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Secret Place Essays and Term Papers
Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
C O U L D G A M B L I N G S A V ...
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Louis Pasteurwas an example of a truly gifted person who made many wildly diverse discoveries in many different areas of science. He was a world-renowned French chemist and biologist whose work paved the way for branches of science and medicine such as stereochemistry, microbiology, virology, immunology, and ...
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Computer Viruses(anonymous)
WHAT IS A COMPUTER VIRUS:
The term usually used to define a computer virus is:
' A computer virus is often malicious software which
replicates itself'
[ Podell 1987 for similar definition ]
- COMPUTER VIRUSES ARE BASICALLY PROGRAMS, ...
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The Life Of Deadheads And Music Of The Grateful Dead"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
In 1967, Timothy Leary persuaded America's youth to “tune in, turn
on, and drop out.” ...
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The Success Of Lillian VernonIt all began with black and white in 1951. Today, nearly 45 years
later, the mail order business of Lillian Vernon has swept the mail order
market and maintained a financial foothold where others could not. Lillian
Hochberg (now known as Lillian Vernon) started her business at her
Lillian's ...
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The Town Of El Dorado SpringsPicking research projects, sometimes for me, is an agonizing
problem that eventually turns into an enlightening experience; what was to
be my American Humanities research project was just such an experience. I
had preliminarily thought I'd look into cultural myths. While researching
myths, I ran ...
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Macbeth - Supernatural And SpiritsIn the play \"Macbeth\", there are many interesting sections that concentrate on the suspense and the involvement of the supernatural. The use of the supernatural in the witches, Lady Macbeth, nature, the vision, the ghost and the apparitions are all key elements in making \"Macbeth\" as a tragedy ...
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Stephen Kings' ItPublisher:Penguin Books Copyright:1986
B)Brief Summary
The book fades into a suburb scene with a boy,a boy chasing a paper
boat his brother willingly made.This boat's strong the boy (George) thinks
to himself just before it is digested by a storm drain and inside there is
a clown.He has the ...
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Masters Of Deception (MoD)SUMMARY
Paul lived in New York City. He had his first encounter with a
computer when he was about nine of ten. He was at his dad's office
Christmas party. One of his father's colleagues turned one on for him and
he became emideatly obsessed. From then on he read every kind of books,
magazine, or ...
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The Causes Of World War 1, And The BattlesThe First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet
discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than
what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and ...
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The Battle Of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)The Battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)
(The edited text of a paper given in France in November 1993. The original paper was illustrated by contemporary slide photographs and maps; this text is best read in conjunction with a map of the area.)
In 1915, at the second Battle of Ypres, the Germans ...
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African DiasporaThe study of cultures in the is relatively young. Slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade brought numerous Africans, under forced and brutal conditions, to the New World. Of particular interest to many recent historians and Africanists is the extent to which Africans were able to transfer, ...
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Punk Rock View on 9/11On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, my life changed forever. The life of everyone I know changed forever. My city was attacked by terrorists.
Typing those words seems like a surrealist joke. It doesn't seem real. I can't comprehend the things I have witnessed with my own eyes in the last two days. I ...
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The Book of ThelThe selection from the Romantic era I chose to read was William Blake’s, The Book of Thel. I found the story in the Norton Anthology, where it said that the date shown on the story was 1789, but that most likely extended to 1791 (Blake 1425).
The protagonist of this story is Thel. Originally, it ...
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Women’s SuffrageEighteen female MPs joined the Turkish Parliament in 1935
Conditional female suffrage was granted in Sweden during the age of liberty (1718–1771), but this right was restricted and did not apply to women in general.[7]
The female descendants of the Bounty mutineers who lived on Pitcairn ...
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Of Mice and MenTo Accept or Not To Accept?
Throughout history we have all heard stories of segregation and alienation. “John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men tells a tightly compressed story set during the Great Depression” (The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and The Pearl). Throughout this story various ...
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Biography of Marie Antoinette“Marie Antonia Josepha Johanna, was born on November 2, 1755, she was born to Emperor Francis Stephan and Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Her parents, called her Antonia or Antoine for short. She was born into a large family, that consisted of herself and fifteen other siblings. She was the ...
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Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt, the wife of one the greatest American President. Though, she was the wife of Franklin Roosevelt, she was not known for being his wife. She, as I remember, more than any other woman, "typified... the realizaton of the dreams of the female Crusaders of the 19th century who threw ...
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