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What did the first web pages consist of?
Static (non-moving) text and images
Besides buying his freedom, what else was Williams able to accomplish with his earnings?
Buy a two-story brick house, and marry the Peale family’s white cook
In Deirdre’s performance, what gives the audience the definitive recognition that it is her?
her song (“The Yellow Rose of Eden”)
Who directed Toy Story?
John Lasseter
The Human Connectome Project is known for creating what?
the world’s largest map of neural circuit structure and function
What songs were written by Huey Lewis for Back to the Future?
“The Power of Love” and “Back in Time”
Find the surface area of a pyramid that has a base
that is a decagon with sides measuring 10 and a height of 5.
1,578
Who made the color photograph titled
Full Cry, from Fox Hunting?
Charles Bentley
Appropriately, the curtains on the stage of the TV show are what color?
Gold
What was the third major breakthrough of the
Industrial Revolution that revolutionized factories
with lighting and machinery?
Electricity
Who praised Williams’s ability to cut the
machine’s drawn profiles with extreme accuracy?
Rembrandt Peale
What senses has the mechanical Deirdre lost?
taste, smell, and touch
What is the volume of a triangular prism with a
height of 10 and a base area of 3?
30
What did Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch develop to help farmers?
A process to make ammonia which greatly
improved fertilizers to improve quality of soil
Other than the song “Doubleback,” what else did ZZ Top contribute to Back to the Future II?
They appeared in the group of period musicians that had already been hired.
Many aspects of the nervous system have been
studied from the early twentieth century using
techniques that required opening a hole in the
skull so scientists started looking for what type of methods to study the brain?
noninvasive methods for taking images of, and altering, the brain
What important invention created mechanical
power from heat from fire, fueled by wood or coal?
The steam engine
When are most of the sounds that we hear in movies (including a great deal of music) recorded?
In post-production
Why wasn’t NeXT a profitable company?
High price of its computers
What happened in 1872, the same year
impressionism emerged?
Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned to a
series of photographic experiments on animal
locomotion in California.
What invention was enabled by high pressure steam engines in the 1830’s?
the locomotive
Which computer language is still a staple of
university-level computer science education?
Java
BRAIN Initiative has led to brand new microscopy technology to allow us to see what?
ever smaller parts of cells in sharper focus, even in living tissue
What is the most straightforward way to learn about a brain region or particular cell type?
either remove it or damage (lesion) it and then see what changes in that organism’s ability to interact with the world
What new computer did Apple release in 1998?
The IMac (Internet Macintosh)