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Biomimicry Organisms have adapted structurally, physiologically and behaviorally to suit the environments around them and to coexist with abiotic factors in ever changing climates and ecosystems. Humans have only been on this planet for a small part in the bigger scale of time, inhabiting the different parts of the world to build and alter landscapes to suit our needs. Biomimicry is the study of organisms' adaptations to maintain and sustain the natural resources around us. We are able to do…

Nicobar Island, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. In fact they are now also found in Australia, Mexico, Brazil and USA. It is also commonly referred to as the Turkish Gecko as represented in its Latin name. They are insectivores, rarely exceeding 15 centimetres or 5.9 inches in length, have large, lidless eyes with elliptical pupils. A small (up to 60 mm or 2.4" from snout to vent) light yellow, pink, peach, or reddish-tan lizard…

Australia’s natural environment is NOT unique. This is a statement to which I determinedly accept may be not correct. Australia has numerous extraordinary elements which different nations do not possess. Australia deserves to be known as one of the most biologically diverse countries on the planet. It is home to more than one million classifications of plants and creatures, a considerable lot of which are discovered no place else on the planet, remarkable and impressively unique landforms and…

In the experiment, a twelve-centimetre ruler was used in order to measure the amount of soil placed in the containers. The ruler, however, is not perfect. There is a degree of randomness that is noted in terms of the position of the ruler, as well as, the specific lengths used to measure…

as we age. Pip Harry finds out which body parts lose a few sizes over a lifetime and what you can do to protect yourself. The Spine Spinal surgeon Dr Randolph Gray from Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney says we can all expect to lose a few centimetres from our height as we grow older. "The average loss of height from 30 to 70 years is around 3cm in men and 5cm in women. This then increases to 5cm in men and 8cm in women in the next decade of life." The spine shrinks due to a normal…

Alfred North Whitehead—a prominent mathematician and philosophical figure of the twentieth century, once said: “All western philosophy is comprised of footnotes to Plato.” Indeed, Plato has such grandly significant influence that many of his notions still exist until today. One of his works—The Republic: Book VII, has become a classic read that anyone who is familiar with philosophy is familiar with. The book, well known as “Allegory of the Cave,” articulates the fact that humans do not…

injury, white outs and crevasses. They minimised these risks with the previous preparations that were made and at one stage took into action the antibiotics of which they already had with them due to careful planning. Crevasses could be a few centimetres to hundreds of meters deep, they had to take a massive amount of caution when crossing the ice. What were some of the physical and mental challenges that both boys faced during the expedition? They faced dealing with the lack of energy and…

Crabs are a type of crustacean that occur within mangrove ecosystems and can be found from high tide through to low tide levels. Crabs shelter underneath logs and in cool places to avoid drying out and many create burrows for refuge from larger prey, it can also be the site of mating and incubation. Other crabs use burrows to store their food as the water tide rises or lowers. Red fingered marsh crabs and fiddler crabs are commonly active at low tides where they are often out looking for food,…

The client, Todd, who weighs 120 kilogram and stands at a height of 185 centimetres has a BMI of 35.06. The normal adult BMI is between 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2 so this makes him belong to obesity class II. Pairing this information with his 120 cm waist circumference for an android body shape puts him at a very high disease risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, if not yet diagnosed as having one. He may need to lose at least 34 kilograms to reach a BMI of 25…

Results H1 H2 Landing spot ( ) Actual value (landing spot) Trail one .26m .904m 96.96cm 96.8cm Trail two .235m .904m 92.18cm 92cm Discussion questions 1) Equation for the landing point of the bob 2) Distance where the bob should land from directly beneath the rest position of the pendulum. 3) Would you expect the same result if you used the different mass? If the experiment were to use a different mass the result would not…