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In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Bierce describes Farquhar, the main character, as a good guy, not involved in the murder of his fellow Americans, whether from the North of from the South. Farquhar, sentenced to death by asphyxiation...
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When people think of the ocean, they usually think of the clear, blue waters just
beyond the shores where creatures of every color and size dwell. The scientific name for
this area is the Pelagic zone, the area of the ocean where most o...
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The process of becoming more acidic due to inputs of an acidic substance. The common measure of acidification is a decrease in pH. Acidification of soils and natural waters by acid rain or acid wastes can result in reduced biological produ...
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"The will to understand, conserve, and protect ocean life is at the very core of the Ocean Conservatory's mission. To fulfill this mission, the Ocean Conservatory seeks to: protect marine ecosystems, prevent marine pollutio...
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Ocean circulation is the large, connected system of water movements in the oceans, including not only the surface movement, but also the slow, deep-water circulations. While the surface currents are caused by the winds and a geographically...
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Ocean disposal of society's waste got its start indirectly long before the Agricultural Age when nearby streams, lakes, and estuaries were useful as waste repositories. As civilization moved to the coastal zone and navigation began ...
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The Ocean Dumping Ban Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-688) marked an end to almost a century of sewage sludge and industrial waste dumping into the ocean. The law was enacted amid negative publicity about beach closures from high levels of p...
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Two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by oceans. These bodies of water are vast reservoirs of renewable energy. In a four-day period, the planet's oceans absorb an amount of thermal energy from the sun and kinetic energy from the win...
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Deep ocean basins cover almost 70% of Earth's surface, and they contain 96% of the planet's life-sustaining water. The oceans support the biosphere by modulating global climate and hydrology, and are home to the marine organi...
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Ocean dumping is internationally defined as "any deliberate disposal at sea of wastes or other matter from vessels, aircraft, platforms, or other man-made structures at sea, and any deliberate disposal at sea of vessels, aircraft,...
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The process of critical thinking requires you to ask more questions of both others and of yourself before a decision or determination is made. In order to successfully evaluate data in a critical manner, you must have a system in place t...
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Ships have carried passengers across the oceans for centuries. Yet, it was not until the early 1800s that true ocean travel was established. Up until then, ships sailed only when they had a full load of cargo and passengers. Because intern...
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For many years, scientists have been aware of one enormous reservoir of energy on the earth's surface: the oceans. As sunlight falls on the oceans, its energy is absorbed by seawater. The oceans are in one sense, therefore, a huge...
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The Pacific Islands are dispersed over the widest expanse of sea in the world. They consist of semi-continents (such as New Guinea), strings of large mountainous islands (along the curve of the Melanesian chain), and groups of larger and s...
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A deep-sea trench is a narrow, elongate, v-shaped depression in the ocean floor. Trenches are the deepest parts of the ocean, and the lowest points on Earth, reaching depths of nearly 7 mi (10 km) below sea level. These long, narrow, curvi...
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Over the last two centuries there has been an explosion in our knowledge of the global underwater environment. This understanding of the world's oceans and seas has been accomplished by a variety of methods, including the use of bot...
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Ockhamism "Ockhamism" is a term used by some historians of medieval philosophy to characterize the critical and skeptical attitude toward natural theology and traditional metaphysics that became prevalent in the fourteenth cen...
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Octal notation is a method of representing octal (base 8) numbers using the eight numerals 0-7. Octal notation uses positional notation and powers of 8 to express to express numbers in a manner similar to that of the familiar decimal syste...
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Octane rating is a method for describing antiknock properties of gasoline. Knocking is a pinging sound produced by internal combustion engines when fuel ignites prematurely during the engine's compression cycle. Because knocking can...
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Octave Crémazie (1827-1879) was a Canadian poet who was closely linked to the emergence of French-Canadian literature. Known as Octave, Claude-Joseph-Olivier Crémazie was born on Nov. 8, 1827, and educated in Quebec. He becam...
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Lauded by the theatergoing public and many critics during the period of France's Second Empire, Octave Feuillet now appears in nineteenth-century theater history as a secondary playwright after Alexandre Dumas fils, Emile Augier, and Victo...
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1875-1957 French bacteriologist who with Jules Bordet described the bacterium responsible for causing whooping cough (Pertussis). While working at the Pasteur Institute in Brussels, the two researchers successfully cultured the bacterium i...
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Hamelin, Octave(1856–1907) Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, the French idealist philosopher, carried further the neocriticism of Charles Renouvier and Jules Lachelier. Renouvier had criticized the categories of Immanuel Kant, maintaining tha...
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