A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. -Grace Hopper, computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral (1906-1992)
The Latin noun behind the English noun atavism is atavus “great-great-great grandfather; ancestor.” Atavus is formed from atta “daddy,” a nursery word widespread in Indo-European languages, e.g., Greek átta “daddy,” and the possibly Gothic proper name Attila “little father, daddy.” The second element, avus “(maternal) grandfather,” also has cognates in other Indo-European languages, e.g., Old Prussian (an extinct Baltic language related to Latvian and Lithuanian) awis “uncle,” and, very familiar in English, those Scottish and Irish surnames beginning with “ O’,” e.g., O’Connor “descended from Connor”). The Celtic “ O’ ” comes from Irish ó “grandson,” from early Irish aue, and appearing as avi “descendant of” in ogham (an alphabet used in archaic Irish inscriptions from about the 5th century). Atavism entered English in the 19th century.
Attila?
A word on the rise as we see more references to tribalism.
What was....“Black Monday” in 1360?
This, of course, is so obvious and compelling an observation it simply must be ignored.
"Thomas L. Friedman (”Better Late Than . . .,” column, March 17) finds it ”obnoxious” that Americans ”consume 25 percent of the world’s energy, while we’re only 4 percent of the world’s population.”
Americans produce 31.5 percent of the world’s output — including food and pharmaceuticals exported to foreign countries. What’s so obnoxious?"
This is an interesting point. Many, especially the self-appointed cultural and political elite, have an aesthetic objection to the U.S.. They are offended by the rest of us. And, by the way, are mystified when a large percentage of us get miffed and vote against their wishes.
Over 2.5 million people in the U.S. are involved in road accidents each year.
Of these, 1.6 million have a cell phone involved in them. So 64% of all the road accidents in the United States have cell phones involved.
37,000+ people die in automobile crashes in the U.S every year.
Fatalities from mass shootings continued to make up a small fraction of overall firearm deaths: less than 3 percent of the total.
So, where would a wise culture place its efforts to reduce the deaths of children and adults?
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2015/03/deadly-symbiotic-companions.html
On so-called “Black Monday” in 1360, a hail storm killed an estimated 1,000 English soldiers in Chartres, France. The storm and the devastation it caused also played a part in the Hundred Years’ War between England and France.
AAAAaaaaannnnnnndddddd......a graph:
The semi-famous Anita Hill gave the commencement speech at Wesleyan this year. She was the replacement for David Handler, a novelist recently exposed as a man of "microaggressions." It was clear immediately why she was available. She mispronounced the school's name as well as the town. She then spent the rest of her time praising the students for their undescribed crucial social action. Insipid comes to mind. But I may be a poor judge here. For example, I cringed when she called for the praise of the student "heroes and sheroes."
A new study published in JAMA Network Open shows that in 2016, one in 65 deaths in the US involved opioids and that among younger adults, “that number skyrocketed to one in five.” The paper used data from the CDC’s WONDER database, which tracks mortality data and causes of death in the US. According to the study, in 2016, “opioids were involved in 28,496 deaths,” and “more than 8,400 of these occurred among adults between the ages of 25 and 34, a number high enough to mean that 20% of all deaths in this age group in 2016 involved opioids.”
Atavism:
- reversion to an earlier type; throwback.
- Biology. a. the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations. b. an individual embodying such a reversion.
The Latin noun behind the English noun atavism is atavus “great-great-great grandfather; ancestor.” Atavus is formed from atta “daddy,” a nursery word widespread in Indo-European languages, e.g., Greek átta “daddy,” and the possibly Gothic proper name Attila “little father, daddy.” The second element, avus “(maternal) grandfather,” also has cognates in other Indo-European languages, e.g., Old Prussian (an extinct Baltic language related to Latvian and Lithuanian) awis “uncle,” and, very familiar in English, those Scottish and Irish surnames beginning with “ O’,” e.g., O’Connor “descended from Connor”). The Celtic “ O’ ” comes from Irish ó “grandson,” from early Irish aue, and appearing as avi “descendant of” in ogham (an alphabet used in archaic Irish inscriptions from about the 5th century). Atavism entered English in the 19th century.
Attila?
A word on the rise as we see more references to tribalism.
What was....“Black Monday” in 1360?
Russia vetoed the US resolution to create new expert body to determine responsibility for Syria chemical weapons attacks. Next they'll say they were just trying to protect Britain's reputation.
My inability with remembering names came full circle when the closer for Pittsburgh was announced as named Vazquez when I thought he was Rivero. Felipe Vazquez has legally changed his surname to match that of his sister, Prescilla. He was known as Felipe Rivero. "The pitcher formerly known as Rivero."
Have two democracies ever fought a major was against one another?
Russian efforts to interfere with US elections, which go back at least to 1984, when the KGB secretly campaigned against Ronald Reagan’s re-election. Just as they did during the 2016 election, the Russians spread all kinds of false stories, including the idea the CIA was plotting to give nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa.
The outrage is quite specific: It is despair over Hilary, not the threat to the nation, that moves these people.
The targets of a new federal probe into possible antitrust violations related to early-decision college admissions include Wesleyan University, Middlebury College and Pomona College, as well as at least four other highly selective liberal-arts schools.
In a socialist economy, the planner lacks a means for obtaining information on what individuals want. But he could find out by following free market techniques. Conversely, a free market economy has no concept of what "society" wants. How would we know what "society" wants, by listening to the beating heart of the dialectic?
A study in Science suggests that there may be a lot more Nitrogen--and its CO2 binding ability--than has been known.
Tierney had an interesting take on the impact of politics on science in a recent interview with Stossel. "People talk about this Republican war on science, but if you look around, my question is, where are the casualties? What scientists lost their jobs?" asks Tierney. "I can't find examples where the right wing stopped the progress of science, whereas you can look on the left and you see so many areas that are taboo to research." He gives examples like creationism and stem cell research which, while opposed by some "conservatives," have had no practical impact on the science of either. But IQ research, gender research, GMO research and DDT research have been stopped cold by the Left.
Around 25 percent of U.S. K-12 schools are private, while about 10 percent of schooled children attend private schools.
It is curious that more people do not home school if they are afraid of school violence.
A program moving through the medical system is "The Quality Payment Program," known for some reason as MACRA. This measures "quality," cost and "improvement activities" and with grades in each of these areas, adjusts payments to medical providers. There are some remarkable notions in it but the main one is that the grades, while collected now, are not announced until they go into effect in two years. This means that many offices will be told in two years that their payments have changed. And the system is closed, that is zero-sum. That is the equivalent of cost control, a prelude to shortages in any economic system.
This is reminiscent of the strange "pay only the top 90%" idea that shows up every so often. You can not pay the top 90% very long because, after a while you end up with 90% of very few.
A Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 65% of Republicans favored Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs.
A study shows first-born children become National Merit Scholarship finalists more often than their multiple siblings combined. Data from the U.S., Germany and Britain show first-borns' average IQ is higher than their later-born siblings' average IQ. Such outcomes challenge those who believe heredity or environment is the dominant factor in academic performance. Moreover, if there is not equality among people born to the same parents and living under the same roof, why should equality of outcomes be expected under other conditions? (Williams reviewing Sowell's new book)
This, of course, is so obvious and compelling an observation it simply must be ignored.
From a letter to the nyt:
Americans produce 31.5 percent of the world’s output — including food and pharmaceuticals exported to foreign countries. What’s so obnoxious?"
This is an interesting point. Many, especially the self-appointed cultural and political elite, have an aesthetic objection to the U.S.. They are offended by the rest of us. And, by the way, are mystified when a large percentage of us get miffed and vote against their wishes.
Every day, 11 teenagers die because they were texting while driving.
Excluding most suicides, at least 15,549 people were killed by guns in the United States in 2017.So, where would a wise culture place its efforts to reduce the deaths of children and adults?
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40,000 years ago, everything began to change in what, anthropologically speaking, amounts to an eye-blink of time. Cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, mammoths, rhinos, lions, leopards, dholes … fierce as they were, they all vanished from the forests and steppes of Eurasia.
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On so-called “Black Monday” in 1360, a hail storm killed an estimated 1,000 English soldiers in Chartres, France. The storm and the devastation it caused also played a part in the Hundred Years’ War between England and France.
AAAAaaaaannnnnnndddddd......a graph:
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