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Memory Elvin-Lewis
Holding his half-full gourd of “chicha,” Walter Lewis smiles, wishing he didn’t have to drink another drop. It tastes so sour, like a combination of yogurt, warm beer and mashed potatoes. But the headman — the apu of the Achuar Jivura village in the Peruvian Amazon jungle — is looking him right in the eye. To refuse this friendship ceremony drink would be an insult to his hosts. Lewis... |
featured question
Q: Can you really grow plants from the seeds found in Mammoth feces? In national parks here in Missouri, after a controlled burning, naturalists set up transects and counted the plants that reappeared. In some areas they found species of plants that were extinct in the state until the seeds were able to germinate! If those seeds can survive for so long in the earth without rotting and still be able to germinate, then could seeds found in Mammoth's feces germinate also?
Read the answer...In the news
Nova Scotia scientist wins 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 6, 2009The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared today between Charles Kao (1/2) the discoverer of fibre optics, George Smith(1/4) and Willard Boyle (1/4) who invented the CCD, or Charge Coupled Device, the imaging chip used in many cameras, camcorders, telescopes and other devices. Boyle was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and grew up in Quebec but made his discovery at Bell Labs in New Jersey in 1969. He never gave up his Canadian citizenship and moved back to Nova Scotia, Canada in the 1980s.
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