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chemistry central science
Question about science?

Why is chemistry the central core in science? I quite dont understand that question.
And how does it affect your daily life?
Is it because some stuff like your digestive system acid ect?

everything is made up of elements. In chem, you're combining elements to create. Without different things combining...we'd have nothing.

Seminole science fair winners still in running
It’s science fair season in schools across Florida and the nation, and we’re getting down to the really interesting part where some amazing projects surface.

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Chemistry: The Central Science

science james medeiros

There are No Poker Chip Sets in Space: A List of Mars Themed Films Pt. 2

The planet Mars has always been a mysterious place but because of its closeness to the earth and highest likelihood to have once been habitable to a race similar to our own, people like to conjecture about Martians or unseen forces on the planet. The look of Mars, with its giant, dry valleys, and its terrifying volcanoes and craters is fun for directors to recreate in cinema, which is probably one of the reasons why there are so many films about it. Here is a list of a few notable films about Mars many of which involve being stranded on the planet, not a poker chip set or rescue ship in sight.

Ghosts of Mars

The once great John Carpenter directed this pretty awful film that borrows too heavily from the “Pitch Black” series and nameless other science fiction/horror films. Ice Cube stars as the Mars criminal James “Desolation” Williams who is awaiting transport to a more secure jail. They find that the location of the jail is a desolate wasteland, and has been haunted and ruined by the ghosts of recently undug spirits from the planet’s long lost warrior race. It’s a ham-fisted and silly plot that isn’t helped by poor acting from Ice Cube, Jason Statham and the usually great Pam Grier.

Stranded: Naufragos

Starring the always interesting and controversial director and actor Vincent Gallo as well as too-pretty-to-be-hidden-inside-a-space-suit Maria de Medeiros, “Stranded: Naufragos” is an interesting entry into the stranded in space genre. New comer director and actor Maria Lidon tries hard to make the film less of a horror film than a psychological look into the minds of the stranded survivors as they await what is sure to be their eventual, slow death. A rescue ship is due in 26 months but there isn’t enough oxygen or food to survive that long. There is a silly alien “reveal” n ear the end that doesn’t fit with the film and really the only reason to see this is for the small cameo the late Johnny Ramone makes as a crew member who makes it home.

About the Author

Alan McGee is a freelance writer from MN.

City People Master
PLEASE DO NOT PAGINATE THE MASTER FILE

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encyclopedia science planet
Accuracy of Wikipedia?

It seems people think Wikipedia is not a credible source because anyone can edit it. Well, isnt most if not all of the information on Wikipedia cited with the sources on the bottom of every article? If someone was to suspect false information could they not see if there was a source of information leading to the statement written in the article?

Also, there is such a magnitude of academic people on this planet, it seems that most of the "academic articles" (i.e. history, science, etc.) on Wikipedia are very accurate and when incorrect information is submitted, its gets corrected extremely quickly.

I read an article published by a university that found Wikipedia is just as or more accurate than a real encyclopedia when it comes to non-current event subjects. Current event subjects are the most often incorrect because of personal opinion and bias; like presidential candidate's etc.

When it comes to a website that can be edited by the views, it's always a sketchy thing. Sometimes the people are right on, other times they are very very wrong.

Every time I've been on Wiki I've found that it's been very accurate. The admin's for the site are really great at checking the infomation that is added and changing anything that is false and is brought to their attention.

If you were trying to use Wiki as a source for, lets say a research paper, you would want to use a few different sources as well. Most professionals don't view Wiki as a reliable source. It's just a stigma that I don't think will ever go away.

One hundred years later, evolution continues for Smithsonian's Natural History museum
You could say that it was a hunting expedition that captured the whole world: In 1909, Theodore Roosevelt embarked on an East African safari, with financial help from the Smithsonian Institution, and ended up collecting more than a thousand specimens, including several hundred big game.

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HST SM4: Hubbles Science Legacy (08.29.08)

science activity book
What is the psychology behind Trolling?

What makes a person "troll"?

From my experiance, I use to troll because I used it as a form of therapy. I would be angry at someone, something, a situation, and come on to a forum or chatroom and take it out on people. But it wasn't therapy, it was more of an addiction, I had to do more of it, bored, indifferent, anything could trigger it. I would spend hours and hours trolling. I never fully stopped. My trolling activities have became infrequent.

For you Psychology and Computer Science majors, Grad Students and those practicing Psychology, Psychiatry or computer science, this could be a research project or book idea for you.

What an excellent suggestion for a research project!
I think a troll is a person who tries to be controversial for the sake of attention. By that definition I think many if not all who take part on Internet forums have resorted to trolling to some degree (I know I have).

Some of the reasons why I think a person resorts to trolling.
- Anonymity (expression in fairly safe environment).
- Attention (global audience)
- A feeling that everybody else has 'got it wrong'

judith butler folds her paws under her chin and takes a nap
how do we undo each other? i do up my hair, by the end of the day undone undone undone i do a charade of pleasure when complimented that i can haul my bike onto the rack of the bus that happened five minutes ago, i'm serious. what are the politics of masturbation? i envy the red fox that has an entire file on its sexual activity and where is my goddamn file? i decide to read more

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Home and School Science Activity Book

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Good eighth grade science fair projects?

My cousin is going into the eighth grade, and she cam up with a few ideas for science fair, and so she asked me to post them on here(She is on vacation with her family, so no computers.) They both have to do with food and people.
1) Which lifestyle is actually healthier for you? A normal meat and vegetables person, or a vegetation.
2) Does eating nothing but health food effect your mood, and the way you do things?

I'll tell her.
=)

Any ideas for really nice eighth grade projects?

I remember doing a science fair project in grade 8 too. I went later on to toronto wide one and got bronze. My was basically based on flood. It's quite simple actually. We all know that during a flood sandbags are used and that inside it are sand. Well what you can do is fill the sandbag with other materials such as flour, cement, a mixture of sand and rock, all sorts of things (make sure you have a sicentific reasoing for each material). Them you can sew little bags and put your material in and find out. Everyone that is judging want something that will help us and is innovative and this is perfect. So it's just a extra idea.

Hope this helps.

By the way I really love the second idea for you see kids that are obese constantly saying how food makes them feel better.

Food companies get 'F' for marketing to kids
Three quarters of the 128 companies get a failing grade for their policies on marketing food to kids, according to a new report card from the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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Grade 1 for White & 6 for Black

prentice hall science
alien periodic table, prentice hall?

on page 106 of the chemical building blocks 7th grade science book is an activity called "Alien Periodic Table".
I put the 'alien elements' in and now i have to answer the analyze and conclude questions.
Does anyone know number 1? (List the Earth names for the 30 alien elements in order of atomic number)
thanks. 10 points for best answer
sorry Will H, it isn't that activity thanks though!

Use standard periodic table as a template. Click on links to see element groups to help you.

http://www.chemicalelements.com/

Atomic number is the number of protons. i.e. H, He, Li, Be etc. for standard periodic table. List your alien elements in the same order as you have asigned them to Earth elements.

http://www.chemicalelements.com/show/atomicnumber.html

Color Decoded
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No.” —Pablo Picasso Good question, Pablo. But while the question is easy enough to understand, coming up with a complete and comprehensive answer is less so.

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Critical Analysis of Ken Ham's Do Animals Evolve?

harcourt california science

Career In Engineering Part -2

Study Routes

 

Class XII in Physics, Chemistry and Maths

 

After Class XII

Engineering is a four-year Bachelor Degree course where admission is subject to an Admission Test.  You can obtain a BE/BTech from the following

• Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, Mumbai, Roorkee, Kanpur and Guwahati are the most coveted of engineering colleges.
• Regional Engineering Colleges such as Kurukshetra, DCE, Jamshedpur, Rourkela, Silchar, which have a common entrance exam.
• BITS Pilani, Manipal College of Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute and quite a few more are other primary engineering colleges

 

There are a number of other colleges in India and abroad available for which information can be got on the net.

 

Admission for a Master’s Degree can be obtained based on performance and the score in GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering).

 

TOP 15 Engineering Colleges (May 2007)

 

1. IIT, Kharagpur
2. IIT, Kanpur
3. IIT, Mumbai
4. IIT, Delhi
5. IIT, Chennai
6. BITS, Pilani
7. IIT, Roorkee
8. IT BHU, Varanasi
9. Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
10. IIT, Guwahati
11. College of Engineering, Anna Univ,Guindy
12. Jadavpur University, Calcutta
13. NIT, Trichy
14. NIT, Warangal
15. BITs Mesra, Ranchi

 

Top 50 Govt. Engineering Colleges

 

1

IIT

Kharagpu

26

IIIT

Allahabad

2

IIT

Kanpur

27

SVNIT

Surat

3

IIT

Mumbai

28

NIT

Rourkela

4

IIT

Delhi

29

NIT

Kurukshetra

5

IIT

Chennai

30

NIT

Khozikhode

6

IIT

Roorkee

31

College of Engineering0

Vishakapatnam

7

IT BHU

Varanasi

32

Mumbai Univ Inst

Mumbai

8

Indian School of Mines

Dhanbad

33

College of Engineering

Thirupuram

9

IIT

Guwahati

34

NIT

Jamshedpur

10

College of Engineering

Chennai

35

Coimbatore Inst. Of Tech

Coimbatore

11

Jadhavpur College

Calcutta

36

NIT

Durgapur

12

NIT

Trichy

37

JNTU

Hyderabad

13

NIT

Warangal

38

Govt. College of Engineering

Coimbatore

14

Delhi School of Engineering

New Delhi

39

Annamalai University

Annamalianagar

15

Punjab Engineering College

Chandigarh

40

University Visvesvaraya

Bangalore

16

NIT

Suratkal

41

SGS Inst of  Tech & Science

Indore

17

Motilal Nehru National Inst. Of Tech

Allahabad

42

Osmania Univ College of Eng

Hyderabad

18

Bengal Eng & Science univ

Howrah

43

IIIT

Calcutta

19

Netaji Subhash Inst of Tech

New Delhi

44

NIT

Jalandhar

20

IIIT

Hyderabad

45

NIT

Hamirour

21

Harcourt Butler Techn Inst

Kanpur

46

Jabalpur Engineering College

Jabalpur

22

Malviya National Inst. Of Tech

Jaipur

47

JNTU

Kalkinada

23

MANIT

Bhopal

48

NIT

Raipur

24

VNIT

Nagpur

49

NIT

PAtna

25

College of Engineering

Pune

 

50

NIT

Silchar

 

Top 50 Private Engineering Colleges

 

1

BITS

Pilani

26

Amrita Institute of Technology

Coimbatore

2

BITS Mesra

Ranchi

27

Sh. Ramdeo Baba inst of Technology

Nagpur

3

PSG College of Technology

Coimbatore

28

Karunya Institute of Technology

Coimbatore

4

Thapar Inst of Eng & Technology

Patiala

29

Kongu Engieering College

Erode

5

Dhirubai Ambani Institute of infocom

Gandhinagar

30

Sreenidhi Institute of Science Technology

Hyderabad

6

Manipal Institute of Tech

MAnipal

31

SDM College of Engineering

Dharwad

7

Vellore Institute of Technology

Vellore

32

Mufkham Jha Eng Coll

Hyderabad

8

VJTI

Mumbai

33

MS Ramaiah

Bangalore

9

SSN College of Engineering

Chennai

34

Vasavi College of Engieering

Hyderabad

10

RV College of Engineering

Bangalore

35

JAypee University

Solan

11

PES Institute of Technology

Bangalore

36

RVR & JC College of Engineering

Guntur

12

Sardar Patel College of Engineering

Mumbai

37

Kalinga Institute of Ind Tech

Bhubhaneshwar

13

Maharashtra Institute of Technology

Pune

38

KL College of Engineering

Vaddeswaram

14

SJ College of Engineering

Mysore

39

Babu Banarasi Das

Lucknow

15

SASTRA University

Thanjavur

40

Inst of Tech & Management

Gurgaon

16

Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology

Hyderabad

41

Hindustan Inst of Eng Tech

Chennai

17

Nirma Institute of Technology

Ahmedabad

42

Siddhartha Eng College

Vijaywada

18

BMS College of Engineering

Bangalore

43

Sona College of Tech

Salem

19

SRM Institute of Technology

Chennai

44

Galgotia

Noida

20

Bangalore Institute of Technology

Bangalore

45

VIT

Pune

21

Sathyabhama Institute of Technology

Chennai

46

Yashwantrao Chavan

Nagpu

22

Gitam

Vishakapatnam

47

Shri Chitra Thirunal College

Thiruvananthapuram

23

National Institute of Engineering

Mysore

48

KAkatiya Institute

Warangal

24

ICFAI Inst of Technology

Hyderabad

49

KLE Society’s College of Engineering

Belgaum

25

Mepco Schlenk Eng Col

Sivakasi

50

JSS Academy

Bangalore

 

 

College Overseas

 

USA

• Massachusetts institute of technology, school of engineering
• Stanford University, school of engineering
• University of California – Berkley school of engineering
• University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign school of engineering
• Georgia Institute of technology, school of engineering
• California Institute of Technology, school of engineering
• Cornell University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• University of Texas at Austin

 

UK

• University of Cambridge
• University of Oxford
• University of Bristol
• University of Warwick
• University of London, Imperial
• University of Sheffield
• University of Southampton
• University of London, UCL
• University of Edinburgh
• University of York

 

Australia

• University OF Queensland
• Monash University
• Curtin University of Technology
• University of Technology, Sydney
• RMIT University (Australia)
• Victoria University of Technology
• University of South Australia

 

About the Author

Above article written is by Shiksha.com. Shiksha is an education portal that connects education seeker with education provider. Shiksha has wide information over, Engineering courses, courses, scholarships, admission notifications and other colleges in India .Its education forums enable its users to seek opinion of students, alumni and faculty of colleges.

"The Madam Curie Complex" Sample Chapter: Part Two "Louis Leakey's 'Primitive' Feminism" [Thus Spake Zuska]
This is part two of a multi-part presentation of a sample chapter from a forthcoming book, The Madam Curie Complex. Part One can be found here . Recently I was approached with an offer to share with my readers a sample chapter from a forthcoming book called The Madam Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science . A caveat: I have not read the whole book, and offering the sample chapter ...

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When Emotions Make Better Decisions - Antonio Damasio

science stephen wolfram
Have you read Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science?"?

What do you think about it?
I bought the tome awhile ago because I was very interested and intrigued by it. But I just havent had any time to get through it! Too busy with med school, etc etc....
If I understand correctly, Wolfram derived ingenius equations predicting many of the naturally occuring events that we see around us in nature. It sounds like a blend of mathematics, chaos theory, and universal theory! I'm intrigued...
If you've read it, Id love to hear what you think about it.

PS - I know I know, I REALLY DO intend to find time to read it!

I tried, I REALLY, REALLY tried, but it was so d*mn self-promotional I just could not stand it. I expect my science to be just a leettle more dispassionate and impersonal.

I would have liked:
- More about the results than bloviating about how important the results are
- More about the results than about how others' (computational) results are a dead end
- More about the results than about how misunderstood the author is

After all the buildup, just about anything concrete he says is a letdown. You are left with the same "Is that all there is?" feeling that accompanied the over-hyped rollout of the "Segway" a few years back.

David has recommended several good books that explore concrete science. In the opposite direction, I would highly recommend Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer-Prize-winning book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" as a fascinating exploration of abstract mathematics and math/science philosophy.

Wolfram Alpha LLC Names Barak Berkowitz as Managing Director
Wolfram Alpha LLC, creator of the breakthrough Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine, today announced the appointment of Barak Berkowitz as Managing Director. Berkowitzâa well-known industry veteranâbrings to Wolfram|Alpha 30 years of experience in introducing world-changing technologies to the marketplace.

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A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram

science grade grade
What would be a good sophisticated water pollution or environmental project for a 10th grade science fair?

My daughter is in a charter school that emphasizes math and science. They make a big deal of science fair projects and it's a major part of their grade. That's good, but the bar is pretty high. I thought we could get ahead of the game this summer. Any ideas for projects or resources?

Try looking online for some ideas. The internet is filled with tons of great things. I don't know what kind of project your daughter might need, but here are two ideas I have. One: You could get some buckets filled with POND water from different ponds. And measure their ph levels, and chemicals in them. And compare their results, and record them. Two: You could try "going green" and change as much as you can in your life and compare it to how you used to live (before "going green"). Those are only two ideas though.

Lynd School science fair students do well at regional competition
A group of Lynd School students' science fair projects were ranked among the best in the region by judges at the Southwest Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Mankato Feb. 6., said Lynd teacher Martin Boucek. Not only are seventh and eighth-grade students Lestat Clemmer, Christian Johnson, Keith Lewis and Destinee Strand headed for the state science fair in St.

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6th Grade Science Project

science planet earth
What's a good song the has earth science words in it?

I have to do this thing for my earth science class where you show something like a "show and tell" and he said we could use songs. So i need to find a song or two that has words like: ocean, earth, stars, atmosphere, names of the planets or stuff like that. Plus i can't use the songs Drops of Jupiter

Use the song, "This is Planet Earth" by Duran Duran

School News: Indiantown Middle School announces Science and Engineering Fair winners
School News: Indiantown Middle School announces Science and Engineering Fair winners

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THE SECRET-- planet earth, BEST INSPIRATIONAL TOOL, SGR