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Students are selected for scholarships in a number of ways, including academic achievement, special talents or financial need, reports Federal Student Aid, a service of the U.S. Department of Education. Some scholarships are for specific types of people, such as women, minorities, employees, or military personnel and t... | 0.943285 | ('__label__neg',) |
With the holiday season starting, everyone could use some extra money in their pockets. What many people may not realize is that they can potentially save hundreds of dollars per year just by shopping around for a lower price on their electric or natural gas service.
It's true. In many states -- like Texas, Pennsylvani... | 0.95716 | ('__label__neg',) |
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Reclaiming the Right to Development (Draft)
In 1986, the United Nations adopted a declaration on "The Right To Development" as an inalienable human right, embracing "all civil, economic, social, cultural and other human rights enumerated in the Universal Declaration o... | 0.799387 | ('__label__neg',) |
What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can ever know what is it is like for bats to sense the world using sonar. It seems obvious to many that any amount of information about a bats phy... | 0.864505 | ('__label__pos',) |
An epiglottic entrapment is an upper airway abnormality that can cause poor performance in athletic horses. A team of researchers from the University of Montreal recently developed a safer instrument for surgically correcting an entrapped epiglottis.
When a horse swallows food or water, the epiglottis (a movable, leaf-... | 0.724149 | ('__label__neg',) |
The Fun Flag for Rhenium is based upon the colours and original German provincial coat of arms of the woman whom co-discovered this element, Ida Tacke. Ida Tacke was born in Rhine Province whose coat of arms feature a white wavy bend on green, as is the winding river of the Rhine. But for this fun flag, they serve as t... | 0.850657 | ('__label__pos',) |
Worldwide Treatment Need, by Substance, 2010
"It is estimated that 20 per cent of problem drug users in 2010 received treatment for their drug dependence. Opioids (largely heroin) continue to be the dominant drug type accounting for treatment demand in Asia and Europe (particularly in Eastern Europe and South-Eastern E... | 0.728253 | ('__label__neg',) |
"The Walrus and the Carpenter" is a darkly comic narrative poem with elements of fantasy and nonsense. It was written by the British author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. It was first published in 1871 as part of Carroll's children's novel Through the Looking-Glass, in which the brother... | 0.604326 | ('__label__neg',) |
Abraham was born in 1660 in Krefeld, Germany. At the age of 19, he married Catherina Trintje Jansen, at the Krefeld Reformed Church.
Abraham was the youngest of the three Op den Graeff brothers who came from Krefeld on the ship 'Concord'.
He and his brothers had paid for 2,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania from Jacob T... | 0.844698 | ('__label__neg',) |
GAN CHOU: From 贛州 (Wikipedia).
贛 gam: regionomen: Jiangsi (江西省 gong sai saang), also given as 灨 (gam), that being the name of the dominant river.
簡稱爲虔 gaan ching wai kin: the abbreviated form is 'Qian'.
虔 kin: to act with respect.
所以習慣叫贛南 so yi jaapgwaan kiu gamnaam: thus commonly called 'Gannan'.
習慣 jaap gwaan: the us... | 0.542539 | ('__label__pos',) |
One summer night in 1977, Jerry Ehman, a volunteer for SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, may have become the first man ever to receive an intentional message from an alien world. Ehman was scanning radio waves from deep space, hoping to randomly come across a signal that bore the hallmarks of one t... | 0.725052 | ('__label__neg',) |
As a prominent social issue, the crime of juvenile delinquency has greatly increased. With regard to this social issue, some people claim that teenage criminals should be punished rigorously. However, others argue that appropriate education could be a feasible alternative rather than them being punished. In this essay,... | 0.6444 | ('__label__pos',) |
This past semester the Interactive Telecommunications Graduate Program at NYU’s Tisch school conducted its first ever course in living systems, which encouraged students to take on projects related to ecology, environmental data management, and, obviously, living systems. After six months of field trips (including a vi... | 0.505277 | ('__label__pos',) |
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I need help trying to write out these binomial expansions: they all need to be raised to the 8th power. Thanks
1. (x + y) 2. (w + z) 3. (x - y) 4. (2a + 3b)
- Now explain how your answer for #1 could be used as a formula to help you answer each of the other items. In each case, for #2, 3 and 4, ... | 0.99873 | ('__label__pos',) |
A Child’s Nature provides flexible, full-day child care and education for families of diverse backgrounds. Surrounded by goodness, truth and beauty, our children achieve their full potential through daily outdoor adventures, purposeful work, artistic experiences and imaginative play with a curriculum inspired by Waldor... | 0.578352 | ('__label__neg',) |
Thomas Jackson Rodman never led troops into battle, but his groundbreaking experiments with cannons and gunpowder gave his fellow Union soldiers a valuable advantage.
As a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., the Indiana native excelled at math and metallurgy. He loved to watch the casting of iron ca... | 0.656671 | ('__label__neg',) |
In early October, 2012, a villager digging near an old wall in wangminxiang hongtaicun village (王民乡红太村) located in Xiji Prefecture (西吉县) in China’s northwest Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区) unearthed 17 ancient Silk Road coins, according to several reports in the Chinese press.
The newspapers interviewed Mr. Su... | 0.598233 | ('__label__neg',) |
"A biopsy needle does not need to hit a tumor to detect the presence of tumor," said lead researcher Dan Mercola, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of California at Irvine. "It is reminiscent of the game Battleship; we can detect more cancer cases using 12 shots with a biopsy... | 0.820381 | ('__label__neg',) |
The UK and other Western nations are mystified by American gun culture.
The tradition of civilian gun ownership in the US has been mythologised and venerated as a link to a romantic past of frontiersmen whose survival depended on self-protection. In fact, gun ownership increased most dramatically after the Civil War, w... | 0.623813 | ('__label__neg',) |
To get an idea of the enormity of the challenge facing the NHS when it comes to coping with cancer, consider this statistic: cancer is now so common that one in two people born after 1960 will develop the disease at some point in their lifetime, according to Cancer Research.
Another way of looking at is that someone in... | 0.704995 | ('__label__neg',) |
Fast-growing red alders (Alnus rubra) take their name from their brownish red inner bark, which Native Americans used to make red dyes. Also called the Oregon alder, the tree grows in Sunset's Climate Zones 3a to 7 and 14 to 17. Red alders grow to a height of 50 to 100 feet, with trunks 14 to 18 inches in diameter.
Col... | 0.90266 | ('__label__pos',) |
Nowadays, materialistic desire has overtaken other important things in life, and teenagers are often seen to get into wrong things because of wrong decisions.
The biggest question that is faced by parents today is how to teach a teen the value of money.
Dealing with teenagers is quite difficult task for parents, and th... | 0.878226 | ('__label__pos',) |
Meanwhile, Sumerians had less complicated methods for the passage of their dead ones into the afterlife. On the other hand, the Egyptians used to make grand preparations to mark their passage into the life after death.
The Sumerians were also technologically more advanced than the Egyptians.
The Sumerians developed the... | 0.934702 | ('__label__pos',) |
America: Past and Present
Students explore, analyze and discuss Colonial America via a variety of different resources. They utilize their inference skills to compare/contrast the past to the present. A short lesson on note-taking is also included within this lesson plan.
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A Ticket to Philly—In 1769... | 0.954684 | ('__label__pos',) |
What is IDEALS?
The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship, known as IDEALS, is a service at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign that preserves and provides access to a wide body of faculty, staff and student publications and research. The mission of IDEALS is to provide access a... | 0.51505 | ('__label__pos',) |
Seneca was an attorney, philosopher, statesman, humorist, teacher and personal adviser to the emperor of ancient Rome. He was born in 1 BC and died in 65 AD. Seneca was a stoic philosopher who followed in the footsteps of two other great philosophers, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.
Seneca’s philosophy focused on how on... | 0.789547 | ('__label__neg',) |
Life Science - Seedling Germination Observation Notebook
How can we guide students in making scientific observations? This lab notebook was designed for just that purpose. My students had just set up their seeds of garden beans and corn. I made these notebooks instead of going over the process of how to take measuremen... | 0.856257 | ('__label__pos',) |
March 8 is the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. What an extraordinary opportunity this is to introduce an initiative that will save the lives of nine million women and children who perish every year from preventable and treatable causes. As Chair of the UN Commission for Accountability and Transparency o... | 0.632605 | ('__label__neg',) |
Electricity generator NRG Energy and Powerspan announced on Friday a plan to create one of the largest projects to capture and bury the carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants.
The companies said the facility in Sugar Land, Texas will capture and sequester the emissions equal to a 125 megawatt generator. That wou... | 0.575787 | ('__label__neg',) |
Istanbul is a city born from the sea. Starting a colony of Megaran Byzantium settled here 2,700 years the pagans, Christian, and Muslim societies who settled here not only built their cities according to the unique topography of the land, but also -to varying degrees- preserved the monuments of the civilizations that h... | 0.761645 | ('__label__pos',) |
British health systems are unprepared for the “devastating” effects of climate change, leading health bodies have warned.
As extreme weather events such as flooding or heatwaves become more common, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change urged ministers not to “wait for disaster” before acting.
The new alliance, made ... | 0.589231 | ('__label__pos',) |
January 4, 2010
Virus May Chauffeur Useful ‘Packages’ Into Plants
This time of year, the word "virus" conjures up a bedridden stint with coughs and chills "“ something everyone goes to great lengths to avoid.
But scientists for Texas AgriLife Research have gone the distance to show that at least some viruses can be put... | 0.682416 | ('__label__neg',) |
“Coda” is the last poem in Wright’s collection Boleros, a book he dedicated to his wife, Lois. Like a coda that ends a musical composition by summarizing main themes and variations, the poem forms a definitive ending to a volume in which Wright continues his spiritual and intellectual quest. This quest takes many biogr... | 0.977391 | ('__label__pos',) |
Sir Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640
Peter Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter of portraits, landscapes and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.
Rubens completed his education in 1598 and entered the Guild of St. Luke as an independent master.
In 1600, he went to Italy, where he worked as a court pai... | 0.914642 | ('__label__neg',) |
What is a rocket?A rocket can describe any object that is propelled by fast moving liquid or gas! Most rockets have a nose or cone at the top, a body that houses the fuel and fins at the base. Rockets are usually powered by a chemical reaction (explosion) within the rocket itself. This chemical reaction requires both f... | 0.529638 | ('__label__neg',) |
he concept of the nineteenth-century Gentleman is a complex one, though it is one which is, as one recent critic has noted, "the necessary link in any analysis of mid-Victorian ways of thinking and behaving." The Victorians themselves were not certain what a gentleman was, of what his essential characteristics were, or... | 0.633554 | ('__label__pos',) |
Washington: Scientists have developed a new method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal nerve cells that transmit visual signals from the eye to the brain, an advance that could lead to treatments for people blinded by glaucoma and multiple sclerosis (MS).
Death and dysfunction of these cells, known as ret... | 0.793306 | ('__label__pos',) |
Sled Dogs, Hudson Bay
A thousand years of dogs: Running pressure ridge and ice ridge, skirting every crevice, loping frozen tundra through permanent day and the long months of near dark. They are a special breed. Their sense of snow; their sense of smell; long hours without shelter in wind that freezes human flesh soli... | 0.552905 | ('__label__neg',) |
With advances in technology, reading is becoming a lost art. More and more kids are finding other activities to engage in. what can you do to get your teen to read every day?
Reading is truly fundamental. Reading texts and instructions requires more than a rudimentary understanding of the English language. Even kids th... | 0.792449 | ('__label__pos',) |
To create Shamrock Slap:
- Make a table in a word processing program with three columns and three rows.
- Size it to take up the entire page, you will end up with nine boxes.
- Add a letter to each box or program the boxes with whatever skill you are working on.
- I used the letters in ER's first name and printed out t... | 0.935373 | ('__label__neg',) |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Novel Study Unit is a 34-page resource for teaching Mark Twain's classic tale.
This series of objective tests cover the novel as chapter-by-chapter quizzes and as a whole book test. Students will find it necessary to read the material carefully and thoroughly for FACTUAL CONTENT in order to... | 0.726751 | ('__label__pos',) |
Comments on: The Problem with Function Reflection
As you know, REBOL provides a high level of reflection for most
constructs. For example, if you define a function:
buy: func ["Purchase stock" stock [string!] price [money!]] [
repend stocks [stock price]
You can obtain the specification for the buy function with:
probe... | 0.837709 | ('__label__pos',) |
Graphic Designer Education Requirements
Table of Contents
Students interested in graphic design programs should take basic art and design courses in high school, if the courses are available. Many bachelor's degree programs require students to have had one year of basic art and design courses before being admitted to a... | 0.957361 | ('__label__neg',) |
History of rail transport in India
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- This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series.
The history of rail transport in India began in the m... | 0.603493 | ('__label__neg',) |
A person who is persistent, says the dictionary, is one who continues to follow the same course of action, no matter what. A persistent person keeps trying and trying.
Abraham Lincoln was one such person. Here’s the evidence:
Lincoln was defeated when he ran for the Illinois House of Representatives in 1832. But he was... | 0.559928 | ('__label__pos',) |
Surrender can have a very negative connotation to it. In fact before I decided to write an entry on this subject I only ever intended the meaning to throw up the white flag and flee. Then I came across a quote by the founder of The Salvation Army, William Booth. Booth says, "The greatness of a man's power is the measur... | 0.935706 | ('__label__neg',) |
The USGS Water Science School
Introduction 1: Measuring stage 2: Discharge measurement 3: Stage-discharge relation
Streamgages continuously measure stage, as stated in the "Measuring Stage"" section. This continuous record of stage is translated to river discharge by applying the stage-discharge relation (also called r... | 0.988433 | ('__label__pos',) |
Preponderance of Evidence
Definition - What does Preponderance of Evidence mean?
Preponderance of evidence is a legal standard of proof used in civil litigation that a party must meet in order to win the case. If more than half of the evidence submitted in a lawsuit leads the trier of fact (the jury or judge if there i... | 0.794831 | ('__label__pos',) |
No formal fire department existed in the City of Davis at the turn of the century. After a series of devastating fires destroyed many buildings in town, the citizens recognized the need for a formal fire department. In March of 1917, a meeting was held to establish an official fire department. At that time, Walter Lill... | 0.943027 | ('__label__neg',) |
Free PowerPoints for Kids & Teachers – Weather Maps
Did You Know?
Weather Maps are maps that show the state of the weather over large areas. A weather map can display various meteorological features across a particular area over a specific time. They’ve been used since the mid-19th century. | 0.911646 | ('__label__pos',) |
STMicroelectronics claims it’s come up with the first IC to combine key power-optimization and power-conversion functions for solar generators. According to the company, it will allow multi-panel arrays, ranging from domestic rooftop-type equipment to larger installations, to deliver more energy at a lower cost per wat... | 0.673759 | ('__label__neg',) |
Summer is here and that means one thing to this Baltimore girl—crab season. Like many local families, ours spent countless afternoons elbow to elbow at picnic tables lined with newspaper, hammering shells and digging with knives, picks and fingers for nuggets of sweet, fatty blue crab meat. I always thought my dad’s of... | 0.734045 | ('__label__neg',) |
Udemy – An Introduction to Classical Latin [100% off]
Learn the basics of Classical Latin in this first of two introductory courses. Students who take this course will learn basic Latin grammar and syntax, as well as a comprehensive vocabulary, which expands with each lesson.
Benefits of taking this class include:
– Le... | 0.965615 | ('__label__pos',) |
Sandals have been a popular variety of summertime footwear for nearly as long as humans have worn shoes. This article will take you on an adventure showing you the evolution of sandals in history
The origin of the sandal extends well past the Birkenstocks and plastic flip-flops we know today into the spans of pre-histo... | 0.775574 | ('__label__pos',) |
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Why is potassium-argon dating most applicable to dating very old rocks?
potassium’s long half-life
potassium’s short half-life
argon’s long half-life
argon’s short half-life
You want a long half-life for older rocks.
I think it may be argon, but you need to lookup the half-lives of each of them... | 0.985048 | ('__label__neg',) |
It’s November. Too soon to be thinking about summer camp? Not at all. Now is the time to register for next summer.
Actually, as educators, we should be thinking about camp all year ‘round.
Next to formal Jewish schooling, Jewish summer camp is at the top of the Jewish communal agenda. Communities and philanthropists ha... | 0.698091 | ('__label__neg',) |
Five Butterfly Garden Tips from a Butterfly Hero!
Take Your Butterfly Garden to the Next Level!
In 2015, then 9 year-old, Genevieve Leroux from San Luis Obispo, CA pledged to be a Butterfly Hero and help save the monarch butterfly. Not only did she plant the seeds that came in her Butterfly Heroes Garden Starter Kit an... | 0.530574 | ('__label__neg',) |
A massive amount of unconventional oil is locked up in Russia’s territory, some resources dirtier and more challenging to extract and process than others. How this oil wealth is developed—from resource selection to environmental controls—will impact Russia and the world.
Unfortunately, current Russian oil policies prov... | 0.605653 | ('__label__neg',) |
Save the date: Date and subject matter for European Days of Jewish Culture 2016 have been fixed!
Subject matter: Jewish languages.
Date: Sunday September 4, 2016. However, in several countries events and activities are being planned before and after this date.
From Hebrew to Greek, from Ladino to Aramaic, from Yiddish ... | 0.976452 | ('__label__pos',) |
The sheer number of different ways in which Linux can be run is astounding, as there are plenty of choices to go around. While there are plenty of distributions which rely on either the .deb or .rpm package formats, there’s also a handful which use their own formats, if any at all. One of those distributions is very un... | 0.849179 | ('__label__neg',) |
What is Bursitis?
Medical Author: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR What is bursitis? How does a bursa become inflamed? How is bursitis diagnosed? How is bursitis treated? What is Bursitis?
Bursitis is inflammation of a bursa. A bursa is a tiny fluid-filled sac that functions as a gliding surface to reduce friction ... | 0.992981 | ('__label__pos',) |
Bacteria and fungal infections can cause a condition known as skull-base osteomyelitis (SBO), which can cause severe pain in the areas of the ear and the base of the skull. These infections usually originate in ear tissue and spread to the temporal bone. If SBO is left untreated, it can continue to spread throughout th... | 0.511642 | ('__label__neg',) |
Tetrahymena is an oligohymenophoran ciliate and a very common
freshwater ciliate. It is usually used to demonstrate the levels of organization and
cortical features that are characteristic of the ciliate taxa.
The pictures below are of a silver nitrate-stained specimen of Tetrahymena.
The cilia themselves do not stain,... | 0.711068 | ('__label__pos',) |
Béla Kun, (born February 20, 1886, Szilágycseh, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary [now in Romania]—died November 30, 1939?, U.S.S.R.), communist leader and head of the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919.
The son of a Jewish village clerk, Kun became active in Social Democratic politics early in life, working at first in Tra... | 0.738415 | ('__label__pos',) |
What's killing trumpeter swans in Washington?
NEAR LYNDEN, Wash. -- Majestic trumpeter swans, the largest of all waterfowl, whose wingspans can reach eight feet, are dying at a higher than normal rate in their winter haven in northern Puget Sound. And Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists think th... | 0.922907 | ('__label__neg',) |
|Founding Mothers, the picture book|
Remembering the Ladies
Written by Cokie Roberts
Illustrated by Diane Goode
Harper Collins, 2014
non-fiction, grades 2-7
Non-fiction, Historical, Women
Opening of the first mini biography:
Eliza Lucas was only sixteen years old when her father went off to fight for England against Sp... | 0.89084 | ('__label__neg',) |
The Ladybird has a basket on its back where children can sit when they take off on thrilling adventures. The basket floor lies three levels above the ground at, respectively, 45, 90 and 120 cm. The basket and the slide can be reached by climbing inside the ladybird, or by using the climbing grips fitted on the outside.... | 0.698311 | ('__label__pos',) |
Comparison of King Lear and King James
Young scholars learn of the comparisons between Shakespeare's play, King Lear, and the actual King James. They make historical connections through internet research.
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Pride and Prejudice: Concept/Vocabulary Analysis
Clarify the setting, literary themes, and pote... | 0.988121 | ('__label__pos',) |
A sector engraved with the words 'Carver Fecit', made by Carver, London. The sector was invented at the end of the 16th century and was one of the most popular calculating instruments for 200 years. They were used primarily for calculations involving ratios, and the angles of triangles. Sectors are composed of two flat... | 0.964334 | ('__label__pos',) |
Reality television is a popular TV genre that presents supposedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents real events, hosts competitions, and features both ordinary people and stars.
Interestingly, a recent SAT test contained an essay prompt that asked students to write about reality TV. (Article) This "... | 0.903634 | ('__label__pos',) |
"Famous English painter Anthony van Dyck"
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Crowning with Thorns Anthony van Dyck grew up in a large family of a wealthy merchant of Antwerp. In ten years, he began to study painting. Since 1617 was the closest assistant of Rubens, and in 1618 he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke. The first... | 0.845485 | ('__label__neg',) |
Paronychia (Nail Infection) (cont.)
IN THIS ARTICLE
When Should Someone Seek Medical Care for a Paronychia?
Call a health care professional if the redness extends beyond the skin around the nail or to the pad of the finger. This redness shows that the infection of the nail might be forming a more serious finger infecti... | 0.704121 | ('__label__neg',) |
If you follow us on Twitter, you have probably seen lots of content about #SciREN. If you weren’t at the workshop, let me tell you how it works. Marine scientists from North Carolina submitted lesson plans to the workshop and then met up at North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores (a great venue, by the way, go che... | 0.660519 | ('__label__neg',) |
Over View of Flu
1. What is flu? How does flu get spread?
2. Flu Signs & Symptoms And Types
3. Flu Diagnosis And Investigation
4. Flu Treatment
5. Bird Flu and swine Flu
From this article you can learn about flu. What Is Flu? How Flu Spreads. Learn the signs & symptoms and types of flu. Learn how to diagnosis flu. What... | 0.999117 | ('__label__pos',) |
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U.S. Dept. of Energy, Mar. 9, 2017, by Mike Mueller.
"We recently added two fuel cell electric vehicles to our fleet (the first for a government agency) and are using them for public outreach. What we’re finding out is that there’s a lot of interest in these cars – and some misconceptions. So, in order to separate fact... | 0.987751 | ('__label__neg',) |
After watching and discussing the "Dangerous Journey" video from AIG, we worked on completing an outline to SOTW3CHchapter 2, begins on page 25 of Dr. Bauer's book which is our spine from Grammar stage history. The title of the chapter and sections helps us organize the extra readings which build us up for high school ... | 0.743986 | ('__label__neg',) |
The shrine of Our Lady of the Mount popularly known as Mount Mary or Mat Mauli, the corrupted form of Mata Mauli or Mother Mauli, is one of the most famous Christian shrines in India. The shrine, at that time a modest little hermitage, was founded by the Jesuits round about the years 1568-1570. In 1640 the hermitage wa... | 0.97586 | ('__label__neg',) |
Early in World War II, British scientists developed radar to detect Nazi Luftwaffe planes at night.
The system helped thwart devastating raids.
But they couldn't perfect its crucial magnetron, which converts electrons into microwaves.
Britain asked America for help, which led to a meeting with Percy Spencer, an enginee... | 0.507072 | ('__label__neg',) |
Dictionary.com has the following definition of scientism:
"The belief that the assumptions, methods of research, etc., of the physical and biological sciences are equally appropriate and essential to all other disciplines, including the humanities and the social sciences."
I think this is a weak definition. Those with ... | 0.912152 | ('__label__pos',) |
In many areas, school lunch programs are getting better and better in terms of nutrition, however, most of America's children are still not eating enough fruits and vegetables, whole grains or calcium-rich foods. The results of poor-eating habits vary from undernutrition and obesity to anemia and tooth decay. Get your ... | 0.570148 | ('__label__pos',) |
Restorative Justice for Juveniles
Internationally, there is now an acceptance of the need to develop new strategies in criminal justice which reflect restorative justice principles. At the same time, theory, research and practice in restorative justice are making rapid advances. This book provides an up- to-date and cr... | 0.986699 | ('__label__pos',) |
The rise of machines in the UK labour market could make over a third of professions obsolete, leaving the country with mass unemployment and a redundant workforce.
A report by innovation charity Nesta claims that 35% of jobs could be fully automated, with archivists, farmers and distillers most under threat. This pheno... | 0.871698 | ('__label__neg',) |
We've covered how modern medicine is running into increasing trouble, as old pests that were once easily controlled by antibiotics are evolving into superbugs that shrug off most things we can throw at them. This creates a twin issue: how to reduce the use of antibiotics (in order to cut down further selective pressure... | 0.93724 | ('__label__pos',) |
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I added the video to YouTube, but forget to comment on it here. Basically it's very easy to make all sorts of interesting user input devices if you can get hold of a keyboard encoder. A keyboard is in essence a lot of buttons connected to some electronics that communicates to the computer. A keyboard encoder is just a ... | 0.860966 | ('__label__pos',) |
CONGRESS SHALL NOT HAVE THE POWER
In his classic work, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli advised his students that every successful "usurper" must "take care that (his potential competitors) do not get hold of too much power and too much authority" The Supreme Court has always followed the teachings of Machiavelli .
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City and Countryside Worksheets
In the cities and countryside section of Busy Teacher, there are
149 FREE worksheets to choose from
. They range from very simple word searches to detailed activities related to these topics.
, for example, was created for Russian ESL learners but can serve as a model for you to create a... | 0.794204 | ('__label__pos',) |
This month’s ABC book: “Friends to the End for Kids: The True Value of Friendship” by Bradley Trevor Greive uses engaging photos of animals to illustrate how to make friends, keep friends, and the importance of friends.
Goals of lesson:
To help all students learn how to respect each other and to develop stronger interp... | 0.874974 | ('__label__pos',) |
The Real Cure for Autism May Be Found in Our Diet
The dramatic increase in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders, which affect one in 88 children, has generated intense interest in learning the cause of autism as well as better ways to treat and prevent the condition.
Roche, the Swiss drug company, recently gathe... | 0.561867 | ('__label__pos',) |
December 18, 2013
|Born: July 10th, 1943 in Richmond, Virginia|
|Died: February 6th, 1993 (at age 49) in New York City, New York|
|Famous For: Being the very first black person to rank #1 in the world in tennis|
|Awards: International Tennis Hall of Fame, Sports Emmy, Presidential Medal of Freedom,|
Arthur Ashe was a f... | 0.674428 | ('__label__neg',) |
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Osteoporosis is an insidious illness that sneaks up on you. Studies suggest that about 50 percent of women over the age of 50 will suffer a fracture related to bone loss. And each year, approximately 80,000 men have a hip fracture. That’s why it’s so critical to undergo bone density testing. ... | 0.96334 | ('__label__neg',) |
Join educators across the globe who are inspiring students to set their sights to Mars with a Giant Mars Map™ from ShareSpace Foundation! The Mars Map, targeted for ages 8–12, is an interactive and engaging educational tool designed to ignite children’s interests in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STE... | 0.994043 | ('__label__pos',) |
Summary and Findings of Reishi Immune Supplement
Our immune systems are one of the most parts of human biology. After all, while we don’t really think about it, in truth our bodies are perpetually being bombarded by dangerous biological agents that can render us sick, be it a simple wound that can become slightly infec... | 0.805518 | ('__label__pos',) |
Friday, January 16, 2009
There's another interesting browser that just release for kids, it's called Kido'z. The browser was created and is moderated by a group of parents and professionals. The browser displays a picture of a website and allows the students to access the website, they have created scripts that keeps k... | 0.987743 | ('__label__neg',) |
Whether you call it Columbus Day or Indigenous People’s Day, one thing is for sure -- today’s holiday churns up a sea of debate that could capsize even the Santa Maria. While many schoolbooks present Christopher Columbus as the famous Italian explorer who discovered America, history has painted a much more complicated ... | 0.648688 | ('__label__pos',) |
Now G-d said to Moshe, "With the giving of the first Tablets you wrote a book of the covenant. This book contained the entire account from creation until the giving of the Torah. It was read so that all the people could hear it. The people responded to it, 'We will do and we will listen.' (Exodus 24:7) Do the same thin... | 0.515167 | ('__label__pos',) |
Editors' note: This paper is based on a talk I delivered on March 31, 2004. It is intended as a popular summary of the historical and theoretical basis of the current conflict. I make no pretense of scholarship. I draw heavily upon the work of others, lifting or paraphrasing whole paragraphs, and I quote journals and n... | 0.518419 | ('__label__pos',) |
At first glance they look like old sepia-tone images of the American Southwest, but then you start noticing subtle differences that make them seem otherworldly. That’s because they are. These are the latest images sent to earth by NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover. They were taken in a region known as the “Murray Buttes.”
Th... | 0.996303 | ('__label__pos',) |
Surface Water Management
When rain falls on land and impervious areas such as paved streets, parking lots, and building rooftops, it can wash away sediments, oil, grease, chemicals, nutrients, metals, litter, and pathogens. Left unmanaged, these pollutants enter our lakes and streams via the surface-water storm drain s... | 0.991329 | ('__label__pos',) |
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