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The octopus is a cephalopod mollusk that has not internal or external skeleton. This allows them to squeeze through tight places, something crabs, decapods crustaceans, are not able to do because of their thick exoskeleton...+Read More
Views 2090 Steve Jobs died October 5th, 2011 at age 56 of pancreatic cancer. Jobs was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. He was credited as the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes...+Read More
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it depends on who the mother is. if the mother is a baby factory then yes. if the mother is not a baby factory then no. plus the cops can put the kids into cps. the mother could kill her kids. but then she will go to jail.+Read More
Views 2023 Let me first say that to get into in college or university you are going to have to use your real name and social security number, which means that every teacher that you will have will be given your real name upon enrollment in their class...+Read More
Views 2070 Occidental College - Transferred
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations
Harvard University - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
+Read MoreBelieve it or not, but President Lincoln did not attend any college or university. And even more surprising than that, Lincoln only had about 18 months of a formal education when he was younger. Lincoln was truly a self-taught man.+Read More
Views 1966 I did some quick research on the Internet, and it would seem that three brothers from Middlebury, Indiana, Tom, Keith and Claude Corson, were the founders of Coachmen Industries.
+Read More Views 8845 Superior+Read More
The time was 06:07 UTC.+Read More
The toilet used on the Space Shuttle is called the Waste Collection System (WCS). In addition to air flow, it also uses rotating fans to distribute solid waste for in-flight storage. Solid waste is distributed in a cylindrical container which is then exposed to vacuum to dry the waste...+Read More
Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt
+Read MoreThis is a very interesting question, and one that the answer will surprise you. As of 2007 the United States Census Bureau reports that 27% of the population has attained a bachelor's degree or higher. To take this one step further, 6...+Read More
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Views 2633 A super atom is an atom that has been cooled to several billionths of degrees above absolute zero. At these extremely cold temperatures, atoms begin to behave differently than normal.
All atoms are in motion. They move faster if they're hotter, and they slow down when cooled...+Read More
Views 2132 The moon is a bit of a mystery. It has a mantle like the Earth's, but no iron core...+Read More
That's a good question. You're right; ideologically they are very similar. They both agree that something has to be done to introduce universal health care; they're against the war in Iraq and for exploring alternative energy options; and on social issues they're similar as well...+Read More
The Phoenix lander touched down on Mars just recently, on May 25, 2008. Scientists sent the lander to the Martian North Pole, where water is thought to be just below the surface. The Phoenix has a robotic arm that is designed to dig below the surface soil to the water ice underneath...+Read More
Dolly the Sheep was cloned in 1996 from a cell taken from a healthy sheep's mammary gland. In normal sexual reproduction, the genes of two individuals (the mother and father) are combined in the offspring. In cloning, the offspring's genes are an exact copy of a single parent's...+Read More
Views 1957 When stars "die," or run out of fuel to burn, their enormous mass causes them to collapse in on themselves. If they are extremely large stars, they might become black holes. But not all stars contain enough mass...+Read More
The Burgess Shale is a layer of rock that preserves some of the most intriguing fossils we've ever found. Named for Mount Burgess in the Canadian Rockies, near where they were discovered, the shale contains over 65,000 separate species that lived over half a billion years ago...+Read More
When most people talk about giant squid, they are talking about Architeuthis--a squid that grows to approximately 33-43 feet long and lives in all oceans except polar and tropical seas. There's a bigger squid in the sea, however--the colossal squid, the only member of the genus Mesonychoteuthis...+Read More
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This is a very interesting question, and one that the answer will surprise you. As of 2007 the United States Census Bureau reports that 27% of the population has attained a bachelor's degree or higher. To take this one step further, 6...+Read More
Views 8845 Superior+Read More
NASA's space program does indeed accept civilians for astronaut training as well as military pilots and personnel. According to their website, they accept candidates who have a four-year degree from an accredited school in either math, biological science, engineering, or physical science...+Read More
Views 6966 Since there's no gravity in space, astronauts can sleep vertically (standing up) as well as horizontally. In the space shuttle, astronauts often sleep in their seats or in sleeping bags attached to the wall...+Read More
Believe it or not, but President Lincoln did not attend any college or university. And even more surprising than that, Lincoln only had about 18 months of a formal education when he was younger. Lincoln was truly a self-taught man.+Read More
When most people talk about giant squid, they are talking about Architeuthis--a squid that grows to approximately 33-43 feet long and lives in all oceans except polar and tropical seas. There's a bigger squid in the sea, however--the colossal squid, the only member of the genus Mesonychoteuthis...+Read More
Views 3968 Black holes can't be seen directly. But we can see the effects they have on objects and matter around them. When a black hole passes near a star or through a cloud of gas and dust, the matter "falls" into the black hole. As it falls, it heats up and gains energy...+Read More
Views 2633 A super atom is an atom that has been cooled to several billionths of degrees above absolute zero. At these extremely cold temperatures, atoms begin to behave differently than normal.
All atoms are in motion. They move faster if they're hotter, and they slow down when cooled...+Read More
Hi Linda,
Nobody had ever seen a live giant squid until September 30, 2004, when scientists from two research institutions--the National Science Museum of Japan and the Ogasawara Whale Watching Expedition--snapped over 500 pictures of one for the first time...+Read More
The Burgess Shale is a layer of rock that preserves some of the most intriguing fossils we've ever found. Named for Mount Burgess in the Canadian Rockies, near where they were discovered, the shale contains over 65,000 separate species that lived over half a billion years ago...+Read More
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Views 2132 The moon is a bit of a mystery. It has a mantle like the Earth's, but no iron core...+Read More
Views 2125 In 2003, after the Columbia disaster, NASA's administrator, Sean O'Keefe, decided to scrap future repair missions to the Hubble telescope. This decision caused a great deal of outcry, both among the scientific community and the general public...+Read More
The Phoenix lander touched down on Mars just recently, on May 25, 2008. Scientists sent the lander to the Martian North Pole, where water is thought to be just below the surface. The Phoenix has a robotic arm that is designed to dig below the surface soil to the water ice underneath...+Read More
Views 2090 Steve Jobs died October 5th, 2011 at age 56 of pancreatic cancer. Jobs was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. He was credited as the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes...+Read More
Views 2070 Occidental College - Transferred
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations
Harvard University - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
+Read MoreThat's a good question. You're right; ideologically they are very similar. They both agree that something has to be done to introduce universal health care; they're against the war in Iraq and for exploring alternative energy options; and on social issues they're similar as well...+Read More
The toilet used on the Space Shuttle is called the Waste Collection System (WCS). In addition to air flow, it also uses rotating fans to distribute solid waste for in-flight storage. Solid waste is distributed in a cylindrical container which is then exposed to vacuum to dry the waste...+Read More
Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt
+Read MoreThe time was 06:07 UTC.+Read More
Views 2023 Let me first say that to get into in college or university you are going to have to use your real name and social security number, which means that every teacher that you will have will be given your real name upon enrollment in their class...+Read More
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it depends on who the mother is. if the mother is a baby factory then yes. if the mother is not a baby factory then no. plus the cops can put the kids into cps. the mother could kill her kids. but then she will go to jail.+Read More
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Views 1911 What are the service conditions for auto suspension?
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Views 1863 Immunologically, what do human embryos, AIDS virus and cancer have in common?
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Views 1930 Why are no two humans exactly alike?
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Views 2192 What kind of questions cannot be answered by science?
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Views 2152 What is social studies?
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Views 1952 What gives states the right to nullify federal laws?
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Views 1995 How does an astronaut prepare for a flight into space?
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Views 1982 What kind of questions cannot be answered by science?
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