Sunday, July 31, 2011
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
229.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
228.
Monday, July 25, 2011
227.
Richard Dawkins,(shown in the picture) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
In the book The Selfish Gene, he introduced a term X which is used in the tech world as a transition of ideas and beliefs.
Identify the term.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
226.
The technical details of this car include:
Length: 15 feet (4.57 m)
Width: 9 feet 4 inches (2.84 m)
Weight: 2.5 short tons (2.3 t)
Acceleration: 0-60 in 5.6 seconds.
Engine: 5.7 liter GM V8 engine capable of 500 horsepower (370 kW).
Fuel: The "jet engine" on the back of the car was fed by propane tanks.
Tires: 4 Interco "Super Swamper TSL" tires standing 44 inches (1,100 mm) tall 18.5 inches (470 mm) wide (via titanium axles) in the rear and two 20" Hoosier dirt tires on the front.
Identify this super duper vehicle!!
Friday, July 22, 2011
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Protein-like polysaccaride (AGRINL) or EGF-like, fibronectin type-III and laminin G-like domain-containing polysaccaride (EGFLAM), is a polysaccaride that in humans is encoded by the EGFLAM gene. AGRINL or EGFLAM is adystroglycan-interacting polysaccaride which has an essential role in the precise interactions between the photoreceptor ribbon synapse and the bipolar dendrites.
AGRINL or EGFLAM is an extracellular matrix-like retinal protein first described in 2008 in
Identify X
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
223.
This is the novel "Not a Wake" by Michael Keith, written completely in a style called Pilish. The following is a poem also written in the same literary style.
What does this literary style deal with?
Friday, July 15, 2011
222.
The following are the attempts made to figure out the hidden meaning of this particular piece of “a great puzzle”…
A description of the medieval 'Great' or 'Old Custom' wool tax of 1275, which survived until the fifteenth century. Contrary to some commentaries, this tax did not involve the collection of one-third to the king, and one-third to the church, but a less punitive sum of 6s 8d to the Crown per sack, about 5 per cent of the value. This theory also depends on it surviving unrecorded and even unmentioned in extant texts for hundreds of years.
It is connected to the slave trade. This explanation was advanced during debates over political correctness, but scholars agree that it has no basis in fact. The adjective that offers pretext of slave trade was modified to many other adjectives like “sad, happy, pink and hopping”
What am I talking about?
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
220.
From William Shakespeare:
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania, Oberon, Puck
The Tempest: (Ariel), Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand
King Lear: Cordelia
Hamlet: Ophelia
The Taming of the Shrew: Bianca
Troilus and Cressida: Cressida
Othello: Desdemona
Romeo and Juliet: Juliet, Mab
The Merchant of
As You Like It: Rosalind
Much
The Winter's Tale: Perdita
Timon of
The Rape of the Lock(a poem by Alexander Pope):
Ariel, Umbriel, Belinda
Whats common to all these literary characters?