The short answer is that the sheepshead taste is actually sweet and delicious with a slight shellfish flavor. The varied diet for this fish makes it not just delicious but also very nutritious. The somewhat flaky and tender flesh is often considered to have a flavor that faintly resembles shellfishRead More →
Lindbergh invented an “artificial heart” between 1931 and 1935. He developed it for Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon and biologist whose research included experiments in keeping organs alive outside the body. Lindbergh’s device could pump the substances necessary for life throughout the tissues of an organ. Did Charles Lindbergh inventRead More →
The ancient Greeks, who knew the Earth to be a sphere, were the first to use globes to represent the surface of the Earth. Crates of Mallus is said to have made one in about 150 bce. Is the shape of the Earth? The Earth is an irregularly shaped ellipsoid.Read More →
Though the basic premise of the teleological argument had been articulated by thinkers as far back as ancient Greece and Rome, today it is almost universally associated with the writings of one person: William Paley (Fig. 1). Paley was born in July 1743 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Where did teleologicalRead More →
The Spanish explorer was searching for the “Fountain of Youth,” a fabled water source that was said to bring eternal youth. Ponce de León named the peninsula he believed to be an island “La Florida” because his discovery came during the time of the Easter feast, or Pascua Florida. DidRead More →
Bohuslav Brauner, a Czech chemist predicted the existence of promethium in 1902. … They discovered promethium while examining the byproducts of uranium fission in a nuclear reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The IUPAC named the element as promethium in 1949 after the Greek Titan Prometheus. Who discovered promethiumRead More →
using a long-term assay…” versus “…in the long term.” Hyphens are not needed, and should be avoided, in words such as anticancer, nonselective, and nonadherent. Which drug is used for anticancer? Medicines that are used as anticancer drugs are: Platinum-based drugs (cisplatin, carboplatin), L-Asparaginase (Crasnit’s), Hydroxyurea (Hydrea), and. Is anticancerRead More →
Gem and specimen tourmaline is mined chiefly in Brazil and many parts of Africa, including Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi, and Namibia. What is the rarest color of tourmaline? The rarest and most expensive tourmaline is the paraiba variety — a neon-like blue or green that is colored byRead More →
Chebyshev’s theorem is used to find the proportion of observations you would expect to find within a certain number of standard deviations from the mean. Chebyshev’s Interval refers to the intervals you want to find when using the theorem. What is the formula for Chebyshev’s theorem? Two standard deviations equalRead More →
The first paintings were cave paintings. Ancient peoples decorated walls of protected caves with paint made from dirt or charcoal mixed with spit or animal fat. … Paint spraying, accomplished by blowing paint through hollow bones, yielded a finely grained distribution of pigment, similar to an airbrush. Why was paintRead More →