Word: processing
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Kiely said that although he was not involved inthe selection process, he feels the Palfreys' werea good choice. After nearly 25 years in the House,he said he has a great deal of advice for the newmasters...
Kiely said that although he was not involved in the selection process, he feels the Palfreys' were a good choice. After nearly 25 years in the House, he said he has a great deal of advice for the new masters...
...Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz describes the process of imprinting, during which young birds attach themselves to a being or an object...
...Joseph Stalin's favorite scientist, and it's easy to see why. Lysenko was a peasant-born agronomist and Marxist ideologue who rejected Mendel's ideas because they contradicted the doctrine of dialectical materialism. He offered instead to solve the Soviet Union's chronic crop failures through a process he called vernalization, by which he would "train" spring wheat to be winter wheat and thus increase the number of annual harvests. Lysenko believed all living organisms passed on to succeeding generations characteristics acquired in their lifetime. This untested theory was at odds with what Lysenko scathingly called "alien bourgeois" genetics...
...create matter. Temperature is inseparable from radiation. Even in empty space, radiation has energy, and thanks to Einstein's special theory of relativity we know that energy is equivalent to mass, or matter. Laboratory scientists have been turning electromagnetic radiation into mass since the 1930s. (The inverse of that process, turning mass into energy, makes nuclear bombs...