There are currently no federal laws in the United States which ban cloning completely. Who is the first human to be cloned? On Dec. 27, 2002, Brigitte Boisselier held a press conference in Florida, announcing the birth of the first human clone, called Eve. How much does it cost toRead More →
Environmental rights mean access to the unspoiled natural resources that enable survival, including land, shelter, food, water and air. They also include more purely ecological rights, including the right for a certain beetle to survive or the right for an individual to enjoy an unspoiled landscape. Does Mother Nature haveRead More →
Children: The average 80-pound child will have about 2,650 mL of blood in their body, or 0.7 gallons. Adults: The average adult weighing 150 to 180 pounds should have about 1.2 to 1.5 gallons of blood in their body. This is about 4,500 to 5,700 mL. What is the humanRead More →
Visible light has wavelengths ranging from about 400 nanometers to 700 nanometers. Wavelengths shorter than 400 nm, or longer than 700 nm, are invisible to the human eye. Which light Cannot be seen? Summary: Science textbooks say we can’t see infrared light. Like X-rays and radio waves, infrared light wavesRead More →
This helps them maximize the amount of wine they can produce from a given amount of grapes. An unfortunate side effect of using pectic enzymes is that they can speed up the maturation of finished wines. … When pectin is broken down by the enzymes it produces methanol. This canRead More →
Grief is based on your personal relationship to who or what was lost. Each person and relationship is different, which means that how we deal with each loss will be different as well. … Since each relationship is different, even in the same family, each person’s response to that lossRead More →
Piranhas range from northern Argentina to Colombia, but they are most diverse in the Amazon River, where 20 different species are found. The most infamous is the red-bellied piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri), with the strongest jaws and sharpest teeth of all. Where do piranhas live in the ocean? Typically, piranhas inRead More →
Ungainly as it is, the hippopotamus is the world’s deadliest large land mammal, killing an estimated 500 people per year in Africa. Hippos are aggressive creatures, and they have very sharp teeth. And you would not want to get stuck under one; at up to 2,750kg they can crush aRead More →
“Subsistence agriculture is farming for food while commercial agriculture is farming meant to provide a farmer with food and money.” … In essence, subsistence agriculture is when crops and animals are produced by a farmer to feed their family with little surplus left for selling. Which is a good exampleRead More →
The Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, sensationalized as a “killer rabbit attack” by the press, also known as the “1979 Jimmy Carter rabbit incident”, involved a swamp rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) that swam toward then–U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s fishing boat on April 20, 1979. Can Bunny be dangerous? Rabbits are clean andRead More →