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Where Does Our Electricity Come From? | Union of Concerned Scientists
But many utilities—especially those in the Southeast—are neglecting these resources.
Interactive Features | More Science
12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive: Scientific American
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I will be participating in The Human Race event raising money for the Sonoma Humane Society.
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IS COMMONLY BELIEVED, BUT NOT TRUE – You read by recognizing the shapes of words and groups of words. Words that are in all capital letters all have the same shape: a rectangle of a certain size. This makes words displayed in all uppercase harder to read than upper and lower case (known as “mixed case”).
47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself
The Science Creative Quarterly » A DIALOGUE WITH SARAH, AGED 3: IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT IF YOUR DAD IS A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR, ASKING “WHY” CAN BE DANGEROUS
DAD: That is an EXCELLENT question. Soap is a surfactant because it forms water-soluble micelles that trap the otherwise insoluble dirt and oil particles. DAD: Because while carbon and hydrogen have almost the same electronegativity, oxygen is far more electronegative, thereby polarizing the C-O bonds.
Scientists unveil tools for rewriting the code of life - MIT News Office
MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits to the cell’s genome.
To understand the complexities of the international food market--and how traders in Chicago can cause Africans to starve--you could get a ph.D. in economics, or read a 400-page report from the World Bank. Or you watch this superb nine minute video, directed by Denis van Waerebeke . Though ostensibly created for a science show in Paris for 12 year olds, it's actually probably waaaay over a kid's head.
Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor | Fast Company
Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird : Discovery News
Today, looking out across a seemingly boundless cosmos filled with an unimaginable variety of exotic objects, it's easy to forget that the Universe we currently admire is the product of a violent event that occurred 13.75 billion years ago .
From within his 12-year-old, mildly autistic mind, there gradually flowed long strings of pluses, minuses, funky letters and upside-down triangles -- a tapestry of complicated symbols that few can understand. He grabbed his pencil and filled every sheet of paper before grabbing a marker and filling up a dry erase board that hangs in his bedroom.
Genius at work: 12-year-old is studying at IUPUI | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com
Healing foods reference database
Created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger , as a free public service to promote health freedom and empower consumers with information about the healing power of foods.At roughly minus 460°F, absolute zero is abysmally cold, yet at least we can imagine it. Being only a few hundred degrees below zero, it's in the realm of something we can put our minds around.
NOVA | Absolute Zero | A Sense of Scale | PBS
Political Theories and Theorists
1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations | 08 December 2009