Word: carbons
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...fork back and forth throughout the meal and uses whichever hand is free to gesture or scribble notes. "All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion," he explains. "We can someday replicate that on a machine." Earthly life is carbon based, he notes, and computers are silicon based, but that is not a major distinction. "Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system." The notion, he admits, is a bit frightening, but he jokes that it would also...
...good thing about a two-game series is that there is another chance for a win the next night. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the second game was merely a carbon copy of the night before--except this time it was even uglier...
Though you may think that going to chem lecture is a waste because if you sit in the back, the professor looks as small as the carbon dioxide molecule he is talking about, the jokes are as stale as a Store-24 ham sandwich and the verbatim transcript of the lecture is in your chemistry book (pp. 325-346), lecture is an invaluable way to add to your understanding of the material--by trading problem sets with classmates. You can repeat this formula with biology and mathematics...
Kanjorski is an unusual breed of Democrat: he votes against federal funding for most abortions, supports school prayer and opposes NAFTA. In his district, he secured a project to reclaim mine-ravaged northeastern Pennsylvania; and with Carbon County's unemployment running as high as 2% above the national average, he supports a program to offer businesses $25,000 loans for each job they create...
They made their serendipitous discovery by zapping graphite with a laser beam and mixing the resulting carbon vapor with a stream of helium. When they examined the crystallized residue, they found molecules made of 60 carbon atoms. Guessing (correctly) that these structures resembled Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, they named them "buckminsterfullerenes"--"buckyballs" for short...