As I see it, the question was both crucial and contradictory. Several audience members did describe volunteering in ways they found effective and comfortable: serving food in the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, participating in “People and Stories,” and combining a passion with outreach by coaching s...
But for those who (for whatever bizarre reasons) value the lives of lions above the lives of actual people – it should be pointed out that the best way to protect lions would be to assign property rights in them to private individuals, who would thus be incentivized to properly protect th...
but whom had none of the wealth of this nation they were so vital a part of its building.“Give them all 40 acres and a mule.”First understand that very few freed Slaves actually received 40 acres and a mule… but let’s say they did. They had no money to buy seed. If they...
Viewed from this perspective, the problem isn’t that ecology isn’t becoming more important, it’s that to a large proportion of the people on the planet (increasing in both absolute and relative terms) it is becoming less obviously relevant. We recognise this phenomenon in issues such aspla...
generally. I remember going around to other people in the unit with that issue in my hand saying,“See?! This is why they’re so pissed at us! It’s not anything that we did – we just succeeded at modern stuff, and they didn’t!”Yes, it all made sense to me then. Still does...
Greek slave(奴隶)traders traded salt for slaves. African traders crossed the Sahara Desert to trade for gold. Roman soldiers were even paid with salt. This is where the word salary(薪水)comes from. Today, people still use the expression "worth one's salt". It sho...
In the U.S., theShirley Plantationin Virginia is an ongoing reminder of the history of slavery. First founded in 1613, business actually began in 1638—and as many as 90 slaves were under indentured labor on the estate growing tobacco. ...
“polymorphic” serum proteins. These are proteins that show small genetic differences from person to person in the amino acid sequence, and may be recognized as foreign to the body of the recipient after a transfusion. Blumberg’s co-worker, Harvey Alter, did indeed discover a new antigen in...
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aDr. Lori Feldman-Winter: It was the popular thing, the thing that wealthy women did. So it was sort of this freedom to not have to breastfeed, and that was a cultural issue that then drove many African American women away from breastfeeding, that that was something that the slaves of...