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What is the distance between the origin and the
line y = −x + 4?
2√2
What details does the silhouette reveal about the young man?
A lock of his hair waves down in front of his
forehead, a delicate outline of his eyelashes, nose,
and lips plus crisp linen ties at the base of his hair
and the cravat at his neck unfurled
Who created one of the first steam engines in 1712?
Thomas Newcomen
How did the animators try to make
WALL-E look?
They aspired to make the animated robot look filmed, in the way that move cameras focus on selected objects and leave other areas of the screen blurred.
What did Paul Broca discover after gaining
permission to perform an autopsy on a patient
who died and had suffered from a progressive
impairment in his ability to speak?
a huge lesion to the left frontal area of the
patient’s cerebral cortex, due to brain damage
from a longstanding case of syphilis
What was so different about the appearance of the iMac?
It was encased in a translucent turquoise plastic shell, it was round, and it lacked a floppy disk drive.
What is the measure of an interior angle in a
regular decagon?
144°
What exactly was Microsoft doing that made them get sued?
They were integrating the Internet Explorer browser into the Windows operating system, and they were not sharing details about Windows with other third-party software developers.
Why is Deirdre’s dance on TV better than it would have been before her injuries?
She does things only a mechanical object could do.
Who directed Back to the Future?
Robert Zemeckis
What was one of the greatest successes of breeding?
Crossing lines of corn to create hybrids
Deirdre says that Maltzer has given “a gift to the
whole human race as well as to me.” What does she mean by that?
that other injured people can benefit from the same kind of repairs
What is the title of Eadweard Muybridge’s
selected work, c. 1878?
The Horse in Motion
How does the film WALL-E (2008) begin?
with various galactic images that could be either awe-inspiring or frightening
How did photography help redirect artistic
investigations of the world?
Toward the expressive and the conceptual
What did the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative research focus specifically on?
focused on “giving scientists the tools they need to get a dynamic picture of the brain in action”
Which type of studies are still performed in animal models, but is often considered unethical?
Lesion studies
What southern rock band contributed a song to Back to the Future II?
ZZ Top
How did web pages improve when the Java program was embedded into an HTML document?
Web designers could include interactive content, such as animation, games, and video, into a web page.
When did Thomas Edison first demonstrate his incandescent light bulb?
1879
What was Williams able to do with the money he earned from his job at the museum?
Buy his freedom from slavery
Many aspects of the nervous system, from how
an individual neuron responds to how major
pathways are networked have been studied from
the early twentieth century via what two main mechanisms?
perturbing the brain and recording from the brain
Which of Deirdre’s senses has been made perfect?
Her sight
How did farmers achieve higher yields by the 1800’s?
They used natural fertilizers.
What does Deirdre do that is described as “a tesseract of human motion”?
She crosses the room with superhuman speed.