Thursday, December 29, 2011

A mound near Jefferson City

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"Before the coming of white settlers, the region surrounding Jefferson City was home to an ancient group known as the Mound People. In ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Bicycles - 1897

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From The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897, by Various INVENTION...

The searchlight - 1897

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897, by Various http://www....

Moving sand dunes

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 In several desert areas, the slow motion of sand dunes can be a challenge for modern human activities and a threat for the survival of anci...

Centennial Superconductivity

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The Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Volume 51, Number 1, January 2012 had published the Special Section: Centennial Anniversary of Sup...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Higgs boson

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"On Tuesday, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, said that data from two independent experiments had help...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Acoustic freezer

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Thermoacoustic engines (sometimes called "TA engines") are thermoacoustic devices which use high-amplitude sound waves to pump hea...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Mollusc shell features in engineering materials

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"The mollusc shell is made up of only one mineral: calcium carbonate, yet the combination of that plus other enzymes and proteins gives...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Hic sunt Garamantes

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"Satellites and aerial photographs have revealed evidence of over a hundred fortified farms, villages, and towns - many with castle-lik...
Friday, December 2, 2011

Raphael's portrait of Leonardo

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Published as An image processing of a Raphael's portrait of Leonardo , by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnic...