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The Google Science Fair was a worldwide (excluding Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Myanmar/Burma, Syria, Zimbabwe and any other U.S. sanctioned country [1]) online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, Virgin Galactic, National Geographic and Scientific American. [2][3][4] It was an annual event spanning the years 2011 through 2018.
The bill will allocate more than $4.2 billion for capital projects statewide, including $717 million in one-time project funding from the Strategic Community Investment Fund.
Graph (based on data from the World Bank) showing the proportion of the world's population (blue) and the absolute numbers of people (red) living on <1, <1.25, and <2 US dollars a day (2005 equivalent values) between 1981 and 2008. Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world, [7] [8] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
Funding of science. Research funding is a term generally covering any funding for scientific research, in the areas of natural science, technology, and social science. Different methods can be used to disburse funding, but the term often connotes funding obtained through a competitive process, in which potential research projects are evaluated ...
The Leas Lift in Folkestone, Kent, is one of only three remaining, Victorian, water balance cliff lifts left in the country. Seafront lift to be restored thanks to £4.8m National Lottery grant ...
e. The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. The scientific method involves careful observation coupled with rigorous scepticism, because cognitive assumptions can distort the interpretation of the observation.
kit clothing, esp. a sports uniform (e.g. football kit) any of various sets of equipment or tools a set of parts to be assembled, e.g. into a scale model: a group of person or objects ("the whole kit and (ca) boodle/billing") kitty affectionate term for a housecat. collective source of funds (esp. for a group of people) piggy bank