It’s Time To Revise STEM Doctoral Admissions Procedures
The selection of students for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs determines who will be leaders in higher education and fields that underpin…
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Yearly Archive: 2018
How Individuals With “The Dark Triad” Traits Respond To Breakup Distress
The Dark Triad is a set of three personality traits that tend to “hang together”; that is, when somebody has high levels of one of…
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The Reactants And Products Of Cellular Respiration
Cellular respiration is the process responsible for converting chemical energy, and the reactants/products involved in cellular respiration are oxygen, glucose (sugar), carbon dioxide, and water….
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Functional Region: Definition And Examples
While studying geography, you may have heard the term functional region before. Yet what exactly is a functional region? Put simply, a functional region is…
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What Is A Baby Fox Called: Name And Pictures
Baby foxes can go by a few different names. They can be called cups, pups, or kits. While different breeds of foxes will have different…
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Black Locust Tree: Types And Pictures
The black locust tree, or Robinia pseudoacacia, is a deciduous tree found throughout the southeastern United States, as well as in South Africa, Europe, and…
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Electron Configuration Chart Of Elements
An electron configuration chart is a tabular representation of patterns in the electron configuration of elements as one goes down the periodic table of elements. An…
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What Do Snails Eat?
Snails are any number of shelled mollusks falling under the subphylum Gastropoda. Snails have a wide range of diets ranging from the herbivorous to the carnivorous….
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How Asteroid Families Interact With Secular Resonances
Large asteroid families are usually the product of a collision between two bodies. Fragments of the parent body are ejected with terminal ejection velocities that…
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On The Shoulders Of Giants, Part 1: Henry K. Beecher And The Placebo Effect
When Robert Merton (1910 – 2003) dissected the allegory that we all are “standing on the shoulders of giants” — based on a much older…
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Speech Directivity And Vowel Sounds
When we are behind someone who is speaking, we hear them less clearly, and it is more difficult to understand what they are saying. This…
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