Sunday, March 27, 2016

Brexit, short for “British exit” and costly for Great Britain and Europe

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The portmanteau Brexit stands for “British exit.” This term mirrors the abbreviation Grexit , referring to the (potential) withdrawal of G...
Friday, November 6, 2015

“Tree of Life” associations

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The term Tree of Life is associated with words such as biodiversity , phylogeny and taxonomy . In the 1970s, Carl Woese and his coworker...
Friday, October 30, 2015

A twisted, racetrack-shaped torus to generate and confine a plasma: the stellarator

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A stellarator is a nuclear-fusion device invented in the early 1950s by American astrophysicist and plasma physicist Lyman Spitzer (19...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Frank's introduction to stock market terms

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Stock market trading goes back over about two centuries. When telegraphy revolutionized long-distance communication in the 1840s and faci...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Connecting with Alfred Russel Wallace

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For many, the name Charles Darwin (1809-1882) is synonymous with all observations and thoughts that originated into the theory of evolutio...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

An acronym marking the intersection of music and information technology: CCRMA for Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

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Computers are frequently employed these days to generate music. Computers are also used to analyze music. Further, they are used to analyze...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Acronym in biology: HHO for Havers-Halberg oscillation

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Biological rhythms in animals have fascinated observers of nature for a long time. An example is the circadian rhythm , a diurnal rhythm ...