The end of cheap oil: global production of conventional oil will begin to decline sooner than most people think, probably withing 10 years
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A newly developed model that integrates data on oil production in aging fields, returns on oil exploration and expected volume of production in new fields, reveals that conventional oil supplies available for global consumption is about to decline as early as 10 years before its predicted decline.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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The most influential investment
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Developing countries need to educate their women in order to help them add to the economy and to raise healthier children. More scholarship funds and supplies should be given to female students. The education of women would help break the poverty cycle that has been in effect for generations.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
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Simon Newcomb: astronomer with an attitude. The most celebrated American astronomer of the late 19th century advocated broad social and cultural reforms based on the use of scientific method
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American scientist Simon Newcomb received initial renown for his work on the reevaluation of the commonly accepted positions of celestial objects used in navigation. Newcomb is a staunch supporter of the scientific method, not only in science but also in social and cultural fields.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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