Luminescence

In “On Emblematic Megaflora” Farmer explains how he notes that people use trees as sources of meaning. The trees represent a connection between natural and urban world, but they also can gain a certain familiarity with the people. He writes that “Old ones can be imagined as guardians or grandparents. It requires little effort to individuate and anthropomorphize single-trunk plants” (535). With regards to anthropomorphism, Lawrence Buell defines it as “the attribution of human feelings or traits…

The Ancient Inhabitants of Flores Island The recently discovered Homo floresiensis have been a puzzle for scientists. The skeletons are an odd mix of archaic and more modern traits. The problem of how these diminutive hominins arrived on the island of Flores is still a mystery. The dating shows H. floresiensis arrived over a million years ago by the tools they left behind. The hominins had a minimal cranial capacity, yet they were able to live and prosper until recent times. The Indonesian…

Introduction/Purpose: Chemicals all perform different reactions when dissolving into different chemicals, and in the lab “Our First Lab” my group and I observed one of these chemical reactions. The purpose of the lab was to witness the chemistry behind these reactions in action, so we could put research and observations together on how it was possible for something to illuminate with only a forced bend to it. Observed how each light sticks glow depended on the temperature they were exposed to,…

• Procoptodon Goliah (picture 1) – The Procoptodon Goliah was a part of the Sthenurines (short faced Kangaroo) This animal had a very short, deep ‘brachycephalic’ skull and a low jaw. The large Kangaroo stood at around 2 metres tall with a mass of around 200 kg. Tim Flannery an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist, and environmentalist proposed that its closest extant relative is the tiny banded hare wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) this small animal only weighs 2kg in weight and is about 15…

were dull, merely flickering into existence every now and then, but there was an adequate amount of shimmering stars to illuminate the dark, moonless night. The Adriatic Sea glistened, mirroring the dazzling assemblage of glittering stars and the luminescence from the tiny ports and food markets that lined the small country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The faint wind brushed against the waters of the ocean, the push of the waves reflected…

The unique composition and purity of as-deposited SnS2 thin films prepared with different precursor solution volumes from 5 ml to 25ml were determined by EDX analysis as shown in fig 5, which brought out the presence of Tin and Sulfur as elementary components. Two different peaks were observed in the spectrums from fig 5 relevant to the tin and sulfur. The EDX spectra show that the weight percentage for the film prepared at the precursor solution volume of 5 ml is 36.8% and 63.2%, which is…

IMPETUS: the force by which a body moves. A single flickering street lamp illuminated the abandoned streets below. Ash danced on the wind, interrupted by the charred, black skeletons of what had once been sturdy foundations to village houses, coating the parts of the street where there was still gasoline with burnt memories. It settled on the occasional corpse, mimicking skin where the muscle had been touched by fire, drawing halos of gray chalk around the shattered skulls of innocents that had…

Over the last few decades technology has made great progress in the medical field, helping to discover new treatments and cures for problems affecting the human body. Anti-biotics are being used to fight off infection, multiple radiation beams are being used instead of just one for tumor treatment to help patients avoid harmful radiation, and many more that were thought impossible just a short while ago. But even in cases where there is still no definitive cure, technology has advanced so much…

“The Petal” by Francis Saspa What comes around goes around. That was a meaningless statement to Sam until recently. There once lived a man named Sam who had a long journey to make. He found the idea of long journeys revolting and distasteful things, but he knew that it was inevitable and he needed to prepare. He knew that he would have to prepare sooner or later, but he worked, neglecting preparation. Sam’s primary frame of work was painting. He had a passion for his work but did not gain much…

Soldier Prologue Moonlight shines down on a clearing not far from the forest's edge. It's a calm night, with the nocturnal creatures performing their nightly symphony. Fog begins to tiptoe around the treeline, tentatively feeling its way among the tree trunks. A breeze whirls the fog and blows wispy clouds in front of the moon. As the light begins to dissipate, the fog slowly creeps through the grass and wind its way higher up the trees. The branches dance in the wind until the clearing is…