Last week,two 5th-grade girls addressed the Atlanta school board, asking that the board change the dress code so that girls might be allowed to wear skintight leggings, which are currently prohibited unless girls are wearing a skirt or shorts over the leggings. The board will announce its dec...
Today many people treat uniformitarian geology as gospel. Things on earth (and, by extension, in the universe and in biological systems) changed slowly over long periods of time. Twain in his inimitable style debunks the theory in hisLife on the Mississippi.Enjoy. From CHAPTER 17 “Cut-offs ...
The remains of ancient speech are like strata deposited in bygone ages, telling of the forms of life then existing, and of the circumstances which determined or affected them; while words are as rolled pebbles, relics of yet more ancient formations, or as fossils, whose grade indicates the pr...
The theory of evolution has often been perverted so as to indicate that what is merely animal and brutal must gain the ascendancy. The contrary seems to me to be the case, for in man it is the spirit, and not the body, which is the deciding factor. ...
"ActionIt occurs in the celebrated formula E = hv of quantum theory as the constant h, Max Planck's "quantum of actiont', where E stands for Itenergy" and v for "frequency". 5 Hamilton's principle, as· it is now called - especially by the Germans elayed an important role in ...
My theory, then, is that governments relish plunges and would only intervene if done with great fanfare to take credit. Kevin Eilian writes: Sometimes "plunge protection" can take the form of a wink and a nod, like the 1998 Russian meltdown/LTC deal. The knight gathered together the ...
A game is not an inert set of algorithms; it is a shared experience existing somewhere between the designers and the players. Unless a game is constantly exposed to a neutral audience, its design is only theory. Games should have as much pre-release public testing as possible; the designer...
Art will, I hope, forgive me for making him guilty by association in presenting the Stefan theory: In the decades that straddle the First World War, the U.S. became - for the first time in its history - a country with customers who were overseas. If you look at the histories of the...
The theory of probabilities is at bottom only common sense reduced to calculation; it makes us appreciate with exactitude what reasonable minds feel by a sort of instinct, often without being able to account for it. … It is remarkable that [this] science, which originated in the consideration...
The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the chances of truth and error and grade each in its proper position along the line joining absolute truth and absolute error. ...