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    In “Sex, Drugs, Disasters and Extinction of Dinosaurs”, Stephen Jay Gould believes that the ridicule assertion inspired by current events can often lead to well idealized, experimental, and promising discoveries. Stephen Jay Gould is employed at Harvard University in the faculty of science portraying his knowledge as a professor. Evidently, He publishes various writings and further demonstrate his research and studies on the basis of science. Gould uses three different theories such as of how scientists

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    Have you ever wondered “why” dinosaurs went extinct? Here is a theory of why the dinosaurs don't exist in today's world. A long time ago the only thing that existed was animals called ‘dinosaurs” they were the only living things on planet earth. These dinosaurs were unique because they could talk, but nobody could understand them, it was like their secret “code” language. These dinosaurs lived a happy and healthy life until the small explosion changed the life of these dinosaures. Just a few miles

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    Dinosaur extinction could arguably be the most important event that contributed to world history. Without the extinction of dinosaurs, the human race would not exist let alone world history. These beautiful creatures appeared during the Triassic period about 231.4 million years ago. These creatures lived everywhere in the world including Antarctica. During the Triassic period all of the continents were morphed together into one called the Pangaea making travel a lot easier. Since the climate was

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    show. Now for the first time since humans and their ancestors took first steps on this planet, they are above 400 ppm. Current carbon levels in the atmosphere, as far as science can tell, are just behind that of what they were around the extinction of the dinosaurs. Regulations on emissions are a must and should be updated and monitored by all countries around the world. Pushing for clean and sustainable

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    Some people's views on Germany's defeat and the extinction of dinosaurs are objective and this could be because they are based on either beliefs which have been passed down from time to time, beliefs which have been taught by highly influential people, or scientific evidence. Common sense could also contribute to truths being objective. However, a historian's reasons are seen as subjective due to the fact that, despite the fact they all have the same evidence, they interpretate it in different ways

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    mind. Today, Nevada stands as the eighth state that enforces background checks on gun sales or transfers, through the work of Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s Question 1 hypostatized Stephen Jay Gould’s article, “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaur” by illustrating the pseudoscience behind establishing universal background checks to limit gun control. David Montero’s “When it Comes to Gun Laws, Nevada Could be Edging Closer to California,” and John Lott’s “The Gun Question,” discuss

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    Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs A great problem in modern science is that growing gap between scientists and the rest of the world. As science becomes more complicated -Paleontology moves from simply digging up fossils to chemically analyzing them with Raman Spectroscopy and physics transitions from the dropping of balls off of buildings to the calculation of satellite trajectories- the public’s ability to comprehend, and more importantly, to enjoy science diminishes

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    “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs” is written by Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology and zoology at Harvard. This essay is one of more than a hundred articles on evolution, zoology, and paleontology published by Gould in national magazines and journals. It tells about scientific proposals for the extinction of dinosaurs – a confusing but an exciting problem that humanity tries to solve. By analyzing and describing each of the claims for the reptiles’ demise – sex, drugs

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    4/26/2016 English 12 Ms. Hous The fall of Dinosaurs It is hard to imagine that millions of years ago, the Earth was not dominated by humans, but by Dinosaurs. These great Beast’s, who were as big or bigger than cars, roamed the land. Some were giant killing machines, like the Tyrannosaurus Rex.Some are even alive today, while many people do not even notice. There have been countless theories as to how the dinosaurs became extinct. The dinosaurs ruled the land for millions of years, and it seems

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    Since the 1980s the most popular theory for why dinosaurs became extinct was because of a meteor, but many people are skeptical of whether or not the meteor was the only factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs. In Stephen Brusatte’s “What Killed the Dinosaurs,” Dr. Brusatte talks about how the mystery of the extinction of the dinosaurs was a hug influence on his life and caused him to become what he is today. As a teenager Brusatte had a chance to talk to Walter Alvarez, the man who proposed the

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