Mountaintop mining (MTM) affects chemical, physical, and hydrological properties of receiving
streams, but the long-term consequences for fish-assemblage structure and function are …

When Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-97) was taken on board the slave ship that carried him out
of the Bight of Biafra he feared for his life. Everything he saw that day seemed to confirm …

The risk to non-human biota from exposure to ionizing radiation is of current international
interest. In calculating radiation doses to humans, it is common to multiply the absorbed dose …

There is abundant evidence that, throughout the Atlantic world in the era of the slave-trade,
many enslaved people identified themselves, or were so identified by others, as members of …

Klonk's book would have been more forceful if she had included in her survey what the
Romantic poets observed on this subject: Wordsworth's rejection of mechanism in The Prelude; …

The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known
and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society …

Ionizing radiation exposure to the lens of the eye is a known cause of cataractogenesis.
Historically, it was believed that the acute threshold dose for cataract formation was 5 Sv, and …

Due to their interdisciplinary nature, devices for controlled-environment agriculture have the
possibility to turn into ideal tools not only to conduct research on plant phenology but also to …

In 1816, a runaway enslaved Jamaican woman named Bessy turned herself into the St.
George Workhouse, claiming that she had no owner. When interrogated by the workhouse …

Google Glass is a recently designed wearable device capable of displaying information in a
smartphone-like hands-free format by wireless communication. The Glass also provides …