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History Magazine - The Impact of Refrigeration - 0 views

  • Refrigeration brought distant production centers and the North American population together. It tore down the barriers of climates and seasons. And while it helped to rev up industrial processes, it became an industry itself.
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      Allowed all types of food to be made available year-round
  • Ice was harvested and stored in China before the first millennium. Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans placed large amounts of snow into storage pits and covered this cooling agent with insulating material.
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  • For centuries, people preserved and stored their food — especially milk and butter — in cellars, outdoor window boxes or even underwater in nearby lakes, streams or wells.
  • food preservation used time-tested methods: salting, spicing, smoking, pickling and drying.
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    how the invention of refrigerators affected society
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History - 0 views

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    a nice concise webpage about the history of refrigeration
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The History of the Refrigerator - and Freezer - 0 views

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    one of the only sites I could find that gave good information on refrigeration
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Reaganomics, by William A. Niskanen: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of... - 0 views

  • Reaganomics" was the most serious attempt to change the course of U.S. economic policy of any administration since the New Deal.
  • These major policy changes, in turn, were expected to increase saving and investment, increase economic growth, balance the budget, restore healthy financial markets, and reduce inflation and interest rates.
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Trickle-down Economics and Ronald Reagan - 0 views

  • no significant barrier to the accumulation of wealth by individuals
  • If the rich do well, benefits will "trickle down" to the rest.
  • To qualify as TDE a country must have either a low or flat rate tax on income or only a mildly progressive one (to insure that the rich can continue to get richer, or to trick the poor and middle income people into thinking they can get more and keep it).
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  • John Maynard Keynes published his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936 and its main thesis was that the federal budget need not always be balanced. Indeed Keynes proposed that the federal government should run a deficit, especially during a recession/depression.
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    describes the trickle-down economic system
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Establishing Cause & Effect - 0 views

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    exploring the case-effect relationship
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Baby Albert - 0 views

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    Baby Albert Experiment by John Watson
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Validity, Reliablity, Standardization, Generalization, Experimentation In Psychology - 0 views

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    good slideshare on experimentation in psychology
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Classical Conditioning - 1 views

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    what is classical conditioning? well here it is..
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Bobo Doll Experiment - Learning From Role Models - 0 views

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    bobo doll experiment by albert bandura
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Naturalistic Observation - Research in the Natural Environment - 0 views

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    explains naturalistic observation
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The Case Study as a Research Method - 0 views

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    details on what a case study is
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Psychology, Eighth Edition - 0 views

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    My AP Psych book website from high school
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T. S. Eliot- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - 0 views

shared by Shuan Pai on 28 Oct 10 - Cached
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    brief intro to T.S.Eliot
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NOVA | Einstein's Big Idea | PBS - 0 views

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    PBS about einstein
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