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Transitions between states of matter: It’s more complicated, scientists find (Science Daily)

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Date: November 6, 2014

Source: New York University

Summary: The seemingly simple process of phase changes — those transitions between states of matter — is more complex than previously known. New work reveals the need to rethink one of science’s building blocks and, with it, how some of the basic principles underlying the behavior of matter are taught in our classrooms.

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Melting ice. The seemingly simple process of phase changes — those transitions between states of matter — is more complex than previously known. Credit: © shefkate / Fotolia

The seemingly simple process of phase changes — those transitions between states of matter — is more complex than previously known, according to research based at Princeton University, Peking University and New York University.

Their study, which appears in the journal Science, reveals the need to rethink one of science’s building blocks and, with it, how some of the basic principles underlying…

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A Family Day of the Dead

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One of the first ‘adult’ books I read as a teenager was a lurid pulp fiction novel about the Aztecs, complete with human sacrifice and other bloodthirsty rituals. I have never managed to track it down. I don’t know why it was so memorable as I hate violence of any kind. I soon after obtained the Pelican edition of Aztecs of Mexico, by George Vaillant, complete with its Aztec skull inlaid with turquoise on the cover. Later still I worked for a long time around the corner from the wonderful Museum of Mankind (now subsumed within the British Museum) and often used to go there in my lunch hour to see the collection of turquoise inlaid Aztec objects, including that skull. This was the beginnings of an interest in Mexican culture which has stayed with me. Somehow in my textile design degree at Chelsea I managed to work a…

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Stars’ Roussel has hearing Monday

‘Force Majeure’ asks men to confront manliness in stark but droll narrative — a film review

Independent Ethos

Force Majeure, a new, impressively shot film from Sweden takes a stark but funny look at the fragile fibers that hold together a family of four when the actions of the father calls the unit’s existence into question. Director Ruben Östlund uses both humor and an efficient sense of drama to examine the role of the father that draws in the audience to consider today’s notion of what makes a man. It’s tight filmmaking in the best sense, as it never over-reaches the human drama at the center of it but has vast echoes beyond the image on screen.

Östlund, who also wrote the screenplay, presents a rather interesting portrait of a modern man who screws up in a big way with the wrong gesture. Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) are on a ski vacation with their young children, older sister Vera (Clara Wettergren)…

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