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computers !!! 31-07-2010
A language instructor was explaining to her class that
French nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are
grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.
Things like 'chalk' or 'pencil, ' she
described, would have a gender association although in
English these words were neutral. Puzzled, one student
raised his hand and asked, "What gender is a computer?"
The teacher wasn't ...
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our tax dollars at work 31-07-2010
Tax Dollars At Work When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly
discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero
gravity.
To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade
and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity,
upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including
glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing
to over 300° C. ...
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5 Stemmen
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