Papers on Science and Environment
Dietary Fibre
Words: 4095 - Pages: 15.... and disadvantages to human health. The way in which fibre helps prevent disease is also discussed extensively in order to prove that clinical nutritionists are right to encourage intake of in increased amounts with caution to the fact that overindulgence may cause adverse effects.
Lastly the importance of high fibre foods in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle is presented as the 'formula' for a healthy body and avoidance of fibre depleted foods, a fact which is sadly abundant nowadays, is also mentioned.
Since ancient times, foods containing complex carbohydrates have been considered to be the ones with most nutritional value. Ev .....
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The Lowell Observatory
Words: 730 - Pages: 3.... the first observatory in Arizona. It is a
great family attraction with its location being in the popular Tourist City
of Flagstaff; the observatory looks over the city. You are guided through a
tour and experiments, and also are allowed to use the telescopes they have
located on Mars Hill.
There are a total of nine telescopes, eight which are at the
observatory, of these many of them are historic, such as the 24" Clark
Refractor that is 102 years old. The Pluto telescope dome and John Vickers
McAllister telescope dome, which is 16" long, are also telescopes you would
find at Lowell Observatory. The most modern telescope they have th .....
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Pesticides
Words: 1990 - Pages: 8.... in regards to health factors, have overwhelmed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and demand they enforce pesticide regulations. With the assistance from other organizations such as the Senate Agriculture Committee (SAC), National Academy of Science (NAS), National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Consumers Union (CU), the EPA has made a notable progress. Throughout the years, consumers have pushed for research of the chemicals and substances that produce agricultural and what these do to our internal system. Congressman, James J. Delaney was also convinced that too many pesticide chemicals were found in foods. So in .....
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Atomic Bombs
Words: 593 - Pages: 3.... 1945, the first Atomic Bomb blast on Hiroshima, Japan, obliterated three-fifth of the city within seconds and killed a total of 115,000 people in only a few minutes according to a local newspaper in Japan. Moreover, the second bomb being dropped at Nagasaki killed an average of 70,000 people. In these two blasts, entire families perished, leaving no one to report the death until four months from the catastrophe. This has made the Atomic Bomb the most powerful weapon ever invented in mankind.
Secondly, countries that produce these bombs are harming others as well as themselves if there was war. For example, if a country fires an at .....
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Origins And Bibliography Of The Big Bang Theory
Words: 3947 - Pages: 15.... ground appear." And it was so. (Gen. 1:9)
- - - - Further reading:
1. John H. Schwartz, "Completing Einstein", SCIENCE 85, vol 6, pp 60-64,
1985.
2. Robert Palmer, "What's a Quark?", SCIENCE 85, VOL 6, pp 66-71, 1985
3. Bruce Schechter, "The Moment of Creation", DISCOVER, April 1983,
pp 18-25.
4. Lawrence R. Sulak, "Waiting for the Proton to Decay", AMERICAN
SCIENTIST, 70, 616-625, 1982.
5. Mary K. Gaillard, "Toward a Unified Picture of Elementary Particle
Interactions", AMERICAN SCIENTIST 70, 506-514.
- - - - The following background articles
were downloa .....
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Platinum
Words: 640 - Pages: 3.... The ore, called native platinum,
usually occurs in beds of gold-bearing sand. Miners call it white gold.
Native platinum contains from 60 to 85 percent pure platinum. The small,
irregular grains that contain the ore also contain other rare metals, such
as iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium. The grains also
contain small amounts of iron, copper, chromium, and titanium. A large
nugget of platinum will be found only on occasion, like in 1843, a lump
weighing over 21 pounds was found in Russia. Russia produces the worlds
largest share of platinum-group metals. Other important sources of
platinum are located in the Trans .....
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Linux Vs Nt
Words: 1051 - Pages: 4.... wins the price to performance ratio. What is more important to discuss is the initial hardware and software fees, and maintenance and reliability which often go hand in hand. According to Sunworld, the estimated minimal required hardware costs that would go with a Linux machine is $200. In an NT machine, the minimal hardware cost rose up to $1300. This is because NT requires at least a 486 Pentium with 16MB of RAM. Linux can run fine on a 386 computer with only 8MB of RAM.
What do the majority of users need a computer for? Mainly word processing and the use of a database program. An NT user doesn’t have to go with Microsoft Of .....
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Effects Of Smoking 2
Words: 498 - Pages: 2.... the smoke or because of the stereotype that smokers are "bad". But these outside effects are instantly noticeable and people can react badly to you and thus make immediate bad impressions on people that you need to make a good impression on. Be it with a teacher, someone who is interviewing you for a job, or simply someone you are trying to get romanticly involved with.
Then there are the more harmful and insidious side effects of smoking. Such as lung cancer, cancer of the throat, and other health problems too numerous to mention. Lung cancer has become very common amoung smokers and it is known fully by most smokers that they are getting .....
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Lamarck's Influence On The Development Of Darwin's Theory Of Evolution
Words: 1954 - Pages: 8.... rationality of the world. And
although flawed, the work of Lamarck did not go unnoticed, however. Darwin also
believed in the harmony of the world, and it was Darwin himself who said that
Lamarck was the first man whose conclusions on evolution brought about
excitement and attention. He was the one who showed law in organic and inorganic
species evolution. As it turned out, the work of Lamarck was quite influential
on Darwin. Lamarck's views on inheritance of characteristics can be seen in
Darwin's accounts of natural selection. When Lamarck wrote of transmutation,
Darwin followed with his beliefs of the mutability of species. As well, D .....
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Mercury Report
Words: 1920 - Pages: 7.... period, lava flowed across the surface and covered the older crust. By this time much of the debris had been swept up and Mercury entered a lighter bombardment period. During this period the intercrater plains formed. Then Mercury cooled. Its core contracted which in turn broke the crust and produced the prominent lobate scarps. During the third stage, lava flooded the lowlands and produced the smooth plains. During the fourth stage micrometeorite bombardment created a dusty surface also known as regolith. A few larger meteorites impacted the surface and left bright rayed craters. Other than the occasional collisions of meteorites, Mercu .....
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