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Mit: Can Deflation Be Prevented?
This is an opinion essay by a faculty member from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) of an article from The Economist. This is a good site for the serious student.
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Mit: The Wind Swe Home Page
This is a technical site from MIT. It provides data and information from satellites which observe solar winds. Provide 3-D models of the heliosphere and uptodate plots of solar wind data.
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Mit: Internet Classics Archive: On Generation and Corruption
Full text of Aristotle's "On Generation and Corruption," translated by H. H. Joachim. Includes a place for you to read or post commentaries on the text.
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Mit: Sumo in Japan
This site on sumo wrestling has a section that talks about the rules of the competition.
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Mit: Internet Classics Archive: "The Defense" by Apuleius
An English translation of Apuleius' Latin text of a legal defense.
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Mit: Internet Classics Archive: On the Nature of Things
This site from MIT contains the entire work "On the Nature of Things," by Lucretius, his primary philosophical work which expounds the Epicurean worldview.
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Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Biology: Photosynthesis: Life From Light
College-level online biology course focusing on the process of photosynthesis. Course highlights the physical, chemical, and biological reactions that happen during photosynthesis. Course features include lecture summaries, assignments,...
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Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Euripides' Helen
The literary drama "Helen," written by Euripides in 412 BC, is translated here by E. P. Coleridge.
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Mit: Calculus Index
This site from the Massachussets Institute of Technology has links to various topics in calculus.
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Mit: Infinite Discontinuity
This site offers a brief definition of infinite discontinuity and an example.
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Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Agamemnon, by Aeschylus
Aeschylus' famous play, Agamemnon, was written in 458 BCE. The full text available here provides an important perspective on the figure of Agmamemnon in ancient Greek culture.
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Mit: Open Course Ware: Anthropology of the Middle East
Introducing culture-based performances from the Middle East into Western cultures and the translations and response can be enhanced with these resources.
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Mit: Open Course Ware: Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction
This site makes available the second part of a textbook on computer system design. The chapters cover topics such as fault tolerance, networking, consistency and information security.
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Mit: The Tech: Cnn Foils Prior Restraint
An essay by a freshman at MIT gives a definition and examples of "Prior Restraint." The Tech is the MIT school newspaper. (Published Dec. 7, 1990)
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Mit: The Tech: Democratic Platform Cautiously Balances Diverse Party Opinions
Article suggests the broad and seemingly contradictory statements in the 1996 Democratic Party Platform result in a "middle of the road" or "centrist" document. (August 27, 1996 - Op ed)
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Mit: The Tech: Article on Alex Haley
This Washington Post article from The Tech on Alex Haley offers a personal glimpse into Haley's life as a writer and how his writing connected him to his family.
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Mit: The Tech: Clinton Assures Rabin on u.s. Role
Article from The Washington Post describing possible Congressional opposition to Clinton's plans for a peacekeeping force. (November 22, 1994)
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Elisha Otis and the Elevator
This site, which is provided for by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives a very brief article on the developer of the early elevator. Images are included as well.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Garrett A. Morgan
This site from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides information on Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963 CE), who is credited with inventing the gas mask, and, in turn, saving firefighters from suffocating while putting out fires...
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Gilbert Lewis
At this site from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can read about the inventor of "Heavy Water," Gilbert Newton Lewis, who is "one of the most influential and admired scientists of the twentieth century."
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Invention Dimension: Inventor of the Week: Frederick M. Jones
A brief biographical note about Frederick McKinley Jones that cites his work in the areas of refrigeration and sound recording.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Madame c.j. Walker
At this site from the MIT Program you can read how Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker, or Madame C.J. Walker, and Marjorie Joyner "founded beauty schools for blacks" and changed the lives of African-Americans.
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Virginia Apgar
At this site from MIT Invention Dimension you can read about Virginia Apgar and her accomplishments as "One of Columbia University's first female M.D.s," as a researcher of childbirth, and as the inventor of the "Newborn Scoring System."
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Mit: Inventor of the Week: Clarence Birdseye (1886 1956)
Brief article about Clarence Birdeye's discovery of a way to preserve food by flash-freezing it.