I hate to be pedantic (actually, I love to be pedantic), but the Mongol invasion was one of the best things to ever happen to China. Khubilai Khan took pre-unification China and insituted freedom of religion, public schools, and the closest thing the region had ever seen to an actually just legal system, not to mention the fact that after that it wasn't pre-unification China anymore.
As a student at a science and mathematics focused high school, as well as a recent graduate of the standard public primary education system, I can say that the theory that boys express or are guided to more interest in math/science is at the very least anecdotally patently false. As a mere student, I have no quantifiable or rigorous evidence (a little help TJHSST teachers? I know you're out there), but as I say, all anecdotal evidence points to girls being equally as interested and equally or more successful in the math and science areas than boys. Of course, being guided is something else all together; there are three (3) at my school organizations devoted to encouraging/assisting/whatevering girls in the math/science areas. Guess how many there are for boys.
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All science jouralism does that, due to the fact that new studies often are either wrong or grossly incomplete.
I'm affraid you aren't understanding the distinction. An artificcally cloned organism has the same relationship to it's genetic parent as a naturally cloned organism does. It's just a different process. Also, if you had read the article, it explicitly states, several times, that they're positive that nothing could go wrong.
It should be pointed out that the scientists had no way of even estimating the clam's age before its death, and that they merely masured its age as part of a rutine(sp?) survey of marine life.
Unless I've gone absolutly insane, the article said this was for anti-terrorism and customs inforcement. Also, I bet that the power level will be adjustable.
I agree. With one minor exception, these are all amazing testimonies to what people can do. Also, you can go see them. Sadly, you cannot go see the Collosus or the Hanging Gardens.
Why make coins that are worth more than their value? Since we have a fait system, the coins could be made of plastic for all the efect it would have on the value.
I see where all of you are comming from ridiculing this, but I also see where these people are comming from. What proof do we have that wifi doesn't cause cancer or something else crazy.
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I hate to be pedantic (actually, I love to be pedantic), but the Mongol invasion was one of the best things to ever happen to China. Khubilai Khan took pre-unification China and insituted freedom of religion, public schools, and the closest thing the region had ever seen to an actually just legal system, not to mention the fact that after that it wasn't pre-unification China anymore.
As a student at a science and mathematics focused high school, as well as a recent graduate of the standard public primary education system, I can say that the theory that boys express or are guided to more interest in math/science is at the very least anecdotally patently false. As a mere student, I have no quantifiable or rigorous evidence (a little help TJHSST teachers? I know you're out there), but as I say, all anecdotal evidence points to girls being equally as interested and equally or more successful in the math and science areas than boys. Of course, being guided is something else all together; there are three (3) at my school organizations devoted to encouraging/assisting/whatevering girls in the math/science areas. Guess how many there are for boys.
All science jouralism does that, due to the fact that new studies often are either wrong or grossly incomplete.
I'm affraid you aren't understanding the distinction.
An artificcally cloned organism has the same relationship to it's genetic parent as a naturally cloned organism does. It's just a different process.
Also, if you had read the article, it explicitly states, several times, that they're positive that nothing could go wrong.
In fact, all commercially grown apples are cloned from successfully random parent apples.
Maize and corn are the same plant. People sometimes say "maize" to distinguish it from switch corn
It should be pointed out that the scientists had no way of even estimating the clam's age before its death, and that they merely masured its age as part of a rutine(sp?) survey of marine life.
Unless I've gone absolutly insane, the article said this was for anti-terrorism and customs inforcement. Also, I bet that the power level will be adjustable.
I agree. With one minor exception, these are all amazing testimonies to what people can do. Also, you can go see them. Sadly, you cannot go see the Collosus or the Hanging Gardens.
Why make coins that are worth more than their value? Since we have a fait system, the coins could be made of plastic for all the efect it would have on the value.
I see where all of you are comming from ridiculing this, but I also see where these people are comming from. What proof do we have that wifi doesn't cause cancer or something else crazy.