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Facts: Why we need to rethink about professional politicians and their roles

By ShamsApril 5, 2017Media, Politicscareer politicians, lobbying, professional politicians, profi politicians

Professional politicians, also known as career politicians, do their jobs with two crystal-clear instincts – higher ambitions and material success. (more…)

Familiar yet strange: Water’s ‘split personality’ revealed by computer model

By Guest PostJuly 23, 2014Sciencebayarbaatar buuveibaatar, bell laboratories, career politicians, claudia vormbaum, computer model, frank stillinger, harvey risch, hypothesis, lingeng lu, microsoft garage, mike tholfsen, princeton university, professional politicians, saiga antilope, saigas, samantha streicher, shanghai residents registry, split personality, staffan enbom, vancouver education team, water

Seemingly ordinary, water has quite puzzling behavior. Why, for example, does ice float when most liquids crystallize into dense solids that sink?

Using a computer model to explore water as it freezes, a team at Princeton University has found that water’s weird behaviors may arise from a sort of split personality: at very cold temperatures and above a certain pressure, water may spontaneously split into two liquid forms. (more…)