Many scientists didn't fully embrace Clarke's idea -- until Oct. 4, 1957. That's when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth.Sputnik was a 23-inch (58-centimeter), 184-pound (83-kilogram) metal ball. Although it was a remarkable achievement,...
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" Kolker said. "But there are many, many unsolved murders still in Long Island along the shore… There's a glimmer of progress now. But along with celebrating what's happening, I think a lot of people are asking what took so long."...
The company’s website described Worldcoin as an Ethereum-based “new, collectively owned global currency that will be distributed fairly to as many people as possible.” Everyone in the world would get a free share, the company suggested—if they agreed to an iris scan with a specially des...
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Social workers are increasingly expected to engage with structural sources of oppression and play an advocacy role (Ornellas et al., 2018). To this end, social workers have to show that many of the private troubles they encounter are actually public issues that are in need of macro-level ...
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They also answered how many hours a day they communicated with other people that were wearing a mask. The response options (1–4) were “less than 1 h a day”, “1–3 h a day”, “4–6 h a day” and “more than 6 h a day”. Finally, the dependent measures of interest were...
Re: How normal is "rubber bloom" on a new lens? In reply toRMcL•8 months ago RMcL wrote: My Zeiss Conquest binoculars develop a very fine white powdery residue or surface film rather on the rubber surfaces when I’ve kept them in their pouch for many months unused. Thanks to your...
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