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| ed639c2 | But far from being a harmless source of fertilizer, dog feces is both an environmental contaminant (and is classified as such by the Environmental Protection Agency) and a source of pathogens that can infect people. Like human excreta, dog poo teems with pathogenic microbes, such as strains of E. coli, roundworms, and other parasites. One of the most common parasitic infections in Americans is the result of their exposure to dog feces. The .. | Sonia Shah | ||
| cf3be61 | Many of the institutions of modern society, after all, are designed to enhance our natural capacities for cooperation, by punishing non-cooperators and encouraging the rest of us to pursue even relatively mundane collective actions, like paying taxes and getting flu shots. And so, when pandemics unfold, it's not just because peculiarly aggressive pathogens have exploited passively oblivious victims or because we've inadvertently provided th.. | vaccines | Sonia Shah | |
| a7b1822 | A corrupt and dynastic political party is antithetical to the rule of law and to carefully crafted constitutional checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. A tendency towards autocracy and consequent institutional subversion is inevitable with a party thus configured. The result is a prime minister bereft of real power, subservient to the dynastic head and a mute spectator to the loot and plunder of the nation's resources; a president .. | Ram Jethmalani | ||
| 0f5fbe1 | a single opossum, through grooming, destroyed nearly six thousand ticks a week. | Sonia Shah | ||
| 125f266 | As avian diversity declined in the United States, specialist species like woodpeckers and rails disappeared, while generalist species like American robins and crows boomed. (Populations of American robins have grown by 50 to 100 percent over the past twenty-five years.)48 This reordering of the composition of the local bird population steadily increased the chances that the virus would reach a high enough concentration to spill over into hu.. | Sonia Shah | ||
| ab38d8a | Particular variants in our pathogen-recognition genes, which protected us from ancient epidemics, correlate with a range of autoimmune disorders, from diabetes and multiple sclerosis to lupus.27 | Sonia Shah | ||
| f03bd2a | When asked what good the trait does, synesthetes immediately answer, "It helps you remember." They do have measurably high memories," | Richard E. Cytowic | ||
| 3d29202 | From the doorway I looked back at the street. The car parked outside was | Tony Parsons | ||
| 6386676 | Human Remains Pouch. We don't call them body bags and they are not black, like the movies. This one was white with a long black zip. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 0d10a72 | from Bar Italia | Tony Parsons | ||
| 32cb83a | Love mans knowing when to let go. | Tony Parsons | ||
| ca073f9 | You know what the biggest lie in the world is?' 'Tell me.' 'That everything happens for a reason. It's not true. Some things are totally without reason. Some things - the things that hurt the most - are totally meaningless. Some things make no sense and will never make sense.' I | Tony Parsons | ||
| fa37c5a | There are a number of well and wearily trodden paths to a new man... Rather than catching up on your paperwork, you could squeeze in some 'best of a bad lot' power-flirting on the commute to work (and be gutted when, even though you didn't fancy them to begin with, ypur focus knocks you back). Maybe you're considering signing up for online dating or going to places where you should but absolutely never will, meet someone suitable? Since ove.. | Jennifer Cox | ||
| f91955b | On December 11, 1996 in a posting on the internet list WITCHNT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU, Dr Peter Freyd, husband of the Executive Directory of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, wrote: Since we all want to be open about any money we might have received from military-related sources, let me confess I, too, must go on record. Starting in 1998, I've been getting a lot of money from the U.S. Office of Naval Research. In 1968 I received a lot of money.. | false-memory-syndrome-foundation kingdon-of-iran | Colin A. Ross | |
| a7cf1cd | Undiagnosed DID patients received incorrect diagnoses of schizophrenia in 25% to 40% of cases in two large series (Putnam, 1989; Ross, 1989), while in one stores 12% and in the other 16% had received electroconvulsive therapy. | misdiagnosis schizophrenia | Colin A. Ross | |
| 7099536 | The main problem with the 'histronic behaviour' hypothesis, like the alternatives, is that it is unitary and simplistic, while the phenomena are complex and heterogeneous. When advanced as a sole and complete explanation, ''hysteria' is a vague and inadequate construct. ... "secondary gain and hysteria can occur as reactions to real events, real sociological problems, and real biomedical diseases, so the presence of these elements does not .. | histronic-behavior hysteria hysterical ritual-abuse satanic-ritual-abuse | Colin A. Ross | |
| 8c31cf2 | The media-contamination hypothesis usually focuses on the book Michelle Remembers (Smith and Pazder, 1980) and the movie Rosemary's Baby;. These images were in the popular culture for centuries before survivor memories started to surface in therapy; therefore, the media-contamination hypothesis fails to account for the time lag and cannot provide a full account of the phenomenona. | satanic-ritual-abuse trauma-memories | Colin A. Ross | |
| ce624d1 | Estabrooks himself a 32nd degree Mason. Although the Masons are not implicated as an organization in CIA and military mind control, connections in the network of doctors were maintained in part through high rank Masons. | human-rights-violations masonic masons military-mind-control mind-control | Colin A. Ross | |
| b495374 | Michael was silent. "Too often," I said, "technology evokes a sense of wonder instead of understanding, and I think this makes it a corrosive force which sometimes requires opposition." | Richard E. Cytowic | ||
| b8f6783 | but I always had an incredibly intense sense of smell. | Richard E. Cytowic | ||
| 6b3563e | People with synesthesia have their senses hooked together," I started to explain. "They can hear colors or feel sounds. Yours is-well, it looks like you taste shapes." | Richard E. Cytowic | ||
| 4570a74 | For example, the bulk of federal Medicare insurance for the elderly is spent keeping people alive in their last six months, trying to prevent what cannot be prevented. That many recipients of this intervention do not judge the quality of their life in those last months to be satisfactory is a dilemma for which we have no solution. | Richard E. Cytowic | ||
| 0a55781 | although what is probably common to all religions is nothing more than the claim that something more exists than what we factually receive through our senses. | Richard E. Cytowic | ||
| 2e2c058 | The only action we have to take is to decide whether we are going to stay closed or open up, accept experience as it is or rationalize it to death. This is what Joseph Campbell meant when he said that what we seek is not the meaning of life but the "experience of being alive." | Richard E. Cytowic | ||
| 315bd8d | Normal persons deprived of sensation progress from having mild to severe hallucinations, starting out with what looks very much like form constants (geometric patterns, mosaics, lines, rows of dots) and building to more developed, dream-like juxtapositions of perceptions the longer they remain in isolation. | Richard E. Cytowic | ||
| a00573b | Many of the Baptists and other thou-shalt-not fundamentalists around me insulated and distanced themselves from whatever opposed their world view. But Clark recognized the presence of evil, and immersed himself in the world while acknowledging its imperfections. | Richard E. Cytowic | ||
| 15f5c31 | En daarom, Michiel, laat je niet misleiden door de romantiek van de oorlog, de romantiek van heldenmoet, opoffering, spanning, avontuur. Oorlog betekent verwondingen, verdriet, gemarteld, gevangenissen, honger, ontberingen, onrecht. Niks romantisch aan. | Jan Terlouw | ||
| 8e5baeb | Is Dolan there?" "What's it to you?" "I want to talk to her." "Haven't seen her. You wanna know what I heard Krantz say?" "I'm not going to like this, am I?" "Krantz says you were probably in on it with that bastard, Pike. He says if he can tie you into it, maybe you and Pike can do the IV tango together." Williams" -- | Robert Crais | ||
| 1dfce05 | Neither they nor Warren Rochelle (' Dual Attractions', 1999) nor Chris West (' Queer Fears and Critical Orthodoxies', 2002) (who focuses on homosexuality) ground their critiques in the periods in which Heinlein was writing, the editors he was writing for, or the librarians who could decide whether books did or did not make it onto the shelves in a period in which libraries were only just starting to retreat from the position of major purcha.. | Farah Mendlesohn | ||
| d58611d | Whether readers loved or loathed a book, whether reading for pleasure or for criticism, there has been a repeated tendency to take the strongest character voice in a Heinlein novel as an authorial voice, as in Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), or in Time Enough for Love (1973); or to read a political system as either flawless and to be taken as a political rallying cry for libertarianism, as in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966), or as a .. | Farah Mendlesohn | ||
| 077de4f | Oddly, Leon Stover, in Robert A. Heinlein, one of the best close readers in other ways, comes away with the idea that Heinlein 'defends the traditional ethics of Christian civilisation' (p. 61) which is a hard argument to make given the amount of out-of-wedlock sex in his work and the satirisation of so much Christian practice in Stranger in a Strange Land and Job. | Farah Mendlesohn | ||
| a6232c6 | Increasingly-and mirroring what was happening in American politics-Heinlein would attract single-issue or single-novel admirers. Starship Troopers was just the first inkling of this. | Farah Mendlesohn | ||
| 15e7176 | It is not clear when cats became a 'thing' in science fiction but Heinlein made a significant contribution to their presence and to the construction of that presence. | Farah Mendlesohn | ||
| 78fc8be | The light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dismay. | depression melancholia mortality | Edward Gorey | |
| 8b6fbf9 | I tend to think life is pastiche: I'm not sure what it's a pastiche of - we haven't found out yet. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 799e843 | I know you read very widely. Almost like cultural foraging. | reading | Clifford Ross | |
| a7eb556 | You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives. | free-will | Edward Gorey | |
| 1c521ca | I wanted to have my own bookstore until I worked in one," [Edward Gorey] reflected in 1998. "Then I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones." | Mark Dery | ||
| 9dad69c | I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 6cd511a | Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 1b7fd4e | Only now are art critics, scholars of children's literature, historians of book-cover design and commercial illustration, and chroniclers of the gay experience in postwar America waking up to the fact that Gorey is a critically neglected genius. His consummately original vision--expressed in virtuosic illustrations and poetic texts but articulated with equal verve in book-jacket design, verse plays, puppet shows, and costumes and sets for b.. | Mark Dery | ||
| ec4f96c | Of course, from an absurdist perspective, deaths are a punch line: the good news is, you're born; the bad news is, you die. Life is a death sentence. | Mark Dery | ||
| bf7880a | children, in Gorey stories, are an endangered species. | Mark Dery | ||
| c902d2a | At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. Extinguished by this great creature, he sneaked to his dressing-room, and there remained shut up until he rode out to dinner, with Mrs Merdle, in her own handsome chariot. At dinner, he was envied | Charles Dickens |