Abiogenesis. Scientific hypotheses about the origins of life can be divided into a number of categories.
Many approaches investigate how self-replicating molecules or their components came into existence. On the assumption that life originated spontaneously on Earth, the Miller–Urey experiment and similar experiments demonstrated that most amino acids, often called "the building blocks of life", can be racemically synthesized in conditions which were intended to be similar to those of the early Earth. Several mechanisms have been investigated, including lightning and radiation. Other approaches ("metabolism first" hypotheses) focus on understanding how catalysis in chemical systems in the early Earth might have provided the precursor molecules necessary for self-replication. Sleep No More (2011 play) Nganga. John Peel. John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.
He was the longest serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style. Mary Toft. Fan death. Electric fans sold in South Korea are equipped with a "timer knob" switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes.
This is perceived as a life-saving function, particularly essential for bedtime use. Fan death is death supposedly caused by sleeping in a closed room containing a running electric fan. There are no verified cases of the alleged phenomenon, but it remains a widely believed urban legend in South Korea. In Search of Lost Time.
The novel began to take shape in 1909.
Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.
Initial publication[edit] The novel was initially published in seven volumes: African wildcat. The African wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica), also sometimes referred to as the Near Eastern Wildcat, is a wildcat subspecies that occurs across northern Africa and extends around the periphery of the Arabian Peninsula to the Caspian Sea.
As it is the most common and widely distributed wild cat, it is listed as Least Concern by IUCN since 2002.[1] Characteristics[edit] Skull. Biological immortality. David Attenborough. Teapot Dome scandal. Oil businessman Edward L.
Doheny (second from right, at table) testifying before the Senate Committee investigating the Teapot Dome oil leases in 1924. Teapot Dome around the time of the scandal, featuring Teapot Rock (from postcard, ca 1922). Teapot Rock viewed from the south. The Teapot Dome oil fields are located north of the rock to the right. (image ca 2009).
Jenkem. Jenkem is, purportedly, a hallucinogenic inhalant created from fermented human waste.[1] In the mid-1990s, it was reported to be a popular street drug among Zambian street children.[2][3][4][5] In November 2007, anecdotal American media reports created the false impression that jenkem was a popular drug in American schools.[6][7] Several sources reported that the increase in American media coverage was based on a hoax and "on faulty Internet research.
Valonia ventricosa. Valonia ventricosa, also known as "bubble algae" and "sailors' eyeballs",[2] is a species of algae found in oceans throughout the world in tropical and subtropical regions.
It is one of the largest single-cell organisms.[2][3] Characteristics[edit] Valonia ventricosa typically grow individually, but in rare cases they can grow in groups. Environment[edit] Hugo Strange. History[edit] Pre-Crisis[edit]
Stanley Donwood. Stanley Donwood is the pen name of English artist and writer Dan Rickwood.
Donwood is known for his close association with the British band Radiohead, having created all of their album and poster art since 1994. Career[edit] Loanword. Examples of loan words in English include: café, bazaar, and kindergarten. Curiously, the word loanword is itself a calque of the German term Lehnwort,[1] while the term calque is a loanword from French. Problems with the term 'loanword'[edit] Lexical adaptations are frequently in the form of phrases, for which the term "loanword" is less apt, e.g. déjà vu, an English loan from French.
For simplicity, adopt/adoption, adapt/adaption, or lexical borrowing are thus used by many linguists.[2][3] Warren Ellis. Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes (most notably nanotechnology, cryonics, mind transfer, and human enhancement). He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England. Early life[edit] Paul Pope. Early life[edit] Born in Philadelphia, Pope grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio, with stops in Columbus, Ohio, San Francisco, and Toronto in between; Pope now lives and works in New York City.[1] Career[edit] Pope's work combines the precision and romance of the European artists he studies with the energy and page design of the manga tradition. His storytelling narratives continue to mature with well-paced, deftly-shaded combinations of science fiction, hardboiled crime stories and the Romeo and Juliet archetype.
D. B. Cooper. Traumatic insemination. A male bed bug (Cimex lectularius) traumatically inseminates a female bed bug (top). Catullus 16. Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle. Marree Man. Landsat thermal image of the Marree Man in central Australia taken 28 June 1998. Hanna-Barbera. Chongryon. Jabiru. Amon Goeth. District Six. Dancing Plague of 1518. Werner Herzog. Carl Tanzler. Francis Bacon (artist) Shigeru Miyamoto. Pablo Escobar. Wyoming. Yuri Gagarin. Edie Sedgwick.
Hotel Chelsea. Oregon Death with Dignity Act. Ray Brown (musician) Milt Hinton. Lost Cosmonauts. Radium Girls. Issei Sagawa. Commentarii de Bello Gallico. Yoshitaka Amano. Vision (Marvel Comics) Riot grrrl. Charles VI of France.