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| 205fe2d | Newton had invented the calculus, which was expressed in the language of "differential equations," which describe how objects smoothly undergo infinitesimal changes in space and time. The motion of ocean waves, fluids, gases, and cannon balls could all be expressed in the language of differential equations. Maxwell set out with a clear goal, to express the revolutionary findings of Faraday and his force fields through precise differential e.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| fc3fca2 | One reason why childhood lasts so long is because there is so much subtle information to absorb about human society and the natural world. | Michio Kaku | ||
| e4a1221 | The point is: whenever there is a conflict between modern technology and the desires of our primitive ancestors, these primitive desires win each time. That's the Cave Man Principle. | Michio Kaku | ||
| af469d8 | The olfactory sensors of dogs, he said, had evolved over millions of years to be able to detect a handful of molecules, and that kind of sensitivity is extremely difficult to match, even with our most finely tuned sensors. It's likely that we will continue to rely on dogs at airports for the foreseeable future. | Michio Kaku | ||
| a3e1308 | An even more advanced form of uploading your mind into a computer was envisioned by computer scientist Hans Moravec. When I interviewed him, he claimed that his method of uploading the human mind could even be done without losing consciousness. First you would be placed on a hospital gurney, next to a robot. Then a surgeon would take individual neurons from your brain and create a duplicate of these neurons (made of transistors) inside the .. | Michio Kaku | ||
| a2ca5f8 | Riemann concluded that electricity, magnetism, and gravity are caused by the crumpling of our three-dimensional universe in the unseen fourth dimension. Thus a "force" has no independent life of its own; it is only the apparent effect caused by the distortion of geometry. By introducing the fourth spatial dimension, Riemann accidentally stumbled on what would become one of the dominant themes in modern theoretical physics, that the laws of .. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 7e64fc7 | First is Epsilon, which equals 0.007, which is the relative amount of hydrogen that converts to helium via fusion in the big bang. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 42392d8 | It's easy to imagine that, in the future, telepathy and telekinesis will be the norm; we will interact with machines by sheer thought. Our mind will be able to turn on the lights, activate the internet, dictate letters, play video games, communicate with friends, call for a car, purchase merchandise, conjure any movie-all just by thinking. Astronauts of the future may use the power of their minds to pilot their spaceships or explore distant.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| bf12413 | Social animals, on the other hand, are more intelligent than those with just a reptilian brain. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 5dea242 | But if electrons can exist in parallel states hovering between existence and nonexistence, then why can't the universe? After all, at one point the universe was smaller than an electron. Once we introduce the possibility of applying the quantum principle to the universe, we are forced to consider parallel universes. | Michio Kaku | ||
| d2a5de6 | This solves a long-standing mystery in cosmology. Our bodies are made of heavy elements beyond iron, but our sun is not hot enough to forge them. If the earth and the atoms of our bodies were originally from the same gas cloud, then where did the heavy elements of our bodies come from? The conclusion is inescapable: the heavy elements in our bodies were synthesized in a supernova that blew up before our sun was created. In other words, a na.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| f8f260b | In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron. | Michio Kaku | ||
| ebfba67 | Margaret Geller, a professor at Harvard University, said, "I guess my view of life is that you live your life and it's short. The thing is to have as rich an experience as you possibly can. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to do something creative. I try to educate people." | Michio Kaku | ||
| 4914f3f | On the one hand, it was nice to have someone who was concerned about you. But on the other hand, you couldn't ever feel truly independent. Marriage was a trade-off. You gave up some things and you gained others. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 3461157 | NORMAN'S EGG SALAD 4 cups peeled and chopped hard-boiled eggs.*** (That's about a dozen extra large eggs--measure after chopping) 1/2 cup crumbled cooked bacon (make your own or use real crumbled bacon from a can--I used Hormel Premium Real Crumbled Bacon) 1 Tablespoon chopped parsley (it's better if it's fresh, but you can use dried parsley flakes if you don't have fresh on hand) 1/4 cup grated carrots (for color and a bit of sweetness) 4 .. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| c1ab4ca | BONNIE BROWNIE COOKIE BARS Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., rack in the middle position. 4 one-ounce squares semi-sweet chocolate (or 3/4 cup chocolate chips) 3/4 cup butter (one and a half sticks) 1 1/2 cups white (granulated) sugar 3 beaten eggs (just whip them up in a glass with a fork) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup flour (pack it down in the cup when you measure it) 1/2 cup chopped cashews 1/2 cup chopped butterscotch chips 1/2 cup .. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 801b2fd | Good Friends are like sunshine. A day is gloomy without them. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| e6deb7b | SHRIMP LOUIE SPREAD Hannah's Note: This is best served well chilled with a basket of crackers on the side. 8 ounces softened cream cheese 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1/4 cup chili sauce (I used Heinz) 1 Tablespoon horseradish (I used Silver Springs) 1/8 teaspoon pepper 6 green onions 2 cups finely chopped cooked salad shrimp*** (measure AFTER chopping) Salt to taste Mix the cream cheese with the mayonnaise. Add the chili sauce, horseradish, and pe.. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| f59b47a | There was no greater gift than making someone laugh. People who laughed were happy. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| a777f50 | TICKLED PINK LEMONADE COOKIES Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., rack in the middle position. Hannah's 1st Note: This recipe is from Lisa's Aunt Nancy. It's a real favorite down at The Cookie Jar because the cookies are different, delicious, and very pretty. 1/2 cup salted, softened butter (1 stick, 4 ounces, 1/4 pound) (do not substitute) 1/2 cup white (granulated) sugar 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 large egg, .. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 5de261c | There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 522e123 | FETTUCCINI "PORCINI" (Australian Fettuccini) Trudi's 1st Note: We just returned from a trip to Australia. This is my version of a recipe we experienced in Sydney. It's easy to make and a wonderful flavor. For the Pasta: Prepare a package of your favorite brand fettuccini pasta as instructed on the package. Use the size that serves 4. When the pasta is cooked, drain it, give it a stir to keep it from sticking together, cover it loosely with .. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| a79b790 | TIO TITO'S SUBLIME LIME BAR COOKIES Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., rack in the middle position. 1/2 cup finely-chopped coconut (measure after chopping--pack it down when you measure it) 1 cup cold salted butter (2 sticks, 8 ounces, 1/2 pound) 1/2 cup powdered (confectioners) sugar (no need to sift unless it's got big lumps) 2 cups all-purpose flour (pack it down when you measure it) 4 beaten eggs (just whip them up with a fork) 2 cups.. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 93c67db | STUFFIN' MUFFINS Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., rack in the middle position. 4 ounces salted butter (1 stick, 8 Tablespoons, 1/4 pound) 1/2 cup finely chopped onion (you can buy this chopped or chop it yourself) 1/2 cup finely chopped celery 1/2 cup chopped apple (core, but do not peel before chopping) 1 teaspoon powdered sage 1 teaspoon powdered thyme 1 teaspoon ground oregano 8 cups herb stuffing (the kind in cubes that you buy in th.. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| b6d6414 | Make sure you wear something appropriate, dear. You never know who you'll run into and it's always smart to look your best. | fluke hannah-swensen joanne mystery | Joanne Fluke | |
| d7f8f19 | GRAHAM CRACKER CAKE Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., rack in the middle position. 1/2 cup salted butter, softened (1 stick, 4 ounces, 1/4 pound) 3/4 cup white (granulated) sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 and 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs 1 cup whole milk 1 cup chopped nuts (measure after chopping--I used walnuts) 8 and 3/4 ounce can crushed pineapple WITH juice 1/4 cup whi.. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 9e69db1 | If the goal of feminism is to end patriarchy and gender-based oppression, then transgender politics supplies us one of the most important perspectives from which to view - and challenge - binary gender and gender-based oppression. As mentioned in previous chapters, if no clear distinction exists between "male" and "female," it becomes impossible to oppress people according to their gender. If we have no sole criterion for determining who is.. | transgender | Shiri Eisner | |
| e5001ed | Minority world is a term denoting the geographical areas and countries usually imagined as the "West" (west of what?). It corresponds with the term majority world, which comes to replace the use of the problematic term "third world." It allows us to keep in mind that, while minority-world thinkers have been busy pathologizing sex, gender, and desire, many majority-world societies have long had mainstream, socially acceptable patterns of pra.. | Shiri Eisner | ||
| 81d34cf | bisexuality destabilizes the clear-cut border between gay and straight, symbolizing anxiety of the invasion of queerness into straight populations. | Shiri Eisner | ||
| 55172a9 | There's a certain kind of rain that falls only in comics, a thick, persistent drizzle, much heavier than normal water, that bounces off whatever it hits, dripping from fedoras, running slowly down windowpanes and reflecting the doom in bad men's hearts. It's called an "eisnershpritz," and it's named after the late Will Eisner, one of the preeminent stylists of twentieth-century comics, who never drew a foreboding scene that couldn't be made.. | Douglas Wolk | ||
| 750d40e | Most crimes and misdemeanors by slaves were dealt with by their masters; they could even hang a slave if he killed another slave, but that would have been like throwing money down a well after the slave had already thrown the first load of money down, as William Robbins once told Skiffington. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 91bf53e | The influence of the Pre-Raphaelites was felt less through their paintings than through a book, The Poems of Tennyson, edited by Moxon and wonderfully illustrated by Rossetti and Millais. The influence on Maeterlinck stems less from the poems themselves than from the illustrations. The revival of illustrated books in the last two years of the century derives from this Tennyson, the books printed at William Morris' press, the albums of Walte.. | Philippe Jullian | ||
| d1b2afb | American natives were thought to be a simple, malleable people who, once they came to understand the benefits of European faith and civilization, would embrace them. | Landon Y. Jones | ||
| 2112903 | There was once upon a time a census officer who had to record the names of all householders in a certain Welsh village. The first that he questioned was called William Williams; so were the second, third, fourth.... At last he said to himself: 'This is tedious; evidently they are all called William Williams. I shall put them down so and take a holiday'. But he was wrong; there was just one whose name was John Jones. This shows that we may g.. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 388c5b7 | I wonder if I'm being disloyal, if being with Didier means I'm forgetting about Jones. But every time I go in a drain, or past a church, I think of him. Every time I see a can of Coke, I think of Jones. And don't even start me on how I feel when I see department-store Santas. A girl doesn't forget a guy like Jones in a big hurry. Even ow, when none of us are front-page news any longer, he's always in my head. My name is Dodie. Doe - as i.. | dodie jones love | Gabrielle Williams | |
| ed207eb | MERCUTIO: Thou art like one of those fellows that when he enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword upon the table and says "God send me no need of thee!" and by the operation of the second cup draws it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need. BENVOLIO: Am I like such a fellow? MERCUTIO: Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved. BENVOLIO: And wh.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| bae53ef | It takes great faith in Easter, particularly faith in the gift of the Holy Spirit, to be honest with our people that we have not a clue to the meaning of some biblical passage, or that we have no sense of a satisfying ending for a sermon, or that we are unsure of precisely what the congregation ought to do after hearing a given text. The most ethically dangerous time within a sermon is toward the end of the sermon, when we move from proclam.. | preaching sermons | William H. Willimon | |
| d822f8a | In Cootamundra the station was quiet. Tina looked around but before she could see anyone she saw the poster on the wall. Lockie saw it too. It stopped him mid-stride. It was surrounded by For Sale notices and babysitting flyers.Over the months it could have become covered over as hope was lost but it hadn't been. Right in the middle, with some clear space around it, was the colour poster of a blue-eyed boy. His head was covered in golden cu.. | Nicole Trope | ||
| fb7a683 | The big firms that survive will do so by turning themselves into bottom-up evolvers. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 5f3ae05 | TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny. | cells genes genetics genome | Matt Ridley | |
| 27aafa2 | The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation - that is to say, in crime.' Perhaps we have left all that behind, and the state is now evolving steadily towards benign and gentle virtue. Perhaps not. Tudor | Matt Ridley | ||
| 123499c | South Korea and Ghana had the same income per capita in the 1950s. One received far more aid, advice and political intervention than the other. It is now by far the poorer of the two. In general, Asian economies grew their way out of poverty in the late twentieth century, while African economies failed to be aided out of poverty. Trade, not aid, proved the best way to achieve an increase in prosperity. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 9cfba6d | In Bletchley, in Britain, in 1943, in total secrecy, a brilliant mathematician, Alan Turing, is seeing his most incisive insight turned into physical reality. Turing has argued that numbers can compute numbers. To crack the Lorentz encoding machines of the German forces, a computer called Colossus has been built based on Turing's principles: it is a universal machine with a modifiable stored program. Nobody realises it at the time, least of.. | Matt Ridley | ||
| cb86d9a | What was the secret that the serpent told Eve? That she could eat a certain fruit? Pah. That was a euphemism. The fruit was carnal knowledge and everybody from Thomas Aquinas to Milton knew it. | Matt Ridley |