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RNA as Enzyme Discovery, Origins of Life, & Medical Possibilities. Notes and summary of a documentary/ presentation.

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A simple explanation of why Physics, pronounced as one of the hardest courses in high school is actually hard.

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Among the exceptions: the systems used by the Bolans of West Africa, who were said to have counted in 7’s, and by the Maoris of New Zealand, who traditionally used a numbering system based on 11.

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Intriguingly, a similar mass extinction has ushered in the reign of the dinosaurs. Indeed, over the last 600 million years of life on earth, there seems to have been a cataclysmic change roughly every 60 to 70 million years, and smaller changes roughly every 30 million.

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In 1896 the French physicist Henri Becquerel noticed that pitchblende had one very unusual property: photographic plates exposed to a sample of pitchblende reacted as if they had been exposed to light. This property was called radioactivity, but at the time many scientists dismissed it as being of little importance. However, the investigation of what caused the radioactivity was to lead to one of the most significant discoveries in science, a discovery that laid the foundations for modern nuclear physics.

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Here is a list of some good websites that can aid your child’s Maths. Hope you find it useful.

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Introduction to analyzing mathematical relationships between variables. Underlined words are marked in the glossary in Chapter 3.

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Although evidence is scanty, it appears that four monkeys were the first animals to enter the earth’s stratosphere via a V – 2rocket launched from White Sands, New Mexico, in 1951. The next year Aerobee rockets with monkeys and mice on board were frequently launched to test the effects of weightlessness. But usually the U.S.S.R. is credited with having started the age of space travel by launching the dog Laika into orbit on board Sputnik two on November 3, 1957.

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An explanation of points, lines, and planes.