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Can Fat be Fit?

                Does the number on the scale correlate to how healthy you are?

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Can Coffee be Good for You?

Are one or more cups of coffee a day actually bad for you? Or, does is actually help you? There have been many studies on the effects of coffee and while the results previously proved rather negative, recent studies have been proving contrary. This is not to negate the idea that coffee can have harmful effects for certain people but it is important to study and analyze the new findings within the science world concerning this topic.

Biodiversity - Week 5

These pages are being generated as part of a senior seminar course directed by Neal Williams at Bryn Mawr College during fall semester, 2007. This week's topic is "Conserving BioDiversity: Climate Change and the Significance of Genetic Diversity at Species Range Boundaries."

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Science--Another Type of Art?

Science is a body of facts. From fifth grade Science to senior year AP Biology, teachers teach students exactly this. Students see science as a procedure with distinct boundaries between what is right and wrong (1). Science experiments had to meet certain expectations and create the "right" results. Science was all about structure.

But what is "right" anyway?

Working Group on Introductory Science Education

Introductory Science Education

A Conversation About Teaching Inquiry

 

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The Science Behind Anastasia

Anastasia Romanov was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia. The Romanov family ruled Russia for nearly 300 years until 1917 when Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheveks overthrew the Romanovs, imprisoning Anastasia and her family in Siberia until 1918 when they were murdered by Bolshevik soldiers. The bodies were buried in a secret location.

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Everyone believes in white

Everyone believes in white superiority.  I am not saying "all Caucasians";  I am saying the whole world believes in white superiority.  I have often wondered why.  Speaking as a teacher of small children we know that African genes generally show as excellence of large muscle development, Asian genes, as excellence of small muscle development and inteligence, indigenous American genes as capacities of the spirit unknown from any other part of the world.  I believe the European genes must have some special excellence, but I have been unable to find it.  A few years ago there was a short piece in the Alumnae Bulletinon the work of Nina Jablonski '75 on the evolution of skin color.  It was noted that because of the female's greater need for Vitamin D, women all parts of the w
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I am also working class

I am also working class: my father was a welder, my grandfather worked on the railroad, and my uncle drove a truck.  I am the first person in my family to attend college.  There was no one in 1953 to help me adjust to Bryn Mawr.  Bryn Mawr is proud of being no.

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Waxing Gibbous

Pemwrez2009
September 28, 2007
Critical Feminist Studies
Anne Dalke

Paper 1: Waxing Gibbous

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