Sentences with phrase «called black studies»

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Both groups of astronomers studied a particular quasar called APM 08279 +5255, which harbors a black hole 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces as much energy as a thousand trillion suns.

But the debate will likely get more heated when a second > resolution comes up, calling for a study of possible reparations for > black Episcopalians.

Study co-author Andrew Blain of the University of Leicester says that a slow spin may be how this black hole has sustained its binge, which he calls the equivalent of «winning a hot - dog - eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years.»

Study co-author Andrew Blain of the University of Leicester says that a slow spin may be how this black hole has sustained its binge, which he calls the equivalent of «winning a hot dog — eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years.»

My brain was starting to hurt, so I called on Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advanced Study, a leading black hole theorist and a neutral third party.

This idea, proposed by Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., is called the holographic principle: Just as a two - dimensional hologram can depict a three - dimensional object, the surface of a black hole theoretically reveals everything inside of it.

The study, published in Scientific Reports, looks at fossilized organelles (called melanosomes) that contain melanin, a type of pigment that suggests a color scheme for the birdlike dinosaur: gray feathers on its body, a reddish mohawk down the center of its head, and white feathers with black tips that line the creature's wings and legs.

Social psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt and her colleagues at Stanford University studied the phenomenon in nine black and 10 white subjects using a technique called magnetic resonance imaging.

Studies of genetic markers that are distinctive to ancestral groups show that typical African Americans have 20 percent European blood, although that figure can go as high as 80 percent in some people who call themselves black.

Specifically, the most energetic iron emission they studied is characteristic of so - called x-ray binary starsduos comprised of a dense stellar object such as a white dwarf star, a neutron star or a black hole that collects matter from a less dense companion, emitting x-rays in the process.

Abhay Ashtekar, who studies gravitation at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, says that he finds the way that the authors transfer the information to the black hole — which they call «soft hair» — unconvincing.

Further studies showed that this object, called B3 1715 +425, is a supermassive black hole surrounded by a galaxy much smaller and fainter than would be expected.

Researchers there have been studying black cumin (Nigella sativa) and discovered that a chemical in its oil called thymoquinone (which, by the way, is also present in the essential oil of thyme — hence the flavor similarity), is an anti-inflammatory that seems to inhibit the development of pancreatic cancer in lab studies.

London Calling I honestly believe these type of studies are just a bias and an attempt to trick black women into not dating online and to not date men of different races.

The piece proceeds in the mode of cultural studies by analysing the racial discourses surrounding the film: black rural folklorism, the representation of stereotypical black comic or menial roles in film, the commodification and packaging of black culture, and what Naremore calls «a chic, upscale «Africanism», redolent of café society, Broadway theatre, and the European avant - garde.»

Poole calls it a study in contrasts: «That really, really pitch black dark craggy landscape with this stunningly blue Idaho sky, and then the sparks of green that are made up of the limber pine trees that grow there,» she says.

The 1954 monster - horror Creature from the Black Lagoon was a huge influence: in that film, an aquatic monster known as Gill - Man becomes fascinated with a female character called Kay, who's part of a scientific expedition whose aim it is to capture or kill the monster and study its breathing.

Suppose that enlightened policymakers eventually fund the type of longitudinal study that would enable the tracking of changes in the black - white test - score gap from 1st grade to 12th grade for a single cohort of students — precisely the type of study Jacobsen and his colleagues call for.

But when Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews took a close look at the study to see which school district had the smallest black - white achievement gap, he was surprised to find that it was Detroit, which he calls «our nation's worst school district, or close to it.

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Nancy Black, a marine biologist with Monterey Bay Whale Watch who has been studying these whales for decades, called the frequency of the pod's killings «remarkable» and «unprecedented.»

They began in black, white, and gray, but even then he called them color studies, because to him they were.

«Given the current state of public and private higher education,» organizers of the new experiment, called the Black Mountain School, wrote on their website, «we are presenting an alternative — a collaborative learning environment where educators create the content of study, students determine their level of engagement, and tuition is affordable for all.»

While this untitled work's format and amorphous black figures call to mind Pablo Picasso's studies for Guernica (1937), its blacked - out background, establishing a portentous mood, is uniquely Pollock's own.

My HSC study notes Every birthday card since I was born An E.T doll with battery - operated, flashing eyes A plastic bag filled with black sand from Hawaii A June, 1959 copy of National Geographic (coincidentally containing a photograph of a Hawaiian black sand beach) A Frenz Of The Enz badge My high school uniform A replica Crowded House jacket a friend painted for me A black & white polka - dotted Morrissey Edmiston jacket Two fossilised shells A novel I wrote at age 11 called Scamp the Wonder Dog.