Hurricane Irene
High above the Earth from aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Ron Garan snapped this image of Hurricane Irene as it passed over the Caribbean on Aug. 22, 2011. The National Hurricane Center noted on Aug....
Word of the Day
marconism
- (noun) The art of wireless telegraphy according to the Marconi system, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy.
Quote of the Day
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry 
- an aberration which is happily almost impossible
- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.
- Auguste Comte
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