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Archive for November, 2004

Quoting from Baltimore’s essay:

“I think that the major failure is our inability as parents to pass on our culture to our children.

“I say “inability” because I truly believe that parents want to do better but do not know how. One reason is the downgrading of family life in the two-wage-earner home, another is the speed [...]

Nearly a year ago, SciScoop reported on the status of “The Eyes of Nye,” the new show that Bill Nye developed in 2003. Bill Nye’s children’s TV show, “Bill Nye The Science Guy” ran from 1992 to 1998, and the hundred programs on topics from dinosaurs to momentum are still fascinating children today. Now there’s [...]

The missing booster has been recovered from the CSXT/GoFast rocket that was the first private-funded launch to space on May 17 at Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The nose cone was found in 24 hours, and that had the electronics necessary to prove the successful space flight. But no signals were heard from the [...]

In the current study, the researchers used a brain imaging technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain activity of 14 individuals with high functioning autism while they performed a simple memory task involving letters of the alphabet. Specifically, the study volunteers were shown a sequence of letters. After each letter, [...]

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