Modern day science has become some sort of religion. Its hard for people to believe in any concept until they see scientifically proven. centuries ago scientists were greatly frowned upon , and science itself was regarded as unethical, now things have turned upside down. Its science that has taken the number one podium while everything else follows it. Scientists of the old are hailed as heroes by the modern day academics. Science is cool
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Historians consider the Industrial Revolution to be one of the two most important changes that have taken place in the history of the world. Just as the start of agriculture did 10,000 years ago, the Industrial Revolution marks a turning point in history. The Industrial Revolution is, of course, a more recent change. Just 300 […]
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When people look at a map, they usually have no idea of which projection cartographers used to construct that map. However, almost everyone has heard of or seen the most frequently used projection-the Mercator-developed by Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It was the map projection used by European navigators in their voyages of exploration and empire
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Repeated experimentation and careful measurement-so vital to the scientific method-were greatly aided by the development of new technology. Two of the technological innovations of the Renaissance the microscope and the telescope-expanded human sight in amazing ways. One allowed scientists to look inward at the minute structures of the human body. The other opened the door
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Plains, plateaus, hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys are but a few of our planet’s amazing variety of landforms, the shapes Earth’s surface takes. As you read about these landforms, think about the ones you see in the area where you live. Types of Landforms Geographers recognize many different types of landforms, including
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Generating Genetic Diversity is of a great deal of importance to the survival and continuity of Humanity. Paradoxically, the evolutionary process is both revolutionary and conservative. It is revolutionary in that the pace of evolutionary change is quickened by genetic recombination, much of which results from sexual reproduction. It is conservative in that change is
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The earth is a dynamic body that has undergone various changes. These changes are both of internal and external origin. The internal processes are referred to as diastrophism and they tend to elevate the earth’s surface. They are counterbalanced by the external processes that wear down the land surface. The constant interaction between these two
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The history of life on earth has been marked by periodic episodes of extinction, where the loss of species outpaces the formation of new species. Particularly sharp declines in species diversity are called mass extinctions. Five mass extinctions have occurred, the first of them near the end of the Ordovician period about 438 million years
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“Hey sire Darwin” a fruit vendor picks a coconut and hands it over to the young man, (a renowned researcher and long time student of Darwin) “you say that your ape ancestors could rip open a sea shell with their canine teeth. Can you try with this coconut please, before I could believe you?” Please
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Ape man gathers his gang(troops) and says this to them, those smooth skinned cousins of ours that live inside cocoons have despised us for too long, let’s go out to them and teach them some lesson, so they’d learn to respect us, they think they are wiser and smarter than we are, they have sold
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worthless knowledge Once a group of travelers came across herders when they were crossing the country’s plains, they have travelled from afar, a very distant land from here, they greeted the herders and soon they were in a lengthy chat each group curiously enquiring about the others way of life. The herders said