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Essential Academic Writing Examples and Phrases! Content: Words and Phrases Used in Academic Writing In academic writing, there are certain words and phrases that are used consistently.

Essential Academic Writing Examples and Phrases!

If a student is able to become familiar with these words and phrases, their academic writing will certainly improve faster and their comprehension of academic texts will increase. The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” – Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain In this post, I will share the words and phrases you can equip yourself with when writing or reading academic papers. Academic Writing about Research Research is an essential part of any good academic paper. By providing evidence of research, readers can trust what you write is concrete, accurate to the best of your knowledge, and reliable.

Sample Research Paper Paragraph Video games encourage children to associate happiness and pleasure with the capability to cause pain to others. 15 English Phrases for the Doctor’s Office. Phrases a doctor might say: “We’ll need to run some tests.”

15 English Phrases for the Doctor’s Office

Tests are used to help diagnose (identify) the health problem. Some common tests are a blood test and a urine test. There are also scans such as an ultrasound (used for seeing internal organs; often used for pregnant women to see the baby) and X-rays (used for seeing the bones). Blood samples ready for testing “The transplant was a success. A transplant is when one person (the donor) gives an organ to another person (the recipient). If there are complications during surgery, it means that things went wrong or unexpected things happened to make it more difficult. “I’d like to keep you here overnight for observation.” The doctor will say this if it’s necessary for you to stay in the hospital for a little while, so that the doctors and nurses can observe you and make sure you are OK.

Explicit cookie consent. Lectures: Kaku. The Physics of Everything. MICHIO KAKU, Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at CUNY Lesson Overview What if we could find one single equation that explains every force in the universe? Professor Michio Kaku explores how physics could potentially shrink the science of the big bang into an equation as small as e=mc2. Physics powers every electronic device in your living room, underwrites every technological breakthrough, and thanks to advances in string theory, could allow us to escape the heat death of the universe, explore the multiverse, and unlock the secrets of existence. In a profoundly informative and deeply optimistic discussion, Professor Kaku delivers a glimpse of where science will take us in the next hundred years, as warp drives, teleportation, inter-dimensional wormholes, and even time travel converge with our scientific understanding of physical reality.

Readings Course Pack: Michio Kaku, Hyperspace. Ford Model T - 100 Years Later. Robots are getting more like us and famous scientists are concerned. If 1984’s cautionary tale, The Terminator, is anything to go by, humanity should be wary of any more advances in robotics or artificial intelligence.

Robots are getting more like us and famous scientists are concerned

Elon Musk recently pledged $10 million to keep artificial intelligence from running amok, and physicist Stephen Hawking told the BBC in December: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Musk and Hawking are backed by other scientists, professors, and security analysts who are worried about the rise of artificial intelligence that doesn’t do what humans ask. Even so, scientists continue to research more human-like robots, with more human-like intelligence and thought processes. Here are a few examples from just this month: Free-roaming robots Google-owned Boston Dynamics showed off a new version of its ATLAS robot that it’s building with DARPA.

Dancing robots Tokyo University showed off something far more adorable—an army of 100 synchronized dancing robots. Secretary robots Learning robots. Hands-on with Pepper the 'friendly robot' in Japan. How Languages and Genes Evolve Together. As human populations disperse, the separation leads to changes both in genes and in language.

How Languages and Genes Evolve Together

So if we look at human DNA and languages over time, we should find that they differ along similar geographic lines. It’s an intuitive theory, but difficult to prove. That is, until researchers decided to match large collections of geographic, linguistic, and genetic data on hundreds of human populations worldwide. A new study (PDF), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, quantifies the complicated relationship between these three factors. Researchers compared the geographic presence of two things in human populations across the world: alleles (trait-defining stretches of DNA) and phonemes (the distinct units of sound that make up spoken language).

This map shows a broad picture of the geographic spread of alleles and phonemes, according to the study’s findings. Creanza et. al. The scale of the research is impressive. Interactive Infographic - 13 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics. Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years. Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 Isaac Asimovin vuonna 1964 kirjoittama ennustus vuodelle 2014. 'Shrinkflation' - are companies shrinking our food items?

Future transport: 10 inventions that will supercharge your journey. Beijing's Black Market Egg Trade Targets College Girls.