Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While most of the College's VES courses are designed to teach the artistic use of a particular medium, Reichek's class focuses instead on the conceptualization of art. The students are encouraged to formulate an idea and then find the material best suited to bringing it to fruition in the semester's four projects...
Most athletic injuries reflect the nature of a particular sport. Coaches say runners are more prone to ankle and leg problems, while soccer players often develop knee disorders. Contact sports like football and hockey tend to see the most serious and diverse injuries...
...host of new superstitions have cropped up,and this is our way of criticizing them byassociation," Araujo said. "In particular,widespread conspiracy theories, belief in alienabductions and faith in alternative medicineprovide evidence that superstition is still apowerful force in America, and even Harvard...
...this argument to say that if life on Earth has survived as long as it has, it has a longer life expectancy than life in the universe in general. This is a reasonable statement, when applied to life in general. But Aczel is talking about intelligent life, and in particular, intelligent life that can communicate through space. On both of these counts, we are the cosmic equivalent of newborns, making Aczel's conclusion flawed...
...Aczel's final calculation, leading to the number 1 for the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, uses a watered down version of Drake's equation to compute the probability of intelligent life evolving around a particular star. Drake's equation, a description of the factors involved in calculating the number of civilizations in the galaxy capable of communicating with each other, is useful in concept. But the equation is not a very practical tool for performing actual calculations because its factors include numbers like the percentage of planets in their stars' habitable zones that contain...