When we visit caves and admire their dripstone formations, most of us do not realize how many traces of the distant past might be found in the stalagmites and stalactites, as well as in the very sediments we are walking over.
Circumstances conducive to the emergence of a literary culture that allowed women to participate arose in Poland only as late as in the 1650s, following the appearance of two Frenchwomen on the Polish throne, namely Marie-Louise Gonzaga and Marie-Casimire.
Rising public acceptance in Poland for women combining family and professional roles is not going hand-in-hand with a more widespread sharing of family duties at home- especially in childcare, a factor of key significance for the careers of women.
Neither beautiful Italian marbles nor colorful Polish sandstones, not even hard Scandinavian granites are impervious to the "tooth of time." No matter kind of stone we carve statues of our beloved poets and leaders from, they can all expect to meet the same depressing end - unless we get to know the culprits and learn to put up a fight.
Everybody knows the parable about two houses, one built on sand and another on solid rock. This just goes to show that even thousands of years ago, people realized how crucially a building's safety depends on whether it rests on the proper subsoil.
Floods play a predominant role among all disastrous natural occurrences. They have affected us in the past, they are a part of our present, and they will continue to occur in the future.
The American GPS system has now become a popular utility, used in many domains of everyday life. However, new technology triggers new applications, and new applications require improved tools. It is now clear that GPS alone will not be able to satisfy all needs.
Female animals make the world more beautiful, and... more deceitful. Their selectivity forces males to become more conspicuous, or occasionally more cunning, in their attempts to stoke the passions of their potential mates.
Over the past 15 years Poland has seen changes in how people form and raise a family, meaning the process of marriage and procreation. Increasingly fewer children are being born, and women are deciding to marry and to have their first child at an increasingly later age.
Recent years have brought increasing commercial interest in new robot applications, giving rise to greater demand for new robot navigation technologies.
In the 1920s Polish female painters and sculptors made their mark on the artistic scene in Poland and in Europe. Now their accomplishments are being rediscovered.
Nano-scale devices based on molecular machines could play a major role in the future of electronics, medicine and communications. Generating molecules with parts that can move like tiny "switches" is a step in the right direction.
Why do women suffer from psychiatric disturbances, especially mood disorders, more frequently than men do? The answer seems to require a combination of biology, psychology, and sociology.
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