He stood before a lake of blood, as the fiercely setting sun lit the thick water with the guilt of war. The last place to be built here was, like the husk of a boiled insect, beautiful, yet no longer wild. It had surrendered to the inevitable, adulterated with cinnabar and starch, dissolved with ammonia, [...]

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The names of the numbers: one, two, three, ten, twenty, thirty, … are different, of course, in the various languages. Number symbols (see Arabic_numerals, Babylonian_numerals, Egyptian_numerals, Greek_numbers, Indian_numerals, Mayan_mathematics) have also differed widely. Those we are accustomed to, which we call Arabic numerals, came into use relatively late in history. In primitive ages, before the [...]

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The Met Office revised its seasonal forecast for the UK’s summer weather in June, July and August 2009, following a period of wet weather across the country. Earlier this year, the organisation had declared that there was a 65% probability that the summer would be warmer and drier than average, and that it was “odds on [...]

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It is believed that protons of energies exceeding 50 MeV are the result of the beta decay of neutrons created by cosmic ray collisions with nuclei of the upper atmosphere. The source of lower energy protons is believed to be proton diffusion due to changes in the magnetic field during geomagnetic storms.

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Summer park, a place for ice-cream skin games, as long hours and warm weather slowly roast the lanes.

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The struggle with loved ones, the frank exchanges, the everyday battle of wills, the raised voices, the quiet menace, the sarcasm and the battles won and lost.

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Turning through the sonic pages of memory, guiding the hand of the fisherman to catch the spectre of the lost soul.

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Next-generation DNA sequencing has the potential to dramatically accelerate biological and biomedical research, by enabling the comprehensive analysis of genomes, transcriptomes and interactomes to become inexpensive, routine and widespread, rather than requiring significant production-scale efforts.

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We travel and only sometimes seem to arrive, the longest journey our ultimately unknowable destination. The only thing that remains for us is to observe the winds and currents which hinder or assist our passage.

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