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- Morning Science Quote
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Morning Science Quote The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyag ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 15 2010 - 10:40am
- Babies More Into Music Than Speech
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Babies may be born with a predisposition to dance and find music- specifically, rhythm and tempo- more engaging than speech, according to a study of infants aged between five months and two years old. While predisposition towards music may be innate, resea ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2010 - 4:28pm
- A Day On The Farm
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There are far too many theories about the best way to teach kids. Dr. Seuss had the right idea: make it fun. It's good to have a child actually beg you to read something out loud. Never mind the Saggerbotham theory of linguistic competence or the Hi ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 15 2010 - 8:47pm
- Young Britons More Likely To Take Up Smoking Thanks To Movies
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Children in England see much more smoking in movies compared to their counterparts in the US and are more likely to pick up the habit as a result, finds research published in Tobacco Control. The UK film classification system, which rates more films as sui ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2010 - 11:48am
- Easy Credit Caused The Recession And Eased Its Impact
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Questionable lending helped sink the U.S. economy, but also provided a lifeline that kept countless firms afloat and averted an even deeper recession, according to research by University of Illinois finance professor Murillo Campello. The research was cite ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2010 - 1:30pm
- The Say of the Week
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"A male astrophysicist talks physics to the astronomers and astronomy to the physicists, but then he meets another astrophysicist, and they discuss women." Unknown ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 16 2010 - 5:51pm
- Conversations with Cleverbot.
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Part One? Just for giggles one day I went over to Cleverbot.com to have a little chat with what is proportedly the "latest and greatest" AI on the internet. There was a rumor going around that it had "gone crazy" and I wanted to see wha ...
Blog Post - Brian Taylor - Mar 19 2010 - 8:50pm
- The Quote of the Week: Audio and Video Quarks!
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The replication of fermion generations is one of the outstanding puzzles in particle physics. Could there be also a fourth generation of quarks and leptons? There is no convincing theoretical or experimental reason why not. In some grand unified schemes c ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 21 2010 - 5:07am
- Morning Science Quote
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Only a tiny fraction of all scientific research is ever covered by the popular media, however, and most scientists go through their entire career without once encountering a reporter. New results and ideas are argued in the halls of research institutions, ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 22 2010 - 10:16am
- The Albatross
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The Albatross Here is another of my poems which I hope may be of use to educators. THE ALBATROSS She slowly glides above the oceans deep in effortless grace, and almost seems asleep. She banks and turns, ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 22 2010 - 1:22pm
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