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- 2291: Genetics Engineering
- ... Many believe that the Internet and online services will lead to the elimination of personal privacy. Genetic and bioengineering just maybe the end to human nature. Article Citations Elmer-Dewitt, Philip (1994, January). The Genetic Revolution. TIME Magazine, Vol. 143 No. 2
- 2292: Fossil Fuel Consumption, CO2 and Its Impact on Global Climate
- ... and wood. Each stage in the evolution of human society (the development of farming, domestication of animals, harnessing of wind and water power) increased the average per capita energy use, but it was the Industrial Revolution and the exploitation of fossil fuels which marked the transformation of societies into the energy-intensive economies of today. Since the eighteenth century the industrialising countries have come to rely on non-renewable energy resources ...
- 2293: Copper and Molybdenum Deposits in the United States
- ... more useful metals such as bronze (copper+tin; 2500 B.C.) and brass (copper+zinc; 0 A.D.). The growth of copper production in the United States has been a relatively recent occurrence. North American French explorers knew of sources of native copper in the region of Lake Superior and the area natives had copper jewelry and ornamentation. Earnest copper mining began in Simsbury, Connecticut about 1709 and copper was actually ...
- 2294: Water Pollution: Is it as big of a problem as we think?
- ... share of the pollution. One estimate is that for every million ton of oil that is shipped, one ton is spilled. Some of the largest spills recorded are from the tanker Amoco Cadiz off the French coast in 1978 (1.6 million barrels of crude oil). The Ixtoc I oil well in the gulf of Mexico in 1979 (3.3 million barrels). The largest spill in the US (240,000 barrels ...
- 2295: Vivisection
- ... physiology. During the Renaissance Era, Andreas Vesalius conducted experiments on monkeys, swine, and goats (1:3). By the late eighteenth century, the methods of scientific discovery were changer to experimentation of live animals by two French physiologists, Claude Bernard and Francious Magnedie. They revolutionized methods of scientific discovery by establishing live animal as common practice (1:4). Claude Bernard believed that in order for medicine to progress, there must be experimental ...
- 2296: Temagami
- ... has been eliminated. The Environmentalist The environmentalists do not have the same long-standing base that foresters do. The environmentalist movement itself is a recent thing, beginning in the 1960s and 70s with the Green Revolution. Since that time, such individuals and groups have sprung up all around the globe; in the beginning no more than a minor annoyance to industrialists, farmers and average citizens, yet eventually becoming a major factor ...
- 2297: Greenpeace
- ... their toxic waste to lakes nearby, Greenpeace sealed the pipes, from which the toxic waste was coming from and furtermore the activists refused to leave. A up-to-date example could be Mururoa, where the French government held a series of underground nuclear tests and banned all nearby sailing activities meanwhile. Greenpeace had no hesitation, sailed right to Mururoa and stayed there until they were forced to leave by a commando ...
- 2298: Rubens
- ... where he housed his extensive collection of art and antiquities. Between 1622 and 1630 Rubens's value as a diplomat was equal to his importance as a painter. In 1622 he visited Paris, where the French queen Marie de Mιdicis commissioned him, for the Luxembourg Palace, to depict her life in a series of allegorical paintings (completed 1625). Despite the keen loss Rubens felt after the death of his wife in ...
- 2299: Robert Boyle
- ... wrote on ethical and religious topics. He was also very interested in natural philosophy but was mainly kept to his first love, science and chemistry. (Salzberg p.469) Robert Boyle worked hard to bring a revolution in man's thinking in the seventeenth century. Without him neither chemistry nor science would be the same. All scientists owe him a debt of gratitude. (Sootin p. 2) Robert Boyle died on December 30 ...
- 2300: Global Warming
- ... greenhouse effect is occurring now and it's changing global climate."(1989 Koral). After the 1900's people started making factories and started using fossil fuels like coal, oil, and aluminum. It was the industrial revolution and overpopulation of humans that was the cause of the environmental problems that we have today. 2. Human Activity Causing the Problem The reason our Earth is getting hotter is that human activities are emitting ...
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