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Prius batteries contain nickel. Nickel is often found in nature among deposits of sulfur, so when mining nickel, you're also going to be releasing sulfur into the atmosphere. Sulfur in the atmosphere has a tendency to create acid rain, which has detrimental effects to the environment around it.

But wait, there's more! The raw nickel ore (probably mined in Canada) is barged over to England to be processed into more refined ore. The barge that is used to carry it across the Pacific Ocean uses approximately 4 gallons per second. Over the entire journey, that equates to several cubic fucktons.

It gets worse. After the nickel ore is refined and removed of any impurities, it is then flown over across Asia to another country (I'm pretty sure it's China, but I'm not entirely sure, but I do know that this is most certainly a step in the process) to be melted down and then further refined into a foamy kind of substance.

It's not over yet. The foamified nickel is flown once more to the Toyota factory in Japan, where it is finally made into the environmentally-friendly batteries for your Prius.

SOURCE: I read a book about it in 8th grade, but I'm sure that won't suffice for you. Give me a few moments and I'll find some links.

Edit: Got your source right here.

Cat Pee is perfectly normal in highly thiolated Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. To be more polite we might call it Broom (a local shrub that smells like cat pee) or black currant bud. It is a short-lived volatile aromatic and the levels you will find in a 2-3 year old wine will be greatly reduced. This is why Marlborough SBL is often encouraged to be enjoyed fresh and young.

Also - the impact compounds associated with Marlborough Sauv can often be overpowering and don’t age very well. Capsicum quickly becomes vegetal and passion fruit can break down into trucker sweat quickly and estery fruits fade away.

http://www.wineanorak.com/thiolsandbeyond.htm

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2016/02/thiols-key-to-marlborough-sauvignon-character/

Jamie Goode has a great book called The Science of Sauvignon Blanc which is fantastic - SBL being one of the most heavily researched wines in the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Sauvignon-Blanc-Jamie-Goode-ebook/dp/B00AHI58SO

And this guys gets it:
http://www.geoffkellywinereviews.co.nz/index.php?ArticleID=251

I love what Geoff has to say in this article from a few years back. Of particular interest to me is The Future paragraphs. There have been several shifts in style in Marlborough and I think we are on the cusp of a very good one. Initially the wines which caught the world’s eyes were very grassy and green and acidic and a bit thin. Now we have shifted to these thiol and tropical fruit salad bombs with RS. I think what we are seeing now is a refinement stage. Dialing back and considering restraint and terroir and lees time.

The recent article by Wine Enthusiast highlights this trending:
https://www.winemag.com/2018/02/15/unique-new-zealand-sauvignon-blanc/

And a discussion with Lisa Perroti Brown from a few years back predicts this change:
http://www.mishasvineyard.com/wp-content/uploads/WBM_Oct-12_Advocating-New-Zealand.pdf
Winegrowers asked her about the low scores and she replied that currwnt wines tasted were intense and long lasting but they lacked complexity and balance.

So I’m just rambling now but all this is to say that you can expect this style to persist but hopefully we are looking at the beginning of a more serious Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc wine style being celebrated. And hopefully this means a clear separation in the marketplace between huge production and hollow, bulk brands from quality-focused, terroir considerate, thoughtful, authentic wines. And with forays into barrel aging and sparkling we have bright things to look forward to with this awesome grape.

It's like the book I read in middle school: link to what book it is.

Don't click the link, or read any further if you don't want the book's ending spoiled; it's a book for "young readers" though, so probably no one reading this comment will end up reading that book. A rich drug lord has a large family, of which many of the people want his inheritance. He dies, and at his funeral the wine is poisoned. All the adults drinking the wine die.

Yep, I was just going to post this. The first author on this article is a British guy who wrote an anti-climate change bestseller. He also wrote an article arguing science has too much influence over politics, and that corporations should be put in the middle to mediate that influence. How much do you have to pay a person to write these opinions?

https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Applications-David-Vallado/dp/1881883140

The most thorough astrodynamics book I've found.

Since most people here love Richard Dawkins, I'd like to throw out a book suggestion: The Selfish Gene. While he only talks very briefly about homosexuality, it's still a fantastic book that tries to explain some of our behaviors as a species by contending that we are primarily motivated by a desire to propagate our genetics.

He extrapolates on some fairly common homosexuality theories but the one I remember the most is the "gay uncle" phenomenon which essentially says that having a family member who puts his resources into the children of his brothers and sisters instead of his own improves the chances of genetic success, because even the gay person's genes are surviving if their nieces/nephews survive and have children. (This was especially useful when humanity existed in smaller tribes).

I definitely encourage anyone who is curious to read the book.

This book is very good at explaining most everything, from the basics to n-body motion to control theory. It is written from the perspective of numerical analysis but also has analytical formulae.

The American Math Society (the main professional organization for mathematicians) supplies some posters for free to educators. Many of them are probably more appropriate for high-school or college level courses, but some of them might work for you:

• http://www.ams.org/samplings/posters/posters
  
  The "bending it like Bernoulli" poster might be good for younger students, for instance.
  
  A Dymaxion map is also fun, especially if you can find one accompanied by a diagram explaining how it's made. This one looks good, though it's fairly expensive:
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Our-Spaceship-Earth-Satellite-Map/dp/B001IYURD2
  
  I'll add that I'm actually pretty shocked at how few posters I could find by Googling. I thought it'd be easy to get a poster of the knot isomorphism classes up to some number of crossings, or demonstrating the Sieve of Eratosthenes, or illustrating why you'd expect seed packings on a pinecone to come in Fibonacci numbers, but I couldn't find anything of the sort. Maybe I need to design some...

Fun fact, that was drawn entirely freehand. No rulers used.

This particular diagram is from Stephen Biesty's Absolutely Best Cross Section Book Ever. I highly recommend it for anyone who has children, it is genuinely one of the best books I ever had as a kid, and really got me interested in engineering.

I think some of his other books may also have this diagram, but this particular book is the most wide-ranging and includes content from multiple others (Some more of his work, for reference).

Regardless of what you think of his politics, Flanagan's Winning Power is an essential read.

Yes, conditions are very good for the success of a third party nominee. The Libertarian Party will do well this year. But no, conditions aren't perfect.

The thing is, Hilary Clinton is fundamentally a normal candidate. She's out of step with her party and is an insider in a year of outsiders, to say nothing of the email scandal. However, America has been run by insiders before; more centrist voters may think that she does not a bold reformer, or that she'll be involved in some scandals during her term, but the business of the United States will function as usual. It's important to remember that during a general election, the candidate closest to the centre of the political spectrum--the least far away from espousing the concerns of the majority of Americans--usually wins. Americans may not like her, but I suspect they'll vote for her.

What would have really changed the dynamic is if both parties fielded outsider candidates, not just the Republican party. Sanders might not be the ideal example here, because he's well-liked, but even he planned to drastically change the economics of the United States, which by its very nature is a new risk to the country and could in theory result in unintended economic consequences and new hardships. The partisans who decide primaries want bold reformers, but general election voters are relatively risk-averse and more likely to want someone who will keep the country running (maintain steady economic growth, respond to unplanned world events, defend against attacks, etc.).

Gary Johnson isn't bad in this regard--he's relatively moderate for a Libertarian candidate, and has a record and the experience of governing New Mexico. However the ideal third-party candidate would probably be a moderate, business-friendly centre-right candidate, who could distance himself from Donald Drumpf and earn the votes of both mainstream Americans and disaffected conservatives.

Hello, I am a chemical engineering graduate fresher. I am planning to take up MSc on chemical engineering in Canada.
My job goal is to work as a chemical engineer in a space agency or space related field.

I have done a course on MS Excel and am doing a online course on python.
At the moment I am studying about basic nanotechnology with this book called Introduction to Nanotechnology

I will be joining the university only during september 2020.

If anyone could advise me , I would very much appreciate it.

In case no one checks, he wrote the book (Amazon Link). So it's not like he just copied some random guy's work and didn't check any of it... It's still /u/mdipierro code.

I have the book this is from. Lot's of good cross sections.

https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Biestys-Absolutely-Section-cross-sections/dp/0751371033

David Vallado's book is a great resource and a good start!

http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Applications-David-Vallado/dp/1881883140

I don't know if you're affiliated with a university, but see if you can get a hold of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Applications-David-Vallado/dp/1881883140 . There's a section on angles only orbital determination using methods developed by Gauss and Laplace including the actual algorithms.

The 6 elements you mentioned are the Keplarian orbital elements. The reason you need six is that in order to describe an orbit fully, you need a position and a velocity. Since we live in 3D space, position and velocity vectors have three elements. Making for a total of six. The Keplarian elements are just a different way of expressing a position and a velocity.

I'm still a little confused on what exactly you are doing. Is this for a story? In reality, the way this would work is that if you found a comet you believed to be headed for Earth, you would share its position in the sky with other astronomers. The only information you would need to share is the Ra and Dec on the sky. Then other astronomers would verify its orbital elements independent of your calculations. This way your results could be replicated and corroborated and thus make them more likely to be true. You actually wouldn't want to share your specific orbit calculations as that might prime the other scientists to come to the same conclusions as you.

> The Lee-Enfield Story

This? http://www.amazon.com/Lee-Enfield-Story-Complete-Lee-Metford-S-M-L-E/dp/185367138X

Depending on how hard core you want to get... there are some pages in this book that get into the physics.

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https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-That-Wait-Mine-Warfare/dp/B003HIWQKO

This is the other good review book:

Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Review for Board: A Study Guide for COMLEX and Osteopathic Certifying Boards https://www.amazon.com/dp/1533022356/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_.fPPCbARF4YP7

http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Behavior-Analysis-Practice-Exam/dp/1519716249/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458765730&sr=8-1&keywords=BCBA+practice+test
It's listed as $29 now. I bought it last August and remember it being cheaper. I'll look up the other title when I'm home. Also, quizlet has vocabulary lists available. Just search for BCBA exam.

If you like Deleuze, you should look at some of the work by Manuel Delanda if you haven't already. He's doing explicitly Deleuzian philosophy, but a lot of what he does is much more comprehensible and rigorous (in my opinion). "Events Producing Events", Philosophy and Simulation: A New Emergence of Synthetic Reason, and "A New Ontology for the Social Sciences" may be of particular interest.

I'm partial to materialism ala Spinoza, Deleuze, and interpreted through De Landa. It seems to an approach to metaphysics minus any mystical or spiritual baggage (not that those are bad, but I think that when describing the basis of reality we should try to be as plain and literal as possible. Mystical and spiritual experiences certainly have their place in a materialist philosophy). The sort of materialist metaphysics which De Landa outlines seems to be incredibly reasonable and compatible with our knowledge of physics and mathematics. I would do a horrible job explaining it so I'll just provide a link to a book which explains it pretty well: http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Simulation-Emergence-Synthetic-Reason/dp/1441170286/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Here are a ton of lectures of him explaining Deleuze's metaphysics and materialism in general: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/manuel-de-landa/videos/

I should also mention that this is vital materialsim which views every object as having agency and rejects any ontological divide between humans (or organisms in general) and general matter like a rock or something. The difference is one of degree not one of kind. It takes this continuity seriously which problematizes the subject-object dichotomy

On the topic of the history vital materialism and its relation to political theory check this out: http://www.amazon.com/Vibrant-Matter-Political-Ecology-Franklin/dp/0822346338/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

If you're looking for an intro to programming in Python I would suggest Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python For a general language reference Python Essential Refernce For an introduciton to the included modules The Python Standard Library by example which includes a lot of simple code examples. The book Core Python Application Programming is a great subset of the above books with less over all coverage but greater detail in the example code. And last but not least, for advanced algorithm info Annotated Algorithms in Python

Given how popular shirts and posters like this or this or even this are, I think you may be underestimating the level of interest in revolutionary leaders.

For comparison purposes, I would recommend reading The House of the Scorpion though. From your book pitch, it sounds like it may touch on some similar themes.

Archaeology Matters by Sabloff is a good book that answers this question. Amazon Link

I love SMAD for spacecraft design! My go-to for orbits stuff (my professional specialty) is "orbital mechanics for engineering students" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0080977472?pc_redir=1396560153&robot_redir=1$ and the next one is "fundamentals of astrodynamics and applications" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1881883140?pc_redir=1396676486&robot_redir=1).

I'm a V35b owner and I think you should get one. I'm in a partnership which helps keep the fixed costs down. Make sure you have the V-tail and gear inspected by someone who knows those well because they're expensive to fix. I didn't do BPPP because it was hard to find an instructor. As others have said, join Beech Talk and ask questions there. Also, read this book https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Beech-Bonanza-John-Eckalbar/dp/0961654430 . Read about the differences between the flavors of the IO520 engines. I think you want an IO 520BB and not a BA like the S35 you posted has. Also, think about ADSB and the $6k that will cost.

If that's your interest, I highly recommend this book

You might try poking around here. It looks a bit stale, but you might find someone with a copy.

I expect it will be a pretty hefty document, though.

Edit: Is this the book you're looking for?

Not sure of the yellow cover, but it might be:

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections

Ultimate Book of Cross-sections

Stephen Biesty's Absolute Best Cross Section Book Ever

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I know I don't have my plus but I feel everyone should of at least read this book once. The House of the Scorpion (http://www.amazon.com/The-House-Scorpion-Nancy-Farmer/dp/0689852231) by Nancy Farmer. I love this book because it was the first book that I actually sat down and read without being forced to and I got so into it time literally passed by and I hadn't noticed. It is about a young boy and his fight to stay alive after he discovers that he was not born but instead was grown to be havested from his older self, El Patron.

hey, looking for these two books
I only require the ebook version, not pdf

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AQLFQIO
https://www.amazon.com/Nervous-System-Michael-Taussig-ebook-dp-B009E3F0LI/dp/B009E3F0LI