One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)
Edgar Allen Poe's story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, first appeared in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. The tale is generally considered to be the first detective story. The story describes the extraordinary "analytical power" used by Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin to solve a series of murders in Paris. Like the later Sherlock Holmes stories, the tale is narrated by the detective's roommate. Following the publication of Poe's story, detective stories began to grow into novels and English novelist Wilkie Collins published a detective novel, The Moonstone, in 1868.
The lawyer-politician-writer John Buchan was born, in Perth, Scotland. Buchan wrote prolifically and in almost all genres, but he is best known for his spy-adventure novels, particularly the first "Richard Hannay" book, The Thirty-Nine Steps. Some trace the spy genre back to The Spy (1821) by James Fenimore Cooper, and others regard Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands (1903) as the beginning, but most give Buchan credit for the kind of espionage thriller--he called them "shockers" -- that would eventually arrive at James Bond.
Black Sails is on TV again. I love treasure stories but this is so bad it is embarrassing to watch. As if the plot wasn't confused enough, they introduced a new and improved psychopath.
On the other hand, I really like House of Cards.
"All uranium found on earth is thought to have been synthesized during a supernova explosion that occurred roughly 5 billion years ago. Even before the laws of quantum mechanics were developed to their present level, the radioactivity of such elements has posed a challenge to determinism due to its unpredictability. One gram of uranium-238, a commonly occurring radioactive substance, contains some 2.5 x 1021 atoms. Each of these atoms are identical and indistinguishable according to all tests known to modern science. Yet about 12600 times a second, one of the atoms in that gram will decay, giving off an alpha particle. The challenge for determinism is to explain why and when decay occurs, since it does not seem to depend on external stimulus. Indeed, no extant theory of physics makes testable predictions of exactly when any given atom will decay. At best scientists can discover determined probabilities in the form of the element's half life."--wiki
Who is....Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
A report on Obama's State of the Union speech analyzed that, were his tax suggestions be implemented, the tax on Pennsylvania estates would total 81%.
Homunculus: noun: 1. A diminutive human being. 2. A fully formed, miniature human being that was earlier believed to be present in a sperm or an egg.
The Ponomon Institute estimates the companies the study average 1.8 successful cyber-attacks a week. Generally it is felt that hundreds of billions of dollars in intellectual property is lost per year. Gen. Keith Alexander, the retired head of NASA , called the results of cyber-theft "The greatest transfer of wealth in history."
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/adding-to-zero-sum.html
The political news out of Greece is startling. Almost comic. A party with communist roots has won the vote. This would be like Lamark having a representative in NASA. Well, maybe with epigenetics that is not as outlandish as the Greek vote.
John Hersey's "Hiroshima" was published in The New Yorker on August 31, 1946 . It was released as a full-length book later. The article took up all sixty-eight pages of text space (everything except for the "Goings On" calendar), an unprecedented and unannounced event for the magazine. Nor did the cover picture of a summery park scene give any indication, though there was a white band on the outside warning readers of the departure, and an editorial note on page one expressing the magazine's conviction that the nuclear explosion was an event "that everyone might well take time to consider." The magazine sold out almost immediately, with scalpers soon charging twenty dollars for the fifteen-cent issue. The story was reprinted, broadcast and published in book form throughout the world, and has never been out of print. Book of the Month Club members received a copy free, because of its "importance at this moment tothe human race." When Hersey died in 1993, one obituary called "Hiroshima" the "most famous magazine article ever published." The topic was of the people and the town attacked; he made no effort to include analysis of American motivation.Puzzle: You have unlimited water supply. You have in your possession two glasses measuring seven and eleven ounces. You are permitted to fill or empty either glass. How many steps are required to fill one of the containers with exactly six ounces of water?
Mark Twain hated James Fenimore Cooper and he especially hated The Leatherstocking stories chronicling Hawkeye, so much so that in 1895 he published an article entitled "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences." Twain found The Deerslayer guilty of breaking eighteen of his nineteen rules for romantic fiction, including Rule Three: "that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."
Some observations and predictions for the rest of the decade from an article in Business Insider: Japan's unrivaled quantitative easing will devalue the yen to significant levels and cause a currency war, the EU has persisting unequal economies with an equal currency and that conflict must be resolved, China will continue its growth but it will be impaired by its debt, the dollar will grow in strength to the detriment of other currencies especially the emerging ones, the Americans will have to decide on growth--with its inherent tax and regulatory changes--or decline.
The largest cyber-crime in history, Snowden's, involved the NSA, the American ostensible spy center. No administrator has been disciplined or held responsible. The Chinese have hacked into American computers and stolen 24 major weapons designs, including the Army and Navy missile defense systems but experts feel Snowden's theft was greater.
AAAAAAAaaaaaaadddddd........a picture:
A tiny human inside a sperm
Drawing: N. Hartsoecker, 1695Source: Wikimedia
Edgar Allen Poe's story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, first appeared in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. The tale is generally considered to be the first detective story. The story describes the extraordinary "analytical power" used by Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin to solve a series of murders in Paris. Like the later Sherlock Holmes stories, the tale is narrated by the detective's roommate. Following the publication of Poe's story, detective stories began to grow into novels and English novelist Wilkie Collins published a detective novel, The Moonstone, in 1868.
The lawyer-politician-writer John Buchan was born, in Perth, Scotland. Buchan wrote prolifically and in almost all genres, but he is best known for his spy-adventure novels, particularly the first "Richard Hannay" book, The Thirty-Nine Steps. Some trace the spy genre back to The Spy (1821) by James Fenimore Cooper, and others regard Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands (1903) as the beginning, but most give Buchan credit for the kind of espionage thriller--he called them "shockers" -- that would eventually arrive at James Bond.
Black Sails is on TV again. I love treasure stories but this is so bad it is embarrassing to watch. As if the plot wasn't confused enough, they introduced a new and improved psychopath.
On the other hand, I really like House of Cards.
"All uranium found on earth is thought to have been synthesized during a supernova explosion that occurred roughly 5 billion years ago. Even before the laws of quantum mechanics were developed to their present level, the radioactivity of such elements has posed a challenge to determinism due to its unpredictability. One gram of uranium-238, a commonly occurring radioactive substance, contains some 2.5 x 1021 atoms. Each of these atoms are identical and indistinguishable according to all tests known to modern science. Yet about 12600 times a second, one of the atoms in that gram will decay, giving off an alpha particle. The challenge for determinism is to explain why and when decay occurs, since it does not seem to depend on external stimulus. Indeed, no extant theory of physics makes testable predictions of exactly when any given atom will decay. At best scientists can discover determined probabilities in the form of the element's half life."--wiki
Who is....Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
A report on Obama's State of the Union speech analyzed that, were his tax suggestions be implemented, the tax on Pennsylvania estates would total 81%.
Homunculus: noun: 1. A diminutive human being. 2. A fully formed, miniature human being that was earlier believed to be present in a sperm or an egg.
From Latin homunculus (little man), diminutive of homo(man). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth), Earliest documented use: 1656. So it was originally felt the mother added nothing to the child but only carried it. Interestingly, a dictionary notes that "homo" should be split to "ho-mo" before e-mailed or else some filters will reject the word as offensive. A number of years ago a well regarded student of language who wrote a column for the NYT explained "homosexuality" as derived from "homo" or "man" rather than its true origin, "homo" as "same." (e.g. homogeneous")
The priceless funeral mask of Tutankhamen has been damaged at the Cairo museum, causing curators to glue it back together. Apparently it was a disaster.The Ponomon Institute estimates the companies the study average 1.8 successful cyber-attacks a week. Generally it is felt that hundreds of billions of dollars in intellectual property is lost per year. Gen. Keith Alexander, the retired head of NASA , called the results of cyber-theft "The greatest transfer of wealth in history."
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/adding-to-zero-sum.html
The political news out of Greece is startling. Almost comic. A party with communist roots has won the vote. This would be like Lamark having a representative in NASA. Well, maybe with epigenetics that is not as outlandish as the Greek vote.
John Hersey's "Hiroshima" was published in The New Yorker on August 31, 1946 . It was released as a full-length book later. The article took up all sixty-eight pages of text space (everything except for the "Goings On" calendar), an unprecedented and unannounced event for the magazine. Nor did the cover picture of a summery park scene give any indication, though there was a white band on the outside warning readers of the departure, and an editorial note on page one expressing the magazine's conviction that the nuclear explosion was an event "that everyone might well take time to consider." The magazine sold out almost immediately, with scalpers soon charging twenty dollars for the fifteen-cent issue. The story was reprinted, broadcast and published in book form throughout the world, and has never been out of print. Book of the Month Club members received a copy free, because of its "importance at this moment tothe human race." When Hersey died in 1993, one obituary called "Hiroshima" the "most famous magazine article ever published." The topic was of the people and the town attacked; he made no effort to include analysis of American motivation.Puzzle: You have unlimited water supply. You have in your possession two glasses measuring seven and eleven ounces. You are permitted to fill or empty either glass. How many steps are required to fill one of the containers with exactly six ounces of water?
Mark Twain hated James Fenimore Cooper and he especially hated The Leatherstocking stories chronicling Hawkeye, so much so that in 1895 he published an article entitled "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences." Twain found The Deerslayer guilty of breaking eighteen of his nineteen rules for romantic fiction, including Rule Three: "that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."
Some observations and predictions for the rest of the decade from an article in Business Insider: Japan's unrivaled quantitative easing will devalue the yen to significant levels and cause a currency war, the EU has persisting unequal economies with an equal currency and that conflict must be resolved, China will continue its growth but it will be impaired by its debt, the dollar will grow in strength to the detriment of other currencies especially the emerging ones, the Americans will have to decide on growth--with its inherent tax and regulatory changes--or decline.
The largest cyber-crime in history, Snowden's, involved the NSA, the American ostensible spy center. No administrator has been disciplined or held responsible. The Chinese have hacked into American computers and stolen 24 major weapons designs, including the Army and Navy missile defense systems but experts feel Snowden's theft was greater.
AAAAAAAaaaaaaadddddd........a picture:
A tiny human inside a spermDrawing: N. Hartsoecker, 1695Source: Wikimedia
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