Boiling point

Of course, no amount of self-deprecation can mask Gladwell’s phenomenal success. Since the 2000 publication of The Tipping Point, he has been less a journalist than, as Fast Company once deemed him, “a rock star, a spiritual leader, a stud.” Business executives seek him out for his insights, adoring fans stop him on the street to shake his hand, and other writers strive to emulate the genre he essentially pioneered—the idea-driven narrative that upends the way we think about everything from…

things may get tough and kind of crazy it will have its ups, and those ups may be a very high point, like a roller coaster. Another example is, someone close to you can pass away and that's a downer, but think about it later in life or recent something good is going to happen. For example, going to college or having a family of your own, yes those down points are heartbreaking and sad but those high points are exciting and…

Ice transforms at a point of degrees. This degree would be 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius. It must be at this degree or lower to transform into ice. If it is higher than the freezing point of water, then it will be a form of water or ice melting into water. The different molecules, or also called the things that make up the ice or water, are more dense in cold water. They become dense and come to each other which makes them tight into an ice cube. When the ice gets warm, it moves the…

A revolutionary, but flawed man, President Woodrow Wilson blamed Europe’s fragile infrastructure on its dependence on a balance of power, and so he proposed his Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference and with it the groundworks for an effective peace with the creation of a League of Nations. The League would serve as an international parliamentary system responsible for the maintenance of peace through a system of collective security, whereby external aggression against a member nation…

Thin-slicing is the term Gladwell utilizes to describe when you make snap decisions and to come to conclusions in a very small amount of time. Decisions made extremely quickly can be just as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately, and our unconscious influences our intuition . Gladwell argues that “ there can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in moths of rational analysis.” One has better judgment when exposed to little information, and our decisions made quickly can be…

In the book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell argues that small amounts of information are just as good or better than well thought out and detailed information or decisions. Gladwell uses stories from colleagues and studies to support his claims. Gladwell uses these to appeal to one’s ethics and logic. Gladwell uses the work done by one of his colleagues at John Gottman’s lab to show that a little information can go a long way. Gottman came up with a way to analyse marriages from conversations with a…

The origin of the roller coaster comes from Russia, in a particular area of what would later become St. Petersburg , where they sent sledders down 70-foot high slopes that were wood-framed ice slides. They have been doing this as early as the 16th century. The roller coasters were built out of wood with ice more than two but not a lot of inches thick covering the surface. There were stairs attached to the back of the slide that the riders climbed and then they sped down the fifty degree drop…

war, the influenza pandemic of 1918, Wilson's 14 points, the peace treaties, the league of Nations, self-determination and the mandate system. In today's discussion I will be talking about Wilson's 14 points, that was proposed after the war. Wilson's 14 points were 14 goals of the United States, proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in the peace negotiations after World War I. These principles were outlined in a speech in 1918 to Congress. The 14 points consisted of recommendations like; open…

so it is important people melt this black ice. Based on research, the heater will melt ice the fastest. The three topics being researched in this essay are, What is the freezing point of water? What is the temperature of your hand? Is ice dense or light? Why does the temperature of ice help melt it? Well, the freezing point of water is 32F, making it easier to find the temperature to put a heating device at. In places where black ice forms a lot, they could put big heaters near streets, at 70F,…

I sat in the dim lit laboratory waiting for the computer monitor to display the chromatogram of the sample that I had injected into the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). I knew the peak chromatogram should come at the thirteenth minute, and if it did, the ophthalmic formulation which had become an axial part of my life over the past many months will have an added chance to become a drug product of the future. Or of course, I might just get a flat line or a confusing mix of…