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Refusing Flu Shots? Maybe You're A 'Denialist' : NPRAt the Ocean Charter School near Marina del Rey, Calif., 40 percent of the 2008 kindergarten class received vaccination exemptions. Author Michael Specter says the parents in this upscale enclave are prime examples of what he calls "denialism."
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Timothy Leary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFor the American baseball player, see Tim Leary (baseball) . For Timothy Lea, the writer of the Confessions novels and films, see Christopher Wood (writer) . Timothy Leary Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist , futurist , and ...
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John C. Lilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJohn Lilly He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank , dolphin communication , and psychedelic drugs , sometimes in combination. He was a prominent member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and ...
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Nearly a century later, new findings support Warburg theory of cancerGerman scientist Otto H. Warburg's theory on the origin of cancer earned him the Nobel Prize in 1931, but the biochemical basis for his theory remained elusive. His theory that cancer starts from irreversible injury to cellular respiration eventually fell out of favor amid research pointing to ...
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Svante Arrhenius - BiographySvante ArrheniusThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903BiographySvante ArrheniusSvante August Arrhenius was born on February 19, 1859, the son of Svante Gustaf Arrhenius and Carolina Christina Thunberg. His ancestors were farmers; his uncle became Professor of Botany and Rector of the Agricultural ...
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Alessandro Volta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLifeVolta was born in Como and educated in the public schools there. In 1775 he became professor of physics at the Royal School in Como; in the following year, he perfected the electrophorus, an instrument that produced charges of static electricity.In 1776-77 he applied himself to chemistry, ...
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Ernest Rutherford - BiographyErnest RutherfordThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908BiographyErnest RutherfordErnest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son in a family of seven sons and five daughters. His father James Rutherford, a Scottish wheelwright, emigrated to New ...
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Fritz Haber - BiographyFritz Haber The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918BiographyFritz HaberFritz Haber was born on December 9, 1868 in Breslau, Germany, in one of the oldest families of the town, as the son of Siegfried Haber, a merchant. He went to school at the St. Elizabeth classical school at Breslau and he did, even ...
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Marie Curie - BiographyMarie CurieThe Nobel Prize in Physics 1903BiographyMarie Curie Marie Curie, n? Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved ...
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Albert Einstein - BiographyAlbert EinsteinThe Nobel Prize in Physics 1921BiographyAlbert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was born at Ulm, in W?ttemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert ...
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