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- 1091: Taking The Pill Depression And
- ... and pills would be the best solution to depression. Some people look for solace in anti-depressants as a mood booster. They are not clinically depressed but have are still given a prescription anyway. One television show believes that this may create unfairness in the business world by their increased alertness and drive. "Would everyone feel compelled to take it just to keep up with the competition?" (Breggin, 5) There is ...
- 1092: ESP
- ... encounter.² But neither side seems to realize that they have been getting closer and closer together in the last one hundred years. When ESP was first being examined back in the 1880s, there was no television or radio. Digital telephones? Most people had only the Morse telegraph to send messages to each other. Houses were lit by gas or oil lamps. there were no airplanes and few automobiles. People had never ...
- 1093: Creation VS. Evolution
- ... these are strange times, when a controlled chain reaction of uranium 235 atoms can be used to convert water to steam in order to drive turbines to generate electricity used to provide power to a television set to that a Jimmy Swaggart can reach a fallow mind with the news that Earth is really only a few thousand years old ." Mirsky's clever quote can be spiritless to religious believers, but ...
- 1094: Gold And Its Uses
- ... refined to bars of 999.9 parts per thousand pure gold. The prime use is in electronics. Our age of high technology finds it indispensable in everything from pocket calculators to computers, washing machines to television and missiles to spacecraft. The rocket engines of American space shuttles are lined with 35% gold brazing alloys to reflect the 3300° heat, and the lunar modules of the Apollo program that put men on ...
- 1095: Awakenings And Tourette Syndro
- ... have been destroyed by the illness. Dr. Sayer (Dr. Oliver Sacks in real life) discovers that certain vegetative patients reacted to outside stimuli, such as a pattern on a floor, a tossed ball, or a television with a maladjusted vertical hold. Finally, Dr. Sayer comes across Leonard as a middle-aged man, some thirty years after he was originally afflicted with the disease. After doing some tests, the doctor comes to ...
- 1096: Lasers And Their Applications
- ... different paths and are no longer in phase with each other. The film records the interference pattern which is the hologram. Also because of its high frequency laser light can carry one thousand times the television channels than that of the channels today being carried by microwaves. Low-loss optical fibers have been developed to transmit laser light for communication in telephone and computer systems. Lasers, though valuable in their many ...
- 1097: Lasers 2
- ... tell when the volcano will erupt. Communication Laser light can travel a large distance in outer space with little reduction in signal strength. Because of its high frequency, laser light can carry 1000 times the television channels than is carried today by microwaves. Lasers are ideal for space communications. Optical fibers have been developed to transmit laser light for earthbound communication in telephone and computer systems. Lasers are also used to ...
- 1098: Lasers
- ... so that it can carry more information and at a greater speed. It is ideal for this because it can get all of its information into a tiny fiber, which allows a large amount of television, telephone, and other data to be transmitted cheaply. Scanning is another great use for a laser. Most people have seen a scanner being used to scan their products the grocery store. This involves the movement ...
- 1099: Interview With An Alien
- ... the problem that eerything I can see, he can also. Not only Hweig, but his immediate crew. Since their observation is through technological implants, the whole scene can be played upon a screen, like our television. Hweig is an enormous tease. I suppose it does get boring always listening in to me 24 hours a day, though sometimes he takes a vacation for a week or more and someone else monitors ...
- 1100: Internet Security
- ... for the "glitch" to affect a user is if PowerPoint has been installed on the individual computer system. That important item of information failed to make it into the more mainstream reports, such as the television news, leaving the uninformed worried about a "glitch" that had no affect on them. This caused thousands of people to hurry onto the Internet to find a patch to the "glitch," thereby slowing down the ...
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