received an email from professor brian ripley asking to fix a downstream issue with convey. sascii updated as well, only occurrence during my thirties
flew to fort lee. parc guellesque benches outside grant's tomb, we ate rolled ice cream after many how fast can you run to [lots of things] and back?
read the platypus entry, morphologically a duck that's swallowed a baby alligator whole
one of the few species of venomous mammals
the first scientists to examine a preserved platypus body (in 1799) judged it a fake, made of several animals sewn together
feeding by neither sight nor smell, the platypus closes its eyes, ears, and nose each time it dives. rather, when it digs in the bottom of streams with its bill, its electroreceptors detect electric currents generated by muscular contractions of its prey
listened to salman khan on collateralized debt obligations. if you have a dead skunk in your house, you won't notice that the milk is going bad
attended 66th bannockburn spring show. telemedicine (sexual healing, marvin gaye) plus neighborhood open house tours snooping for bdsm dungeons
cannot distinguish 2022 jessica simpson from 2022 britney spears. addhealth asks interviewers to rate respondent physical attractiveness
read..
the wwf (world wrestling federation, later world wrestling entertainment after losing a legal battle with the panda people)
my imagination in a headlock
i touched the undertaker
imagine
a sporting event - a football game, say - that has been manipulated to
be as enthralling as possible: competitive, unpredictable, dramatic,
goal-filled, full of technical dazzlement and human emotion
wrestlers are fantastic bleeders
sacrifice zones
of the world's fourteen most polluted metropolises, only one (hotan in china) is outside india
when there's more smog in the air, chess players make more mistakes
clean air and clean water tend to be much more popular with voters than climate-focused environmental policies
in
the entire 20th century, there were only five fires that burned more
than 100,000 acres. in 2020, there were eleven such fires
(3) humans are essentially embodied creatures
aristotle argued that what he considered the highest form of human flourishing - intellectual contemplation of the universe - could only be achieved by property-owning greek males
read cultural literacy by e.d. hirsch, jr. which argues that citizens unable to understand commonplace references in fact cannot read
writings that culturally literate people have read about but haven't read. das kapital is a good example. cultural literacy is represented not by a prescriptive list of books but rather by a descriptive list of the information actually possessed by literate americans. my aim in this book is to contribute to making that information the possession of all americans
were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, i should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. but i should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them
left to itself, a child will not grow into a thriving creature; tarzan is pure fantasy
it takes a subject much longer to say true or false to the sentence "a chicken is a bird" than to "a robin is a bird"
the form "he run," used in some oral dialects, would not only be sufficient, it would make the very entirely regular. people would need to learn just one form for the present tense. that arrangement would not only be more rational, it would represent a more advanced stage in the development of a syntactic language, as the linguist jespersen has argued. it is a pattern that english would surely have reached if it had remained an oral language and been allowed to evolve further. in fact, as a dialectical form, "he run" has evolved independently in many different isolated places, in both america and britain. if plain run is good enough for i, you, we, they, why isn't it good enough for he, she, it? because we have no choice in the matter. the decision was made by those who fixed our grammar at a certain stage of its evolution, and their decision will probably stand forever
the word doubt, for instance, never had a b sound in english. why then spell it with a b? because schoolmasters chose to show a connection between the english word doubt and the latin word dubito
frontier education
the polarization of educationists into facts-people versus skills-people has no basis in reason. facts and skills are inseparable
the ciceronian ideal of universal public discourse
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