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The Age Of The Earth
Number of Words: 582 / Number of Pages: 3
... of Lead ( Howter, 1996, Radiometric Dating: An Exercise in Faith). As it turns out, this is what scientists believe to be.
The assumption that the earth is 4.5 billion years old has raised doubts in the minds of some skeptics who question the accuracy of the data used in radiometric dating! They claim that without knowing the exact amount of Uranium in the beginning, most of the calculations will be based on assumptions and if one is to assume the amount of Uranium that existed 4.5 billion years ago, then, there is a chance that calculations would not yield an accurate result, because the initial d ...
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Sharks
Number of Words: 2116 / Number of Pages: 8
... shark in the movie that’s kept thousands of people off the beaches and out
of the water. Better yet, it could have been the overall storyline: A Great
White shark with an eating disorder and a taste for human flesh. Perhaps that’s
what is keeping vacationers from grabbing their trousers and snorkels.
Over all, there have been 1026 attacks on humans by sharks in the last
ten years. Only 294 of these attacks have been linked to Great White sharks.
That’s roughly the number of people who drown each year in swimming accidents.
Of these 294 attacks, less than eighteen percent were fatal. Out of the
eig ...
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Albert Einstein 2
Number of Words: 526 / Number of Pages: 2
... anyone else either. He did not even have any special learning powers either. This was proved when Hoffman was writing equations on a blackboard when he was asked to slow down by Einstein, he said, "Please go slowly, I do not understand things quickly." Proving that he is not that much more intelligent than anyone else. Einstein was a normal guy with maybe just a little more on the brains side, but original as an ordinary person.
Einstein was also a very ingenious person at the same time. He came up with many theories that have been written about, but also many that have not been put down in histo ...
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A Study Of B.F. Skinner And Behaviorism
Number of Words: 2037 / Number of Pages: 8
... the works and studies of John B. Watson and Ivan P. Pavlov, he studied with animal learning and functions of the nervous system. He received his Ph.D. in behavioral psychology at Harvard in 1931. In 1936, he then worked as part of the faculty at the University of Minnesota. A few years later in 1939 to 1945, during World War II, he designed the "baby box" or better known to psychologist as the "Skinner box". It was a controlled environmental chamber for infants and he was even disturbed enough to allow his daughter Deborah to spend the first couple of years of her life in it. He has studied in the re ...
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Telekinesis
Number of Words: 3442 / Number of Pages: 13
... and others will be open to humans once again.
Many of the 'star children' --those who remember that they are connected to other worlds and realities--will try to tap into their higher gifts. 'Patience' is the name of the game. As the planet is shifting now into 4th dimensional frequency you will soon get to use these powers and be able to control them.
For those who write to me and ask me to teach telekinesis, it is not possible to do this by email. I am sorry that I can not be of help developing it. Personally I have only random telekinetic experiences-- more with breaking objects, like penci ...
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Lions
Number of Words: 582 / Number of Pages: 3
... National Park in Tanzania and the Kruger National Park in South Africa. This drastic reduction in range came about as humans and domestic livestock spread into savanna lands. Because live in open areas, they are easily shot by hunters and herders.
fur coats are a highly prized possession by poachers, and are worth a lot. Over the last 200 years, over 90% of the world’s lion population has either been shot or killed as result of humans. are also a very popular attraction for zoos and many live in captivity.
Diet & Predatorial Behavior
Lions are one of the world’s most famous p ...
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Cardiac Pacemakers
Number of Words: 2766 / Number of Pages: 11
... "implanted computers" that medical personnel can interrogate and reprogram from outside the patient's body. These refinements have allowed for more physiologic pacing with maintenance of atrioventricular synchrony and cardiac output. There are various types of available today that can be surgically implanted to treat specific arryhythmic disorders in the heart.
Abnormal rhythms in the heart are one of the most frequent causes of heart malfunction, and in most cases necessitate some type of cardiac pacing unit. Cardiac arrhythmias are common in the elderly, in whom age-related physiologic ...
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Alcoholism 2
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... or social stress or as a learned, maladaptive coping behavior. More recently, and probably more accurately, it has come to be viewed as a complex disease entity in its own right. Alcoholism usually develops over a period of years. Early and subtle symptoms include placing excessive importance on the availability of alcohol. Ensuring this availability strongly influences the person’s choice of associates or activities. Alcohol comes to be used more as a mood-changing drug than as a foodstuff or beverage served as a part of social custom or religious ritual.
Initially, the alcoholic may demonstrate a ...
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Keeping The Snake River Dams
Number of Words: 413 / Number of Pages: 2
... Chris Fowler, it states, “The listing triggered a series of events which have led the Army Corps of Engineers to consider the removal of four dams on the Lower Snake River.” There is no disputing the fact that the number of native salmon swimming in the rivers and streams of the Pacific Northwest are dangerously low levels. Most experts believe native salmon will be gone in 25 years. The endangered salmon species can travel thousands of miles in their lifetimes, making them susceptible to a wide range of environmental conditions and human actions. While it is generally agreed that the dams have at lea ...
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Polymers
Number of Words: 397 / Number of Pages: 2
... Fiero. New are being created with more strength and flexibility by combing two chemically different and producing a block copolymer. Combinations of block co and composites and intended for use in booster rockets and in materials of Earth-orbiting installations. Most common are usually solid, but a new class of is being introduced in a liquid crystal state.
Although these still have the physical characteristics of liquid, they are structured more like solids. Many liquid crystals are transparent at one temperature and colored at another temperature. This makes them suitable for use in liqu ...
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