Education & Reference
epub |eng | 2022-03-22 | Author:Eliot Schrefer

WANT TO LEARN MORE? Max is the author (with Julia D. Monk, Erin Giglio, Ambika Kamath, and Caitlin E. McDonough) of “An Alternative Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual ...
( Category: Biology January 28,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Nicholas Faulkner

FINDING CLUSTERS IN EXTERNAL GALAXIES Clusters have been discovered and studied in many external galaxies, particularly members of the Local Group (a group of about 50 stellar systems to which ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:SparkNotes [Sparknotes Editors]

Summary: Chapter 15 In the aftermath of this incident, Billy wrestles with his conscience, as he has no prior experience in the world of the corrupt or the illicit. He ...
( Category: Book Notes January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-30 | Author:Worth Books

XIII: Night 40 Serena Joy helps Offred to sneak out and meet Nick—the obvious candidate for impregnation. Offred complies, although it’s not exactly romantic. Or is it? She tells two ...
( Category: Book Notes January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Way

Categorizing Hurricanes The National Hurricane Center measures hurricane intensity using a scale called the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. A storm becomes a Category 1 hurricane when its winds reach 74 to ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 15,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Carol Hand

The Curiosity rover is part of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission. In this artist’s depiction, Curiosity uses its sensors to investigate a rock surface. TALON, a UGV made by ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-02 | Author:Karen Latchana Kenney [Latchana Kenney, Karen]

Portals to the Past A different kind of living fossil thrives in shallow ocean waters, mostly in the Bahamas (islands in the Atlantic Ocean near Florida) and in Shark Bay ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kaitlyn Duling

On the other hand, it is a bit more complicated, though no less inspiring, to discuss the ways in which the National Park Service has influenced society. It has had ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-13 | Author:Amy Rechner [Rechner, Amy]

Money Managers One third of the Department of Education staff works in the federal Student Aid department. This is the department that oversees student loans, grants, and other types of ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-18 | Author:Linda Barrett Osborne

Tinker was not a case about press freedom for students. Nothing written was censored or punished. But press and speech are related, and both fall under the category of “expression,” ...
( Category: Media Studies January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cathleen Small

On a smaller scale, though, geothermal energy is becoming increasingly more used. Small geothermal pumps can be installed to power homes, requiring only a 3-foot-wide (0.9-meter-wide) area of earth to ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Jane Bingham [Jane Bingham]

PUBLIC PROTESTS As war in Iraq became more likely, public protests against it were held in cities around the world. On the weekend of February 15–16, between 6 and 10 ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-29 | Author:Carla Mooney

While licensing is not required for most entry-level positions, some employers may require candidates for more advanced positions to be licensed. To earn a Professional Engineering (PE) license, engineers must ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-02 | Author:Karen Romano Young [Romano Young, Karen]

A tourist in a diving cage off Mexico’s Pacific coast photographs a great white shark. Researchers are learning more about if and how human presence in shark territory impacts the ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sophie Washburne

Researchers have found that the colder the weather, the more slowly a body decomposes. In a human body, the rate and manner of decomposition is affected by a number of ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 12,2023 )