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August 2016: Gawker Website Shuts Down

World News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major U.S. news events of August 2016. 1. CDC Issues Zika Warning 2. U.S. Launches…

Part Four in a Six-Part Series

Mirror Image by Alicia Potter Source: Arttoday.com "There was never any help offered to me. Let's face it, you're not going to be waiting for the T one day and look up and find a sign that…

Part Five in a Six-Part Series

Mirror Image by Alicia Potter Source: Arttoday.com "Women come in waving Victoria's Secret catalogues or Playboy clippings and say, 'I want those breasts.' Men come in and say, 'I want to get…

A Pill with a Purpose

A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology, led by S. George Djorgovski, may have glimpsed the dawn of our universe. In Aug. 2001, this team reported that it had spotted the “…

Steve Wozniak

Name at birth: Stephen Gary WozniakKnown to the world simply as "Woz," Steve Wozniak is the computer whiz who with Steve Jobs created the Apple Computer company in 1976. Wozniak was the computer…

Noah Wyle

Noah Wyle played medical student John Carter (later Dr. John Carter) on the hit TV series E.R., becoming one of the show's many medical heartthrobs during its run from 1994-2009. Wylie left the show…

quartz

(Encyclopedia) quartz, one of the commonest of all rock-forming minerals and one of the most important constituents of the earth's crust. Chemically, it is silicon dioxide, SiO2. It occurs in…

ruthenium

(Encyclopedia) rutheniumrutheniumr&oomacr;thēˈnēəm [key], metallic chemical element; symbol Ru; at. no. 44; at. wt. 101.07; m.p. about 2,310℃; b.p. about 3,900℃; sp. gr. 12.41 at 20℃; valence…

oxide

(Encyclopedia) oxide, chemical compound containing oxygen and one other chemical element. Oxides are widely and abundantly distributed in nature. Water is the oxide of hydrogen. Silicon dioxide is…

William Hewlett Biography

William Hewlettelectronics entrepreneurBorn: 5/20/1913Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Mich. electronics entrepreneur who, with David Packard, scraped together $538 in 1938 and started an electronics…