Word: brightnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soon followed up the blue LED with the first bright green and white LEDs. An LED is a semiconductor that generates light, but very little heat, when an electric current is passed through it. Different semiconductor materials produce different colors; Nakamura used gallium nitride, which generates blue and white light. The resulting LEDs use as little as one-seventh the energy as an incandescent bulb and can last about 100 times as long, up to 100,000 hours. If they were widely used, LEDs could lead to enormous energy savings and carbon-emissions reductions. In the developing world, LEDs paired...
...quadded and new suitemates hotly debate so-called “liberated sex.” “Oh, fuck politics,” declares suitemate Maeve. Darling describes how a “little thrill runs through the room. The word is still scandalous, brand new, and bright with squalor.” Yet despite its opening, “Necessary Sins” isn’t actually a memoir about Harvard, but rather one from that so-hot-right-now, sex-filled, “personal” variety. Darling at one point remarks that once...
...neurosurgeon dissecting a tumor out of my brain, or anyone but smart oncologist coming up with the drug cocktail that might save my life from a cancer. It's usually not that hard, though. The great bulk of patient visits are for really simple things - questions that a reasonably bright resident would get right. Most pneumonias, for example, are pretty easy to treat; the internist should have no trouble doing it himself. But sub-specialization is the trend.The reasons for this are tied up in ego, education and mostly economics...
...must, however, look on the bright side. No matter what gets cancelled, gets modified from its original version for broadcast television, gets toned down, cleaned up or cut out—I’ll still have my “Maury.” Thankfully, that kind of trashy television is nowhere near popular enough to raise anyone’s ire. It’s a good thing, too—because just like the guests on his show, I’d do just about anything to find out who’s the father...
With the bunker's heavy metal lid dragged to one side, dank musty air rose up from the entrance, the forbidding gloom of the narrow steel-lined shaft below unbroken by the bright sunlight. It had taken seven months of searching to finally discover one of the underground bunkers that had enabled Hizballah to fire thousands of rockets into northern Israel last summer even under the pounding of Israeli air and ground operations. But any sense of exhilaration at the achievement was dampened by the nagging anxiety of claustrophobia...