Honors Track | The Atlantic | May. 24, 2012 | 25 Minutes (6,424 words)

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We were sedulous. We were driven. Our vocabularies were formidable and constantly expanding. We knew the chemical elements by number and properties, the names and dates of battles in the world’s greatest wars. We arrived at school early and put ...
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Searching for an Efficient Way to Make Methanol

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This image, made with a high-resolution transmission electron microscope, shows atoms on the surface of an industrial catalyst used in methanol production. A study by scientists from SLAC, Stanford and Germany r ...
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Ap Biology - Chapter 31 Notes

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Chapter 31 Fungi Overview: Mighty Mushrooms • The honey mushroom Armillaria ostoyae in Malheur National Park in eastern Oregon is enormous. ← Its subterranean mycelium covers 890 hectares, weighs hundreds of t ...
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First Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium: Quantum condensate of the thirteenth kind

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ScienceDaily (May 22, 2012) ? Francesca Ferlaino’s research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. Ultracold quantum gases have exceptiona ...
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‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’ Release Enlists Major Writing Talent, Treyarch Examines Iconic Villains For Inspiration

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Using Infrared Images from Hubble & Spitzer, Scientists Discover 25 Distant Galaxies

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Now you don't see it; now you do - the image of a galaxy from a time when the universe was only a billion years old. The left image, from Hubble, sees nothing in the sky, but the longer wavelength infrared image from Spitzer (right) sees a bright sou ...
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The Pyramid Game

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Based on the American version, originally entitled ''The $10,000 Pyramid'', created by Bob Stewart. Based on the American version, originally entitled ''The $10,000 Pyramid'', created by Bob Stewart. LWT for ITV, ...
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