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What Is Dew Point and How Is It Measured?
Dew point is the temperature at which water vapor liquefies.
It signifies that the air is filled to capacity with moisture. Like a cloud, the water vapor becomes too heavy to stay suspended in air. It needs a surface on which to condense.
Since the vapor is hovering at ground level, there is a great supply of surfaces, or condensation nuclei, including grass, stones, plants, and animals.
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Are Women Are More Sensitive to Temperature Changes Than Men?
Sensitivity to temperature is much more complicated than a simple gender split, physiologists say.
The reaction depends on many factors, such as exercise, previous conditioning, diseases, and any other tinkering with the complex system of signals to and from the hypothalamus that sets the body’s temperature controls.
Some doctors suspect psychological factors make a difference, but it is difficult to separate psychological reactions based on a strong aversion to heat or cold from physiological responses. It is also possible that women do not dress as warmly.
But some male-female physiological differences may be significant in this area. Women tend to have more subcutaneous body fat than men, making them more likely to have a hard time dissipating body heat when temperatures rise. But women may do better than men as a room cools, because fat holds heat.
Larger animals have a smaller surface area relative to their volume than smaller animals, so they can stand colder temperatures with less heat loss. Men as a group are larger than women, although the size difference may not be enough to cause different reactions to temperature changes.
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What Can Disqualify a Person From Sitting for a Bar Exam?
If there are serious red flags raised during the application process or from evaluations from the student’s law school, there could be problems.
Serious criminal law issues could present a problem, as could allegations of sexual harassment or other bad behavior. If the bar examiners in a state believe that a lawyer has been untruthful or lacked candor in the application process, then there could be problems for that candidate.
If a person had an issue with plagiarism or other form of academic dishonesty, that could be cause for concern. It is hard to generalize because these issues vary from state to state.
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Why Does a Whale Spout?
Though it lives in the sea, the whale is a warm-blooded mammal. It must breathe oxygen from the air to live. When surfacing, the whale takes in oxygen through the blowhole on top of its head. Then, filling its large elastic lungs which are connected to the blowhole, the whale dives to feed.
While underwater, the whale’s body heats up that air. When the whale surfaces, it forces the air that was held in its lungs out the blowhole. This action is called spouting, or blowing. When the warm air comes into contact with the cool outside air, it condenses and turns into a steamy spray. A similar thing happens when our own breath hits the air in cold weather.
Different types of whales spout in particular ways, and experts can tell the species of the whale from the spout!
The whale’s spout can shoot 20 feet in the air and be seen from a mile away!
Shamim Ansary:
Did Plato Change His Philosophy as He Grew Older?
Plato became more conservative in his outlook and more attentive to existing social values and traditions as he aged. The city of the Republic would have required a revolution to set up. In the later Laws, Plato becomes less revolutionary and describes a “second-best†city in which there are traditional families and rulers are elected, rather than specially bred.
In the Parmenides Plato offers a series of criticisms to his earlier theory of forms, which he is apparently unable to answer and which are later taken up by Aristotle. The most famous of these is the “third man argument.†Suppose we discover a form that accounts for what makes similar things similar.
For example, every cat is different, but all cats share the same catness because they participate in the cat form. Now, if we compare this form with any one thing that participates in it, in this case, compare your cat with the cat form, the form and the participating thing will have similarities that make it necessary to posit a second form.
If we then make comparisons of the cat to the second form, a third form will need to be posited, and on and on and on to an infinite regress. That is, Plato was aware of the theoretical problems with his theory of forms.
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