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Quackery – History of quackery in Europe and the United States

With little understanding of the causes and mechanisms of illnesses, widely marketed “cures” (as opposed to locally produced and locally used remedies), often referred to as patent medicines, first came to prominence during the 17th and 18th centuries in Britain and the British colonies, including those in North America. Daffy’s Elixir and Turlington’s Balsam were [...]

Feng shui – Foundation theories

The goal of feng shui as practiced today is to situate the human built environment on spots with good qi. The “perfect spot” is a location and an axis in time. Qi (ch’i) Qi (roughly pronounced as the sound ‘chee’ in English) is a movable positive or negative life force which plays an essential role [...]

James Lind – Legacy

Prevention and cure of scurvy Scurvy is a disease now known to be caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, but in Lind’s day, the concept of vitamins was unknown. Vitamin C is necessary for the maintenance of healthy connective tissue. In 1740 the catastrophic result of Anson’s circumnavigation attracted much attention in Europe; out [...]

Jordan – Economy

Since King Abdullah II’s accession to the throne in 1999, liberal economic policies have been introduced which has resulted in a boom lasting for a decade continuing even through 2009. Jordan is now one of the freest and most competitive economies in the Middle East scoring higher than the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon in [...]

NASA spin-off – Twenty-four products NASA claims as spin-offs

Health and medicine= Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) The work on applying light-emitting diodes in NASA space shuttle plant growth experiments led to the development of a hand-held, high-intensity, LED unit developed by Quantum Devices Inc. The WARP 10 is said to relieve minor muscle and joint pain, stiffness,and increases local blood circulation. The WARP 10 is [...]

Agastya International Foundation – Key programs

Image:Community_visit.JPG| A night community visit by the Agastya team Image:Kunigal.jpg| Agastya Mobile Lab visiting a village in Kunigal Image:Activity_kuppam.jpg|The Kuppam Creative Lab encourages hands-on learning of scientific concepts. The Agastya program began to expand in 2000-01 when Agastya acquired of rocky wasteland in Kuppam, a deprived rural area in Andhra Pradesh. A science centre was [...]

Taoist sexual practices – Ancient and medieval practices

Qi (Lifeforce) and Jing (Essence) The basis of all Taoist thinking is that qi is part of everything that exists. It is related to another energetic substance contained in the human body known as jing (精), and once all this has been expended, you will die. Jing could be lost from the body in a [...]

Carlisle Area School District – Budget

In 2007, the Carlisle Area School District employed 323 teachers. The average teacher salary in the district was $48,548 for 181 days worked. As of 2007, Pennsylvania ranked in the top 10 states in average teacher salaries. When adjusted for cost of living Pennsylvania ranked fourth in the nation for teacher compensation. Additionally, the teachers [...]

Anti-nuclear movement – Impact

Impact on popular culture Beginning in the 1960s, anti-nuclear ideas received coverage in the popular media with novels such as ”Fail-Safe” and feature films such as ”Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (1964), ”The China Syndrome” (1979), ”Silkwood” (1983), and ”The Rainbow Warrior” (1992). ”Dr. Strangelove” explored “what [...]

Mars Trace Gas Mission – Science

The TGM orbiter would separate from the ExoMars stationary surface lander and provide it with telecommunication relay for 8 sols, then the TGM would aerobrake into a more circular orbit for science observations and would provide communications relay for the ExoMars rover and the Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher rover to be launched in 2018, and would [...]

Scott Brown – Political positions

Brown has positioned himself as a conservative counterweight to Massachusetts’ previously all-Democratic, 12-member congressional delegation. He describes himself as socially moderate and fiscally conservative. He has said, “I’m going to be the only person down there who is going to be the independent voter and thinker… I’ve always been the underdog in one shape or [...]

Creigh Deeds – Political positions

Abortion *Creigh Deeds is pro-choice in the matter of abortion. *Deeds was endorsed by the Planned Parents Advocates of Virginia for his 2009 Gubernatorial run. Taxes *Deeds has stated that he will not make a no-tax-increase pledge and wrote in the Washington Post that he would support a new gas tax to fund transportation. *In [...]

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