Gospel of Wealth: Putting the Best Face on Extreme Riches
by Ron Chernow.In this endlessly engrossing book, National Book Award-winning biographer Ron Chernow devotes his penetrating powers of scholarship and insight to the... Conwell, the founder of Temple University in Philadelphia, became one of the great public speakers of his day and delivered his talk more than 6,000 times
Why Do Butterflies Have Such Vibrant Colors and Patterns?
It's unknown why the chrysalis itself is gold, but its shininess helps camouflage the developing butterfly, says Katy Prudic, a biologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Our Weird Animal Question of the Week comes to us from National Geographic's own Angie McPherson, a volunteer at the Smithsonian Butterfly Garden in Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of Natural History
The graph below, again from Google Books, shows the shift in language that marked this change in spirit: Up until the early 1900s, causation showed up more often than correlation in the corpus; then the concepts flip. Victorian logician Alexander Bain wasn't breaking new ground in 1870 when he warned his readers of the "fallacy of causation," whereby we might assume that, say, "the healthy effect of residence at a medicinal spa is attributed exclusively to the operation of the waters," as opposed to being caused by "the whole circumstances and situation." The confusion between correlation and causation, he said (not quite using the famous phrase), "prevails in all the complicated sciences, as Politics and Medicine." With the arrival of Pearson's coefficients and the transformation of statistics, that "fallacy" became more central to debate
* I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race
DO - definition of DO by The Free Dictionary
(takes an infinitive without to) used as an auxiliary before a negative adverb to form negative statements or commands: he does not like cheese; do not leave me here alone!. After do, you put is or was and an infinitive with or without to.For example, instead of saying 'Carolyn opened a bookshop', you can say 'What Carolyn did was to open a bookshop' or 'What Carolyn did was open a bookshop'.What Stephen did was to interview a lot of teachers.What it does is draw out all the vitamins from the body.You can use all instead of 'what' if you want to emphasize that just one thing is done and nothing else.All he did was shake hands and wish me luck.All she ever does is make jam.4
In fact, historians have found records of people b.aspheming in secular courts of the period so they could have their case transferred to an ecclesiastical court, where they would get a better hearing. As Ronald Knox put it, we should be cautious, "lest we should wander interminably in a wilderness of comparative atrocity statistics." In fact, no one knows exactly how many people perished through the various Inquisitions
The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin (1968)
But the air and waters surrounding us cannot readily be fenced, and so the tragedy of the commons as a cesspool must be prevented by different means, by coercive laws or taxing devices that make it cheaper for the polluter to treat his pollutants than to discharge them untreated. Pathogenic Effects of Conscience The long-term disadvantage of an appeal to conscience should be enough to condemn it; but it has serious short-term disadvantages as well
VEGANISM: A TRUTH WHOSE TIME HAS COME
http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com/Each story comes with an activity book designed to engage children and adults in a variety of activities which promote discussion about animal sentience and treatment. Started as a personal eco-design project, FAR Botanicals has developed into a full-fledged product line suitable for retail in fine salons, spas, barbershops and high-end retail stores
The Veiled Chameleon: Where the HELL did all of these Mexicans come from??? (Please don't answer: Mexico.)
Do you Mexicans really think that people just put signs in their store windows "NO Mexicans Allowed here" back in the 20's and 30's because they had nothing better to do? No, they did it because of what you are. I would like to point out that WE invaded this country and forcibly took it away from the indigenous prople(s) whom we relegated to various slices of land we didn't want (which we called "reservations" ...
How to Be a Social Butterfly (with Pictures) - wikiHow
You remember how we talked about how accepting compliments is best done with a simple "Thank you?" Well, turns out that's right for most social interactions! Walking up to someone and saying, "Hi. If the idea of making small talk with virtual strangers or meager acquaintances sounds painful, you're gonna need to get over that! It's what social butterflies do
USFWS: Karner Blue Butterfly Article
Restoring these systems will not only result in recovery of Karner blue populations, but will also help stabilize and enhance the populations of many other species of plants and animals that depend on these ecosystems for survival. In some cases it is hoped that recovery can be realized on lands managed for other purposes such as non-intensive forestry operations or military operations such as those conducted at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin
Oh, white man, take us from ourselves, our huts, our holes, our caves ! Oh, feed and clothe us, teach us too, arid we will be your slaves ! The meaning, in this particular case, is similar, although it's not always so. Subconsciously I wondered if the phrase had racial origins, promptly forgot about it, and yet Language Log comes through with the answer! Harold said, June 6, 2011 @ 9:54 am It is my understanding that the association of white with purity and superiority got a boost in the 18th century when the art historian Winkleman laboring under a mistaken notion that Greek sculpture had been dazzling white, exalted the color
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