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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Detail-rich site that includes topical essays, hundreds of images and documents, song recordings (including "La Marseillaise"), maps, a timeline, and a glossary. Covers the storming of the Bastille, Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the fall of the monarchy. A project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project at City University of New York. Unusual Material That Contracts When Heated Is Giving Up Its Secrets T
Most solids expand when heated, a familiar phenomenon with many practical implications. Among the rare exceptions to this rule, the compound zirconium tungstate stands out by virtue of the enormous temperature range over which it exhibits so-called "negative thermal expansion,"contracting as it heats up and expanding as it cools, and because it does so uniformly in all directions. Follow The Energy: New Technique Enables Scientists To Track Molecular
Scientists have been able to follow the flow of excitation energy in both time and space in a molecular complex using a new technique called two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. While holding great promise for a broad range of applications, this technique has already been used to make a surprise finding about the process of photosynthesis. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Waggle Dance Controversy Resolved By Radar Records Of Bee Flight Paths
In the 1960s, Nobel Prize winning zoologist, Karl von Frisch, proposed that honeybees use dance (the"waggle dance") as a coded message to guide other bees to new food sources. However, some scientists did not accept von Frisch's theory. Using harmonic radar, scientists have now tracked the flight of bees that had attended a "waggle dance"and found that they flew straight to the vicinity of the feeding site, as predicted by von Frisch, resolving the controversy. Book Fairs and Other Literary Events
Extensive listing of U.S. and international book fairs and other literary events (such as poetry and storytelling festivals). Provides contact phone numbers and websites, and month of the events. Listed alphabetically and by state. From the Library of Congress Center for the Book. The Center for Faith-Based &Community Initiatives
Provides material about this initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that "welcomes the participation of faith-based and community-based organizations as valued and essential partners assisting Americans in need."Includes links to faith-based activities of specific agencies, funding opportunities, publications (such as manuals for faith- and community-based service providers), and related resources. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Divvying Up the Download Payload
The British music industry is fighting itself over online music sales. As the music biz goes digital, artists and labels are squabbling over how to divide the spoils. Jonny Evans reports from London. New Insights Into Skin Blistering Disease Pop Up
Pemphigus is a deadly skin blistering disease that occurs when patients' produce antibodies that attack proteins in their own cells -- called autoantibodies. In pemphigus, the body mounts abnormal attacks on molecules called desmogleins, which normally hold skin cells together. When autoantibodies attack desmogleins, the cells separate from each other, causing lesions and blisters that do not heal. The disease is fatal if not treated. Recovered King Of Beasts Returns To His Home, Thanks To Unique Operati
Samson the lion from the Hai-Kef zoo in Rishon Lezion, Israel, who had undergone a brain operation -- unique in the world -- at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has recuperated and has returned to his cage and to his sister, Delilah.
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