Passage A In April 2002 an event took place which demonstrated one of the many applications of information theory. The space probe, Voyager I, launched in 1977, had sent …
Passage A A satellite in the solar system got pictures of Jupiter and Saturn and the pictures were meant to be sent back to the earth. Unfortunately, the satellite …
Passage A In the blink of an eye, a wave of visible light completes a quadrillion oscillations, or cycles. That very large number presents both opportunities and a challenge. …
Passage A A facial expression is one or more motions or positions of the muscles in the skin. These movements convey the emotional state of the individual to observers. …
Passage Does An IQ Test Prove Creativity? Everyone has creativity, some a lot more than others. The development of humans, and possibly the universe, depends on it. Yet creativity …
Passage One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues …
Passage A In the late 1990s, psychologist Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania urged colleagues to observe optimal moods with the same kind of focus with which they …
Passage A The American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes three stages of adolescence. These are early, middle and late adolescence, and each has its own developmental tasks. Teenagers move through …
Passage Interactions between people are very complex processes. Part of the complexity Is that most of us are continually evaluating what another person is saying in terms of their …
Passage The first area of criticism concerns the extent to which the results of ‘scientific’ educational research are valid. It has often been argued that, although the numerical evidence …
