April 18, 2011
Genie is the pseudonym for Susan M. Wiley, a feral child who spent nearly all of the first thirteen years of her life locked inside a bedroom strapped to a potty chair. She was a victim of one of the most severe cases of social isolation in American history. Genie was discovered by Los Angeles authorities in 1970.
Genie’s discovery was compared extensively with that of Victor of Aveyron, about whom a film was made, ‘The Wild Child.’ Psychologists, linguists and other scientists exhibited great interest in the case due to its perceived ability to reveal insights into the development of language and linguistic critical periods.
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April 18, 2011
Detroit-style pizza is a square pizza similar to Sicilian-style pizza that has a thick deep-dish crust, cooked toppings such as pepperoni and olives, andis served with the marinara pizza sauce on the top of the pizza. It is known within Detroit as Square pizza. The crust of a Detroit-style pizza is noteworthy because in addition to occasionally being twice-baked, it is usually baked to a chewy medium-well-done state, and many parlors will apply melted butter with a soft brush prior to baking. Some chains, such as Hungry Howie’s (founded in Taylor, Michigan), are also known for their flavored crusts. Popular crust flavors include sesame, butter, garlic and onion.
Southeast Michigan is also known as the headquarters of some of the largest pizza chains in the United States including Domino’s Pizza (Ann Arbor), Little Caesars (Detroit) and Hungry Howie’s (Madison Heights). Although none of those chains specializes in Detroit-style pizza, Little Caesars does sell a square deep dish pizza and offers sauce with it that can be applied on top of the pizza by the customer for the traditional Detroit-style. The origins of ‘Detroit-style’ pizza are from local Detroit pizzeria, Cloverleaf Pizza, which developed and began serving their signature pizza in 1946.
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April 18, 2011
The RepRap project is an initiative to develop a 3D printer (RepRap, short for ‘replicating rapid prototyper’) that can print most of its own components. As an open design, all of the designs produced by the project are released under a free software license. The device uses a variant of fused deposition modeling, an additive manufacturing technique.
Due to the self-replicating ability of the machine, authors envision the possibility to cheaply distribute RepRap units to people and communities, enabling them to create (or download from the internet) complex products without the need for expensive industrial infrastructure.
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April 18, 2011
A 3D printer is a machine that prints solid copies of objects from computer drawings. Some use powder. Some use liquid plastic. They all make the object by building it up layer by layer in an additive process.
In some industries these printers are called rapid prototyping machines. Car makers use 3D printers to try out new shapes for things like door handles; designers use try new shapes for consumer electronics; artists create sculptures; and jewelry designers can try out new ideas and make molds for rings.
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