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....
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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.
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. 
- Albert Szent-Gyorgi
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