mid-rise building‚ designed by architect Mick Pearce in conjunction with engineers at Arup Associates‚ has no conventional air-conditioning or heating‚ yet stays regulated year round with dramatically less energy consumption using design methods inspired by indigenous Zimbabwean masonry and the self-cooling mounds of African termites! Termites in Zimbabwe build gigantic mounds inside of which they farm a fungus that is their primary food source. The fungus must be kept at exactly 87 degrees F
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What is the greatest invention of all time? Throughout time there have been lots of new inventions which have both hindered and helped everyday life with humans. There are many different possible world’s greatest inventions because they have all helped out humankind in some way‚ some more than others. I think that the greatest invention of all time is Harnessed Electricity. Some may argue that this was not an invention it was a discovery but although electricity itself was a discovery there was
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for Legends on the net by Fernback Legends on the net by Jan Fernback‚ he argues that the oral cultural has been changed from past to contemporary. He says that‚ orality and literacy becomes less important because of human develop the cyberspace. Today‚ in our society people need to use internet because we are using it everywhere and it becomes part of our culture. In addition‚ the author says that‚ oral tradition has been warning for community living. Fernaback agues that‚ urban legend as
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video inspired me alot. The fact that he is blind and doesn’t believe it is amazing. He has a great mind set and tells himself he is not blind and nothing is wrong with him is incredible. I think if a blind teenager can teach himself to see then anyone can do anything. They just have to have the right mindset. Ben Underwood doesn’t let anyone tell im he is blind. Ben’s story inspires me to do more things that people tell me I can’t do and it shows me that I can do things better than what I or others
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Invention of Lying Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said‚ “Silently‚ one by one‚ in the infinite meadows of heaven‚ blossomed the lovely stars‚ the forget-me-nots of the angels.” There has been a lot of talk about heaven over the years. Many people who have claimed that they know what heaven is like or what we experience when we die. While this can be comforting to some‚ it raises questions of how they could know given the fact that one would have to either be a prophet of God or someone who has actually
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The mobile phone—world’s best invention On 10th of March‚ 1876 Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first speech using electricity. From that day forward‚ the telephone system changed every aspect of life. Although it did not immediately change the world‚ it set communication on a path that would change the future of communication. Mobile phones appeared in the early 1980’s and today there are millions in use. Today‚ mobile phones do much more than just allow for voice conversation‚ mobile phones
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The Invention of Jay Gatsby Mckenzie Hart 03.03.05 "It was a testimony to the romantic speculation that he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that is was necessary to whisper about in this world." (48) States the narrator‚ illustrating the attractiveness to attention and gossip of a party host. The quote comments on a conversation of two woman gossiping about the mysterious host named Gatsby. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby‚ a young
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Urban Legends In this paper I will explain exactly what an urban legend is‚and give some examples of very popular ones that have been passed by word of mouth for decades across the United States. 1 " An urban legend is a story that is so bizarre‚horrifying‚or unexplainable‚ that it makes something inside of us want to believe it." Urban Legends can have traced origins from other countries‚ universities
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Cooper - History of Cell Phone. (2003). Recovered june 15 of 2014‚ from http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/martin_cooper.htm Martin Cooper Mobile Phone Inventions Whartonmotorola Attwireless Technology Innovatators. (2008). Recovered june 15 of 2014‚ from http://www.sciences360.com/index.php/martin-cooper-mobile-phone-inventions-whartonmotorola-attwireless-technology-innovatators-18207/ Firt cellphone a true ‘brick’. (2005). Recovered june 15 of 2014‚ from http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7432
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The Invention of Paper in China Introduction Have you ever thought what life would be like without paper? Have you ever considered how many uses there are for paper? What about who came up with the idea for paper and where paper came from? Paper is one of those objects that we just take for granted. For our lifetimes it has always been around. We have never knows what it would be like to have to document something on anything but paper. Prior to the invention of paper‚ what was used to record
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