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The Scientific Method Essay Sample, Example
If you drop your shoe and a coin side by side, they hit the ground at the same time. Why does not the shoe get there first, since gravity is pulling harder on it? How does the lens of your…
Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany Essay Sample, Example
This article [Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/09/07/visions-of-algae-in-eighteenth-century-botany/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: http://publicdomainreview.org/legal/ By Ryan Feigenbaum Algae are rarely thought of…
Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet Essay Sample, Example
By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2006) As a science fiction writer, no piece of news could make me more hopeful. It beats the hell out of the alternative—a future where the dominant, pluripotent, ubiquitous medium has…
Wikipedia: A Genuine Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy—Minus the Editors Essay Sample, Example
By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in The Anthology at the End of the Universe, April 2005) “Mostly Harmless”: a phrase so funny that Adams actually titled a book after it. Not that there’s a lot of comedy inherent in those…
Dark Skies Essay Sample, Example
Movies about extraterrestrials never seem to be out of trend. For decades, if not centuries, the possibility of intelligent life existing on other planets excited and scared people at the same time. It is difficult to measure the proportions in…
“For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century Essay Sample, Example
This article [“For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/07/20/for-the-sake-of-the-prospect-experiencing-the-world-from-above-in-the-late-18th-century/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please…
Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution Essay Sample, Example
This article [Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/05/18/copying-pictures-evidencing-evolution/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: http://publicdomainreview.org/legal/ By Nick Hopwood New images are flooding the world, and…
Why Electric Cars are the Future Essay Sample, Example
By Johannes Helmold The world is changing quickly, and what looked like a science-fiction fantasy is gradually becoming our current reality. It seems that progress spreads to all spheres of humanity’s life, but one of the most amazing breakthroughs has…
Dyatlov Pass Incident (Devil’s Pass) Essay Sample, Example
There are thriller movies you remember a long time after watching. “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Psycho,” “Shutter Island,” “The Blair Witch Project”—these are just a few examples of movies that can carve into your memory for the rest of…
Black on Black Essay Sample, Example
This article [Black on Black] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/04/09/black-on-black/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: http://publicdomainreview.org/legal/ By Eugene Thacker Some time ago, I was doing research for…
The American Student Left Essay Sample, Example
THE AUTHOR Carl F. Rosenthal, a research scientist at CRESS, received his IVL A. in history from the University of Illinois, and his B.A. in history from Boston University. Since joining the organization in 1965, Mr. Rosenthal’s special areas of…
Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade Essay Sample, Example
By Peter Lovesey This article [Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/08/09/conan-doyles-olympic-crusade/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: http://publicdomainreview.org/legal/ There have been many exciting Olympic contests,…
The Implacability of Things Essay Sample, Example
By Jonathan Lamb Some of the best recent books about things, such as John Plotz’s Portable Property (2008) and Elaine Freedgood’s Ideas in Things (2006), deal with artifacts, commodities, and curiosities that find their value and significance by means of…
In Hollywood with Nathanael West Essay Sample, Example
By Marion Meade Hollywood has served as a novelist’s muse for almost a century. The list of writers who found inspiration there includes the likes of Fitzgerald, Mailer, Schulberg, Bukowski, Chandler, Huxley, Waugh, and O’Hara, among plenty of others. But…
The Founding Fathers Versus the Climate Change Skeptics Essay Sample, Example
By Dr. Raphael Calel The United States has in recent years become a stronghold for climate change skepticism, especially since the country’s declaration in 2001 that it would not participate in the Kyoto Protocol. Nevertheless, though it is a well-documented…
The Tale of Beatrix Potter Essay Sample, Example
By Frank Delaney Her appeal is so powerful that museums hold her in permanent exhibition—and some of them even commemorate her solely. Hollywood has trawled through her life, if somewhat on tiptoe. The great and the good have acknowledged her…
The Strange Case of Mr. William T. Horton Essay Sample, Example
The publisher Leonard Smithers (1861–1907) launched, bankrolled, or otherwise helped the careers of an impressive variety of names: Richard Burton, Aubrey Beardsley, Aleister Crowley, Ernest Dowson, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, and Max Beerbohm were all referred to as “Smithers…
The Most Fascinating Technological Breakthroughs of 2015 Essay Sample, Example
If you watch science-fiction films produced in the 1970s or 1980s, you will most likely decide that that were naive and somewhat absurd in their predictions about the future. Video chats, cell phones, electric cars, lasers, touchscreen panels, portable computers,…
Loss of Speech Through Isolation Essay Sample, Example
One summer during the World War at War Camp Community Service, I was in charge of a playground in West Virginia. Standing out conspicuously in my impressions of that summer’s experiences is a family whom I will call the Berrys.…
What Coca-Cola Does to Your Health Essay Sample, Example
What is the most popular non-alcoholic drink in the world, after tea? Coca-Cola. Wherever you go to, you will see commercials advertising it; whatever fast-food restaurant you drop in to, Coca-Cola (or Pepsi, which is practically the same regardless of…