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| c3e9ab0 | When were in the prence of another person, there Is always a masks, even if that mask is our face. There is no escaping it. And so the vast majority of what we say to each other, whether it is to our spouses, our family, our confessor, or perfect strangers, amounts to chitchat all the same. Or at best, a crack audition for that juiciest of all parts were literally dying to play: ourselves.. | Norah Vincent | ||
| 95d0371 | Men's healing is in women's interest, though for women that healing will mean accepting on some level not only that men are--here is the dreaded word--victims of the patriarchy, too, but (and this will be the hardest part to swallow) that women have been codeterminers in the system, at times as invested and active as men themselves in making and keeping men in their role. | Norah Vincent | ||
| d757a59 | It's hard to position a movement when the territory is so intimate. Men, after all, can't exactly gather on the White House lawn and demonstrate for their right to cry in public or claim their lost fathers' love. These, it would seem, are matters for the therapist's couch. Private matters. | Norah Vincent | ||
| 6a87aac | And yet, she squints disapprovingly, the wretched intellect at work. Always the masculine mind interferes, sucking the magic out of sounds and shutting it into words. The very word for this, the academic word--onomatopoeia--sounds like what it is, a chained sprite falling down the stairs. | Norah Vincent | ||
| b862a94 | So, the image to start. The perception of the world as it is, the phantasm, the flare of the visionary idea is flattened to a page by the male intellect. Controlled, categorized, c-a-t-a-l-o-g-u-e-d. The ethereal is quashed. Address, that beautiful oration announcing itself, becomes a dress feebly worn, becomes a picture of a dress in a catalogue. | Norah Vincent | ||
| 23ca382 | Ditto for the stereotype about men monopolizing conversations. Like Sasha, many of my dates--even the more passive ones--did most of the talking. I listened to them talk literally for hours about the most minute, mind-numbing details of their personal lives; men they were still in love with, men they had divorced, roommates and coworkers they hated, childhoods they were loath to remember, yet somehow found the energy to recount ad nauseam. .. | Norah Vincent | ||
| 7c935e9 | I was boring myself. That's the worst part of a bad date. It makes you feel like a toad, and you keep telling yourself, "I know I'm more fun than this, and I know that when I came into this cafe I wasn't in despair about the human condition." | Norah Vincent | ||
| ecd529b | If women are trapped by the whore/Madonna complex, men are equally trapped by this warrior/minstrel complex. What's more, while a man is expected to be modern, that is, to support feminism in all its particulars, to see and treat women as equals in every respect, he is on the other hand often still expected to be traditional at the same time, to treat a lady like a lady, to lead the way and pick up the check. | Norah Vincent | ||
| 5a2c12b | An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. | Ayn Rand | ||
| ac38c82 | Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 2472b69 | The E and H waves always travel together: neither can exist alone. They vibrate at right angles to each other and are always in phase. | Basil Mahon | ||
| 617b471 | His system of equations worked with jewelled precision. Its construction had been an immense feat of sustained creative effort in three stages spread over 9 years. The whole route was paved with inspired innovations but from a historical perspective one crucial step stands out-the idea that electric currents exist in empty space. It is these displacement currents that give the equations their symmetry and make the waves possible. Without th.. | Basil Mahon | ||
| e8a0b42 | He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to a proper understanding of thermodynamics and to the use of probability distributions in quantum mechanics. If he had done nothing else, this breakthrough would have been enough to put him among the world's great scientists. | Basil Mahon | ||
| d9cfe85 | In fact, confusion over units was not confined to electricity and magnetism. When two people spoke of a quantity like 'force' or 'power' you could not be sure that they meant the same thing. James saw a prime opportunity to straighten out the muddle. He went beyond his brief for the paper and proposed a systematic way of defining all physical quantities in terms of mass, length and time, symbolised by the letters M, L and T. For example, ve.. | Basil Mahon | ||
| b06d3f9 | It sometimes happens that mathematical methods conceived in the abstract turn out later to be so well suited to a particular application that they might have been written especially for it. When he was wrestling with the problems of general relativity, Albert Einstein came across the tensor calculus, invented 50 years earlier by Curbastro Gregorio Ricci and Tullio Levi-Civita, and saw that it was exactly what he needed. James enlisted a met.. | Basil Mahon | ||
| ddeaa61 | The new law that he predicted seemed to defy common sense. It was that the viscosity of a gas-the internal frictional that causes drag on a body moved through it-is independent of its pressure. One might expect a more compressed gas to exert a greater drag; even James was surprised at first that the theory said otherwise. But further thought showed that, at higher pressure, the effect on a moving body of being surrounded by more molecules i.. | Basil Mahon | ||
| f2e2a4e | Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of Today a connected portion of the work of life, and an embodiment of the work of Eternity ... | Basil Mahon | ||
| 8559689 | Maxwell was not only one of the most brilliant and influential scientists who ever lived but an altogether fine and engaging man. And | Basil Mahon | ||
| 5dc5fa8 | Most creative scientists, even the most prolific and versatile, produce one theory per subject. When that theory has run its course they move on to another topic, or stop inventing. Maxwell was unique in the way he could could return to a topic and imbue it with new life by taking an entirely fresh approach. To the end of his life there was not one subject in which his well of inventiveness showed signs of exhaustion. With each new insight .. | Basil Mahon | ||
| d93513d | His electromagnetic theory embodied the notion that things we can measure directly, like mechanical force, are merely the outward manifestations of deeper processes, involving entities like electric field strength, which are beyond our powers of visualisation. This | Basil Mahon | ||
| b052d67 | I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonise his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society. For it is in the nature of science, especially those branches of science which are spreading into unknown regions, to be continually changing e. | Basil Mahon | ||
| 6c6de9d | Without Rama, this is not Ayodhya. | Ayodhya | ||
| b0b9ae2 | Not even a bird shall be able to enter Ayodhya. | Ayodhya | ||
| c31319c | Not even a bird shall be able to enter Ayodhya. ... We will crush them. | Ayodhya dispute | ||
| 7dcbf02 | In the Treatise James made an important new prediction from his electromagnetic theory-that electromagnetic waves exert a radiation pressure. Bright sunlight, he calculated, presses on the earth's surface with a force of around 4 pounds per square mile, equivalen to 7 grams per hectare. This was too tiny a value to be observable in everyday life and its detection posed a challenge to experimenters. Eventually, in 1900, the Russian physicist.. | Basil Mahon | ||
| 61ecdff | Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon. | Douglas E. Richards | ||
| 8dc0783 | Leo Szilard, in 1929, showed that the very act of acquiring information about a system increases its entropy in proportion to the amount of information gathered. As the entropy increases, less of the system's total heat energy is available for doing work. To gather enough information to work the shutter effectively we would have to use up, or render inaccessible, an amount of energy at least equal to the work output of any machine that we c.. | Basil Mahon | ||
| ccfe491 | His faith was the guiding principle of his life but it was an intensely reflective personal faith which could not be contained within the rules of a sect. Institutional politics, whether of the church, the state or the university, was a topic that never engaged his interest. | Basil Mahon | ||
| 4916005 | First, electric charges attract or repel one another with a force inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them: unlike charges attract, like ones repel. Second, magnetic poles attract or repel one another in a similar way but always come in pairs: every north pole is yoked to a south pole7. Third, | Basil Mahon | ||
| 354a4a3 | little of the work of Faraday and others on electricity and magnetism had yet fed through to practical application. In short, science was a splendid hobby for a gentleman but a poor profession. | Basil Mahon | ||
| 52a2904 | Goodness knows what Maxwell would make of our current relish for watching people indulging in histrionic self-exposure on television. He would certainly have a wry smile at the irony of the fact that his own electromagnetic theory provides the means of bringing such unwholesome displays into our homes. | Basil Mahon | ||
| 3c78aa9 | I know the tendency of the human mind is to do anything rather than think. But mental labour is not thought, and those who have with labour acquired the habit of application, often find it much easier to get up a formula than to master a principle. | Basil Mahon | ||
| 718302a | Not even a bird shall be able to enter Ayodhya. ... We will crush them. | Ayodhya firing incident | ||
| c1c8560 | I won and I'm happy and that is it. | Ayrton Senna | ||
| f6e0753 | the Cup That Cheers | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 78e0f78 | Teach your boy to fly, and he will be safe from spears and antique rifles." "I don't want him to go to war at all!" "When it comes, you will have no choice. The only way to save him is to lift him above the crowd." | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| b9d5f32 | So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW, and | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| c5ab8b5 | He wept when they told him you were no longer allowed to see him. He WEPT. How much weeping have you done on his account, girl?" "I wake up screaming every night on his account." | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 38d88e1 | Follow them," said Goewin, "and listen." So he did." | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| e16fc74 | I mean, we are all in it together. None of us is innocent; none of us is alone." "You were both." | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 42e550a | Wait and hope, as I did while they took your arm off. I held my hand over your heart all through that final morning, so I could warn the surgeon of its faltering." "Did it falter?" "Not once. Nor will it falter now. Fly free, my brave one, my sunbird. Take back the sky. Do not be afraid." | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| e097dc5 | The Rosalie really did not want to go like the clappers and performed its usual consumptive drama every time we came to an uphill slope, coughing and gasping like a dying Dickens heroine, and finally just stopped--engine still gasping a bit but the car just stopped. Simply could not move forward up the hill. Choke full out but cylinders firing pathetically as though we were trying to make the poor thing run on nothing but air. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| a95f0a2 | Driving like a man is one of her few foibles. | driving foible mother womens-rights | Elizabeth Wein | |
| d731867 | Listening to the Rabbits talk about their operations was like watching a horror movie in a foreign language. You sort of hoped you'd misunderstood what was going on. And then when you figured out what was really going on, it was worse than you'd thought. | Elizabeth Wein |