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- 1221: Telekinesis
- ... honor attached to being able to do 50 things at once. We somehow seem to derive worth from this. Well, it's unhealthy. It's what contributes to stress, anxiety, elevated blood pressure and even depression and a host of other "dis-eases". Don't get caught up in all that. It's not about how much you can do but how well you do. It's about quality not quantity ...
- 1222: Tsunamis
- ... above the shoreline with a 525 meter splash-up, it is surprising that they were generated solely by a massive rockslide which had resulted from an earthquake. Volcanic activity might insinuate the sudden uplifting or depression of a volcano which may form a tsunami because of its impulsive force that uplifts the water column in the same way as those produced by submarine faulting activity. However, the waves may also be ...
- 1223: Plants in TKM
- ... the south make life better. The bright showy flowers of Canna, Garden Geraniums, Camellia, Wisteria, Magnolia, Azaleas, and the big shady Live Oak, help make life a lot better in the South during the Great Depression by giving Southerners a sense of uplifting. Big bright flowers, growing higher and brighter every day, are very relaxing on a hot summer day. Canna, in the cannabis family, is a big plant with showy ...
- 1224: Flooding
- ... that would be underwater during a storm if sea level rises as projected. But my grandfather built this house with all of the money he didnt lose during the bank failures of the Great Depression and even if the sea rises a few feet, I am not selling my house. Is anybody in this room going to sell their house because of the rising sea? he asked. After hearing a ...
- 1225: Cloning
- ... them to grow in the womb. Using genetic tests, doctors can now screen embryonic cells for hereditary diseases. In the not to distant future, prenatal tests may also help predict such common problems as obesity, depression and heart disease. But don't expect scientists to start building new traits into babies anytime soon. The technological obstacles are formidable, and so are the cultural ones. Copies of humans are identical, but are ...
- 1226: Willy Lowmans Drug for Sanity
- ... present. The way he overuses his vivid imagination is sad because the only thing it is good for is enabling Willy to go through one more day of his piteous life, full of bitterness, confusion, depression, false hopefulness, and a feeling of love which he is trying very hard to express to his sons who seem reluctant to accept it.
- 1227: Cloning 7
- ... them to grow in the womb. Using genetic tests, doctors can now screen embryonic cells for hereditary diseases. In the not to distant future, prenatal tests may also help predict such common problems as obesity, depression and heart disease. But don't expect scientists to start building new traits into babies anytime soon. The technological obstacles are formidable, and so are the cultural ones. Copies of humans are identical, but are ...
- 1228: Neighborhood Shock
- ... I think the significance of this scene is the way it shows people still feeling isolated and alone in an unfamiliar culture even though there are others right next to them suffering from the same depression. It is the failure to communicate with those around them that keeps people feeling isolated and alone. At one point in the movie a black teenager named Buggin' Out walks into Sal's pizza parlor ...
- 1229: Salt Pollution
- ... of the road and even the road itself in search for salt. Small animals are effected more by the toxicity of high levels of salt. Increased levels of salt in small wildlife caused kidney hemorrhaging, depression, excitement, tremors, incoordination, coma and death. Rabbits seem to be the most susceptible because their inability to stop consuming salt. Household pets are also effected. once outside, salt collects on their feet. Pets consume a ...
- 1230: Carnivorous Plants
- ... water. Small insects would sometimes fall into these water reservoirs and drown, eventually being decomposed by bacteria in the water. The nutrients from the insects would be absorbed by the leaf. The deeper the leaf depression the more insects that could be drowned. This would have created a distinct survival advantage allowing some plants to better compete in nutrient poor soil. As time passed, these plants would evolve more effective trapping ...
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