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On Wednesday, February 6th we're inviting all Citizens to come to the wiki, start a new article, and edit somebody else's new article. It's a Write-a-Thon! It's a wiki-whoopie, a cyber-social, a collaborative kegger!

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(CC) Photo: Jakub Sivek
A wristwatch made by Swiss watchmaker Tissot.

A wristwatch is a timepiece designed to be worn around the wrist, held on by a band. Modern wristwatches are often referred to simply as "watches", and are mostly electronic, despite having either an analog or digital appearance. There are wristwatches that are still entirely mechanical but because of the higher manufacturing and maintenance cost, these are becoming more rare and are considered "luxury items" or "antiques". [more...]

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Ernest Rutherford.

Ernest Rutherford (born August 30, 1871, Nelson, New Zealand and died October 19, 1937, Cambridge, England) was the first person to split an atom and as the world’s first successful “alchemist,” changed nitrogen into oxygen. He postulated the existence of the proton and the neutron, naming them both, and provided the first nuclear model of the atom. He discerned that radioactivity is the product of subatomic change and thereby ended the chapter on Aristotelian physics which held that all matter is immutable and unchanging. He discovered and named alpha and beta particles emitted by radioactive materials, discovered radon (a radioactive gas), tritium (H3) and He3. Through his work and calculations of radioactive decay he coined the phrase half-life and provided definitive evidence for the extreme age of the Earth. [more...]