“Watergate is water under the bridge.” Richard M. Nixon, September 1973. “Because of the greatness of the Shah, Iran is an island of stability in the Middle East.” Jimmy Carter, December 31, 1977. The Experts SPeak: A compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (1998)
“There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” Albert Einstein pronouncing on nuclear energy, 1932. The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (1998)
“There is not much demand for animal stories in the U.S.A.” The Dial Press rejecting George Orwell’s offer of the American rights to Animal Farm, 1944. “A period novel! About the Civil War! Who needs the Civil War now– who cares?” Herbert R. Mayes, turning down a prepublication offer to serialize Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone
Via Instapundit at Business Insider a “Beautiful Visualization Of Nobel Prizes By Country Since 1901. It is beautiful, isn’t it?Suggestions for further reading:Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Edward R. Tufte. Graphic Press, Cheshire, Connecticut. 1997.Sign, Image, Symbol. Gyorgy Kepes, ed. George Braziller, New York. 1966.The Great Books Foundation Set One Volume Four: Aristotle, The Federalist
The Semmelweis reflex or “Semmelweis effect” is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms. Or so say the folks at Semmelweis Society International. From The Timetables of American History (1981): 1848: Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis, Hung. physician, discovers the cause of puerperal fever;
This, Dear Friends, is why one does not rely solely on the World Wide Web for factual information. This is why one has books. I thought today would be a fine day to do a little reading at lunchtime and as I take some breaks from the ever-so-satisfying task of cleaning the workshop. And so
I had occasion to be on a University Campus this afternoon to attend a celebratory event. More on this event in the next post. While my camera & I were wandering around, I snapped a couple of pictures. EXHIBIT 1: From dictionary.com: de-lamp – no dictionary results Furthermore: cut [kuht] verb, cut, cut·ting, adjective, nounverb
This should really surprise regular readers. We are having company!One of the things I like to do when company’s coming is to slightly modify the crappy old book selection in the guest room’s colorful library. (Many books were chosen because of the color of the cover or spine– who can resist a book with orange
you may want to check this out: Mississippi Philosophical Association Meeting Program 2013Hosted by Mississippi State University Theme: Philosophy of Biology Schedule below the fold All talks will take place in 211 McCool. Box lunch, Registration and Coffee Breaks will take place in 223A Etheredge. Friday, February 8th 12:00-12:55 Box lunch, Registration [MPA Business Meeting
New Complete Book of Etiquette is titled, “The New Resident in Washington.” I am not making this up. Amy Vanderbilt’s New Complete Book of Etiquette: The Guide to Gracious Living (1967) If I were writing a book on etiquette– which I am certainly not qualified to do– it would not have occurred to me to
via Y’all Politics: Universities land federal grant to pursue energy efficiency Thanks to a grant from the United States Department of Energy, three public universities in Mississippi will be sharing funding to support energy efficient facility improvements in order to cut energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020. An announcement came Wednesday at three succeeding
Chris (one of our guests for Independence Day) and Missy weigh 256 pounds. Chris weighs 179 pounds. Alix (another guest) kept the official record and she & Mr. Big Food did the math. Before Chris fetched the bathroom scale, we all wrote down our guesses for what each dog weighed (we didn’t guess on Chris’
and the latest security updates to my computer. It’s after 8– well after our bedtime– and I’ve been trying to figure out why I couldn’t log on to blogger– i.e., access my blog– for hours. And it finally occurred to me that I should try to log on using the mi-fi, instead of my phone.
and back onto the bookshelf where they belong. Crappy old books which have something to say about tool safety. This is the 4th– AND BY GOD, FINAL– in a series of posts on the Department of Labor’s attempts to protect children on the farm. Here are the previous posts which include the relevant citations and
Citation information below By now you’ve heard about the little kid who walked to work carried her lunch to pre-school only to be forced to eat a school lunch because her mom did not pack a vegetable in her lunch (banana & fruit juice but no veggie). If you don’t know what I’m talking about,
Or something like that. It’s supposed to be “To your health” in Hungarian. But you know, I don’t know you. Or better said, I know some of you better than others. So, assuming the subject line is approximately correct– in a sort of gender-neutral, familial-neutral sense– some of the characters will change, depending on how
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