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Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence--In Space
Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever--so large and so old, it’s almost impossible to describe.Six Tips to Help You Remember Your Lines | Terry Fox Theatre
Forgetting your lines during an audition or a theatre performance is a sure step toward extended bouts of self-recrimination. It's a horrible feeling, and one that brings with it enough stress that it can compound on itself, causing even the words you were sure you would remember to melt from your mind as you slowly spiral into nose dive that ends with your performance crashing and burning -- sometimes quite impressively. Thankfully, there are techniques that you can apply to help you ingrain those elusive words into your very being.
If an enormously heavy object has to be moved from one spot to another, it may not be practical to move it on wheels. Instead the object is placed on a flat platform that in turn rests on cylindrical rollers (Figure 1) . As the platform is pushed forward, the rollers left behind are picked up and put down in front. An object moved this way over a flat horizontal surface does not bob up and down as it rolls along. The reason is that cylindrical rollers have a circular cross section, and a circle is closed curve "with constant width." What does that mean?
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Epicycloid
The path traced out by a point on the edge of a circle of radius rolling on the outside of a circle of radius
Mathematics can sometimes make smart people dumb. Let me explain what I mean by this. I don't mean that it is dumb not to be good at mathematics.
How Mathematics Can Make Smart People Dumb - Ben O'Neill
The Brain The human brain is the most complex and least understood part of the human anatomy. There may be a lot we don’t know, but here are a few interesting facts that we’ve got covered. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
100 Very Cool Facts About The Human Body
The brain "seems to be specialized in alerting us to things that are emotionally important to us — either positive or because they're scary," a scientist says.
Human Brain Responds To Animals, Cute Or Creepy
The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and tells whether you are qualified to be a “manager.” The questions are not that difficult.
Short but tricky management ability test
7 Innocent Gestures That Can Get You Killed Overseas
If you've ever had your penis cut off and/or been executed while on holiday, you'll probably know that it's easy to offend people from other cultures. Unless you learn the ways of the place you're visiting, even the most well-meaning tourist can regularly find his oesophagus stuffed with burning goat. But surely just plain common sense and good manners will save you, right? Wrong. Extend Your Hand, Palm Outward in GreeceWhat does 0^0 (zero raised to the zeroth power) equal? Why do mathematicians and high school teachers disagree
Clever student: I know! Now we just plug in x=0, and we see that zero to the zero is one!
UDF SkyWalker V1.0
Click-drag green circle to pan around the whole image. The Ultra Deep Field obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope is the deepest view into the sky by humankind to date. This image combines 800 frames with a total exposure time of 1 million seconds. The 10.000 galaxies that are visible have distances out to times where the universe was just 800 million years old, one seventeenth of its current age. For more info check the UDF press release at spacetelescope.org .This is hugely clever, highly entertaining and extremely funny – and you don’t get that often, on or off the internet. It is directed, animated, and edited by CHRIS LINCÉ and the music is supplied by Pig with the Face of a Boy. In the space of just over six minutes you will get a précis of the entire history of the Soviet Union –all done to a marvelously melodic Tetris soundtrack. What an unbeatable combination!
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
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Everyone loves lists. Well. I love lists, and while there’s been a lot of talk over my three years actively blogging about theatre about the failings of the Theatre Education Industrial Complex, we’ve not really attempted to create a curriculum we approve of. Largely because, well, creating a new theatre education paradigm is hard. And I’m not going to do that here, because I’m not sure how to even begin. Instead?
10 Things I Wish I’d Been told in College (and 1 I was) | Cambiare Productions
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Marissa, hi! Hi! I'm Oliver Starr, Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. I'm reaching out to educators to learn more about how people like you are using Pearltrees as an educational tool. Would you have some time in the next few days to talk with me via Skype? I'm stitch_surfs on Skype, @owstarr on twitter. Hope we can talk soon! by ostarr Jan 20