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- 1541: Black Holes
- ... candidates. The velocity depends on the mass of the planet. The scientists believe if our Sun dies, the sun may turn into a black hole. Black holes were theorized about as early as 1783, when John Michell mistakenly combined Newtonian gravitation with the corpuscular theory of light . The concept of an escape velocity, Vesc, was well known, and even though the speed of light wasn't, Michell's idea worked the ... black hole, called an event horizon because all events within RS are causally disconnected from the rest of the universe. There aren’t many physical features of a black hole. In an aphorism coined by John Wheeler , "black holes have no hair," hair meaning surface features from which details of it's formation might be obtained. There are no perturbations in its event horizon, no magnetic fields. The hole is perfectly ...
- 1542: Computer Viruses
- In 1949 the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey suggested that it was theoretically possible for a computer program to replicate. This theory was later tested in the 1950s at Bell Laboratories ... risks are inherent in life and one must take them in order to benefit from the experience. References Articles and Books Baase, Sara A Gift of Fire, Prentice Hall, 1997 Cohen, Fred "It's Alive!", John Wiley & Sons, 1994 Davy, Jo Ann, Managing Office Technology, Sep98, Vol 43, Issue 7, p14 Fites, Philip, Johnston, Peter, Krats, Martin The Computer Virus Crisis, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989. Goldsborough, Reid, Consumer’s Research Magazine ...
- 1543: Chemistry
- ... dealt with the preparation of drugs, but soon he became genuinely interested in the subject and started to study it in great detail. His studies led him to Oxford where he joined such scientists as John Wilkins and John Wallis. Together in 1660, they founded the Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science. From this point onwards, Boyle seriously undertook the reformation of science. For centuries scientists had been explaining the unknown ...
- 1544: Charles Darwin And Richard Owen
- ... to pursue a medical career and later entered the University of Edinburgh medical school in 1824. However, due to the lack of quality in teaching, Owen transferred to Barclay School, and it was here that John Barclay, an anti-materialist, greatly influenced Owen. Through Barclay's recommendation of Owen to John Abernathy, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Owen was granted membership to the Royal College in 1826. Owen was later appointed assistant in the cataloging of a collection containing thirteen thousand specimens (known as ...
- 1545: Argumentative Environment
- ... 123) is destroying these ancestors' attempt to preserve nature, not allow "the green world" (Kunitz 123) to be turned into a "death-foxed page" (Kunitz 123) of barrenness. Some pro-environmentalists, like Sioux medicine man John (Fire) Lame Deer, claim that the damage industrialized society has done to nature is both immense and nearly criminal , the result of greed. Lame Deer complains that the white men "have not only despoiled the ... Boedecker. New York: Canfield Press, 1971. 122-123. This poem criticized the modern technological society for its insensitivity to the needs of others and to the survival of life as we know it. Lame Deer, John (Fire) and Richard Erdoes. "Talking to the Owls and Butterflies." Aims of Argument, 2nd Ed. Eds. Timothy Crusius and Carolyn Channell. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1998. 209-214. This essay is a critique of European ...
- 1546: No Title
- ... make our children understand that they are intelligent, competent people, capable of doing whatever…”(544). Work Cited Raspberry, William. “The Handicap of Definition.” Washington Post 1982. RPT. In The Macmillian Reader 5th ed. Judith Nadell, John Langan, and Linda McMeniman. Boston: Allen and Bacon, 1999. 542-544. Bibliography A Summary of William Raspberry’s “The Handicap of Definition” Paris Owens Essay2: Second Summary En112c.002 Dr. Butler March 2, 2000 A ... make our children understand that they are intelligent, competent people, capable of doing whatever…”(544). Work Cited Raspberry, William. “The Handicap of Definition.” Washington Post 1982. RPT. In The Macmillian Reader 5th ed. Judith Nadell, John Langan, and Linda McMeniman. Boston: Allen and Bacon, 1999. 542-544. Word Count: 377
- 1547: Louis Leakey
- ... By this time Leakey’s work at caught the attention of the archaeological community and he began to receive much acclaim. In November 1929 he returned to England with a two-year fellowship at St. John’s College, and a wife, Frida, as well, whom he had married in 1928. However, excavating the site at Olduvai Gorge was on his mind, and he made plans to return to Africa. With the publish of his first book, The Stone Age Cultures of Kenya Colony, his extensive fieldwork, and his position at St. John’s College, Leakey obtained a grant to go to the Olduvai Gorge site in 1931. Along with Reck at the site, Leakey excavated five different beds, finding an amazing number of hand tools. In addition ...
- 1548: Drug Testing
- ... most efficient computerized operations and that produce the cheapest, most reliable products. The Japanese have this edge and the American machine tool manufacturers are reluctant to change their ideologies of buying only American made products. John Garner and Tom Avery created precision Machine Tool. John Garner is the president of Precision Machine Tool, and is a financial conservative. He prefers to invest in the company using only its profits. Tom Avery is an expert tool design engineer. He is in ...
- 1549: When Does Life Begin
- ... Bioethics Advisory Commission. 1999. (27 April 2000). Jasper, William F. “The Survivors.” The New American. 17 Jan 2000 (2 May 2000). Johansen, Jay. "When Does Human Life Begin?" Rev 2/1997. (25 April 2000). Leo, John. “Litmus Test, Slippery Slopes.” US News & World Report. 26 Jan 1998 (2 May 2000). McDonagh, Eileen L., Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. Schwarz, Stephen. “Is Being in ... Bioethics Advisory Commission. 1999. (27 April 2000). Jasper, William F. “The Survivors.” The New American. 17 Jan 2000 (2 May 2000). Johansen, Jay. "When Does Human Life Begin?" Rev 2/1997. (25 April 2000). Leo, John. “Litmus Test, Slippery Slopes.” US News & World Report. 26 Jan 1998 (2 May 2000). McDonagh, Eileen L., Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. Schwarz, Stephen. “Is Being in ...
- 1550: The Censorship Of Art
- ... some people not to offend? It seems the people easily offended are the ones deciding what is acceptable for the population. “Well about a decade ago when the nation debated about funding controversial art,” writes John Cloud of TIME magazine, “in the capital of crude, few people consider rude art a problem.” Articles ranging in titles from “New York’s Art Attack” to “Creative Chaos” are appearing in TIME and other ... funding of art http://cnn.com March 3, 1998 Christian Coalitions stand on the arts web site http://www.cc.org/issues/arts.html May 5, 2000 Time Magazine: New York’s Art Attack By John Cloud http://www.time.com October 4, 1999 Word Count: 2746
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