Gabrielle Di Bernardo 7th grade Science 17/1/2015 Harry Potter Reveals Secrets of the Brain People sometimes describe reading as watching a movie in your head. Scientists have long wondered what creates such vivid images‚ and/or experiences out of simply reading a string of letters. A recent study evaluated all levels of reading‚ from word length and order‚ to plot‚ character‚ and even emotion. Its results reveal some of the ways our brains turn these words into such images. Computer Scientists
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U.S. CARRIERS FACE SHRINKING POOL OF PILOTS Yan Kravets Management of Aviation Environmental Issues February 3‚ 2015 A big majority of awaiting pilot retirements among major carriers over the next decade is forcing the entire pilot supply chain to unify in a search for solutions to keep the industry due to stalling to fill in the vacant cockpit seats. There is still debate about the magnitude of the problem‚ but its emerging effects are already showing in the form of canceled flights‚ parked regional
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International Probe into Sri Lanka War Crimes The United Nations held a meeting about the war crimes in Sri Lanka. The war has been going on for quite some time. Since then‚ there has been little progress. The United States plans to propose a way to resolve the war crimes. This conflict will not affect in the future. This conflict does not affect my future either. The reason for this is that it is happening in another county‚ and it is also a civil situation within that country. I feel that
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From Beatings to Tweets‚ Racism on the Rise in Greece The population of Greece is 11 million. Of this 11 million‚ 1 million are immigrants‚ many of which are illegal. There has been a recent uprising of violent attacks of racism due to the increasing number of immigrants in Greece. A party known as the “Golden Dawn” has been behind many of these attacks. They were also said to be behind a tweet prejudicially referring to the African immigrants of Greece. Forwarding this tweet‚ triple
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More than 90 percent of American adults own a mobile phone‚ and more than half of the devices are smartphones. But “smartphone” is a misnomer. They are personal computers that happen to include a phone function‚ and like any computer they can store or wirelessly retrieve enormous amounts of personal information: emails‚ photos and videos; document files; financial and medical records; and virtually everywhere a person has been. On Tuesday‚ the Supreme Court will consider whether law enforcement
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Current Events September Summarize the Article Parkinson’s disease‚ a chronic disease with unknown causes‚ attacks brain cells‚ specifically the ones that control body movement. This causes shaking‚ stiff limbs‚ and poor coordination. Because of this‚ Professor Trond Riise and colleagues Anders Engeland and Kjetil Bjørnevik started the painstaking work of analyzing over 100 million prescriptions in Norway. Their research started in 2004 and continues to this day. In their study‚ the medicines that
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Evan Schwartz September 19‚ 2012 Current Event #1 With the internet came a whole new type of economy. Sites popped up with whole new ways to make purchases. Almost anything from around the world can be purchased online. For a while‚ the most popular transactional methods were to buy direct from a store’s website‚ from a large retailer like Amazon‚ or from auctions created by other consumers on EBay. But a new method has arrived that is racking up millions of dollars of online transactions
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Vulnerable Population in Current Events Vanessa Torres NUR 400 January 14‚ 2013 Maria Mendez Vulnerable Population in Current Events Vulnerability comes in different shapes and forms. It applies to different settings and also populations. Vulnerability has two categories; individualize that means a person is vulnerable within a context. The other is a group‚ because of susceptibility
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Vinny Candelora Physics current event 3/3/13 This has never been done before at high energies and represents a significant breakthrough‚ Cline said‚ adding that it also may have implications for fusion as a new energy source. In free space‚ a plane-wave laser is unable to accelerate an electron‚ according to the Lawson-Woodward theorem‚ posited in 1979. However‚ Yu-kun Ho‚ a professor at China’s Fudan University in Shanghai‚ and his research group have proposed a concept of what physicists refer
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GROUP AVG: 20 OUT OF 25 Individual Country Current Event Evaluation Form Directions: Complete the following current event evaluation form for each of the individuals in your team’s assigned class group. You should critique each individual’s current event assignment and determine a score you would assign that person for each evaluation criteria listed below as well as a total score. Upload an evaluation form for each individual in your assigned group to the Dropbox designated for this assignment
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