Teachers for the New Millennium

2011 ◽  
pp. 2040-2043
Author(s):  
James Lerman
Keyword(s):  
Room Temperature ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Boiling Water ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Millennium

They say if you drop a live frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out. But, if you place the same frog into a pot of water at room temperature and then gradually raise the flame under it, the frog will not notice the changes and remain in the pot until it is cooked. Now, you might ask, what is the connection between a frog in a pot and what a millennium teacher should know and be able to do? My view of the connection is that there are events and processes happening around us every day. Most of the time, we do not pay them much attention because they occur so frequently or gradually that from moment to moment they do not seem to signify very much—like the gradually rising temperature in the pot of the cooking frog. Once in a great while, a potentially transformative event occurs and it makes us jump: September 11, Columbine, sending a man to the moon, or Y2K hysteria. Usually though, we conduct our routines and make our way through the day or the semester and tend to rely on the comfort of the familiar, seemingly unchanging, landscape. Yet, were we to carefully study and reflect upon that landscape, we might discern important trends that hold meaning for how we conduct ourselves presently, and in the future.

Teachers for the New Millennium

2011 ◽  
pp. 1757-1760
Author(s):  
James Lerman
Keyword(s):  
Room Temperature ◽  
Boiling Water ◽  
New Millennium

They say if you drop a live frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out. But, if you place the same frog into a pot of water at room temperature and then gradually raise the flame under it, the frog will not notice the changes and remain in the pot until it is cooked.

Imidazole Promoted Efficient Anomerization of β-D-Glucose Pentaacetate in Organic Solutions and Solid State

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meifeng Wang ◽  
Liyin Zhang ◽  
Yiqun Li ◽  
Liuqun Gu
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Organic Solvents ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Materials Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Organic Solutions ◽  
Glucose Pentaacetate

<p></p>Anomerization of glycosides were rarely performed under basic condition due to lack of efficiency. Here an imidazole promoted anomerization of β-D-glucose pentaacetate was developed; and reaction could proceed in both organic solvents and solid state at room temperature. Although mechanism is not yet clear, this unprecedent mild anomerization in solid state may open a new promising way for stereoseletive anomerization of broad glucosides and materials design in the future..

Effect on Vulcanized Rubber Compounds of Immersion in Boiling Water

1931 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-436
Author(s):  
K. J. Soule
Keyword(s):  
Water Absorption ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Anomalous Behavior ◽  
Boiling Water ◽  
Vulcanized Rubber ◽  
Rubber Compounds ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Actual Change

Abstract Further work is very desirable on the effect of different accelerators, antioxidants, and fluxes. It is possible that their study will throw more light on the mechanism of the swelling phenomena, and also help to explain the anomalous behavior of some of the fillers tested. It would also seem to be worth while to study the action of a few selected stocks in water, at several temperatures between room temperature and 100° C., to determine if the water absorption and swelling merely increase with rising temperatures, or whether there might be an actual change in behavior at different temperatures.

Waste

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-150
Author(s):  
Marissa K. López
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Mass Graves ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Future ◽  
Similar Disease

Chapter 4 opens with a discussion of the mass graves of unidentified immigrants discovered in South Texas in 2014. How, confronted with these decayed, dismembered border bodies, can literature and art move us beyond horror into a more just tomorrow? To answer, the author turns to two Chicanx science fiction novels: Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues (1992) and Pita and Sánchez’s Lunar Braceros (2009). Morales’s novel begins in colonial Mexico with a tale of La Mona, an unidentified plague similar to AIDS, and ends in a Los Angeles of the future, now known as LAMEX, beset by a similar disease curable only by the infusion of blood from “pure” Mexicans and threatened by waves of trash, which have taken on the characteristics of an animated organism, rolling in from the Pacific. Lunar Braceros, about nuclear waste workers of the future living on the moon, presents trash as a similarly transformative threat. Both novels offer conflicted visions of the human body as simultaneously of and apart from the land, a vulnerable but powerful catalyzing agent for change. The author frames this chapter with analyses of works in Mexican Canadian digital installation artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Relational Architecture series.

The Future Japanese CBR Anisotropy Observatory at the Moon

1998 ◽  
pp. 992-995
Author(s):  
M. Tsuboi ◽  
N. Kaifu ◽  
H. Karoji ◽  
S. Takeuchi ◽  
T. Iwata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Moon ◽  
The Future

Human Planetary Exploration

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-240
Author(s):  
Sophie Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Planetary Exploration ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Hardware Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Planetary Bodies ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Human Exploration

The human exploration of planetary bodies started with the Apollo missions to the Moon, which provided valuable lessons learned and experience for the future human exploration. Based on that, the design of hardware and operations need to further be developed to also overcome the new challenges, which arise when planning crewed missions to Mars and beyond. This chapter provides an overview about the environment and structure of the Red Planet and discusses the challenges on operations and hardware correlated to it. It further provides insights into the considerations regarding the hardware development which need to be investigated and defined before launching a crewed mission to Mars.

3. The Moon’s influence on us

2015 ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
David A. Rothery
Keyword(s):  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Day Length ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Ocean Water ◽  
Ocean Tides ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Solar Tide ◽  
Gravitational Pull ◽  
Length Changes

The Moon’s presence in the sky has long pervaded human culture in many ways. ‘The Moon’s influence on us’ considers the influence on timekeeping and how the orbits of the Moon and Earth are the origin of our calendar. Ocean tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun on ocean water with the Moon’s influence being twice as strong as the solar tide. The elliptical nature of the Moon’s orbit affects lunar and solar eclipses; these are explained along with orbital recession and day-length changes. The Moon’s influence on human behaviour and wildlife is also considered, along with the potential of a more sustained lunar presence in the future.

Inventing the Future: Information Services for a New Millennium

2001 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
John M. Budd ◽  
Stan A. Hannah ◽  
Michael H. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Information Services ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Information ◽  
New Millennium

Expanding WTO membership and heterogeneous interests

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERNARD HOEKMAN
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Design ◽  
Director General ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
The Future ◽  
Design And Practice ◽  
Institutional Challenges ◽  
Development Prospects ◽  
New Millennium

In late 2004, the Consultative Board to the WTO Director General issued its report, ‘The Future of the WTO: Addressing the Institutional Challenges in the New Millennium’. As noted by the Director General in the foreword, a rationale for the report was that ‘there had been too little serious thinking on whether the institutional design and practice that had served the GATT so well would do the same for the WTO’. One of the specific questions raised was ‘Could the WTO with an enlarged membership at various levels of development continue to deliver results?’ (p. 2). The following reflection on the Consultative Board's report is motivated by the latter question, where ‘results’ is defined as promoting not just global economic welfare, but the development prospects of poor members.

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