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Weather Forecasting
... and criticized and therefor committed suicide. Since then there have been
many other services, but the largest one currently is the National Weather
Service. The National Weather Service gives predictions for all of the world
through satellite imagery for all countries. Also in recent history many local
television and radio stations have made private forecasts for small areas.
Meteorologists are people who interpret the weather, the reason I don't
say predict the weather is because even though all forecasters have the same
information and data at their fingertips, the way that they interpret what is in
front of them can be different. Meteorologists rece ...
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Cloning, Right Or Wrong
... cloned to produce organs that would not be rejected by humans. Cloning could give couples who would like children, but could not have any, a chance to have them. This process would also let single women have a child without using in-vitro fertilisation or artificial insemination. Cloning could also make a copy of a deceased child for the parents. Also it would be a very useful tool for historians as people such as Hitler would be able to be recreated and studied to find out what their motivations were.
Besides from all these good points cloning also has bad points. The biggest problem with cloning on a large scale is the lack of genetic diversity. If everyone ...
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Fire 2
... but the ecological effects of prescribing a fixed burning regime on large tracts of land are increasingly being questioned (Lyons, 1985, 3).
To an ecologist, fire can be treated as just one of the many factors in an environment. It compares with droughts, floods, hurricanes and other physical disturbances because of the direct impact it makes on organisms. Unlike these physical factors, however, fire as a disturbing force is itself influenced by the biota, particularly the plant community. Alteration of the vegetation by any number of factors can influence the nature of a subsequent fire. Fire has similarities to grazing as a force on vegetation because of such ...
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Carbon
... paper are compounds of carbon with hydrogen and oxygen. Proteins such as
hair, meat, and silk contain these and other elements such as nitrogen,
phosphorus, and sulfur.
More than six and a half million compounds of the element carbon, many
times more then those of any other element, are known, and more are discovered
and synthesized each week. Hundreds of carbon compounds are commercially
important but the element itself in the forms of diamond, graphite, charcoal,
and carbon black is also used in a variety of manufactured products.
Besides the wide occurrence of carbon in compounds, two forms of the
element--diamond and graphite, are deposited in wi ...
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The Giraffe
... up, they can even do it
while sleeping. New born calves, which are baby giraffes, begin their
lives by falling 6 feet to the ground. Usually a calve stands 6 feet tall
and is able to stand after birth. They are highly attuned to danger thanks
to their height and good sense of smell and eyesight. They can be fast
and can reach speeds of up to 35 mph.
Females spend over 12 hours a day looking, while males are less.
Night mostly spent lying down ruminating, especially hours after dark and
before dawn. A Giraffe has 2 ways of getting around which is walking and
galloping. The long legs and short trunk decree an ambling walk, with the
entire weight supp ...
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Magnesium
... Heat of combustion 25020 kJ.kg -1
Flame temperature ~2800ºC
Heat of fusion 368 kJ.kg-1
Heat of vaporisation 5272 kJ.kg-1
Specific heat 1025 J.K -1.kg at 20ºC
Vapour pressure 20 Pa at 527ºC(s)
360 Pa at 650ºC (1)
1400 Pa at 727ºC
Valence states Mg2+
Viscosity 1.25 cp at 650ºC (1)
The magnesium element has the atomic number of 12 and atomic weight of
24.3050. It's symbol is Mg. The group number that mg is in is group 2a.
It's electronic configuration of
[Ne].3 s2.
Physical data
Standard state: solid a ...
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Where Do We Draw The Line?
... just by attaching the forming skin cells and DNA to his forehead and sewing the newly grown nose back to his face. This brought to mind an article I had recently read about the dangers of scientific some advancements. Coincidentally, the article was called, “Brave New Worlds”. It stated that “Developments in the field of genetics offer the possibility of bringing all life processes under control. We must step carefully into this vast new field of science with the understanding that putting a patent on the melanoma gene or the baldness gene for that matter is simply playing God in a potentially dangerous way.” (Appleyard, Bryan, Jan 98, Smithsonian)
These are onl ...
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Clinical Depression A Disease Like Any Other.
... which was caused by other diseases. Hippocrates recommended rest, exercise and a change in ones diet as treatment to this illness. Later, in the middle ages, this abnormal behavior was considered to be a result of demonic possession. It was treated with exorcism, flogging and torture to drive the evil spirits from the body.
It wasn't until the late 19th and early 20th centuries that physicians had a more scientific view on depression. Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer discovered that depression is a psychological and not a demonic force or organic abnormality.
Depression is caused by many factors. The loss of a loved one during childhood or ...
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The Application Of Science To Engineering
... The electric
telegraph, first discovered in 1837 by Samuel Morse, was a great improvement
over the mechanical telegraph which required the use of a telescope and was much
less effective. It encodes messages electrically, transmits them over
facilities such as copper wire, coaxial cable, and fibre optics to their
destination where they are decoded into their original form. Combinations of
long and short bursts of electric current are sent through a circuit thereby
encoding each letter of the alphabet. More efficient transmission facilities
were developed as the mining industry developed. The discovery of electricity
sped up the development of mining throug ...
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A Fabulous Analysis Of The Flamboyantly Gay
... whether they know it or not.
In order to appreciate the theory I will soon explain one must first recognize a simple concept regarding the human mind. As most will agree, bottled emotions do more harm than good. The act of keeping feelings inside tends to create a “pressurized” effect on the brain, overloading the psyche with pent-up “garbage”. As is the case in any good romance movie, the onlooker with bottled emotions waits until the end to release everything, dramatically and emotionally releasing all her pressurized tensions. Sure, Hollywood is not the best place to get your life morals, but a lesson really can be learned here, and the same lesson ...
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