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Scientists Take Quantum Steps Toward Teleportation. Facebook. Project Management Articles - PM Hut. The Nine Nations of North America. The Nine Nations of North America is a book written in 1981 by Joel Garreau.

The Nine Nations of North America

In it, Garreau suggests that North America can be divided into nine nations, which have distinctive economic and cultural features. He also argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his "nations" provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society. Paul Meartz of Mayville State University called it "a classic text on the current regionalization of North America".[1] The Nations reflected here are included in a Michael F. Flynn short story, in which all the Nine Nations have gained independence. The Nine Nations[edit] Approximate map of the Nine Nations of North America with each of their capitals Garreau also discussed several areas that he termed "aberrations": See also[edit] Notes[edit] References[edit] Calorie and Nutrition Chart for Foods - This food nutrient Intake calculator lists nutrition values for calories, fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, elements, antioxidants, phytonutrients and other nutritional information from a huge database compiled by the US Department of Agriculture.

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Calories Vitamins If you count calories or are interested in the fat content of common foods you eat, this food chart can be useful. Proper daily intake of vital nutients is really more essential. A proper diet aims for food nutrient density (nutrients per gram or nutients per calorie). Avoid concentrated sugars. Nutritional Values This nutrition chart and food intake table contains specific nutrient information for fruits, nuts, vegetables, legumes, clean meat and other Bible foods. Repl.it - Python. Help What is repl.it?

repl.it - Python

It is an online environment for interactively exploring programming languages. The name comes from the read-eval-print loop, the interactive toplevel used by languages like Lisp and Python. How do I start? Once you have selected a language, start by typing an expression into the console on the right side of the screen and pressing Enter.

10 Calories in, 1 Calorie Out – The Energy We Spend on Food. The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

10 Calories in, 1 Calorie Out – The Energy We Spend on Food

In December, I attended Michael Pollan‘s lecture at the University of Texas’s Bass Concert Hall. My friend, Katie, had called me that morning to ask if I would be interested in joining her for the lecture – she knew that I had read three of Pollan’s books on food and had also found out that there were $10 student tickets to be had for the lecture. Long story short at 7:40pm I found myself zipping down Guadalupe with Katie for my first Bass Concert Hall event in my tenure at UT. Magazine / fall 2013. Last December, when Adam Lanza stormed into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, with a rifle and killed twenty children and six adult staff members, the United States found itself immersed in debates about gun control.

Magazine / fall 2013

Another flash point occurred this July, when George Zimmerman, who saw himself as a guardian of his community, was exonerated in the killing of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in Florida. That time, talk turned to stand-your-ground laws and the proper use of deadly force. The gun debate was refreshed in September by the shooting deaths of twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard, apparently at the hands of an IT contractor who was mentally ill. Such episodes remind Americans that our country as a whole is marked by staggering levels of deadly violence.

Which of the 11 American nations do you live in? Red states and blue states?

Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?

Flyover country and the coasts? How simplistic. Colin Woodard, a reporter at the Portland Press Herald and author of several books, says North America can be broken neatly into 11 separate nation-states, where dominant cultures explain our voting behaviors and attitudes toward everything from social issues to the role of government. Nine Nations of North America, 30 Years Later. Agriculture, Energy & Climate Change. Taking a Bite out of Climate Change On September 8, 2008 Dr.

Agriculture, Energy & Climate Change

Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, spoke to 400 people gathered for an event hosted by the animal welfare organization, Compassion in World Farming. Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap. Abstract Agriculture today places great strains on biodiversity, soils, water and the atmosphere, and these strains will be exacerbated if current trends in population growth, meat and energy consumption, and food waste continue.

Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap

Thus, farming systems that are both highly productive and minimize environmental harms are critically needed. How organic agriculture may contribute to world food production has been subject to vigorous debate over the past decade. Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective : BERGHAHN BOOKS : Oxford, New York : Celebrating 21 Years of Independent Publishing! GM-Free Organic Agriculture to Feed the World. ISIS Report 18/04/08 International Panel of 400 Agricultural Scientists Call for Fundamental Change in Farming Practice.

GM-Free Organic Agriculture to Feed the World

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho International panel dispels aggressive corporate propaganda A fundamental change in farming practice is needed to counteract soaring food prices, hunger, social inequities and environmental disasters. Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? Dear EarthTalk: What’s the nutritional difference between the carrot I ate in 1970 and one I eat today?

Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?

I’ve heard that that there’s very little nutrition left. Is that true? —Esther G., Newark, N.J. It would be overkill to say that the carrot you eat today has very little nutrition in it—especially compared to some of the other less healthy foods you likely also eat—but it is true that fruits and vegetables grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today. The main culprit in this disturbing nutritional trend is soil depletion: Modern intensive agricultural methods have stripped increasing amounts of nutrients from the soil in which the food we eat grows. Secrets of soil nutrition: Why the minerals in soil determine the success or failure of foods, health and civilization.

In learning about nutrition, we often hear that certain foods contain a certain amount of vitamins and minerals. This is especially true in fruits, vegetables, and other produce, but very few people understand the truth about this information, which is that most of the published values about this nutritional content are not correct. This is especially true among minerals, and that's the point of this story. Most of the produce you buy in a grocery store does not have anything close to the mineral profile it is supposed to have according to nutritional textbooks. This is because minerals are not manufactured by plants, whereas vitamins and phytonutrients are. Little evidence of health benefits from organic foods, Stanford study finds. Norbert von der Groeben Crystal Smith-Spangler and her colleagues reviewed many of the studies comparing organic and conventionally grown food, and found little evidence that organic foods are more nutritious.

You’re in the supermarket eyeing a basket of sweet, juicy plums. You reach for the conventionally grown stone fruit, then decide to spring the extra $1/pound for its organic cousin. Study finds that most soil in India is lacking in vital nutrients. By Akash Vashishtha Published: 23:15 GMT, 30 August 2014 | Updated: 23:23 GMT, 30 August 2014 A majority of the soils in India are deficient in secondary nutrients and micronutrients vital for both plant and human health, a new study has revealed. The study – conducted by the Indian Institute of Soil Science (IISS), a key research body of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research – found that the soils of as many as 174 districts across 13 states were deficient in secondary nutrients like sulphur and micronutrients like zinc, boron, iron, manganese and copper.

The chemical analysis of 70,759 soil samples collected from Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal found zinc to be deficient by 39.9 per cent and sulphur by 27.8 per cent. Self-replicating machine. A simple form of machine self-replication A self-replicating machine is a construct that can autonomously reproduce itself from raw environmental materials, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature. The concept of self-replicating machines has been advanced and examined by Homer Jacobsen, Edward F. Moore, Freeman Dyson, John von Neumann and in more recent times by K. Eric Drexler in his book on nanotechnology, Engines of Creation and by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle in their review Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines[1] which provided the first comprehensive analysis of the entire replicator design space.

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