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Early 1800s:Catastrophism says big events, like the one in Genesis 7, shaped the Earth & its life

1751:Axel Cronstedt discovers this -- the element, in a mineral, not the coin in his pants pocket

2001:Researchers produce pulses of this that last 650 billionths of a billionth of a second

4th century B.C.:Aristotle writes, "It is agreed that there are...only two solids, the pyramid and" this geometric one

1855:Matthew Maury publishes the first textbook of this science, "Physical Geography of the Sea"

DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick shocked Freudians by saying these are just the brain's nightly housecleaning

Adjective for the left hemisphere of the brain in most righties, because it controls speech & other functions

In 1956 George Miller defined it as holding 5 to 9 chunks of information -- what category did you pick again?

This structure seen here, which includes the medulla, transmits information from the spinal cord

P.E.T., the positron emission type of this kind of imaging, can identify the focal points of seizures