Monday, June 28, 2010

Choreography

The art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified:

Choreography

Fuzzy Logic

A form of multi-valued logic to deal with reasoning that is approximate rather than precise, and has been applied to many fields such as control theory, artificial intelligence, etc.:

Fuzzy Logic

Soil Contamination

The longest or most persistent potential for harboring a pathogen:

Soil Contamination

Pathogen

A biological agent that causes disease to its host:

Pathogen

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Anaxagoras

A Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens:

Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (500 BC – 428 BC) advanced scientific knowledge by working out the true cause of astronomical eclipses.

Sumerians

The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC, when long epic poems started being written by:

Sumerians

Platypus

The semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania which is the sole living representative of its family, Ornithorhynchidae and genus Ornithorhynchus:

Platypus


Bass Strait

The sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland:

Bass Strait
Note: Tasmania is an Australian island and state, located 240 kilometres south of the continent, from which it is separated by Bass Strait.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Cornwall

A ceremonial county and unitary authority in England in the United Kingdom, forming the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain:

Cornwall
Note: The Cornish are the people of Cornwall.


Iseult

An influential romance and tragedy which has been retold in numerous sources with as many variations is the legend of Tristan and:

Iseult
The tragic story is the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult.