Darwin wrote to his friend Asa Gray: “‘I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws …’”
Saint Catherine's Monastery, a sacred Christian site nestled in the shadow of Mount Sinai, is home to one of the world's oldest continuously used libraries. Thousands of manuscripts and books are kept there -- some of which contain hidden treasures. Many of these original texts were written in languages well known to researchers -- Latin, Greek, Arabic -- but others were inscribed in long-lost languages that are rarely seen in the historical record. Manuscripts with multiple layers of writing are known as palimpsests, and there are about 130 of them at St. Catherine's Monastery, according to the website of the Early Manuscript Electronic Library, which has been leading the initiative to uncover the original texts. With the rise of Islam in the 7th century, Christian sites in the Sinai Desert began to disappear, and Saint Catherine's found itself in relative isolation. Monks turned to reusing older parchments when supplies at the monastery ran scarce. To uncover the palimpsests' secret texts, researchers photographed thousands of pages multiple times, illuminating each page with different-colored lights. They also photographed the pages with light shining onto them from behind, or from an oblique angle, which helped "highlight tiny bumps and depressions in the surface." They then fed the information into a computer algorithm, which is able to distinguish the more recent texts from the originals.
(from Brigit Katz in Smithsonian.com)
Liz Palmer has a little article on chocolate and wine. She writes:
Chocolate, like wine is all about flavours, tastes and “noses.
Finally, Dark
chocolate is the easiest to pair and generally matches well with deep,
dark reds – think Cabernet Sauvignon or red wines with body. The higher
the cocoa content, the drier the wine should be.The higher the tannin
content of a red wine, the stronger the chocolate should be (to balance
that dry mouth feel).When tasting, the general rule is wine first, then
the chocolate. A good chocolate will also leave a lasting flavour in
your mouth. This “finish” can stay with you for several minutes after
the chocolate has melted, and is part of the reason why you only need a
small piece of chocolate to get the best possible experience. If in
doubt, go for a Late Harvest or Tawny.
Who is....Kenneth Minogue?
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/cut-him-if-he-stands.html
Gramarye: N: occult learning; magic.
Gramarye, from Old French gramaire “grammar,” originally meant “(Latin) grammar, learning in general,” and later “black magic.” The word was all but obsolete by the end of the 16th century. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) revived the word in its sense of black magic or necromancy in his “Lay of the Last Minstrel” (1805). By the Middle Ages, when no one spoke Latin as a first language, gramarye was restricted to “high” learning, which included astrology, occult sciences, and magic. Gramarye entered English in the 14th century.
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Ancestry, version one:
John Smith, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.
Spin Doctor version:
John Smith was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, he passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.
John Smith, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.
Spin Doctor version:
John Smith was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, he passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.
(old--very old--comic routine)
In Principles of Geology,
Charles Lyell explained that the Earth had been shaped by a series of
very slow movements of elevation and subsidence over an unimaginably
long period of time, punctuated by volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
As Darwin examined the rocks and cliffs of distant islands and shores,
he saw Lyell’s theory brought to life. Principles of Geology introduced the public to “one of the fundamental truths that would enable them to understand Darwin’s theory of evolution: that the world was older, much, much older, than had ever been conceived”. (from Wilson)
The
term, resilience, was coined in the 1970s in connection with children
who had been fostered or abused in order to describe those who were able
to cope and those who weren’t. Resilience was not a term used in the
world wars. Everyone was assumed to be tough, so there wasn’t really a
word for it. Indeed, at the time, military figures used the term
‘hardening’ – that is to say, military training will ‘harden’ an
individual. It will make you a bit tougher.
The word victim would have had a much narrower meaning in the first half of the 20th century than it does now.
Saint Catherine's Monastery, a sacred Christian site nestled in the shadow of Mount Sinai, is home to one of the world's oldest continuously used libraries. Thousands of manuscripts and books are kept there -- some of which contain hidden treasures. Many of these original texts were written in languages well known to researchers -- Latin, Greek, Arabic -- but others were inscribed in long-lost languages that are rarely seen in the historical record. Manuscripts with multiple layers of writing are known as palimpsests, and there are about 130 of them at St. Catherine's Monastery, according to the website of the Early Manuscript Electronic Library, which has been leading the initiative to uncover the original texts. With the rise of Islam in the 7th century, Christian sites in the Sinai Desert began to disappear, and Saint Catherine's found itself in relative isolation. Monks turned to reusing older parchments when supplies at the monastery ran scarce. To uncover the palimpsests' secret texts, researchers photographed thousands of pages multiple times, illuminating each page with different-colored lights. They also photographed the pages with light shining onto them from behind, or from an oblique angle, which helped "highlight tiny bumps and depressions in the surface." They then fed the information into a computer algorithm, which is able to distinguish the more recent texts from the originals.
(from Brigit Katz in Smithsonian.com)
Police in northern Virginia arrested the wife of an ethics lawyer for President Donald Trump's business organization on Tuesday. The arrest
occurred after officers investigated a "suspicious" incident in the
backseat of a car outside the Adult Detention Center in Fauquier County
between Teresa Jo Burchfield and an inmate trustee. What a cathouse.
Liz Palmer has a little article on chocolate and wine. She writes:
Chocolate, like wine is all about flavours, tastes and “noses.
♣ both are made from fruit (chocolate is derived from cocoa nibs – the seeds of the fruit of the cocoa tree).
♣
both reflect the terroir of where they were grown (flavour and aroma
compounds in both cacao pod and grape reflect their growing conditions,
soil, climate, root stock and harvest).
♣ both are typically blends of beans or grapes, selected to complement the whole.
♣ Both have a vocabulary of dozens of words to describe flavour, texture, body and aroma.
Who is....Kenneth Minogue?
Kenneth Minogue has a posthumous book On Liberty and its Enemies. One of his observations is that the intellectual seems to get rewarded for
being critical of the status quo (regardless of which status quo) and,
on the other, she is quite a more gregarious character than she would
admit. "Sometimes
illusion leading to superficiality results from a rhetorical game in
which intellectuals must exhibit their identity as above all 'critical'
thinkers, and this is done by indulging in a merciless view of what has
been set up as 'conventional wisdom'."
So they oppose conventional
wisdom to distinguish themselves.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/cut-him-if-he-stands.html
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What
does the anti-carbon activists' war mean? Multinational oil companies
produce just 10% of the world's oil and gas reserves. State-ow...
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Gramarye: N: occult learning; magic.
Gramarye, from Old French gramaire “grammar,” originally meant “(Latin) grammar, learning in general,” and later “black magic.” The word was all but obsolete by the end of the 16th century. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) revived the word in its sense of black magic or necromancy in his “Lay of the Last Minstrel” (1805). By the Middle Ages, when no one spoke Latin as a first language, gramarye was restricted to “high” learning, which included astrology, occult sciences, and magic. Gramarye entered English in the 14th century.
A number of Equifax executives sold their stock just before the breach was announced. Probably a coincidence.
A Princeton study says that almost 1/2 of non-employed working age men are on opiates. So my bet is they will set the war on unemployment in the setting of the war on drugs.
So one of the biggest security breaches in history occurred in a
company whose business is credit scores and identity protection and
monitoring?
How is the Zika crisis going?
The number of international students enrolled at U.S. high schools more than doubled from 2004 to 2016, according to a recent federally funded study. (wsj)
How is the Zika crisis going?
The National Health is introducing a small group of nurses who have advanced to the role of surgical care practitioner (SCP).
Soon the role will become even more special: come September, SCPs
will be able to carry out surgeries, such as facial skin cancer
excisions, with possible skin grafts and flap reconstructions, without a
consultant.
Andrea Thomas, deputy director of nursing and quality at Aintree
University hospital says the introduction of SCPs is about the changing
shape of surgical teams and, in addition to other advanced clinical
roles, a response to broader hospital and patient needs. These posts can
help the NHS face the future, explains Thomas, by helping services plan
for anticipated physician shortages.
Price influences availability. And quality.
Price influences availability. And quality.
"..[individualism's]... main principle is that no man or group of
men should have power to decide what another man’s status ought to be,
and it regards this as a condition of freedom so essential that it must
not be sacrificed to the gratification of our sense of justice or of our
envy." This is from Hayek, a very worrisome, basic and unfortunately
true assessment of the world.
The number of international students enrolled at U.S. high schools more than doubled from 2004 to 2016, according to a recent federally funded study. (wsj)
A Spanish company has designed a speed bump that won't hinder slow
drivers but will still stop motorists driving too fast. The speed bump
is filled with a non-Newtonian liquid which changes viscosity when
pressure is applied at high velocity. They've been installed in
Villanueva de Tapia, Spain and there has also been interest from Israel
and Germany.
A Princeton study says that almost 1/2 of non-employed working age men are on opiates. So my bet is they will set the war on unemployment in the setting of the war on drugs.
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