http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1216_051216_humans_britain.html
James Owen
for National Geographic News, December 16, 2005
Thanks to Orstio (everything-science) for discovering this article.
Hello!
\lim_{x\rightarrow 0} \frac{-x(1 -\cos x)}{\sin x - x}
I solved this limit using L'Hopital and expanding trigonometric functions to series.
But i have to solve it using algebraic tools (without series). I don't know how to do it. \sin x - x looks difficult to deal with.
This thread contains section 2 and part of section 1 of a 5 section paper I'm writing regarding consciousness. Section 2 is intended to create a more general theory around something used in engineering called "control volumes". I've also included part of section 1, the abstract, to provide a...
This story is a few years old but it came up on a PBS NOVA and seemed worth revisiting.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0808_020808_crow.html
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This is his 22 October 8:33 pm post:
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"Since Greg the magician got us a reprieve on the bandwidth thing, I'll add a little. I just read...
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