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What did Apple’s CEO, Gil Amelio, do in 1996?
He bought Steve Jobs’ company NeXT and made Jobs a board member.
When Deirdre gives her TV performance, what provides the music?
Deirdre hums it herself.
How did breeding improve agriculture?
By creating varieties of crops that were easier to
harvest and more resistant to drought, pests, and disease
When the BRAIN Initiative funding began in 2014, approximately how much money was funneled up into technology research?
$46 million
With electric power enabling transmission of energy, what could a large waterfall like Niagara do?
Power local mills, and lighting, and streetcars in cities miles away
What specifically is the silhouette of in the
selected work, Moses Williams?
The bust of a young man
Where did mechanical energy come from before the Industrial Revolution?
Water, wind, and muscles (animal and human)
Why does Deirdre want her TV performance to have a live audience in the theatre?
She performs best that way/she can gauge their reactions
What was the first major refined oil product that provided lighting for lamps?
Kerosine
What was the result of the rapid popularity of
the silhouette during the first decade of the 19th century?
It became the chosen form of portraiture for everyday people.
What does Maltzer think Deirdre should do about her career?
He thinks she should retire and not perform any longer.
What was the most popular OOP (object-oriented program) language by the early 1990s?
C++, an extension of the venerable C language
What was scientists’ hot debate regarding a
horse’s gait in the 1870’s?
They wanted to know: Was there ever a moment
when a horse was suspended in midair?
What is the name of the company Steve Jobs founded after he was fired?
NeXT
Determine the surface area of a pyramid that has a base that is a square with sides measuring 6 and a height of 4.
96
In Back to the Future, what did the major tritone progression represent?
The mysteries and wonders of time travel
Find the area of a square that has a diagonal measuring √30 cm.
15 cm^2
How does Alan Silvestri make the small-town setting in Back to the Future seem bigger?
By composing a heroic theme that give the film more grandiose power.
How does the source music used at the beginning
of WALL-E make us empathize with the robot?
by making him seem small and isolated
BRAIN Initiative funding also resulted in the publishing of what?
a free and open atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex
What does perturbing the brain mean?
changing or altering something in it and then seeing what changes occur in the resulting behavior
About how many images did Williams fabricate in the machine’s first year?
About eight thousand
How did Java’s compiler work?
It translated the programmer’s code into an intermediary assembly-like language called bytecode.
What did Silvestri do to ZZ Top’s song “Doubleback” to make it better fit Back to the Future II?
He created an acoustic, non-vocal version of the
piece, using instruments that would be authentic
for the era, and recorded it in a bluegrass style.
How long has it taken to remake Deirdre into her present metallic state?
a year