Friday, August 5, 2011

Plagiarism: then and now and not

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Plagiarism has been defined as “the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representati...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Tertiary and quaternary strata in geology named by Italian mining expert Giovanni Arduino

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In 1760, the Italian mining expert Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795) laid out a scheme for classifying the strata of the Italian Alps, which he ...

Glossopetra, meaning tongue stone and referring to petrified tooth of shark

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The compositum glossopetra is derived from the Greek words glossa and petra for tongue and rock , respectively. The word glossopetra, a...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful

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What is a better way to learn the use of comparative and superlative than in a little three-line limerick. Here is one for the adjective be...
Monday, August 1, 2011

A term in anatomy: parotid duct, also known as Stenson's duct (ductus Stenonianus)

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The parotid duct is the duct of the parotid gland, which supplies saliva to the mouth. It passes lateral to the masseter muscle and enters ...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

The term “fossil fuel,” a linguistic relic from the time when anything dug from the earth was a fossil

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The modern term “ fossil fuel ” is a linguistic relic from the sixteenth century and earlier times when any natural object or substance dug ...
Friday, July 29, 2011

New philosophy, natural philosophy, mechanical philosophy, experimental philosophy

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New philosophy , natural philosophy , mechanical philosophy , experimental philosophy —these are all terms that describe the new science i...