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What is the Scientific Method?
The scientific method is defined as a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data is gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from this data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.

Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton all helped contribute to the development of the scientific method as a good way to learn about nature and science. They wrote papers and discussed how using experiments and changing variables can help to determine if a guess (or hypothesis) is correct.
The scientific method is the cornerstone of modern science. Without a formal method of determining questions and their answers, we wouldn't have science or the knowledge we have today.

Source: https://www.ducksters.com/science/scientificmethod.php

Standard of Living vs. Quality of Life: What's the Difference?

Standard of living is a measure of the prosperity of life in a country. Various economic and noneconomic factors affect a nation's standard of living, including income, healthcare, education, housing, crime rates, environmental health, social services, and political and social freedom.

Quality of life is a highly subjective measure of happiness, it also includes intangibles such as job security, political stability, individual freedom and environmental quality. As such, it can often be hard to quantify.
The factors that affect the overall quality of life vary by people's lifestyles and their personal preferences, as wealth is not the most important factor in assessing a life lived well.

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Diamonds get their brilliance from three things: reflection, refraction and dispersion. Reflection is the light that hits the diamond and is immediately bounced back up, giving it an instantaneous shine. ... Only a portion of the light hitting a diamond is reflected; the rest travels through it.

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.
At room temperature and pressure, another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon, but diamond almost never converts to it.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond
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Springing forward, falling back: the history of the time change

Although first instituted in 1915, the idea of daylight time had been batted around for more than a century. Why do we change the clocks? An American politician and inventor called Benjamin Franklin first came up with the idea while in Paris in 1784. He suggested that if people got up earlier, when it was lighter, then it would save on candles.

William Willett, an English builder, revived the idea in 1907, and eight years later Germany was the first nation to adopt daylight time.
Several areas, including parts of Europe, Canada and the United States, followed suit during the First World War. In most cases, daylight time ended with the armistice.

During the Second World War, a different form of daylight time was reinstated by Britain and clocks were set two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time during the summer. It was known as Double Summer Time. The time shift didn't end with the summer, as clocks were rolled back to be one hour ahead of GMT through the winter.

In Canada, it's up to each province to decide whether to use daylight time, and not all do. Most — but not all — jurisdictions in Canada and the U.S. have been moving their clocks ahead by one hour on the second Sunday in March and back by one hour on the first Sunday in November.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/springing-forward-falling-back-the-history-of-time-change-1.755925

The format MM/DD/YY is unique to the United States (but sometimes used in Canada, too, which can obviously create some confusion there).
Most of Europe uses DD/MM/YY. Japan uses YY/MM/DD.
The separators may be slashes, dashes or periods. Some locales print leading zeroes, others suppress them.
If a native Japanese speaker is reading a US English web page from a website in Germany that contains the date 03/04/02 how do they interpret it? Good luck!

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The Periodic Table is a way of listing the elements.
Elements are listed in the table by the structure of their atoms. This includes how many protons they have as well as how many electrons they have in their outer shell.

The periodic table was proposed by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Using the table, Mendeleev was able to accurately predict the properties of many elements before they were actually discovered.

Fun facts about the Periodic Table

Carbon is unique in that it is known to form up to 10 million different compounds.
Carbon is important to the existence of life.
Francium is the rarest element on earth. There are probably no more than a few ounces of it on earth at any given time.
The only letter not in the periodic table is the letter J.
The country Argentina is named after the element silver (symbol Ag) which is argentum in Latin.
Although there is helium on Earth, it was first discovered by observing the sun.

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Science of farts

Although nitrogen and oxygen contribute, the majority of intestinal gas comes from the fermentation of food by bacteria present in our gut. This gas is mostly composed of hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide, which together with the swallowed nitrogen and oxygen make up 99% of flatulence.

5 Fun facts about farts

1) You produce about 500 to 1,500 millilitres of gas per day and expel it in 10 to 20 farts
2) 99 percent of the gas you produce does not smell
3) Gum and soda can make you fart more
4) Yes, you can light a fart on fire
Because flatulence is partly composed of flammable gases like methane and hydrogen, it can be briefly set on fire.
5) No, you can't hold in a fart until it disappears

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The Memory Process

1- Encoding (or registration): the process of receiving, processing, and combining information. Encoding allows information from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli.
2- Storage: the creation of a permanent record of the encoded information. Process in which we maintain information over periods of time.
3- Retrieval: the calling back of stored information in response to some cue for use in a process or activity. It is the retrieval of information that we have stored. We must locate it and return it to our consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of information. Like the times table of 7.
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The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest by El Greco

Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541 – 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.

El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice.
He trained and became a master in arts before moving to Venice and then Rome.
In 1577 he went to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings, such as View of Toledo and Opening of the Fifth Seal.
El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism. He has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school.

Source: wikipedia.org

Digestive system

The main organs that make up the digestive system (in order of their function) are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, re**um and a**s. Helping them along the way are the pancreas, gall bladder and liver.
Here's how these organs work together in your digestive system. You are welcome!

The reason mathematics is the natural language of science is that the universe is underpinned by the same order. The structures of mathematics are intrinsic to nature.
It is up to us to discover mathematics and its workings--this will then assist us in building models that will give us predictive power and understanding of the physical phenomena we seek to control.
The debate over the fundamental nature of mathematics is by no means new and has raged since the time of the Pythagoreans.

Source:https://www.mcpsmt.org/cms/lib/MT01001940/Centricity/Domain/1062/Articles%20-%20Math%20invented%20or%20discovered.docx

Homeschooling in Quebec
Quebec is the province in Canada that has the most regulations for homeschooling.
Parents who decide to take responsibility for the education of their children have to fulfill several legal responsibilities. To find out more follow the link, if you know the drill...ya know.
https://www.aqed.qc.ca/en/obligations/overview