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Nerdcore. Sharks. The Doctor Who Site Blog. Project Thirty-Three. 50 Strategies to gain the upper hand over your opponent | Chess Blog. Here we are discussing some basic strategies that can give you advantage, however microscopic it may be. Of course there is always exception to the rules, but exceptions occur much less frequently than the normal situations, don’t they? These strategies are described from White’s point of view, so what is good for White is bad for Black and vice versa.

Pawn structures Pawns are strong when they are in a chain; try to avoid splitting them into isolated groups.Isolated or hanging pawns tend to be a liability, try to avoid at least till the end game.Pawn chain shapes that look like /\ (an inverted V) from your side tend to be stronger than those that look like a \/.Doubled pawns are weak, try to avoid getting them.If you can maintain center pawns, you get more options to organize attacks.Your own pawn chains may block free movement of your pieces, mainly the bishops if stuck behind the chain. Knights Knights play well in complex and locked positions. Bishops Rooks Queen King Positional. Information aesthetics - Data Visualization & Information Design. GENETICIST. Obstructed artery. The stenosed section of artery is represented by the break in the dark red vessel at top center.

Foods imaged with a scanning electron microscope. Guess what foods they are. Click on the photos for the answers. (via) (Source: geneticist) A monument at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics to all lab rats used for DNA research (via) Aqua regia, literally meaning “King’s water”, is a highly corrosive mixture of acids; it is the only mixture of acids that can dissolve gold. Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the nobel prizes of his peers in aqua regia during the German invasion of Denmark in WWII to prevent Nazis from looting the prizes. Genus Mycena Time lapse of melting ice over 50 minutes. Stem cells (via) High resolution hypersaturated photo of the moon by Noel Carboni. A mix of mouse stem cells that have been encouraged to develop into specialized cells. X-ray of a healthy lower spine. Happy early Valentines Day to all my followers!

Blood. Top 10 Most Influential Scientists - Top 10 Lists | Listverse. This is part one of what will be a two part series on the most influential scientists in history. While these are not technically the “greatest” scientists, there is bound to be some overlap as the contributions that many of these men and women made to science are among the most important. Be sure to tell us who you think should be on the future list – we already have our second ten, but it might lead to a third or fourth. Marie Curie “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” Polish physicist and chemist, Marie Curie was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. Alan Turing “Science is a differential equation. English mathematician and logician, Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Charles Darwin “I love fools’ experiments. Galileo Galilei. Welcome to Discovery Education. NSDL.org - The National Science Digital Library. Bill Nye the Science Guy.