I wrote so much about desire I felt full. Soft mouths created the most peace. My eye wandered. Fortune found fog-filtered light. There was myth in all that abstraction. Routine became ritualized as aggressive struggle. I was a temple of meat, ...
…Dr. Bitzer, aprofessorof electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, began developing PLATO in 1960 as a tool for educators to create interactive, individualized coursework. It swiftly evolved into “a culture, both physical and online,” Mr. Dear wrote, “with its own ...
And as Daniel Schulman and James Ridgeway wrote in a scathing article, “The Highwaymen,” in January 2007, “Many similar deals are now on the horizon, and MIG and Cintra are often part of them. So is Goldman Sachs, the huge Wall Street firm that has played a remarkable role advising ...
But astronomers who study the sky at infrared wavelengths were sniffing around the same cosmic target, he wrote. Balick and Brown did eventually win the race, receiving the credit for Sagittarius A*, pronounced "Sagittarius A-star," the supermassive black hole found at the center of the Milky...
Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner in 1814 after witnessing a British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed an executive order designating it as the national anthem. An act formally making it so was passed by Cong...
"Macron is the only glue that holds his En Marche movement together, and the further his political fortunes sink as the time for his re-election approaches, the greater the danger that things come unstuck," analysts wrote at the Eurointelligence blog. ...
You may remember I started in 2014 and then, as we headed off on our 8-month European tour, I wrote every day. Every day! And then I went down to twice a week, then once and, more recently, when I can pull it together. Now is one of those times. It’s not that not a lot...
clark wrote in a text to pokora. “and if i take the plea 3½. either way fuck them. they keep trying to get me to plea.” “they roof you if you fail at trial,” pokora warned. “my only concern is to educate you a bit about what it will be like. because it’s a ...
You wrote earlier,”This evidence can be supplemented with arguments against infinities formed by successive addition (IE I can’t reach an infinitely old universe if I’m forced to age it in discrete increments), etc.” That is only true if you insist the Universe began to exist. There is...
I loved the way that G. Willow Wilson wrote Kamala Khan’s character as Kamala is shown as being a spunky girl who wants to be a superhero, but she is not sure of what kind of superhero she should be and I loved the fact that this issue is explored and how it affects Kamala throug...