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Star Brightness
Today we measure Star Brightness with a system that was invented by the great scientist, mathematician, and astronomer of Ancient Greece — Hipparchus. Hipparchus was truly ahead of his time. In my opinion, relative to the level of knowledge, skills, […]
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If you want to check the PHP version of a script from within the script (printing that value in real time) you can use the phpversion() function like $version = phpversion() print($version) However, for best practices it is advised to […]
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Short Circuit
A short circuit occurs when a current flows through an electric circuit without resistance. If electrons flow without being impeded in some way, excess heat will be caused by the friction of these electrons moving in the conductive material. Too […]
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The Beginning of the Neolithic In The Levant
The Neolithic Revolution began in the Levant between about 8000–7000 BCE. The Levant — or the Levantine Coast — is a region of the Eastern Mediterranean of West Asia which makes up what we might call the western half of […]
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Neolithic Europe
The earliest remains of food-producing societies in Europe are found in Greece, dating a few thousand years after the Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the Fertile Crescent. Based on the evidence gathered so far, it appears that this cultural revolution […]
Continue ReadingHTML Attributes — HTML
HTML attributes give additional information about HTML elements. Using a variety of attributes we can add new dimensions and functionality to elements. The href attribute can be used with the hyperlink element <a> tag to identify exactly where we want […]
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The <img> tag is used to embed an image in an HTML page. You write the image HTML tag in the code of your web page, and then specify certain necessary attributes, such as the src attribute, so that the […]
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The <a> tag defines a hyperlink — a link to somewhere else on your site, or a link to somewhere else on the internet — that you place around certain text that you want to be the link text. This […]
Continue ReadingOptical Telescopes
Optical Telescopes are able to collect significantly more light than the human eye, the larger they are the more light they are able to capture, which then forms and image of distant objects for the eye to see. When we […]
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It is essentially on telescopes that modern astronomy is founded. In the ages before this technology was invented, all astronomy was naked-eye astronomy which means that we were vastly limited by what our eyes can see — even with the […]
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