When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...
Over centuries and millennia, additional magma builds up, delivering more heat and pressure, pushing overlaying ground upward little by little. If the chamber receives a steady and substantial supply of hot magma, pressure builds in an often cyclical process called incubation. If it doesn't, then...
When periods of time are sequential, use ordinals. This refers to centuries and millennia, but also the amount of time passed doing something like school. the 21st century a third-year high-schooler This is my sixth month working here. Birthdays and anniversaries Ordinals keep track of bir...
and I have concluded to my own satisfaction that a vegetarian diet is: (i) better in terms of the ethics of animal suffering (though not as good as a vegan one); (ii) better for the environment; (iii) not supportive of horrible labor practices that are commonly engaged in by...
Many infectious diseases in humans, such as malaria, measles, and tuberculosis, have been known for centuries or millennia, and in many cases there are existing strategies and vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics (VTDs) to address them. However, for new and emerging zoonotic diseases, informati...
disaster supervenes. It will take many centuries for the effects of today’s big dams to work themselves through; millennia for forests to spread across continents and for soil to be re-created; tens of thousands of years, running into millions, for significant new suit...
Share Stories, Not Lectures: Instead of boring your child with one of those “when I was your age…” stories, inspire them about how their favorite martial artist or sports star failed many times before accomplishing their goals. Retire Your Inner Sensei: Their Journey, Your Support ...
The silver box, silent yet eloquent, embodies connection across deserts, seas and centuries. Source: http://t.cn/A6gkYRyz Editor: Joyce 0条评论 同时转发评论 快来发表你的评论吧
unprecedented economic and energy crises, and daily climate-change-driven natural disasters, local knowledge systems (LKS), which over millennia have been a pillar of people’s livelihoods in many peripheral communities throughout the world, are asked to contribute and help to cope with these uncert...
They have been widely cultivated in East Asia for centuries. The Chinese have been growing and eating garlic chives for three millennia, going back to the Chou dynasty (1027 B.C. to 256 B.C.). It grows so readily and sprouts so easily from seed that it has been considered invasive in...