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Buy Verified CashApp Accounts - USA - 0 views

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    There are a few reasons why you might want to have multiple CashApp accounts. Maybe you have different groups of friends that you want to keep separate, or maybe you need one for business and one for personal use. Whatever the reason, it's actually pretty easy to set up more than one account. First, you'll need to create a new account using a different email address or phone number. Once you've done that, open up the Cash App and tap on the icon in the top-left corner. This will bring up a menu where you can select "Add another Cash Card." From here, just follow the prompts to add your new card. Now that you have two accounts set up, there's one more thing to do if you want to keep them completely separate. By default, Cash App will link your bank account to all of your accounts.
Annabelle Cheng

Wegener and Continental Drift Theory - 15 views

  • Alfred Wegener was the scientist who championed the Continental Drift Theory through the first few decades of the twentieth century. Simply put, his hypothesis proposed that the continents had once been joined, and over time had drifted apart. The jigsaw fit that the continents make with each other can be seen by looking at any world map.
  • Since his ideas challenged scientists in geology, geophysics, zoogeography and paleontology, it demonstrates the reactions of different communities of scientists. The reactions by the leading authorities in the different disciplines was so strong and so negative that serious discussion of the concept stopped.
  • Why did Alfred Wegener's work produce such a reaction? He was much more diplomatic in presenting his theory than Galileo. Although he believed himself to be right and that some of his arguments were compelling, he knew he would need more support to convince others. His immediate goal was to have the concept openly discussed. Wegener did not even present Continental Drift as a proven theory. These modest goals did not spare him. The fact that his work crossed disciplines exposed him to the territoriality of scientific disciplines. The authorities in the various disciplines attacked him as an interloper that did not fully grasp their own subject. More importantly however, was that even the possibility of Continental Drift was a huge threat to the established authorities in each of the disciplines.
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  • One of Alfred Wegener's critics, the geologist R. Thomas Chamberlain, could not have summarized this threat any better : "If we are to believe in Wegener's hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the past 70 years and start all over again." He was right.
  • In spite of the criticisms from several different disciplines Wegener was able to keep Continental Drift part of the discussion until his death. He knew that any argument based simply on the jigsaw fit of the continents could easily be explained away as a coincidence. To strengthen his case he drew from the fields of geology, geography, biology and paleontology. Wegener questioned why coal deposits, commonly associated with tropical climates, would be found near the North Pole and why the plains of Africa would show evidence of glaciation. Wegener also presented examples where fossils of exactly the same prehistoric species were distributed where you would expect them to be if there had been Continental Drift (e.g. one species occurred in western Africa and South America, and another in Antartica, India and central Africa) [_1_] . The graphic below shows the striking distribution of fossils on the different continents.
  • The main problem with Wegener's hypothesis of Continental Drift was the lack of a mechanism. He did not have an explanation for how the continents moved. Some argue that this failing justified the early reactions to his work and to its dismissal. But Charles Darwin was missing a mechanism for the inheritance of beneficial traits when he published the Origin of Species in 1859.
  • Wegener also shares much in common with Galileo. Wegener probably had at least as strong a case for Continental Drift in 1929 as Galileo had for the Copernican model in 1633
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Volcano at night - Iceland September 4 2014 on Vimeo - 4 views

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    The eruption taking place right now on Iceland! Great 2.5 min video clip.
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Know How Cassini Looking Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea - 0 views

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    Do you know NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a huge hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan? Curious to read more about mysterious feature?
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    Do you know NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a huge hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan? Curious to read more about mysterious feature?
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The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest - 0 views

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    When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. As the shaking started, everyone in the room began to laugh. Earthquakes are common in Japan-that one was the third of the week-and the participants were, after all, at a seismology conference.
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Know How Origin of Earth's survived when Oxygen has Abundant - 0 views

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    We all are aware of the fact that billions of years ago, there was very little oxygen on Earth to breathe. Scientist of University of California at Riverside (UCR) have researched when in Earth's history oxygen may have abundant. Curious to know how origins of Earth survived?
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    We all are aware of the fact that billions of years ago, there was very little oxygen on Earth to breathe. Scientist of University of California at Riverside (UCR) have researched when in Earth's history oxygen may have abundant. Curious to know how origins of Earth survived?
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    Do you know new study could provide visions about the abundance of water in fragments from a famous asteroid? This research mainly focused on a mineral called apatite. Want to know more about this asteroid?
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    Do you know new study could provide visions about the abundance of water in fragments from a famous asteroid? This research mainly focused on a mineral called apatite. Want to know more about this asteroid?
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How Shifting Plates Caused the Japan Earthquake - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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    Compare satellite images of areas of Japan before and after the disaster. Zoom in on images and examine scenes of the destruction in Japan. Tokyo bureau chief Martin Fackler reports on the huge earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan.
Annabelle Cheng

Alfred Wegener - 9 views

  • Reaction to Wegener's theory was almost uniformly hostile, and often exceptionally harsh and scathing; Dr. Rollin T
  • Part of the problem was that Wegener had no convincing mechanism for how the continents might move. Wegener thought that the continents were moving through the earth's crust, like icebreakers plowing through ice sheets, and that centrifugal and tidal forces were responsible for moving the continents.
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    Part of the problem no one believed his theory
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A Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - 11 views

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    Useful pages on Wegener and the people that helped to prove his theory of Continental Drift.
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    I agree. I recommend this website as a quick and easy read, learn something new and catch up on the things we have been doing in class.
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