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Nuclear Weapons
Number of Words: 1995 / Number of Pages: 8
... as: sources of energy or
to keep a person's heart beating. We did begin to produce more plutonium
but the majority of the substance was used towards our nuclear weapons
programs.
Along with reactors, sometimes comes a meltdown which can cause
harmful effects if it isn't controlled quickly enough. After such
instances as the Hanford, Washington reactor meltdown and the accident in
the U.S.S.R. at the Chernobyl site, no one wanted to hear about the use of
plutonium. The United States government banned nuclear testing and also
ended the production of plutonium. (Ref. 5) Now we are in a dilemma ...
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Pascals Triangle
Number of Words: 265 / Number of Pages: 1
... Pascal was regarded as a brilliant man of his own time. He made contributions to science, mathematics, and religious philosophy. Pascal was born on June 19, 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand of central France. His father was a highly placed civil official and everyone expected Pascal to follow in his footsteps.
But Pascal proved to be a child prodigy. At the age of twelve, he figured out the proposition of Euclidean geometry with no help. At the age of seventeen, he wrote an essay on conic sections which contained a theorum that was named after him.
Pascal also invented many things. He constructed the f ...
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Triceratops Hottidus: “Horrible Three-horned Face”
Number of Words: 436 / Number of Pages: 2
... was probably a herding animal, like the other
Cartesians. This hypothesis is supported by the fining of bone beds, large
deposits of bones of the same species in am area.
Triceratops hatched from eggs, which may have been cared for by
adults.
Which threatened by predators, Triceratops probably changed into
its enemy, like the modern-day rhinoceros does. This was probably a very
effective defense.
DIET, TEETH, ADN TRICERATOPS POSITION IN THE FOOD CHAIN:
Triceratops was as herbivore, a plant eater(a primary consumer), It
probably ate cycads, palms, and other low-lying plants with it ...
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Cloning Today
Number of Words: 918 / Number of Pages: 4
... from
tadpoles and injected them into unfertilized eggs. The nuclei containing the
original parents’ genetic information had been destroyed with ultraviolet light.
When the eggs were incubated, Gurdon discovered that only 1% to 2% of the eggs
had developed into fertile adult toads. The first successful cloning of mammal
was achieved nearly twenty years later. Scientists from Switzerland and the U.S.
successfully cloned mice using a method similar to Gurdon’s, but required one
extra step. After the nucleus was taken from the embryos of one type of mouse,
they were transferred into the embryos of another ...
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Jaguars
Number of Words: 822 / Number of Pages: 3
... predominantly a forest dweller with the highest population densities centring on the lowland rain forests of the Amazon Basin - dry woodland and grassland also serve as suitable terrain, although the cat is rarely found in areas above 8000 feet.
The overall body size and coloration of the cat often relates to its location - found in dense forested areas of the Amazon Basin are often only half the size of those found in more open terrain and it has been suggested that this can be related to the more frequent occurrence of larger prey species found in open terrain . Coloration of dense forest dwelling ...
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Human Cloning
Number of Words: 2787 / Number of Pages: 11
... would allow for an unlimited number of genetically identical offspring, and would control over the genetic profile of our children (Hopkins, 8).
Eugenics
is accomplished through a field of science known as eugenics, which basically is an attempt to improve the human race. Advances in eugenics have only helped mankind in pushing forward to a greater civilization, a more perfect evolution (Silberner, 5). When new innovations in science are not encouraged but prohibited, they inevitably change into an undercover procedure. is already prohibited in Britain and likely soon here in Canada as a result ...
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Hemp - Miricale Plant
Number of Words: 362 / Number of Pages: 2
... renewable fuel contains no sulfur and while growing helps remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis. For thousands of years, all good paints and varnishes were made from an oil from the plant. Today, it has almost been totally replaced by chemically derived oils. In closing, it is estimated that if just 6 percent of all our farmable land were seeded with this plant, it could supply us with all our fuel, gas and oil needs.
I find it funny that government officials don't realize the impact that this single plant could have on the world. Instead of penalizing people for growing it, gov ...
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The Luminescence Of Black Light
Number of Words: 442 / Number of Pages: 2
... energy, and if it is in the visible part
of the spectrum, we have a transient light phenomenon. Ultra-violet light is an
exciting agent which causes luminescence to occur.
There are many materials which exhibit fluorescent characteristics.
Many of which are even organic. Teeth, eyes, some portions of the skin, and
even blood exhibit fluorescent qualities. Naturally occurring minerals such as:
agate, calcite, chalcedony, curtisite, fluorite, gypsum, hackmanite, halite,
opal scheelite, and willemite, also have similar characteristics. These
materials can be used in industries.
The radiance of ult ...
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Human Evolution In Africa
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... to Europe and the Middle East.
By this time, Africa had just split from marsupial overrun Gondwanaland. About a million years later it reached the Middle East, and primates moved in. By now the world had cooled enough that the primates in Europe had been decimated to near extinction. They also migrated south, for the Mediterranean Sea was at that time dry lowland. Now almost all of the primates left in the world were in Africa, and the only marsupial that wasn’t wiped out was the opossum. Primates and large cats now ruled, with rodents scarce, which meant that the primates had to adap ...
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Intel Vs. Amd The True Story (intel Bias)
Number of Words: 1351 / Number of Pages: 5
... could not run 15% of the programs out. People wanted a processor that had programs optimized specifically for it, people wanted a computer with a sticker that said "Intel Inside" because they knew every program would run on it. If people wanted a cheap solution then they went with the low-cost AMD CPU and faced incompatibility problems with a lot of programs. But most people were willing to spend the money to get the genuine Intel processor and this is a major reason AMD became the underdog and left Intel to reign as King.
One point that people paid much attention to was 3D graphics, and the PII, w ...
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