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- 10051: Plutonium
- ... which are identical to the nucleus of a helium atom, consist of two protons and two neutrons tightly bound together. Although the particles can only travel about five centimeters in the air, they can cause great damage when the enter the body, causing cancer and other serious health problems. Beyond the danger of their radiation, Plutonium will spontaneously explode when a certain amount, called critical mass, is kept together. Soon after ...
- 10052: The Ozone Layer
- ... No matter what term you use global warming or greenhouse effect, they both play a major role in the earths climate. Climate researchers are attempting to predict, based on ocean and air circulation, how great an increase there will be. If global warming continues then the polar ice caps will melt and most of the earth will be flooded and a lot of lives will be lost. The Ozone is ...
- 10053: A Computerized World
- ... main computer, and you are in the ring. Today, many kids have got video games. You could say these games are the presents answer to ludo and monopoly. In a way, it is a great advantage that the kids are being presented to computors at an early age, because they will definitely have to use them later, when they start to work. In the future there will be few occupations ...
- 10054: School Violence
- By: Anonymous Violence in schools is a great concern in our society. The concern is heightened by the abundance of media coverage on a number of recent school shootings. With all of the news clips, sound bites, and Internet coverage swirling around in ...
- 10055: Nuclear Fusion
- ... confinement. During my many patrols during the Viet..-NAM war, I further developed my theorys and opinions regarding inertial confinement fusion. When I arrived home with a severely hyper-extended earlobe, I was in great pain and suffering, but I still managed to explain my findings to the scientific community. essentially, my theory of inertial confinement fusion works similar to how the atomic bomb works. A small pellet of frozen ...
- 10056: Sexual Abstinence
- ... abstain until they're married. The program is called True Love Waits, and more and more high school and college kids are vowing to remain chaste.13-year-old Kenneth Legary thinks it's a great idea, "I don't want to catch anything, and at the same time, I can be loyal to God and my parents," he says(Maynard B3). The promise reads: "Believing that true love waits, I ...
- 10057: Should Cloning Be Permitted?
- ... produced by cloning. Creating a human life with just a gene is like taking a big risk, because there are selfish genes, pleasure genes, seeking genes, violence genes, celebrity genes, gay genes, couch potatoes genes, depression genes, genes for genius, genes for saving, and even genes for sinning. (9." Should Congress Prohibit All Human Cloning experimentation's", Pg. 50). Getting one of this particular genes is not what you would want ...
- 10058: Nobelium
- ... after Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish inventor and philanthropist. Nobelium can be found when produced artificially in a laboratory. Discovery of the element was first claimed in 1957 by scientific groups in the United States, Great Britain, and Sweden, but the first confirmed discovery of a nobelium isotope was by a team of scientists at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California and that took place in 1958. The isotope was ...
- 10059: Robotics
- ... claims made for the future development of artificial intelligence, computers are likely to remain calculating machines without the ability to think or create for a long time. Research into developing mobile, autonomous robots is of great value. It advances robotics, aids the comparative study of mechanical and biological systems, and can be used for such purposes as devising robot aids for the handicapped. As for the thinking androids of the possible ...
- 10060: Regulating The Internet: Who's In Charge
- ... usually only by chance. Also those who embezzle and are caught usually "escape prosecution because the institutions they rob prefer to avoid the unfavorable publicity of a public trial." (Logsdon,164-5) The temptation is great for many who are computer geniuses."The average lifted in an embezzlement involving computers is $430,000-and it is not uncommon for the total to go considerably higher."(Logsdon, 163) This leads to the ...
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