Has anybody ever been in a business meeting and had someone stop and call his dad?
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Only 3 colleges dropped mandates from last week to this week leaving us with 101 colleges still mandating COVID vaccines for fall.
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At 440GW, the amount of new renewable electricity generation capacity (mainly solar) added this year will, for the first time, apparently be greater than total global nuclear generation capacity (413 GW).
In her recent book, Babel, the youthful, wonderfully talented, nascent intellectual, and activist R.F. Kuang writes about colonialism in a time of magic. The magic is generated and directed by the subtle tension between the definition and the etymology of words. It's a fun, clever idea ...so, with some prodding, the Word of the Day is back.
Amanuensis: n: 1. a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary.
Amanuensis can be traced to the Latin phrase servus ā manū meaning "slave at hand." It entered English in the early 1600s. Should the word be banned because of its origin?
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All Meetings are Weapons of Mass Destruction
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