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Did you know there were this many satellites in orbit VIDEO

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The Prussian reforms of 1808 to 1812 granted all citizens freedom of trade, and put an end to serfdom and what until then had been utterly unchecked arbitrariness towards the Jews.

Götz Aly: Poison envy (22/11/2011

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Heads Up, Hoverboarders: Here Comes Quantum Levitation

Few motifs of science fiction cinema have been more appealing to us than the subtle defiance of gravity offered by futuristic hovercraft. So every once in a while we check in to see how humanity is progressing on that front, and whether the promise of hoverboards will be delivered by 2015 as evidenced in Back to the Future Part 2 .

Physics 20b: Introduction to Cosmology - Spring 2010 - Download free content from UC Irvine on iTunes

Description Overview of modern scientific cosmology, including discussion of stars, the Milky Way galaxy, black holes, dark matter, the big bang, and evidence for our current understanding of the universe.

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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space

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Nov. 5, 2009 AUSTIN, Texas — Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who've found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species. Polymorphic mimicry in Heliconius cydno alithea in western Ecuador, where the white form (middle left) mimics the white species Heliconius sapho (top left) and the yellow form (middle right) mimics the yellow species Heliconius eleuchia (bottom right). Image: Marcus Kronforst and Krushnamegh Kunte The cause of this particular break-up? A shift in wing color and mate preference.

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Scientists Find a Population of Butterflies That Appears to Be Splitting Into Two Species | News

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The 13 Most Important Numbers in the Universe - James D. Stein's Cosmic Numbers

In the 17th century, scientists understood three phases of matter—solids, liquids and gases (the discovery of plasma, the fourth phase of matter, lay centuries in the future).

Even if brain size accounts for just 10 to 20 percent of an IQ test score, it is possible to conjecture what kind of average scores would be made by a group of people with 30 percent larger brains.

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What Happened to the Hominids Who May Have Been Smarter Than Us? | Human Origins

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Cross section Cross section of a Pythagorean cup. A Pythagorean cup (also known as a Pythagoras cup , a Greedy Cup or a Tantalus cup ) is a form of drinking cup which forces its user to imbibe only in moderation. Credited to Pythagoras of Samos , it allows the user to fill the cup with wine up to a certain level. If the user fills the cup only to that level, the imbiber may enjoy a drink in peace. If the imbiber exhibits gluttony , however, the cup spills its entire contents out the bottom (onto the lap of the immodest drinker).

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Thursday 30th November, 2006 If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven't gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge.

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

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Priming Your Creativity

Life's Biggest Challenges | Anxiety and OCD Exposed

In my over thirty years in clinical practice, I have run into many challenging problems and issues. These challenges included severe treatment-resistant depression, debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and extreme cases of borderline personality disorder among many others. In the vast majority of cases, most clients eventually manage to get much better.

A Quick Course in Creativity

by Paul McNeese This quick course in creativity is designed to give you a platform to stand on as we look at the various ways you can handle home, social and workplace situations, job-search details and career-path decisions. Let's examine what creativity might look like.