The message sent is this: You, young, black, female child, are not worth the time and energy it will take me to learn to spell and pronounce your name.”This, by the way, is how you say Quvenzhané:This issue goes beyond names rooted in cultures unfamiliar to the speaker. Whatever ...
For, the Indian standard for ‘enlightenment’ has always included a resolution of gender duality expressed as a transcendence ofscientia sexualisdesires. But, the modern neo-advaitateachers are, typically, within thescientiaspell and skip over the profound limitations withinscientia sexualisrealm of sex...
Pluto was treated for years as an oddity among planets for a variety of reasons, but its status as a planet was never controversial until other objects reminiscent of Pluto but in no danger of themselves being called planets began to accumulate in the astronomy world. It is smaller than the ...
During a co-op game, you won’t be able to use your mount or the fast travel system. If you or your partner are killed, or if you kill a boss, you will have to invite them back. When you join a player in their game as a co-op partner, you’ll have access to yo...
October 20: MOTION, GENIUS, FLINCH, MANNER, ODDITY, AFFIRM, NOTHING IN COMMON October 19: GOING, TINGE, DETACH, FIASCO, FETCHING DOG October 18: FLUID, COUCH, UPROOT, SWITCH, OUT OF THIS WORLD October 17: TIGHT, FRONT, GRATIS, OBLONG, NOTHING OF (THE) SORT October 16: NOVEL, QUALM,...
Nature has a way of dispelling the great conceit that all her ways can be captured within the frame of a single scientist’s perspective. Humility makes scientists receptive to this lesson. Intellectually virtuous scientists are concerned to impart knowledge as well as to obtain it. ...
lelio, currently on netflix. the wonder is an elegant oddity of a film—a slow-burn thriller set in 19th-century ireland with postmodern casing—and yet it has found devoted admirers. in it, pugh plays a nurse attempting to get to the bottom of a mystery, seen by some as a miracle....
Another band steeped in the artistry of performance wasSparks. Brothers Ron and Russell Mael relocated from America’s West Coast to the UK in 1973, and the following year’sKimono My Housealbum was an ambitious, eccentric oddity that spawned a sizable hit with “This Town Ain’t Big Enough...
This might seem odd, and this oddity might be taken to give the bootstrapping objection much of its force. On the other hand, second-order reasons don’t capture considerations that favour or disfavour options, but rather tell us which of these considerations is relevant to the agent. So ...
This might seem odd, and this oddity might be taken to give the bootstrapping objection much of its force. On the other hand, second- order reasons don't capture considerations that favour or disfavour options, but rather tell us which of these considerations is relevant to the agent. So ...