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  • | birth_place = [[Cheltenham, England]] | education = [[Cheltenham Grammar School]] ...
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  • Mark Miodownik says that his interest in materials came from an incident when he was stabbed in the back with a razor blade, on his way ...ved] by [[WebCitation]] on 26 October 2010.</ref> In 2006 he and two other scientists produced AfterImage, an installation that explores light and colour percept ...
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  • ...in the [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic world]] during the 3rd century BC from applications of [[geometry]] to [[Astronomy|astronomical studies]].<ref>R. ...)|chord]] length to define his trigonometric functions, a minor difference from the [[sine]] convention we use today.{{sfnp|Thurston|1996|loc="Appendix 3: ...
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  • ...uakes, landslides, and other natural hazards, combining concepts and tools from statistical physics, statistics, tectonics, seismology and more. First loca ...g a universal ratio close to 2.2. The existence of such oscillations stems from interactions between seismogenic structures (see below for the case of faul ...
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  • ...so 3. The absolute value of a number may be thought of as its [[distance]] from zero.}} ...is used without additional specification, the reader is supposed to deduce from the context whether it refers to a definite or indefinite integral. Some au ...
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  • ...use, alias a use-value; on the other hand, a bearer of exchange-value, and from this point of view it is itself an "exchange-value." Further analysis of th ...component of capital that has been generated and reproduced, differs then from the individual commodity with which we began, and which we regarded as an ' ...
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