Sci-tech 09 Finals

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Sci-Tech Finals

Due to too much of X in the body, tissues swell. So excess X outside the cells draws sodium from within the cells out into the serum in an attempt to reestablish the necessary concentration, and sodium concentration drops - a condition known as hyponatremia. Both electrolytes and X move across the cell membrane in an effort to balance concentration. Theoretically, cells could swell to the point of bursting and this puts pressure on the brain and nerves, which can

Water (H2O)

X initially obtained an M.D. at Stanley Medical College in Madras, India, and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He gave the 2003 BBC Reith Lectures, Decade of the Brain lecture for the Silver Jubilee meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, and was conferred the title of Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2007. Newsweek magazine named him a member of "The Century Club", one of the "hundred most prominent people to watch" in the

Vilaynur S Ramachandran

X died on 24 October 1601 in Prague, eleven days after suddenly becoming very ill during a banquet. For hundreds of years, the general belief was that he had strained his bladder. It had been said that to leave the banquet before it concluded would be the height of bad manners, and so he remained, and that his bladder, stretched to its limit, developed an infection which later killed him. This theory was supported by Kepler's first-hand account. Recent investigations have suggested that X did not die from urinary problems but instead

Tycho Brahe

A powerful number is a positive integer that for every prime number p dividing it, p2 also divides it. Eg: 4 is divided by 2, and 22 A perfect power is a positive integer that can be expressed as a power of some other positive integer. Eg: Square numbers, cube numbers and so on.. Powerful numbers which are not a perfect powers (and hence imperfect)

Achilles Number

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This is a coding contest at Pwn2own held by CanSecWest ,Charlie Miller (the first guy) pocketed a $5,000 cash prize and a fully-patched MacBook by splitting it wide, and gaining full control of the device after a user clicked on his malicious link. So much for a safe MacBook. Another white-hatter by the name Nils (pictured) toppled Internet Explorer 8 running on a Windows 7 laptop -- again, the five grand and compromised VAIO P laptop are now his to keep as compensation for turning over the malicious code.

• The first of the three laws, previously termed X's Law, was proposed by X in the essay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination. • The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay; its status as X's Second Law was conferred on it by others. • In Profiles of the Future (1973), X acknowledged the Second Law proposed the Third in order to round out the number, adding "As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop

Arthur C Clarke

This company was supposed to come out with an OS called the ______ Cobalt and mass market the same, which was to be based on Linux for its touch-screen devices, but at the end of 2008, it was pretty obvious that the OS would not see the light of Consumer day when the company unveiled their new product the ____ __ which ran a completely new firmware or OS called the

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It was set up The funnel’s stem was cut There are have been 8 recorded occurrences so far.

December 1938 February 1947 April 1954 May 1962 August 1970 April 1979 July 1988 28 November 2000 Strangely enough, none of these occurrences have actually been observed, apart from through recording devices such as cameras. Put funda.

Pitch Drop experiment

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Psychohistory

The main problem for students to accept this fact is that they are often "mentally committed to the notion that a number can be represented in one and only one way by a decimal." Seeing two different decimals representing the same number appears to be a paradox. This problem proved such a popular topic in the first seven years of Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net forums that the company issued a "press release" on April Fools' Day 2004 that went: We are very excited to close the book on this subject once and for all. .....and that the following proof finally and conclusively

The fact that 0.9999999… = 1

The picture actually depicts a hostage situation, the “gunman” seen in the picture, held off the authorities for the whole of 10 hours. What is unique and totally embarrassing about this situation?

“gunman” was holding off the police with a “Sega Gun”

concept, which if traversable, its ends could allow journey to happen in a much shorter time than it should normally take. The ends of a _______ could exist in the same universe or different universes (and hence serve as a passage between them). It is popular in science fiction as it facilitates time travel and faster than light travel.

Wormhole

Edme Mariotte was one of the first members of the Academy of Sciences founded at Paris in 1666. He is credited for the "discovery" of eye's blind spot. He wrote many original papers upon a great variety of physical subjects. His fame rests on the establishment of a fundamental law that bears his name along with another name more famous. This was first published in an essay on the nature of air in 1676.

Boyle’s Law

X is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons (with C numbers mainly higher than 25), originally promoted as an ointment for its healing properties. X’s folkloric medicinal value as a "cure-all" has since been limited by better scientific understanding of it’s uses. The raw material was discovered in 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania where it was stuck to some of the first oil rigs in the U.S. The workers disliked X because it caused the rigs to seize up, but they used it on cuts and burns because it hastened healing. X ?

Vaseline / petroleum jelly

Nacreous clouds are clouds in the polar stratospheric regions that support chemical reactions that produce active chlorine, and they remove gaseous nitric acid, perturbing nitrogen and chlorine cycles. These clouds are said to be the main cause for what?

The hole in the antarctic ozone layer

Rules 13 slides-3,3,3,3,1 +25/+20/+15/+10 -1/2 Last slide - +5 No negs

Answers

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Dry rounds

_________ is the slowing of life processes by external means without termination. Breathing, heartbeat, and other involuntary functions may still occur, but they can only be detected by artificial means. Extreme cold is used to slow down the basic functions, and has lead to the development of cryonics. While cryonics preserves the organism in Outside of science fiction, “dead” conditions, ________ keeps them the alive.   technique has almost never been applied to humans for more than a few hours. The case of Laina Beasley (in pic) is an exception; she was kept in _______ as a two-celled embryo

Suspended Animation

"If now any separation of the system R (real number line), into two classes A1,A2 is given which possesses only this characteristic property that every number a1 in A1 is lesser than every number a2 in A2, then we shall call such a separation a 'schnitt' and designate it as the set (A1, A2)". This schnitt effectively split the real number line into two parts - one set lesser than √2 and one greater. Words which revolutionised the way

Dedekind, Dedekind’s Cut

X comprises any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation – through thoughts, ideas, gestures, fashions, habits, and so on. X propagate themselves and can move through the cultural sociosphere in a manner similar to the contagious behavior of a virus. X evolve by natural selection, through variation, mutation,

competition, and inheritance. Thus one can expect that some X will propagate less successfully and become extinct, while others will survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. It is argued that X which are most

Meme

Tambalacoque (Calvaria Major) is also called _______. It is valued for its timber, and is analogous to Peach. In 1973, it was thought that this species was dying out. There were supposedly only 13 specimens left, all estimated to be about 300 years old. The tree germinates by hard endocarp surrounding the seed, but the endocarp naturally splits along a fracture line during germination. What was the reason proposed for this dying out? Or give

Dodo tree

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• The "standard interpretation" of the Turing Test, in which player C, the interrogator, is tasked with trying to determine which player - A or B - is a computer and which is a human. The interrogator is limited to using the responses to written questions in order to make the determination.

“Proposition 1. The 2300 prophetic days did not commence before the rise of the little horn of the He Goat. 2. Those day did not commence after the destruction of Jerusalem & ye Temple by the Romans A.D. 70. 3. The time times & half a time did not commence before the year 800 in wch the Popes supremacy commenced 4. They did not commence after the reigne of Gregory the 7th. 1084 5. The 1290 days did not commence before the year 842. 6. They did not commence after the reigne of Pope Greg. 7th. 1084 7. The difference between the 1290 & 1335 days are a parts of the seven weeks. Therefore the 2300 years do not end before ye year 2132 nor after 2370. The time times & half time don’t

n’s occult study proof that the world cannot end befo

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For the QED interaction lagrangian, , describing the interaction of a fermionic field ψ with a bosonic gauge field Aμ, the rules can be formulated in coordinate space as follows: Each integration coordinate xj is represented by a point (sometimes called a vertex); A bosonic propagator is represented by a curvy line connecting two points; A fermionic propagator is represented by a solid line connecting two points; A bosonic field Aμ(xi) is represented by a curvy line attached to the point xi; A fermionic field ψ(xi) is represented by a solid line attached to the point xi with an arrow toward the point; A fermionic field ψ (xi) is represented by a solid line attached to the point xi with an arrow from the point;

Rules for drawing Feynman Diagrams

On June 8, 1959, the U.S. submarine Barbero conducted this test as a combination experiment and publicity stunt in the hopes of finding alternative uses for military technology. They used a warhead-less Regulus cruise missile for the experiment. The Regulus left Norfolk (Virginia), and was opened at Mayport to facilitate “further routing”. It was claimed that this would make missiles very popular for this “extremely common and practical” application before man reached the moon. (Thankfully!) This turned out to be the 1st and last such attempt to do WHAT using Regulus missles?

Missile Mail

The basic game play style became a popular part of the puzzle game genre during the 1980s, with such titles as _____-Out and Yomp. Then came Relentless Logic (or RLogic), which was available for MS-DOS as early as 1985. In RLogic, the player is a private in the US Marine Corps, delivering an important message to the U.S. Command Center. RLogic was a game without any high scores, which required the player to navigate through a field from the top left corner (starting point) to the bottom right corner (the Command Center). What came of all this?

Minesweeper

This is the response to something. Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience explains as: "We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here’s the human error), the URL of ‘/’ was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and ‘/’ expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file. Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes. Thanks to our team for their quick work in finding this. And again, our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labeled. We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again.

Google declares internet as malware

used for precious metals, black powder, and gemstones. The name supposedly derives from ______ in France, site of one of the major medieval fairs. One cubic inch of distilled water, at 17 °C, and at a barometric pressure of 30 inches of Hg, was determined to weigh 252.458 ____ grains. One ____ lb (pound) = 12 ____ ounces One ____ oz = 20 pennyweight (dwt) = 480 grains = 33.3 grams One pennyweight = 24 grains The ____ system was the basis for the predecimalisation British system of coinage, in which the penny was literally one pennyweight of silver. One pound sterling was equal to 20 shillings, with each shilling equal to 12 pennies. Thus, one pound sterling equals 240 pennyweights, or one ____ pound of sterling

Troy systems of measurements

Before John McCain unveiled Sarah Palin as his running mate, the following list of people were in with a shot. X and Y are two former powerhouse Silicon Valley CEOs. Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Former Arkansas Governor Mik Huckabee Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman Alaska Governor Sarah Palin X Y Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney

Meg Whitman & Carly Fiorina

The sages of Milesian school in Ionia in ancient Greece aimed to discover the essential nature, or real constitution of, things they called X. This lent a strong mystical flavour to the Milesian school. They were called ‘hylozoists’, or ‘those who think matter is alive’, by the later Greeks, because they saw no distinction between the animate and the inanimate, spirit and matter. In fact, they did not even have a word for ‘matter’, since they saw all forms of existence as manifestations of X, endowed with life and spirituality. Give X, or the term it gives rise to.

Physis – The origin of the word Physics.

The Three Virtues of a Programmer: 1. Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris. 2. Impatience - The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris. 3. Hubris - Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say

Larry Wall and Perl

Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system. Symbolics designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines, single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. The Lisp Machine was the first commercially available "workstation" (although that word had not yet been coined). A picture of a process running in a Symbolics

The first ever .com domain

•Nicolaus was a contemporary of Euler. In 1720 he posed the problem of reciprocal orthogonal trajectories, which was intended as a challenge for the English Newtonians. • Daniel is most famous for formulating a law that is based upon the principle of the conservation of energy as applied to steady state fluid motion. • In 1690, Jacob became the first person to develop the technique for solving separable differential equations.

Johann was one of Euler’s teachers when he was at Basel University, and is now acknowledged to be the actual proponent of a

Bernoulli family

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A professor of physics is going ice skating for the first time. He has gotten himself into the middle of an ice rink and cannot figure out how to make the skates work. Every motion he makes simply slips on the ice and leaves him in the same place he started. He decides that he can get off the ice by throwing his gloves in the opposite direction. (a) Suppose he has a mass M and his gloves have a mass m. If he throws them as hard as he can away from him, and they leave his hand with a velocity v. Explain whether or not he will move. If he does move, calculate his velocity, V. (b) Discuss his motion from the point of view of the forces acting on him. (c) If the ice rink is 10 m in diameter and the skater starts in the center, estimate how long it will take him to reach the edge, assuming there is no friction at all.

The orbiting Hubble telescope was recently repaired by a crew of astronauts from the Space Shuttle Endeavor. The Hubble is in a circular orbit 600 km above the surface of the earth. For half of the Hubble's orbital period it is in sunlight and for half it is in the darkness of the earth's shadow. As a results of the change in fit of the various parts of the Hubble due to heating and cooling of the telescope, the astronauts could only work on certain repairs while the Hubble was in darkness. Estimate how much time the astronauts had to work on these repairs before having to stop "for a sun-break".

In the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in California, approximately 2 million books fell off the shelves at the Stanford University library. If you were the library administrator and wanted to hire enough part-time student labor to put the books back on the shelves in order in 2 weeks, how many students would you have to hire?

The bosom of the atmosphere

The density of water is just about 1000 kg/m 3 . The density of air is just about 1000 times less. From your knowledge of the air pressure at ground level, estimate the height of the atmosphere. As a simplifying assumption, take the atmosphere to be of uniform density up to some height after which the density rapidly falls to zero.

The Drake equation states that:

N = R* x fp x ne x fℓ x fi x fc x L where: N = No of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible; R* = average rate of star formation in our galaxy fp = fraction of those stars that have planets ne = average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets fℓ = fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point fi = fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life fc = fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space L = length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.

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How Many Cells?

How many drops of water?

How many jelly beans in a jar?

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