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Problem and Solution Text Structure
Problem and Solution Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the problem and solution structure of informational text.
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Description Text Structure
Description Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the description structure of informational text.
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Can Images Classify Themselves? | Self-Organization and Neural Cellular Automata
Can Images Classify Themselves? | Self-Organization and Neural Cellular Automata
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Did DeepMind Solve One of Biology's Biggest Challenges? | AlphaFold 2
Did DeepMind solve the protein folding problem with AlphaFold 2? Stay tuned to find out.
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The Cell
The Cell defines the term cell by explaining that a cell is the basic unit of structure and function of all living things.
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Direct and Representative Democracies
Direct and Representative Democracies analyzes the purposes, structure, and functions of various types of direct and representative democracies.
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National Landmarks
National Landmarks explores significance of national landmarks in representing the identity and principles of the United States by discussing the history and importance of the Statue of Liberty, the White House, Mount Rushmore, and the...
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World Landmarks
“World Landmarks” explains the significance of world landmarks by discussing specific examples and their locations.
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The Prokaryotic Cell
The Prokaryotic Cell examines a prokaryotic cell by describing its structure.
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The Importance of Carbon
The Importance of Carbon analyzes the importance of carbon by explaining how carbon is uniquely suited to form biological macromolecules
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Scouring Museums
Once we knew that quasicrystals could be produced in a laboratory, Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University, set out to see if they might exist naturally, spending hours carefully examining minerals in museums in the hopes of stumbling upon...
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New Laws?
2003 Nobel Laureate Antony Leggett, University of Illinois, describes his belief that reductionistic approaches to physics are not always the right way to proceed, describing how the possible breakdown of the laws of quantum mechanics...
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Evolving Through Copying
Duke University neuroscientist Jennifer Groh describes an intriguing hypothesis that might account for the often hard to imagine intermediate stages of evolution while highlighting how evidence for one aspect of the theory might involve...
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Predicting Structure
Princeton University physicist Paul Steinhardt describes why so much of material science necessarily has a trial-and-error component to it.
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Determining Structure Through Diffraction
Princeton University physicist Paul Steinhardt describes how physicists can reveal the underlying atomic structure of materials by scattering other particles off them.
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Beyond The Room Under Renovation
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute of Advanced Study) describes how preoccupations with "what's new" in physics miss the bigger picture.
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Measuring Intelligence
Neuroscientist John Duncan (Cambridge) describes some of the tests associated with Charles Spearman's mysterious "g factor."
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The Anthropic Principle
Nobel Laureate in Physics Anthony Leggett (Illinois) describes the so-called Anthropic Principle that some invoke to answer the "fine tuning problem" of cosmology.
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Testing For Dark Matter
University of Chicago cosmologist Rocky Kolb describes the history of dark matter: how it was overlooked by most physicists for decades together with current hypotheses of what it might be and experiments to determine which one is valid.
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Quasi-Serendipity
Physicist Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University, describes his sense of excitement when, shortly after he determined the diffraction pattern his theoretical new material would produce in a laboratory, someone showed him an experimental...
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Fingernails on the Chalkboard
University of Chicago cosmologist Rocky Kolb relates how he reacts very differently to dark matter than dark energy: dark matter he regards as an opportunity, while dark energy "drives him nuts".
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Structural Similarities
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti describes how he developed the hypothesis that language and mathematics might be linked to a certain syntactical structure in our brains and how he went about experimentally testing the idea using fMRI...
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Linguistic Retrieval
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) highlights the key issue of "retrieval" so integral to sentence production.
Music Matters
Rossini's Writing for the Harmonium - Composer Insights
We investigate a less familiar corner of Rossini’s writing, namely the Preludio Religioso from his Petite Messe. Unusually, the movement is written for Harmonium. This composer insights lesson goes on to explore the initial fugal design...