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- 921: Do UFOs Exist?
- ... other crops such as barky, oats, canola, grass, flowers, trees, and even snow. Crop circles have appeared on every continent and have been reported in over 70 countries around the world. Only countries in mainland China and South Africa haven't reported any crop circles at all. A lot of then have appeared in the former Czech Republic . Most crop circles have been formed in the center of fields with none ...
- 922: What is A Plant?
- ... many reasons, not just for food. We make furniture and shelters out of wood, and we make clothes out of cotton. Plants provide us with paper. Paper can be dated back to 105 AD in China. Drugs made from plants are essential to some people's health and if those plants were not in existence, it could mean a huge difference in our world. Fossil fuels would not be here if ...
- 923: "How Is Helium Produced?"
- ... feet) of which 9.2 billion cubic meters are in the former Soviet Union, mostly in Russia. Other helium resources are located in Algeria, 2.1 billion cubic meters; Canada, 2.1 billion cubic meters; China, 1.1 billion cubic meters; Poland, 0.8 billion cubic meters; and the Netherlands, 0.7 billion cubic meters. The helium resources of the United States are estimated to be about 13 billion cubic meters ...
- 924: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon After Russia, Canada, China and the United States, Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. It is the biggest country in South America and takes up almost half of the continent's area. Its northern part is ...
- 925: Uranium: Nuclear Friend or Nuclear Foe
- ... Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan, thus ending World War II. Uranium was used in weapons for many years after World War II. After World War II the U.S., Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China conducted many more nuclear weapons test and experiments. These countries also used uranium for many other military purposes. Such examples of this are the launch of the first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus, in 1956 ...
- 926: The Dangers of Nuclear "Progress"
- ... spreading across the world quickly. Despite efforts of the United States to prevent the spread of nuclear proliferation ("Atoms for Peace" program), countries continued to produce nuclear arms secretly. By the early 1960s, France and China joined as nations with nuclear powers. The original nuclear powers feared that more countries would follow, but nonnuclear countries felt they were at a disadvantage lacking nuclear weapons. Because of this, other countries felt the ...
- 927: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... organization of any human effort can have a tremendous effect on its efficiency. Consider that different past societies with different ways of organizing science have had very different rates of scientific progress; compare Europe with China over the last five centuries. Our rate of progress may be less than 2% of what it could be [Be]. Are we wasting precious resources? Imagine what would happen if we used academic peer review ...
- 928: Facts about Orthoptera
- ... had the same leaping ability as the grasshopper they could jump at least 20 feet. Helpful things they do. In Russia roaches have been regarded as an antidote for dropsy. Also in Southeast Asia, and China the bits of meat plucked from around the legs of boiled roaches is considered a delicacy. I 1968, 71% of more than 700 U.S. allergy patients injected with an experimental roach extract reported on ...
- 929: Buddhism
- ... is one of the major religions of the world. Like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, it has influenced many live and many cultures. Buddhism has also been a driving social force in many countries, including India, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Tibet. In all these areas, Buddhism has incorporated different aspects of other religions, for example Hinduism and Shinto. To western society, Buddhism is a very mystical and misunderstood religion. Few people ...
- 930: Hinduism and Buddhism
- ... India, as did Hinduism. Mahayana, a form of the Buddhist religion, and Hinduism began to influence Cambodia by the end of the 2nd century AD. Buddhism was carried to central Asia and spread especially in China then carried into Japan and Korea and flourishes in Tibet. New sects of Buddhism developed over the years including, Chan, or Zen, and the Pure Land, or Amidism. By the 6th century BC, Buddhism ...
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