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The Analysis of “The Poisoner’s Handbook”, by Deborah Blum The Analysis of “The Poisoner’s Handbook”, by Deborah Blum Austin Shufflebarger Pickens Academy Introduction “The Poisoner’s Handbook”, by Deborah Blum is a detailed biography about murder and the birth of Forensic Medicine in the Jazz Age of New York City, along with going over various poisons and toxins it also delivers interesting biographies as well as an in-depth look into the court cases and scientific discoveries…

“If you look at the evolution and leap forward to 11 years from now, I think we will be using all the knowledge in molecular biology, and cancer biology combined with imaging, It will be images, combined with genes, tumor markers and patient data.” (Liselotte Hojgaard, MD, professor of medicine and technology at the University of Copenhagen) The science of radioactivity has existed for many decades since it’s discovery. While often perceived as a risky and dangerous practice, artificial…

the dark. The roots of these unique roses have been extended through the worlds of the arts, the fields of sports, the labs of science, and the innovations of technology defying any challenges. Women like Frida Kahlo, Beyoncé, Jaide Bucher, Marie Curie, and Carol Shaw have proved to be capable of achieving anything they propose, making it clear that they were meant to be prominent in such a diverse world. There was once a picture that portrayed women as…

I think that mistakes are not key in making discoveries. “Thomas Edison said that inventing was 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration,” as stated in “In Praise of Careful Science.” Inventing is hard, it needs a lot of dedication and work. Few people are lucky to be motivated by mistakes, like Percy Spencer and Isaac Newton. Sometimes mistakes may start the process of making a discovery, but to make a discovery you need careful experiments and study, and those take time and work.…

World War Two, expensive on all sides of the map. From the death toll to the financial cost for the total of, if we include 1939, six years. The National World War Two Museum states that; during the six years we, The United States, lost 416,800 military personnel. That number added to the rest of the world make the military personnel number skyrocket to, 19,463,200. The United States government during the last few years devoted their time and effort towards the Manhattan project. The total cost…

for me. I read several publications, most notably the publications on "General Principles of Radiation Therapy”. This gave a detailed overview of radiotherapy and how advances were made over time, from Roentgen discovery of radiographs in 1895, the Curie family discovering radium in 1898 and radiologists drawing up treatment plans with a wax pencil on X-ray films, to MRI, combined CT, PET scanning and constructing intricate, computerized treatment plans based on 3-D images of the…

off into the world alone to broaden his mind and share his wisdom with the world– the Socratic Method used by teachers and students alike would have never come to be. In similar fashion is the example of Chemist Marie Curie. Best known for her work with radioactivity, Madame Curie cast off the social convention that women were not scientists. However, had she held a frying pan and rotisserie rather than flasks of Polonium and Radium, the world would not have many of its largest advancements to…

stimulate the crystal. He discovered that the crystal released its own source of x-rays. It was at this moment that radioactivity was discovered. Years later, Marie Curie, along with the help of her husband, conducted experiments using Becquerel’s theory and discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. However, Marie Curie later died from radiation poisoning as a result of carrying test tubes of radium in her pocket (“The Discovery Of Radioactivity”). The discovery of radium and…

Society tells us that talking to yourself period, let alone in public, is not acceptable. It is associated with psychosis, dementia, and many other mental illnesses. My experiment shows that deviance is a combination of the action of the deviant person as well as the reaction of the audience. People appear to talk to themselves all the time as earpieces to cell phones get smaller and smaller with the technological breakthroughs that we see. My behavior was acceptable until people saw that there…

Atomic bombs and nuclear weapons generally are very disputable and controversial issue. Almost 64 years ago, on 6th and 9th of August, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ostensibly, this use can be justified as a direct means to the end of the World War II in Asia-Pacific region. Up to now, Americans consider this act defensible. Truman, who was president of the USA in years 1945-1953 has always relentlessly vendicated his radical and controversial step in August 1945.…