where are you?
i'm in italy baby
you fly faster than the mosquitos
read..
(1) colm toibin on robert prevost
a peruvian citizen running things in rome
in chicago, a little-known recently appointed cardinal retweeted another attack on vance's statement: 'j.d. vance is wrong: jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others'
(2) placebo means "i will please" in latin, and it entered english thanks to chaucer
the single most important aspect was holding the tablet with tweezers, thereby giving the impression that it was somehow too powerful to be touched with bare hands
we know that expensive placebos work better than cheap ones, capsules work better than tablets, and colored capsules work better than white ones. blues and greens work better as sedatives, while pinks and reds work better as stimulants and painkillers. (unless you're an italian man: howick notes that blue is stimulating for italian men, perhaps because the italian soccer team wears blue.) medium-sized placebos are the least effective; it seems that we trust either tiny pills or big ones - the latter because they're more impressive, and the former presumably because tiny capsules must contain powerful drugs
rats that received powerful immunosuppressants with harmless saccharin later suffered a collapse of their immune systems when given saccharin alone
bugiardini ("little liars")
(3) an experimental design based on three broad areas: factorial, recipe, and augmenting designs
the sheer quantity and variation of experimental designs in the r-packages are arguably unmatched by any other programming languages
68% of the total downloads are due to 10 packages
figure 7 shows that the experimentaldesign task view has the lowest average number of contributors among all the 39 cran task views
(4) rerum novarum: encyclical of pope leo xiii on capital and labor
to have nothing to do with men of evil principles, who work upon the people with artful promises of great results, and excite foolish hopes which usually end in useless regrets and grievous loss
that he be not led away to neglect his home and family, or to squander his earnings
to exercise pressure upon the indigent and the destitute for the sake of gain, and to gather one's profit out of the need of another, is condemned by all laws, human and divine
but the church, with jesus christ as her master and guide, aims higher still
'command the rich of this world... to offer with no stint, to apportion largely.'"(12) true, no one is commanded to distribute to others that which is required for his own needs and those of his household; nor even to give away what is reasonably required to keep up becomingly his condition in life, "for no one ought to live other than becomingly."(13) but, when what necessity demands has been supplied, and one's standing fairly taken thought for, it becomes a duty to give to the indigent out of what remains over. "of that which remaineth, give alms"
the church possesses a power peculiarly her own
the greed of possession and the thirst for pleasure-twin plagues, which too often make a man who is void of self-restraint miserable in the midst of abundance
public well-being and private prosperity
the first thing of all to secure is to save the unfortunate working people from the cruelty of men of greed, who use human beings as mere instruments for money-making. it is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labor as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies
private ownership must be held sacred and inviolable. the law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners
men always work harder and more readily when they work on that which belongs to them
woe to him that is alone
the lying legends of ancient superstition little by little yielded to christian truth
encaustic (wax) paintings
not everyone could afford a mummy portrait
christianity also never banned mummification
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