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- 931: What is Physics?
- ... sec2.html 5. Amusement Park Physics. The Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection. http://www.learner.org 6. Weightlessness and The Human Body. Scientific American. http://www.sciam.com/1998/0998issue/0998white.html 7. Paul Zitzewitz, Robert Neff & Mark Davids (1995). Merrill Physics: Principles and Problems. Ohio: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
- 932: Evolution
- ... observe unique species to each respective island, particularly tortoises which possessed sufficiently differentiated shells to tell them apart. ! From these observations he concluded that the tortoises cou ld only have evolved on the islands. Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist and clergyman whose work An Essay on the Principal of Population led Darwin to a more complete understanding of density dependent factors and the "struggle in nature". Malthus noted that ...
- 933: Yeast
- ... large role in our everyday lives. With out this fungi, we wouldnt be able to enjoy such things as a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a bubbly glass of champagne, or a nice frost keg at the SAE house on Friday nights. College students everywhere should pay their respects to the man who in a sense is the creator of alcohol, Louis Pasteur, and his outrageous findings on one ...
- 934: Earthquakes
- ... observed in this and other ways for centuries, but more scientific theories as to the causes of quakes were not proposed until modern times. One such concept was advanced in 1859 by the Irish engineer Robert Mallet. Perhaps drawing on his knowledge of the strength and behavior of construction materials subjected to strain, Mallet proposed that earthquakes occurred either by sudden flexure and constraint of the elastic materials forming a portion ...
- 935: Satellites
- ... Isaac Newton mentioned the possibility of making an satellite on Earth in 1687. Only in the early 20th century did the theory work. The Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the experimental work of the American Robert Goddard, confirmed that a satellite might be launched by means of a rocket. During the years 1943 through 1946 several studies concluded that available rockets would be unable to place a satellite into orbit. Work ...
- 936: Observed Distribution of South American Relief Features
- ... crashing and spreading of these plates. The amazing landscape features are a result of centuries of change within earth. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bird, John M. and Isacks, Bryan, ed., Plate Tectonics. Washington American Geophysical Union, 1972. Christopherson, Robert W. Geosystems. 4th. ed. New York Prentice Hall, 1999. Sullivan, Walter Continents in Motion. 3rd. ed. New York McGraw Hill Book Company, 1997.
- 937: Human Cloning
- ... fixated with his own mortality". The doctor revealed that Saddam had established a cloning laboratory in Baghdad with the expressed goal of "cloning himself". In response to this report, an interview with a fertility expert Robert Winston, spelled out the reasons why the plan wouldn't work. "Given the failure rate in previous published cloning experiments, Iraqi scientists would have to transfer genes to the uteruses of 40,000 primed women ...
- 938: Cloning, Right or Wrong
- ... to grow. The cells developed into dwarf sea urchins. Driesch could not explain his experiments and gave up embryology for philosophy. The first implantation of a nucleus into an egg cell occurred in 1952 by Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King in Philadelphia. They had transferred the nuclei of Leopard Frogs eggs. The egg cells did not develop. However Dr. John Gurdon accomplished successful nuclear transfer of embryo cells later in ...
- 939: Science and Ethics
- ... him. This is what I believe will happen to scientists who go through with this experiment. "Like it or not, in a few short years we'll have the power to control our own evolution." (Robert Taylor, 2). It is not mans job to create life. That is why there is a God. Only He is supposed to create a life. In a sense, cloning ones self is a ...
- 940: Black Holes
- ... we assume there must be a black hole that it is in orbit with. The first scientists to really take an in depth look at black holes and the collapsing of stars, were a professor, Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder, in the early nineteen hundreds. They concluded on the basis of Einstein's theory of relativity that if the speed of light was the utmost speed over any massive ...
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