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The Big Bang
Alexander 1 Since the beginning of mankind, we have been in search of answers from, why is the sky blue? what makes the birds sing in the spring? all the way to what is that big yellow thing that moves about the sky every day? Throughout history, one of the
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The Big Bang
The Big Bang Through a vast amount of nothing, the universe was created. Many people have doubted the religious belief of creationism when God made Adam and Eve. However, it never said how god created the Earth, only that he made humans and nature on the Earth. These thoughts were
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The Big Bang of Human Evolution
THE BIG BANG OF HUMAN EVOLUTION The hominid brain grew at an accelerating pace until it reached its present size of 1500cc about 200,000 years ago. Yet uniquely human abilities such the invention of highly sophisticated "standardized" multi- part tools, tailored clothes, art, religious belief and perhaps even language are
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The Big Bang Theory
According to most astrophysicists, all the matter found in the universe today -- including the matter in people, plants, animals, the earth, stars, and galaxies -- was created at the very first moment of time, thought to be about 13 billion years ago. The universe began, scientists believe, with every
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The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory The original concept of the Big Bang theory states that the universe materialized through a process called singularity at the start of the universe known as time zero. It describes the process taking place 0.0001 seconds after the start of time, "the birth of creation". Upon
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The Big Bang Theory - Stars of the Universe
The Big Bang: The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain how the universe was made. Our universe is thought to have begun as small, hot and dense. After the big bang theory the universe expanded and cooled, going from very small, and hot, to the size and temperature
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The Big Issue
Humanity is plagued with many moral issues each day. And when the announcement was made that a research facility in England had successfully cloned a sheep, many more questions arose. The overall question is, "To clone or not to clone?" Many groups worldwide, doctors, politicians, religious people, have been
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The Biological Importance of Water and Its Role in Living Organisms
The biological importance of water and its role in living organisms What is water? Water (from the Old English word water) is a colourless, tasteless, and odourless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known also as the most universal solvent. Water has a
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The Biological Revolution
The Biological Revolution The year is 2025, parents can now ensure that their children will not be prone to addictions, mental illness and are even resistant to AIDS. Diseases are considered a burden of previous generations. Even the process of aging can be manipulated to suit man. No longer
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The Biology of Vision
The Biology of Vision The human eye is an organ that has been cited by proponents of intelligent design as one too perfect and complex to have developed naturally on its own. However, the eye and the biological process of vision has counterintuitive steps and so many opportunities for something
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The Biosphere
Biosphere: The biosphere is part of the earth in which life exists. It is 20 kilometers thick from the bottom of the ocean to the lower atmosphere. It consists of three layers: the lithosphere, which is the land on the surface of the earth; the hydrosphere, which comprises of the
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The Bird Flu
The Bird Flu In the next few paragraphs I will be talking about the bird flue, how this virus evolves, how the evolution of the bird flu is related to the fear of "The Bird Flu Pandemic'. I will also be talking about how Evolution is related to Genetics.
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The Bird Flu Strikes Japan Again
Current report # 4 The Next pandemic? The bird flu strikes Japan again What is disease? A disease is an abnormal change in the body's condition that impairs important physical or psychological functions. The bird flu affects humans like a disease. The virus has killed 164 people since 2003, according
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The Black Death Plague
The Black Death Plague The Black Death plague, also known as the Bubonic plague, attacked Europe in 1347. The Bubonic plague was one of the many pestilences that would attack almost the entire Eastern Hemisphere. The last plague attacked a European city, Marseilles in 1722. On 1347, the name Ð"ÑžÐ'ЂÐ'ÑšBlack
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The Black Hole
The Black Hole Everyday I wonder what is out there. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the things that lie beyond our grasp. Our universe holds a mystery that is very difficult to understand because of the
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The Black Plague
The Black Plague Then The people of the Crimea were dying from a plague. Believing it was a foreign disease brought to their shores by Italian merchants, the people of the East got back at the Italians by exposing them to the corpses of the victims. Ships arrived from Caffa
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The Block
I believe in creation. I believe that God created the world. I believe in the bible story of creation, but I think that when they say that God created the world in six days that they might not have meant six days as in what we think of as a
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The Blue Crab
The Chesapeake Bay produces the largest amount of crabs in the United States. The Blue Crab or Callinectes sapidus, are mainly found in the deep waters of the open Bay among the waving strands of the bay grasses. The Blue Crab takes advantage of its' opportunities when it comes
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The Blue Whale
The Blue Whale Balaenoptera Musculus, or the blue whale, is the largest mammal in the world. This enormous mammal can grow to be 110 feet long and weigh as much as 190 tons. That's longer than two city buses and the total weight of 30 elephants. This giant is powered
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The Blue Whale
Blue Whales The Blue whale is the largest creature of the sea, in fact, it is the largest creature known to man. Contrary to what most people think, even though Blue whales live in the sea, they are mammals. They breathe air, have their babies born alive and can live
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The Boa Constrictor
The Boa Constrictor The boa constrictor was the most interesting animal I saw at the Memphis zoo. Josh and I held it at a class that we went to. It weighed around one hundred pounds, and it was a female. Boa constrictors live in the tropical rainforests, savannas, and mangrove
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The Brain
There are many different structures and areas inside the brain. I will discuss four of them with you. They are the thalamus, hypothalamus, endocrine and limbic systems. In this paper I will discuss the location of each structure in the brain, its functions, and disorders/pathology related to damage to these
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The Brain 's Cerebral Cortex
The brain is three pounds of tissue that are part of the nervous system. It is one of the two basic parts and contains a bout 100 billion nerve cells. The glilia is the cells that take care of the neuron cells ands allow the nueroin cells to carry out
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The Brain and Cranial Nerves
The Brain and Cranial Nerves One of the most complex and fascinating things in the human body is the brain. The body is "capable of almost everything, but it would not be possible, without the brain receiving information, and analyzing the information." The brain is aware of its surroundings, via
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The Brownfield Problem
The Brownfield Problem Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real, or perceived environmental contamination that can add cost, time, and uncertainty to the redevelopment process. Throughout the country there are an estimated 450,000 brownfields. These vacant properties exist mostly
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The Cassowary Bird
The Cassowary Bird A cassowary is the name for a large, flightless, and strange looking bird that lives in the tropical forests of Australia and New Guinea. Cassowaries come from the ratite group, and there are three species: Southern Cassowary/Double-wattled cassowary of Australia and New Guinea, Dwarf Cassowary of New
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The Causes and Conequences of Global Warming
The causes and consequences of Global Warming Over the 4.55 billion years or so that the Earth has been around, climate has fluctuated a lot. These fluctuations, however, were over long periods of time and totally natural, nothing like the Earth's current situation. We are used to hearing about "Ice
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The Causes of Delayed Menarche in Female Athletes
- THE CAUSES OF DELAYED MENARCHE IN FEMALE ATHLETES - INTRODUCTION Greater emphases on the benefits of exercise have led to a greater participation of women in sport at all levels. Exercise has been promoted, endorsed and encouraged in the medical community as a way to reduce stress and
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The Cell
The Cell It was the first day of elementary science class. The students were seated and eager to learn about the wonders of a the cell. "Good morning class, my name is Mrs. White and I will be your science teacher." All of the students seemed excited to learn about
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The Cell as the Basic Unit of Life
Like cement sets the foundation for a house, the cell theory sets the foundation for biology. Schleiden and Schwann proposed the cell theory, which states that the cell is the basic unit of life and that new cells arise only from the reproduction of already existing cells via cell cycle,
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