred in a relatively short period of ti... |
pH of Acids and Bases Study Guide
The applications of acid-base chemistry extend beyond what was learned in Lesson 6, "Aqueous Reactions." The acidity of an acid solution can be measured by its pH, and equilibria can be established between an acid and a base to create a buffer.
Acid and Base Definitions
Acids are proto... |
Conduct Disorder is a behavioral and emotional disorder that affects adolescents, the disorder causes teens to show a pattern of of negative behavior that violates the rights of others, the social norms, rules and regulations. A teen with conduct disorder can have a big impact on his family, friends and everyone around... |
Aerodynamics engineers study nature for inspiration.
A micro unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed by engineers at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, incorporates basic flight capabilities adapted from flying fauna and general aviation aircraft. Air Force researchers are pushing... |
sphere, in geometry, the three-dimensional analogue of a circle. The term is applied to the spherical surface, every point of which is the same distance (the radius) from a certain fixed point (the center), and also to the volume enclosed by such a surface. The curve formed by a plane cutting a sphere is a circle. If t... |
This page describes a programming technique called Recursive Programming,
in which a procedure calls itself repeatedly until some escape condition is met.
Recursive programming is a powerful technique that can greatly simplify some programming tasks. In summary,
recursive programming is the situation in which a procedu... |
a house to accommodate humans, livestock and storage on the patch of land that supports its subsistence
Description of the Process
The 'one roof farm house' is considered to be the oldest form of vernacular farm architecture. The building houses all functions to support the life of its inhabitants and the livestock. Th... |
In the late 18th century, the Beacon Hill neighborhood served as the heart of Boston’s thriving free black community. It was there that blacks established mutual aid societies, schools and political groups while forging alliances with white abolitionists. But for years after Massachusetts abolished slavery in 1783, the... |
Projectile motion has two components: horizontal motion and vertical motion. The two components are independent, to they have no effect on each other. When the two motions are combined, they form a curved path. Some examples are a frog leaping, water sprayed by a sprinkler, a swimmer diving into water, balls being jugg... |
The Voronoi pattern is basically regions around points such that all the area in each region is the closest to the point it surrounds. So if you have just two points in space then the pattern is merely a line dividing the region in two midway between them perpendicular to a line joining the two points. As you drop more... |
Over the years, the area under forest cover has decreased steadily, as forests have been cleared for agriculture, industry, housing, and other development activities like the construction of roads, railways, and hydroelectric plants.
Since the beginning of civilization, as seen from the Indus Valley Civilization, peopl... |
Unit 5 Expectations as the key to effective teaching and learning
Research has shown that how a teacher perceives a child as a learner can have very significant impact on the child’s success as a learner, both negatively and positively. This unit explores how to develop a supportive environment and encourages the use o... |
It might seem strange, but counting is one of the most difficult things in mathematics sometimes. In fact, it won't be far from the truth to call combinatorics the art of arranging objects and counting them. Brute force techniques, when objects are counted by enumerating all possibilities usually are doomed to fail in ... |
We are, of course, talking about plate tectonics.
Earlier research suggested the western edge of the North American continent was formed by the conveyor belt-like movement eastward of a single oceanic plate called the Farallon Plate. But an alternative explanation published today in Nature suggests a far more complicat... |
Reading and writing activities are organised around
a short story about Kim and her cat Dotty. It is designed to motivate students to read and interpret information. Most words are one or two syllable words with regular spelling patterns.
The reproducible workbook has two parts,
the first - the story with clozes,
the s... |
is the minimum amount of a substance
that is needed to sustain a reaction
. This amount can vary based on how it is shape
and the density
of the substance. When a reaction
occurs it emit
that are capable of producing more reactions but only if they collide
with more atoms. Higher probability
of a collision means more c... |
Whether slavery existed within sub-Saharan African societies before the arrival of Europeans is a hotly contested point between Afrocentric and Eurocentric academics. What is certain is that Africans were subjected to several forms of slavery over the centuries, including chattel slavery under both the Muslims with the... |
The lateral line is a system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, mainly fish, used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water. The sensory ability is achieved via modified epithelial cells, known as hair cells, which respond to displacement caused by motion, movement and transduce these signals... |
15. Establishment of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers (1844)
The modern British cooperative movement traces its roots to the foundation of this Rochdale society, one of the first consumer cooperatives. The ‘Rochdale Principles’ were written by the society as a set of ideals that of form the basis of cooperati... |
The Bullock's Oriole, Icterus bullockii, is a small blackbird. At one time, this species and the Baltimore Oriole were considered to be a single species, the Northern Oriole.
Adults have a pointed bill. The adult male is orange on the underparts, face and rump with black everywhere else; they have a white wing patch. T... |
How Fugitive Slave Laws made white people rich, both past and present
by Tiara Williams
The Fugitive Slave Acts were two federal laws that permitted the capture and return of runaway slaves to their slave owners. Many of us watched the recently released 12 years a slave, the story of Solomon Northup, who was a free man... |
Major aspects of British colonialism in India and its influence on the Indian population
At the start of seventeenth century India’s course of history was changed by the arrival of the British. At this time the Dutch had a monopoly over spices trade in south Asia. In order to gain this power Queen Elizabeth I decided t... |
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on Oct. 23, 2013 that peaked around 8:30 PM ET. A solar flare is essentially a burst of radiation. Thankfully, Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. If a solar flare is intense enough it can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals... |
Fish Dominance Hierarchies on the Reef
Table of Contents
Although dominance hierarchies were first studied in domestic chickens — hence the term “pecking order” — many different kinds of animals, fish included, fight among themselves to see who is boss. In the wild, these dominance hierarchies are usually formed betwee... |
Toleration ActArticle Free Pass
Toleration Act, (May 24, 1689), act of Parliament granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e., dissenting Protestants such as Baptists and Congregationalists). It was one of a series of measures that firmly established the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) in England. It allowed Nonc... |
The Battle of Antietam was considered a turning point in the Civil War since from it came the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The careful planning of this document, with Lincoln releasing it at just the right moment in the war, ensured that it had a great positive impact on the Union efforts and redefined the... |
Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark wanted to know how race and color effected African-American children’s self-esteem and self-worth. The Clarks set out to discover how these children viewed themselves, and how racism impacted child development.
Dr. Mamie Clark was the architect of the experiment, which is now known as the D... |
This lesson will describe the origins of psychology and introduce the "Father of Psychology" Wilhelm Wundt. The theories of Structuralism and Functionalism will be introduced and their contributions to the origins of psychology discussed.
In this lesson, we’ll discuss the origins of psychology by looking at some import... |
Computers today use electricity that flows through their transistors to create the binary code on and off required for every computerized object in the world operate and execute instructions. In the future, computers might not use electricity and instead may use light making them significantly faster. Researchers at th... |
The energy required by the functioning of the brain is also supplied through the food we eat
There are reasons to believe that children, more than adults, can be more prone to building glucose provisions. Proportional with corporal weight, children’s brains as bigger that those of adults, thus reflecting the rapid brai... |
The following explanation is from http://www.pimsleurmethod.com/:
What is Principle of Anticipation?
"The Principle of Anticipation requires you to "anticipate" a correct answer.
Practically, what this means is that you must think about the situation and retrieve the answer from your own memory before it is confirmed i... |
The boundaries of Palestine have changed through the years. When King David ruled Palestine in ancient times, its boundary was east of the Jordan River. In modern times most people think of Palestine as a smaller area. In 1947 the United Nations approved a plan to split Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with Jerus... |
What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also cred... |
Anne Frank was one of 1.5 million Jewish children victim of the Shoah. Through Anne Frank's story and ideals, we can analyze the consequences caused by discrimination, prejudice and indifference.
One of EU's main goals is to promote human rights both internally and around the world. Human dignity, freedom, democracy, e... |
Clowns played an important role in the religions lives of Asian societies. In India,Sanskrit Dramas based on the epic stories "Magabharata" and "Ramayan" began about 100 A.D. Most of the dialogue was in the Sanskrit language spoken only by gods, kings, ministers, generals, and sages. Viduska, a clown who was the heros ... |
By Kristof Bognar
PhD Candidate, U. of Toronto
When scientists speak of the ‘ozone hole’, they usually mean the large region of low stratospheric ozone concentration that develops above Antarctica each Southern Hemisphere spring (August–October). These occur because conditions over Antarctica are favorable for ozone de... |
Electronic sheep reveals how extreme weather affects flocks
Image credit: WTML\Laurence Clark
Researchers from North Wales have developed an electronic sheep to study how extreme weather affects flocks.
Two electronic ewes fitted with a battery-powered heating system have been stationed at Bangor University's research ... |
Lesson 1 – Growing Plants
National Curriculum Links
All lesson plans link to the National Curriculum for Science in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Specific Curriculum Links are as follows:
- Sc 2 Life Processes and Living Things
- Science – QCA Unit 3B Helping Plants Grow Well
QCA Unit 5B Lifecycles
Key... |
Research finds that children who play violent video games or watch violent TV can become violent themselves, but what drives this change? Are they kids simply mimicking what they see on the screen, or could gaming have a more profound effect on their brains, affecting behavior?
To explore that question, Dr. Vincent Mat... |
Astrophysicists at Stanford University made a breakthrough discovery when they spotted a dwarf galaxy some 4 billion light years from earth. The galaxy is less than 600 light years across, to put that into perspective, the Milky Way, our own medium sized galaxy, is 100,000 light years across.
The tiny galaxy was discov... |
Welcome to Mom and Me Math Friday!
In this lesson, the children started with a basic design unit and then built sequential steps of their pattern, showing how it grew systematically. Here you can see Nathan and his mother working on her "Rose Garden" design.
I asked each child, "What is the rule? How is your pattern gr... |
For over 130 million years, dinosaurs dominated life on land. They came in every shape and size, from feathery little carnivores the size of a pigeon to titans that stretched over 120 feet in length. But dinosaurs did far more than merely inhabit prehistoric floodplains, deserts and forests. Unbeknownst to them, dinosa... |
The third Anglo-Powhatan war (1644 to 1646) started with a large, coordinated strike by Powhatan warriors against the Virginia colonists. Several outlying settlements were struck with the Powhatan killing and/or capturing between 400 and 500 English settlers. At this time, there were 8,000 to 10,000 English colonists i... |
The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, near Seattle in the United States, was a cutting-edge design that was hailed as a masterpiece when it was finished in July 1940. It was the ultimate example of a trend in suspension-bridge engineering towards maximum lightness, grace and flexibility. The deck was only 2.4 metres deep an... |
If you were standing outdoors looking at the distant and reddening sky 250 million years ago as the Permian Mass Extinction was beginning, unless you were in the region that is known as Siberia you would have no idea that a tipping point had just been passed and soon 95% of all life on earth would be dead.
It's almost ... |
The moon of Enceladus is harboring a secret that has forced scientists to a surprising conclusion on its age.
As we reported recently, a new study using computer modeling of the moons and rings of Saturn has found that they may very well be younger than the dinosuars — and it was the mysterious moon on Enceladus that l... |
A guest post by HSCI 3013.002 students Danya Majeed, James Reeves and Crystal Neill.
Imagine you are an astronomer in medieval times. You have studied Aristotelian physics. You wholeheartedly agree with Ptolemy’s description of the universe and have thoroughly digested the precepts laid out in his book, Almagest, detai... |
They may have shaken the dinosaur world with every footfall, but research suggests that sauropods could have glided like punts across shallow water.
Plant eaters such as Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus and Apatosaurus were thought to have walked on the bottom of lakes and rivers, while in recent years it was suggested they s... |
Students will understand that microorganisms range from simple to complex, are found almost everywhere, and are both helpful and harmful.
Observe and summarize information about microorganisms.
Examine and illustrate size, shape, and structure of organisms found in an environment such as pond water.
Compare characteris... |
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