“comphet” may sound like a gen ed class you take your first year of college, it’s actually an abbreviation for “compulsory heterosexuality,” aka the idea that heterosexuality is the expected norm, says Rob
is a red wine made from a particular variety of grape called Pinot, which the hero of the movie loves. Here Pinot Noir is a metaphor for life, “the kiss of decay and mortality” refers to the process that the making of Pinot Noir must go through (“Kiss” here means a slight ...
An API, or application programming interface, is a set of rules and protocols that allows applications to exchange data, perform actions, and interact in a well-documented way. When a request is made—for a weather update, say—the API processes the request, executes the necessary actions, an...
The trans-Alaska pipeline runs 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) from the frozen oil fields of Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to the nearest ice-free port in Valdez. The 48-inch (1.2-meter) pipeline, which transports a slurry of crude oil and natural gas to the lower 48 states, is an en...
This is why the girls are known as ‘Porta Potties.’ Their mouth is a porta potty. A portable toilet. Now, these screenshots are mostly fakes, in the sense that the person asking the girls to go to Dubai is usually a troll.
Definition. Theprocess of loosening and turning the soilis called ploughing (tilling). Before sowing the seeds, it is necessary to loosen and turn the soil in the fields as to break it to the size of the grains which is done with the help of three main implements or tools to plough are...
However, the interpersonal versus intrapersonal dimension is central to our exploration of the power/effects of swearing (see also Vingerhoets et al., 2013). The research discussed in this section, then, may be broadly categorised as dealing with intrapersonal effects, such as cognition and ...
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The latter is probably due to recent advances in structural and functional neuroimaging techniques over the past 20 years leading to a growing role of these technologies in Earth-bound medicine. Additionally, the increasing interest in interplanetary missions adds to the importance to probe the ...
³Amoreelaborateversion of this paper is forthcomingas: When Maternity is PaidWork. Com-mercial GestationalSurrogacy at theTurn of theTwenty-first Century,in: EileenBoris, DorotheaHoehtker andSusanZimmermann (eds.):Women’sILO.Transnational Networks,Working Condi-tions,and Gender Equality,Geneva...