...http://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-cosmic-factory-blocks-life.html In the article it states that when icy comets collide into a planet, amino acids are created. These are the building blocks of life and from the amino acids. This means that amino acids can be created anywhere in the world with these conditions. The article also states that a couple of moons of Saturn have the perfect environment for creating amino acids if a comet hits them. The researchers stated that the comets crash into the ground, which create shockwaves that create amino acids. The scientists figured this out by using a special gun that replicates the crash of a comet. This article is related to science/biology because it helps us understand how life first formed on Earth. I think this discovery will benefit everyone around the world equally because a common question usually asked is how the world was created in a scientific sense. Scientists will be very happy with this information because it would help them keep researching for ideas to satisfy peoples questions related to this topic. Sep. 15, 2013 — Scientists have discovered a 'cosmic factory' for producing the building blocks of life, amino acids, in research published today in the journal Nature Geoscience. The team from Imperial College London, the University of Kent and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory discovered that when icy comets collide into a planet, amino acids can be produced. These essential building blocks are also produced if...
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...By studying ancient rock formations throughout the world, geologists have been able to determine at least two times in the Earth’s history, its land masses have been combined as one super continent. Withgott and Laposata (2012) say that plate boundaries can be categorized into three different types; divergent plate boundaries, transform plate boundaries, and convergent plate boundaries. With divergent plate boundaries, the tectonic plates are pushed apart from one another as magma flows upward to the surface, creating new crust as it cools down (Withgott & Laposata, 2012). Withgott and Laposata (2012) explain to us, when two plates touch, they often slip and grind alongside one another. This process forms transform plate boundaries, says Withgott and Laposata (2012). When this movement takes place, it can generate friction that is known to cause earthquakes along strike-slip faults, explains Withgott...
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...units called atoms. Here we will see the views of what makes up atoms, two great philosophers, compare, and contrast their views on the atomic theory and what it is. Let us first look at one of the greatest ancient philosopher of atomism, Democritus, also known as the laughing philosopher 460 – 370 BC. Democritus stated that all matter is made of units that move around in a void. The purpose of this void is for atoms to change motion from place to place through the void moving in a senseless motion colliding with each other. He also stated that the void had an equal right with reality, is to considered existent. He conceived of the void as a vacuum, an infinite space in which moved an infinite number of atoms that make up the physical world. The combinations of atomic formed by creation growth and destruction. These atoms are absolutely small that their size cannot be seen by the senses. Democritus had that the view that all matter being atoms, he believed persons saw changes in things because of the rearrangement of atoms and earth, fire, air and water were also atoms. Although these matters are made up of the same matter, they differ in shape, size, position and arrangement; they are even indivisible, completely solid, unchangeable, and indestructible and weigh no weight. These ever moving atoms have no qualities but position and the common stuffs and qualities of our senses are apperances of the various shapes and combination of atoms. Thus, white things have surfaces made...
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...Worksheet From Visualizing Earth Science, by Merali, Z., and Skinner, B. J, 2009, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Copyright 2009 by Wiley. Adapted with permission. Part 1 This diagram was similar to one Alfred Wegener drew to show the distribution of continents 300 million years ago. His theory of continental drift was met with skepticism in the scientific community. [pic] 1. Describe three forms of evidence Wegener used to support his ideas of continental drift. Wegener used landorms, climate, and fossils to support his theory of continental drift. He said that when it came to landforms all the continents seemed to fit like a “jigsaw puzzle”. Even went as as far to say the mountain ranges seemed to line up as well. Wegener said that the same fossils and rock from one continent would end up on a different continent. For instance a fossil found in Africa would also be found in South America. When it came to climate, Wegener said that some fossils did not match the climate. For instance, there a glacier scratches in South Africa. 2. Years later, the continental drift theory reemerged as plate tectonic theory, with two additional pieces of evidence. [pic] [pic] Refer to the images above. Discuss in detail the two pieces of additional evidence that supported Wegener’s theory, now known as the theory of plate tectonics. The first image shows the ages of the banded rocks on the mid-atlantic range...
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...continents we know today. We already know, or have a theory, about what our world was like a long time ago and so if we already know that the plates can pull and push against each other, then surely there must have been a different set up to the one we have now. There is a theory that we were once a supercontinent called Pangaea that began to break up around 200 million years ago. Using plate tectonics, we can explain, predict and see which type of seismic and volcanic events are related to plate tectonics, using more theories like Pangaea to explain them. Covering our earth’s surface there are seven major plates. These plates cover the inside structure of our earth, which consists of our inner core, our outer core, the mantle and then the crust which is what the plates are made out of. Plate tectonics is the theory of these plates moving along the earth’s lithosphere. The lithosphere is in the upper mantle and the lower crust and is responsible for continental drift. This is also because of the convection current running underneath and pulling and pushing the plates apart and together, causing them to converge and destruct. There are two types of plates, oceanic and continental. Both of these plates are completely different and when faced with each other, both have different reactions depending on the type of plate margin. Oceanic crust is younger, heavier and denser. It is made from Sima and subducts when colliding with a continental crust. Continental crust however is older...
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...Diversity in society - “Crash” Diversity and discrimination have forever been an indispensable component of human nature. Whether we move back to the hard times of the Great Depression or come to the modern day’s society, we find a strong reflection of racialism everywhere. These aspects have been well reflected in the movie ‘Crash’. The movie ‘Crash’, released in 2005 was directed by Paul Haggis and written by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco and won three Academy awards. The movie revolves mainly around the overlapping or interlocking events in the life of whites and blacks, rich and poor, cops and criminals, Iranians, Koreans and Latinos - everything defined ultimately by racism. The idea is that “moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other”. It is based on everyday racial reactions in the human society. How we react to situations adds hue to our perceptions of living life itself. All the people involved are guilty of the discrimination but sometimes through indifference, they rise above these. Assuming something about the person before us is rather a dominant feature in Crash. Crash describes a number of people with almost equal importance and shows the psychological inhibitions each of them has based on these narrowness of discrimination. The movie contains coldness, cruelty and pain, but finally unfolds to generate sympathy from general audience and an expectation that people would learn to share similar hopes and fears. As far as Crash is concerned, the...
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...Symbolism of Movies Parallels of Star Trek and World Religions Live long and prosper The new star trek is a long journey mainly on the focus of James Kirk and Spok. In the beginning they start out as opposites and in the end they end up as friends. Typical happy ending I know, but the interesting part is that I hope to show the links between Star Trek and World Religions, which I think are both good subjects to explore and correlate. Buddhism, compassion, the middle way, logic instead of belief, going with the flow Spock is buddhism Hinduism vegas attman brahmin, James Kirk being part of a bigger Atman James Kirk is Hinduism at the end when the Romulans whom tried to destroy earth and destroyed the Vulcan planet we at their perril. Being the last ones of their kind about to be destroyed and suffer death, as a way to repair the relationship and “show compassion” Captain James Kirk offers to save them in the name of peace. This shows Taoism repairing relationships as well as ying and yang. One must be ying and not just yang for all to work. Had the Chinese leaders acted with more compassion or even with more yang relationships can be restored and flow. Annica Annatta Every part has a role, possibly equal and as important. Find the link. Spoc always being logical, part human part vulcan, showing no emotion. His planet was destroyed by Romulans and showed no feedback, just like a robot. As his emotions came back he mentions his anger and how he...
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...When looking at the world at night from the sky we can see how far humans have come in harnessing and manipulating energy, which is so vital to our existence. We use energy to build houses and buildings which protect us, we use it to power our modes of transport, and we use energy that we get from food to power our bodies. With the work of three scientists humans were able to harness and manipulate energy and use it. Gottfried Leibniz and Denis Papin exchanged several notes on the idea of a living force. More than one hundred and fifty years after Leibniz and Papin there came the steam engine, which could accomplish tasks that hundreds of men could not. Then came a French scientist named Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, who reinvented the idea...
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...a car accelerating. When a car accelerates the gasoline has energy stored in it that is released as heat by burning it inside the engine. At least 10% of the heat energy is converted into the cars energy of motion. The rest stays in the form of heat which is released by the cars exhaust (Phun Physics). Another example could be when two cars collide in a traffic accident. When the two cars collide they release an energy that can be transferred from one to the other (Phun Physics). Define what we mean by fossil fuels and explain why they are an attractive source of energy. Fossil fuels are natural resources that can be converted into energy by a simple combustion process. The main types of fossil fuels used are coal, natural gas, and petroleum (Oracle). Some of the advantages of fossil fuels are that they are easily distributed, relatively inexpensive, are readily available, and can be converted through a simple combustion process (Oracle). Coal is a fossil fuel and is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation that originally accumulated in swamps and peat bogs (Word Coal Association). The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago. Through photosynthesis all living plants store solar energy. When they die the energy is usually released as the plants decay. When coal forms the decaying process is stopped, preventing the release of the solar energy, keeping it in the coal (World Coal Association). ...
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...Examine the main religious and secular eschatological and apocalyptic teachings. (45) Introduction: * Eschatology literally means ‘the study of the end things’ and it is a part of the theology or philosophy concerned with the final events in the history of the world and the ultimate destiny of humanity. * Apocalypse means ‘lifting of the veil’ and apocalyptic teaching focuses on revealing or ‘unveiling future events’. Paragraph 1: * In Christianity, eschatological teaching focuses on teaching humans about the values of living a good moral life whilst on earth and the rewards that humans will reap in heaven as a result. * Matthew 25 contains 3 parables of eschatological literature: 1. The Parable of the Wise and Foolish bridesmaids (1-13) – the five virgins who are prepared for the bridegroom's arrival are rewarded, while the five who are not prepared are disowned. The parable has a clear eschatological theme: be prepared for the Day of Judgment 2. The Parable of the Talents (14-30) - the overall theme is end-time events, warning, and parables. "The direct cautions and warnings must be for the disciples (his audience)—warnings to be watchful and to be ready for Christ’s coming". 3. The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (21-46) - The common futurist explanation of the discourse is that it tells of the Last Judgment, and the division of all the world'speople into the blessed, on the Right Hand of God, who are welcomed by the Father to inherit the Kingdom and eternal...
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...Do you make decisions? Are you aware of how much your culture influences your decision making? Your culture influences everyday decisions through its logic, past experiences, and the effect family has on your culture. In this unit we have seen many cases on all three examples. “Such as Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee, “Where Worlds Collide” by Pico Iyer, and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. All of these give great context on how and when we make decisions using our culture. Sometimes it is very big decisions and a lot of times it’s the most basic of problems we solve using what our culture has taught us. Your culture influences your decision making through past experiences. In the story “Where Worlds Collide” by Pico Iyer. In the restroom someone has written “Yes on proposition 187. Mexicans go home,” (lyer 51) this person may have had a bad experience with a person who was Mexican. They also may have gotten the idea from media sources in the story it states of the “images they’ve brought over from Cops and Terminator 2” (Iyer 50). So those people got all their ideas of America from movies they have shown. This may have been the reason for them deciding to come to America....
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...that neutrality is an illusion. It is an illusion because people will never achieve or consider “something” neutral as long as that “something” is different from how or what they think. I agree to the statement, but I have some reservations that neutral question can exist. The fundamental of un-neutrality is clashing of opinions in other words clashing of knowledge. Something that is based upon knowledge is already un-neutral because people will have their own opinion upon something, people will have their own unique paradigm. Even in times where knowledge is neutral people will have different views in assessing the knowledge itself, some people might have the same views in knowledge. However having the same views of knowledge does not mean when a person creates a question the question neutral. Having the same view of knowledge is really difficult as there are plenty factors that builds up a...
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...Pyrenean Ibex is killed by a falling tree. May 13- 23 die in a fireworks factory disaster in the Netherlands. July 14- A geomagnetic storm is caused on Earth by a solar flare. August 14- Dora the Explorer debuts. December 15- The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down completely. 2001 January 15- Wikipedia launches on the Internet. January 20- George W. Bush becomes the president of the United States. June 19- A malfunctioning Iraqi missile hits a soccer field, killing 23. July 2- The world’s first artificial heart is implanted. September 11- Four U.S. commercial airliners are hijacked by terrorists. Two were crashed into the World Trade Center towers, one into the Pentagon, and one into an open field in Shanksville, PA. November 10- The Peoples Republic of China is admitted to the World Trade Organization. 2002 January 8- The No Child Left Behind Act is approved by President Bush. February 28- The past currencies of all European nations...
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...enough to the stars and planets. The images of the Eagle nebula and the Horse head nebula were remarkable; the image from the Hubble telescope of the Orion nebula with the spinning disk of dust and debris spinning around a young star was so extraordinary. It blew my mind how that tiny image was indicating that a solar system was being born. The only thing that left me a little perturbed was the narrative about how eventually Earth will collide with another planet and it will be the end of humankind as we know it. I understand that it is a cycle and obviously our solar system was created by the resulting violent chaos from billions of year ago, so it is likely that in the future, Earth will be destroyed in the same way. It was just a little scary and depressing to hear that in the film and then see a powerful simulation of a planet crashing into Earth. However, despite the violent depictions of planets crashing into each other, I believe that this documentary series was a success. This is the exactly what I wanted to learn about when I registered for this class. This video was very appealing to me, and I hope that it interests other people as well. Thank you, Discovery Channel, for creating an easy-to-follow...
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...When we hear the world collision the first thing we think is crash. In scientific words collision occurs when more than two objects collide against each other as a result, the born of many physics forces like momentum, impulse, inertia and friction. But what is the relationship between collision and a car crash? What we may not notice is that physics is all around us in our life and every life event involves its. The path we take every morning in our way to school, the traveling of the car is a very good example. Studies prove and affirm that the survivors of severe car crashes, survive thanks to the way of protection they used and how is the car designed with specific and special safety precautions. That was our main point we wanted to achieve while making our car for the project. Our design was basically a truck like a jeep. It was all made up of carboard, wood and other small details that beenfit the truck to make it heavier, more rough and hard. It was also covered with newspaper, as a result, giving the car a very hard texture. The passengers seat, was made up all of soft materials like cotton, pads and sponges. The egg was attached with two rubber strings, simulating a safety seat bealt and helping as a support for the egg. All this details and spefcific design had a main goal and something specific to achieve: preventing the egg from breaking and keep it secure in its seat. The demostration of collision and all its forces acting against in this experiment consisted...
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