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  One scientific advance of which Huxley warns readers of is that in biology. In the setting of Brave New World, henceforth referred to as the reservation, the mass production of humans is accomplished with the Bokanovsky process. In this process, human beings are genetically engineered in laboratories. “… a bokanovskified egg will bud, will…

Family: Panthera onca Genus: Felis Class :Carnivora Species: Onca Order: Felidae The body length of the Jaguar is 44-73 inches long, the tail length is 18- 30 inches and the total length of the Jaguar is 6 to 7 feet. The male Jaguar weighs 125 to 250 lbs. and the female Jaguar weighs from 100…

Creatine has been used in sports throughout time. Athletes have always had a fascination with being excellent at what they do. With the banning of steroids from competitive sports and the implementation of random drug testing in most sports, most athletes are still somehow hoping to gain an edge on their competition. This edge that…

Plague was a term that was applied in the Middle Ages to all fatal epidemic diseases, but now it is only applied to an acute, infectious, contagious disease of rodents and humans, caused by a short, thin, gram-negative bacillus. In humans, plague occurs in three forms: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. The best known form is…

We use the basic senses of hearing, vision, taste, touch, and smell to do so. Each sense has an absolute threshold that shows what the smallest amount of whatever the stimulus may be is that we can notice. We also possess the ability for our senses to adapt to the world around us. Sensory adaptation…

The ability to reproduce human beings without sexual reproduction is no longer only an idea to be explored in sci-fi movies and books. After over forty years of research and development, human cloning is quickly becoming a reality. Cloning captured the publics attention when Scottish scientists startled the world in July of 1996 when they…

Theoretical Framework Library 2.0 is a term coined by Michael Casey on his LibraryCrunch blog. Casey (2006), say that Library 2.0 sees the reality of the current user-base and says not good enough, we can reach more people. It seeks to do this through a three-part approach — reaching out to new users, inviting customer…

Enzymes are a biological reaction that remains unchanged, most enzymes are chemical of hydrogen peroxide which changes that release energy and build new materials for cells and tissues. Each enzyme has its own specific shape, but without enzymes, the digestive system will take weeks and weeks to digest food. When the enzyme changes shape it…

To mediums of communication, especially mass communication, which use electronic technology. Television, internet, radio and any other medium of communication which uses digital information and electricity falls under this category. Electronic media requires the use of electromechanical device in order to create, access and broadcast content. Most new media today is in the form of…

Became one of Finland’s most inspirational designers to date. As a child, Alvar had an incredibly active mind. Around the age of four he began to scribble at his father’s desk; Scribbles that would eventually lead on to projects from the same vein as his father’s work as a land surveyor and grandfather who was…