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Exchange: does poetry have a social function?(poets)
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January 1, 2007|
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STEPHEN BURT:
What is the social function of poetry? Well, what is the social function of ER nursing? Of plumbing and carpentry? Whatever you think of the folks who fix your pipes, you know roughly what they get paid to do, and why the people who pay them value their services. An individual poet may think she knows such things about poetry, but put two or more poets (let alone critics) in a room, and their so-called knowledge may reveal itself as clashing opinions or axioms--even though "social," as the antithesis of "individual," implies some ground of agreement, ...
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Journey To The 10th Dimension: Physics can't find the biggest thing in the known universe, so it's looking beyond our paltry three dimensions. MICHAEL MOYER enters the zone of insanely hard mathematics, translates what he finds into plain English, and makes it back alive.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Popular Science
; ...have understood as happening in three dimensions of space--up-down, left-right...Things happen in more than three dimensions of space; to see them in only three...universe is constantly playing on us. dimension [pronuciation guide] 1: a measure...There is no one model of the extra dimensions in ...
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Interviews-about-scenarios: Exploring the affective dimensions of physics education
Magazine article from: Research in Education
; ...Curie, quoted from E. Curie, 1938] Physics can be an emotive subject. In some it...particular emotive (or `hot') area of physics, that of radiation and radioactivity...of the affective domain that relate to physics. To illustrate the approach, we draw...
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Electrostatics in n dimensions with illustrative examples.(Physic and Mathematics Paper Abstracts)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
; ELECTROSTATICS IN N DIMENSIONS WITH ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES...Edwards, Department of Physics, Alabama A&M University...s equation is solved in n dimensions to obtain the electric potential...Laplace's equations in dimensions higher than 3 correspond to...
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Inventor, Fifth Dimension.(Features; Brilliant 10; Theoretical Physics)(Nima Arkani-Hamed)
Magazine article from: Popular Science
; ...question eats at the core of physics; our best theories don...two exceedingly large extra dimensions that are diluting its force...this time, it's not extra dimensions he's betting on. It's...up Arkani-Hamed's extra dimensions.) If it works, and the...
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Physics lecture on extra dimensions to be held at UC-Davis
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...Passages and discuss the "extra dimensions of space and how they can...but don't know much about physics." Local professors are...she wrote on warped extra dimensions was a fundamental paper with...noted. The warped extra dimensions Randall writes of can be...and cannot imagine a third ...
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Physics Experiment Could Reveal 'Extra Dimensions,' Exotic Forces.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service
; ...nature and "additional spatial dimensions." The researchers have demonstrated...Fischbach, a professor of physics at Purdue University. A paper...the existence of additional dimensions beyond the three spatial dimensions of length, width and height...
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Scientists at University of Frankfurt discuss research in physics.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...section in models with large extra dimensions." Koch and colleagues published their study in Physics Letters B (Renormalization group and black hole production in large extra dimensions. Physics Letters B, 2008;663(4):334...
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Researchers from Shahid Bahonar University provide details of new studies and findings in the area of physics.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...research published in the journal Physics Letters B, "We find a class...coupling constant in higher dimensions. Our solution is the correct...colleagues published their study in Physics Letters B (Asymptotically...dilaton black holes in higher dimensions. Physics Letters B, 2008...
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Research on plasma physics published by L.E. Sugiyama et al.
Newspaper article from: Electronics Newsweekly
; ...center location. In three dimensions (3D), unlike uniform...unification theories of physics." Sugiyama and colleagues published their study in Physics of Plasmas (Guiding center plasma models in three dimensions. Physics of Plasmas...
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New physics research from S. Sakoda and colleagues discussed.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...published their study in Modern Physics Letters a (EXACTNESS IN THE...COULOMB POTENTIAL IN ONE SPACE DIMENSION. Modern Physics Letters a, 2008;23(36...Def Academy, Dept. of Applied Physics, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 2398686...
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