"Muscle" originates from the Latin word for "little mouse," because physicians thought that muscles looked like little mice running under the skin. Did You Know? "Luftmensch," literally meaning "air person," is the Yiddish way of describing someone who is a bit of a dreamer. ...
Parents’ sexual orientation was indicated by the partners’ genders and names (lesbian condition: Kathrin and Anna; gay condition: Thomas and Alexander; heterosexual condition: Kathrin und Thomas) and their very intimate interaction (e.g., the partners were holding hands and kissed each other when...
Or sometimes, we just get busy. It’s not that we don’t want to spend time with god, it’s just that we’ve been distracted and exhausted, and like that friend that we’ve been meaning to spend time with, we need to put something on the calendar, or it won’t happen anytime ...
Every right and duty could be understood because the rules regulating each had their foundation in reason, in the nature and fitness of things; were adapted to the wants of our race, were addressed to the mind and to the heart; were like so many scraps of logic articulate with demonstration...
Coming to the question of life being found on other planets, Professor Haldane apologized for discoursing, as a mere biologist, on a subject on which we had been expecting a lecture by a physicist [J. D. Bernal]. He mentioned three hypotheses:(a) That life had a supernatural origin,(b...
representation of meaning and when the word is studied for its various “ways of signifying.” The spatial sign in the middle ages is the product of the mythology of static, determinate structure, of the totalizing containment that subsumed cultural forms into a Book. Its influence, ...
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ur food also has a philosophical underpinnngs (from theAyurveda) in terms of beingSattwic(originates from the word for true or truth),Rajasic(root israjmeaning royal)andTamasic(root is tamas meaning darkness).Tamasicfood is supposed to arouse basic insti...
Ayam Cemani (black chicken) is a rare local breed, originated from the Kedu Village, Temanggung city, Java Island (Indonesia). The name of this breed comes from the union of Indonesian words, “Ayam” meaning “chicken” and “Cemani” meaning “entirely black”. The origin of the Ayam Ce...
I venture to assert that the feelings one has when the beautiful symbolism of the infinitesimal calculus first gets a meaning, or when the delicate analysis of Fourier has been mastered, or while one follows Clerk Maxwell or Thomson into the strange world of electricity, now growing so rapidly...
The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Chuang Tzu As translated from the Chinese original by Burton Watson in The Complete Works...