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- 5481: Ben Franklin 2
- ... printing office in Philadelphia where his most famous publications came from. He had a newspaper called the Pennsylvania Gazette and his annual Poor Richard's Almanack. His new ideas for publishing, printing cartoons, illustrated news stories, and letters to the editor, set him aside from other printers of his time. Franklin also founded the first circulating library. It was not as if Franklin was a printer and then moved on to ...
- 5482: Dangers and Destructions of Floods and Hurricanes
- ... deltas. They can be effected by tidal waves and coastal currents. Coastal floods can cover a large amount of distance along a shore. The length of time a coastal flood is dangerous is usually very short. It depends on how high the tide is which goes up and down twice a day. When the velocities of hurricane winds become severe the height of the waves become three or more feet higher ...
- 5483: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... Almanac covered a lot of different things and was published new each year. It had a calender and yearly weather forecast, so the farmers would know best when to plant crops. It also had funny stories, jokes, and proverbs. Because Mrs. Silence Dogood did so well, he included some of his proverbs under the name Richard Sanders. Even today we hear some of his favorite sayings: Early to bed, early to ...
- 5484: The Internet
- ... one. This is what you get when, on the basis of the common interest pattern, you try to teach what is important. The third stage is called "immersing individuals into the net" and consists, in short, of wearing an easy- to-handle helmet or other sophisticated brain-to-network interface in order to seamlessly and continuously participate in data exchange. In this way the "internal" thinking process will completely merge with ...
- 5485: The Physics Of Scuba Diving: Swimming with the Fish
- ... and the best places to dive. This paper is designed to help give a general understanding of the sport and the importance that physics plays in it. Self- contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, or SCUBA for short, is a hell of a lot of fun. However, there is considerably more to Diving than just putting on a wetsuit and strapping some compressed air onto ones back. As I quickly learned, diving safely ...
- 5486: The Truth May Be Hidden In Reality, But Expressed In Fiction
- ... to become independent and neither did Dickens. It was either independence or complete failure and a total loss of hope. Since both men wanted to become something of themselves, they chose independence. Dickens spent a short period of time working in a blacking factory to take care of himself. Pip worked as Joes apprentice. Both of them did these things as teenager. Choosing to be independent paid off big time ...
- 5487: The Nuclear Power Debate
- ... nuclear fission of Uranium 235 or Plutonium 239 are both elements which are used in nuclear weapons. Radiation either from waste or fall out from a reactor explosion can cause detrimental effects, both long and short term, to the environment and society. Precautions must be taken in security, disposal, and generation of nuclear power and its waste, in order for it to be a successful resource and temporary alternative. At present ...
- 5488: The Big Bang and The Steady State Model
- ... a portion of this randomness happened to form a bubble, with a temperature in excess of 10 to the power of 34 degrees Kelvin. Being that hot, naturally it expanded. For an extremely brief and short period, billionths of billionths of a second, it inflated. At the end of the period of inflation, the universe may have a diameter of a few centimetres. The temperature had cooled enough for particles of ...
- 5489: Superconductivity
- ... kelvins. That wasn't very far from absolute Zero (The theoretical temperature at which the atoms and molecules of a substance lose all of their frantic heat-dependent energy and at which all resistance stops short.) Kelvin believed that electrons travelling in a conductor would come to a complete stop as the temperature got close to absolute zero. But others were not so sure. Kelvin was wrong. The colder it gets ...
- 5490: Betty Friedan
- ... her and her mother clashed. They were both controlling. Miriam dominated Betty, and Betty resented it a great deal. In her early years, Betty tried to measure herself to her mother and would always fall short. It took her a few years to realize that the perfect image of motherhood, along with beauty, talent, and strength, was only a faηade, and something she never wanted to be. From there, she told ...
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