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Glossary of the Fundamentals of “Force”

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Glossary of the Fundamentals of “Force”

Gravity the macroscopic dominant attractive force, equation:                         , permeated by theoretical gravitons (G), created by the presence of quarks (u, d, c, s, t, b),  gluons (g1…6 ), and the Higgs field (H0).

Electromagnetism the force at least 1015 x as effective as gravity, equations: , , , , permeated by photons ( ), created by the existence of electrons (e–), muons ( ), taus ( ), and their neutrino counterparts.

Weak nuclear force transformation of a down quark (d) to an up quark (u), an electron/positron (e­­±), and a neutrino (ν).

Strong nuclear force the strongest force, equation: , permeated by gluons (g1…6 ), created by the existence of quarks (u, d, c, s, t, b).

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Everybody Hurts – Sachal Studios’ Orchestra & the Master Musicians

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A beautiful music by Sachal Studio, Lahore, Pakistan.”Everybody Hurts” is a part of a new forthcoming album ‘JAZZ AND ALL THAT’ from the Sachal Studios, Lahore with an international collaboration due for release in the Summer of 2013. The studios’ first album ‘Sachal Jazz’ is still going strong. Full details on: www.sachal-music.com Click link below to listen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ck3I3zBw9uU

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“America’s Top Colleges Has Rich Kid Problem” By Jordan Weissmann

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In case you ever wondered just how much wealthy students dominate America’s top colleges, here’s a nice illustration from a new report by the Century Foundation. At the most selective schools in the country,* 70 percent of students come from the wealthiest quarter of U.S. families. Just 14 percent come from the poorest half. And while these statistics date back to 2006, I think it’s safe to say they haven’t changed greatly in the last few years.

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If you think higher education should be a ladder for upward mobility, then you should regard these numbers as a disgrace. As we’ve written before at The Atlantic, elite colleges do a consistently poor job recruiting the intelligent but low-income high school students who could benefit most from a top-notch education. Part of their problem, as Josh Freedman explained for us recently, is that it’s expensive. Low-income undergrads need financial aid, and many institutions either don’t have the resources, or would simply prefer to deploy them elsewhere. Others have the money and are willing to use it, but aren’t sufficiently aggressive about reaching out to a population of students who often don’t realize they have the academic skills to attend a great school or that aid would cover most of their expenses. Click link for full article

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/americas-top-colleges-have-a-rich-kid-problem/276195/

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‘We Share 98.5 % Genes With Chimpanzees- What makes us human?By A C Grayling

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According to genetics, there is not much that makes us human; depending on how you count, we share 98.5 per cent of our genes with chimpanzees. Perhaps this is not such a significant matter, given that we also share about 60 per cent of our genes with tomatoes. As this shows, human beings are fully part of nature, and the elements that make us make not just the rest of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, but the rocks beneath our feet and the stars in the sky above us.

So what does make us human? It is not that we live in social groups: ants, antelopes and sparrows do the same. It is not that we have nuanced emotional lives: so do dogs and baboons. It is not even that we have language, for other things – including trees, as it happens – have communication systems, too, and it might be that some of those systems are quite complex, as appears to be the case with dolphins, for example.

But in the human case the system of communication – language – is particularly complex and flexible, with great expressive power, and this makes possible the phenomenon of culture. If I were to pick one thing that separates humanity from the rest of the living world, culture is it.

There are two senses to the word “culture”. It is used by anthropologists to talk about the traditions, practices and beliefs of a society in general. But it is also used to mean the art, literature and intellectual life of a society – and it is this that most spectacularly differentiates human beings from all other animals. Click link for full article

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2013/05/culture-what-separates-us-rest-living-world

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