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#1 The periodic table is a chart of the elements, and it is available to everyone. It is organized and honed, but it is still a jumble of long numbers, abbreviations, and computer error messages.
#2 The castle is made up of different materials in different areas. The coordinates of an element determine nearly everything scientifically interesting about it. The...
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#1 Around five thousand years ago, a new group of people, called the Sumerians, appeared in Mesopotamia. They brought with them a completely new way of life which involved agriculture. The Sumerians developed a sophisticated system of writing and introduced wheeled vehicles.
#2 The first cities were built by the Sumerians around five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia....
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#1 Light is the tool through which we understand our cosmos. Everything we know about our place in the Universe is based on light. Light is a wonder that we are so familiar with in our everyday lives that we can easily overlook how strange it really is.
#2 The idea that light is produced by sources and then enters our eyes is a modern one, and was not accepted...
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#1 The New York City Council has passed laws changing the names of streets all around the city, often focusing on honorary street names layered on top of the regular map. But in 2007, when the council rejected a proposal to rename a street for Sonny Carson, a militant black activist, demonstrators took to the streets.
#2 Street addresses are one of the cheapest...
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#1 The past was governed by the same rules as the present, and this was known as uniformitarianism. It was first developed by the Scottish geologist James Hutton in the late eighteenth century, and culminated in Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, first published in 1830.
#2 Archaeology is a science-based humanity that sets out to reveal the way various communities...
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#1 I thought there was a difference between being twentysomething and being twenty-four or twenty-five. I wanted to join the Peace Corps because I liked to travel and be around attractive people. The helping others aspect of it was not at the forefront of my mind.
#2 I decide not to apply for the Peace Corps, because I'm too old by the time I return. I take a new job...
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#1 The school system has failed some of our children, not the other way around. So many parents understand this logic, and send their kids to tour the country with bands.
#2 When the dropping-out-of-school conversation began, neither of us dared to imagine that the outcome would be so exciting and life changing. I could have said, Just go to school, get your education,...
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#1 I was a 9-week calendar hanging on the wall in our operations room, marking the passing of days. I was glad it was there as the weeks passed, as the large X'd out dates gave me comfort.
#2 During my first rotation in Russia, I was a 9-week calendar hanging on the wall in our operations room, marking the passing of days. I was glad it was there as the weeks...
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#1 The Arab Spring raised the most serious news question of the digital age: verification. How can you know if something is true. How can you know what you're looking at.
#2 I had considered becoming a journalist, but I had not thrived at college and dropped out, taking a series of office jobs that left me unsatisfied. I began watching politicians and celebrities as...
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#1 A true story that my husband told me, is about a man who should have drowned in the North Atlantic in 1984. He was woken up by the cook who told him the trawling gear had snagged on the sea bottom. He swam toward the shore, and within minutes, only two men remained: him and the captain. They called to each other as they swam, to spur each other on.
#2 We are...
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Get the Summary of Jeezy's Adversity for Sale in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Adversity for Sale" chronicles Jeezy's life from his early days of petty theft and familial influences in Hawkinsville, Georgia, to his rise as a successful artist and businessman. Jeezy's grandmother, Mrs. Mattie Pickett, and local entrepreneur Mr. Russell shaped his understanding of relationships and business. Despite a transient...
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#1 As a writer, I'm committed to paying attention and walking through the world as a noticer. I use words to describe things that aren't usually discussed, and I try to bridge the divides between us.
#2 There are things that can run through our lives, ravaging them, and there's nothing we can do to prevent them. We must accept the world as it is, not as we wish it was....
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#1 Brooke's father was a soft touch, and he knew it. He had a knack for getting himself into trouble, though, and when he tried to travel to Borneo in the nineteenth century to bring order to the local chaos, he was accused of massacring innocents.
#2 The rule of the White Rajahs bumbled on, with the title passing to Brooke's nephew, Charles, who did a decent job...
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Get the Summary of Gary Taubes's Rethinking Diabetes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Rethinking Diabetes" by Gary Taubes examines the evolution of diabetes treatment, focusing on the role of diet and insulin therapy. The book traces the history of diabetes management, from early low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets to the introduction of insulin in 1921, which shifted dietary recommendations towards high-carbohydrate...
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#1 Anne Frank was a teenager who was living through an extraordinary experience, and to ground herself, she wrote everything she experienced down in a diary. She was writing about how everyone thought she was badly behaved, and how much she hated algebra and geometry.
#2 The ability to write was once reserved for the aristocracy and the clergy, but by the early...
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Get the Summary of Kevin Behan's Your Dog Is Your Mirror in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Your Dog Is Your Mirror" by Kevin Behan explores the deep emotional interconnectedness between dogs and their human companions. Behan posits that dogs communicate with humans through a universal emotional code, reflecting their owners' emotions and behaviors. He shares stories of dogs like Cruiser and Illo, who demonstrate...