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- 8431: Microwaves
- ... electromagnetism -- microwaves, x-rays, untraviolet rays. It may interest you to know that whereas the human eye is sensitive to light radiation, the eye of the snake can sense infrared. Your body emits infrared radiation day and night, so snakes can see you even when you can't see them. Though weak microwaves exist naturally, scientists didn't invent devices that harnass them for useful purposes until the 1930s. In a ...
- 8432: The Great Imposters
- The Great Imposters Finding good day care can certainly pose a problem these days, unless, of course, you're an African widow bird. When it comes time for a female widow bird to lay her eggs, she simply locates the nest ...
- 8433: Benjamin H. Latrobe
- ... education. Which was composed of a broad curriculum. He was taught in all the liberal arts and also classical and modern languages. Latrobe started his career training under England's most renowned engineer of the day John Smeaton. Under Smeatons teachings Latrobe gained a strong grasp of technical and theoretical English civil engineering and meticulous draughtsmanship (Carter 1981, 1-2). Latrobe's interests in engineering soon led him to develop an ...
- 8434: Albert Camus
- ... same year he married Simon Hie who was wealthy but was plagued with a drug addiction. This marriage only lasted for about two years. After earning a degree in 1935, Camus was awarded the diplome d'etudes superieures with his thesis "Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism." In 1934 he became a member of the Communist Party, but this only lasted until 1937. Albert was also a successful journalist, writing for the Alger ...
- 8435: Human Evolution In Africa
- ... according to the area in which they live (Cameroon-Gabon Refuge, and Central Forest Refuge, respectively). Kenyapithecus, the common ancestor of proto-chimps and proto-gorillas, was a knuckle walker , which explains why both present day species tend to knuckle walk, but what explains why humans are bipedal if our closest relatives are quadrupeds? The answer lies in the fact that we evolved when the savannas of Africa were just beginning ...
- 8436: Classification
- ... so it stays the same and can be used universally, without confusion. Carolus Linnaeus (see Appendix A, Image 1) first introduced binomial classification, which is why he is known as the father of the modern day classification system. In Binomial classification the first name, which begins with a capital letter is known as the Genus it is always capitalized. The genus is a group of species more closely related to one ...
- 8437: Big Bang Theory
- ... cool, and fill the expanding universe uniformly. By now it would strike Earth as microwave radiation. In 1965 physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected microwave radiation coming equally from all directions in the sky, day and night, all year.3 And so it appears that astronomers have detected the fireball radiation that was produced by the Big Bang. This casts serious doubt on the Steady State model. The Steady State ...
- 8438: Thoughts on Acid Rain
- Thoughts on Acid Rain Acid rain is a serious problem with disastrous effects. Each day this serious problem increases, many people believe that this issue is too small to deal with right now this issue should be met head on and solved before it is too late. In the following ...
- 8439: Dangers and Destructions of Floods and Hurricanes
- ... large amount of distance along a shore. The length of time a coastal flood is dangerous is usually very short. It depends on how high the tide is which goes up and down twice a day. When the velocities of hurricane winds become severe the height of the waves become three or more feet higher than the previous high tide. Coastal floods can be caused by a number of things. Coastal ...
- 8440: Cosmetology
- ... benefits with the person who hires you, but if you own your own salon, you have no benifits, but you can decide your own vacations. As a cosmetologist you usually would work a full work day. Most people work 44 hours a week, but some work 48 hours or more. There are many ways to get schooling to be a cosmetologist. You could go to either a public or private vocational ...
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