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18 hours ago · It may not have you rushing to lace up your trail shoes but it may well hold up a mirror to your own habits and question why it is that we run. Equally, for those looking to get a first-hand account of the reality of addition, this might be the book for you. There is No Wall is published by Vertebrate Publishing (£14.95, paperback).
18 hours ago · The nonprofit created a book access program that’s helping get books into homes in historically marginalized communities. Through the program, the bookstore invites different groups to a workshop that teaches the benefits of book ownership and growing a reading culture within the home, and then provides a book voucher for the families to use ...
18 hours ago · Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company. Researchers from there are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
- January 1925; 98 years ago (as Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.)
- Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.
- Peter Vetter, Thierry Klein
- Telecommunication, information technology, material science
18 hours ago · Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. [nb 1] An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of all pregnancies. [2] [3] When deliberate steps are taken to end a pregnancy, it is called an induced ...
18 hours ago · Hinduism portal. v. t. e. Ayurveda ( / ˌɑːjʊərˈveɪdə, - ˈviː -/; IAST: ayurveda) [1] is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. [2] It is heavily practiced in India and Nepal, where around 80% of the population report using ayurveda. [3] [4] [5] The theory and practice of ayurveda is ...
18 hours ago · Henri Nestlé (1814–1890), a German-born Swiss confectioner, was the founder of Nestlé and one of the main creators of condensed milk. Nestlé's origin dates back to the 1860s when two separate Swiss enterprises were founded that would later form Nestlé. In the following decades, the two competing enterprises expanded their businesses ...
18 hours ago · Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ), also known as motor neurone disease ( MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare but terminal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the progressive loss of both upper and lower motor neurons that normally control voluntary muscle contraction. [3] ALS is the most common form of the ...
