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The Tree of Life Web Project

mmiller — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:57:00 -0700

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 9000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. See: http://www.tolweb.org/

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MWV03 – AMNH - Save the Microbes Save the World – Part 2

MicrobeWorld — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:33:09 -0700

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Contributions of Ibn Al-Nafis to the progress of medicine and urology. A study and translations from his medical works

rabie — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:46:56 -0700

This primary-source study of 4 medical works of the 13th century Muslim scholar Ibn Al-Nafis confirmed that his Kitab Al-Mujaz Fi Al-Tibb was authored as an independent book meant to be a handbook for medical students and practitioners not as an epitome of Kitab Al-Qanun of Ibn Sina as thought by recent historians. His huge medical encyclopedia, Al-Shamil, represents a wave of intense scientific activity that spread among the scholars of Cairo and Damascus following the massive destruction of books by Hulako's Army during the devastation of Baghdad in 1258.

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History of Economic Cycles (~1800-2000)

RayTomes — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:54:04 -0800

Cycles Research is not a commonly studied subject and yet there are definite trends in history in the finding of information about cycles. Starting with Sir William Herschel there have been reports of various length cycles in many economic variables including commodity yields and prices, stock markets, business conditions, building activity, growth, price fluctuations and industrial production.

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Petri Dish Circus (MWV12)

MicrobeWorld — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:38:26 -0800

See the history of microbiology in nine scenes of gags, burlesque, drollery and song.

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History's Warming

Scripps Institution of Oceanography — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:28:38 -0800

An ancient global warming episode drastically changed the planet. Life on Earth needed 200,000 years to recover. What we're headed for in the next century could be even bigger.

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Second Century of Discovery

Scripps Institution of Oceanography — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:33:41 -0800

An introduction to the history and science of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

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Time Dilation - An Experiment With Mu-Mesons

scivee-team — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:04:01 -0700

TIME DILATION: an experiment with mu-mesons

This classic film documents an experiment done in 1963 the results of which can only be explained when one accepts the consequence that moving clocks run slow. This phenomenon is known as time dilation. The timekeeping device is the mu-mesona, a subatomic particle with origins away from the Earth moving at relativistic speed. What follows here is an explanation of the experiment described in that film.

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