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15 hours ago · The term has been used by modern philosophers such as Kurt Gödel and has entered the English language. The Greek equivalent to reincarnation, metempsychosis (μετεμψύχωσις), derives from meta ('change') and empsykhoun ('to put a soul into'), a term attributed to Pythagoras.
15 hours ago · In 1660, Hooke discovered the law of elasticity that bears his name and describes the linear variation of tension with extension in an elastic spring. Hooke first described this discovery in an anagram "ceiiinosssttuv", whose solution he published in 1678 as Ut tensio, sic vis ("As the extension, so the force").
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15 hours ago · Graphene is an atomic-scale hexagonal lattice made of carbon atoms.. Graphene (/ ˈ ɡ r æ f iː n /) is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice nanostructure.
15 hours ago · Lyndon B. Johnson Official portrait, 1964 36th President of the United States In office November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969 Vice President None (1963–1965) [a] Hubert Humphrey (1965–1969) Preceded by John F. Kennedy Succeeded by Richard Nixon 37th Vice President of the United States In office January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy Preceded by Richard Nixon ...
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15 hours ago · Sociology, for Max Weber, was "a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and effects". He divided social action into the four categories of affectional , traditional , instrumental and value-rational action action. [108]
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