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"I love work, it fascinates me; I can sit and watch it for hours".
J. K. Jerome
Wabidon |
I chose this unusual name (Wabi ) and placed it in front of my name "Don" around 1996 . The word comes from the Japanese and Chinese culture . I have four books on Wabi-Sabi I purchased ; written by different people recently.1. Koren , L. (1994) . Wabi-Sabi for Artist ,Designers,Poets&Philosophers.Point Reyes CA: Imperfect Publishing.
2. Powell, R. R. (2006). Wabi-Sabi for Writers. Massachusetts: Adams Media.
3. Gold, T. (2004). Living Wabi Sabi. Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing.
4. Tierney L. (1999). Wabi-Sabi A New…
Random Noise #21 : World's Most Dry and Remote Area
How do you go about finding the world's driest, most remote area?
You could use a satellite, but that's exceedingly expensive.
You could send out questionaires, but that is unreliable.
Working on the reasonable assumption that you can't beat first-hand knowledge, I have worked out the following experimental method:
Start off into a remote region with just a bicycle and trailer with plenty of filled water carriers.
You will know you are in a remote area when someone points to the trailer and asks:
"What's that?"
You will know you are in a…
The motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.
- David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Sec. I
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Marketing experts say advertising that touts head-scratching scientific ingredients or other such "puffery" only an expert could appreciate is likely to alienate informed consumers.
The findings show that consumers filter ad claims, rather than accepting them blindly. As a result, the authors say, effective advertising should relate to consumers on a personal level, rather than talking down to them.
Based on a study that gauged consumer reaction to technical, tough-to-decipher advertising claims, researchers say consumers become immediately suspicious when they see or hear information they…
A pale pink, half-moon shaped scar sits above my left breast as a reminder of my youth spent at Jones Beach with more baby oil than sunscreen, doing more baking than bathing. My scar is from having MOHS micrographic surgery, after basal cell carcinoma was found in a biopsy of a mole.
Basal cell carcinoma is one of several types of nonmelanoma skin cancers, which are the most common forms of skin cancer in the United States. According to a study in the "Archives of Dermatology", as of 2006, there have been 3.5 million cases a year in 2 million American people.
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"Berlusconi at times has some remorses, but then he thinks at how rich he is and he feels fine again".
Daniele Luttazzi
Depictions of bioethical issues and professionalism portrayed in two popular medical dramas—"Grey's Anatomy" and "House, M.D."—suggest that the shows are "rife" with ethical dilemmas and actions that often run afoul of professional codes of conduct, according to a review in the Journal of Medical Ethics
The authors admit that their findings would end up stating the obvious. But they nonetheless wanted to provide data that would explain how these depictions influence the perceptions of viewers, both health professionals and the general public.
They also hope the research will inform…
Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and lately of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.
- Peter Medawar, Review of Teilhard de Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man
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Making his feature directorial debut, filmmaker Allen Wolf has crafted "In My Sleep" into a taut psychological thriller with a poignant human drama at its core.
The story begins when Marcus wakes up in the middle of a cemetery half naked and has no idea how he got there. Urgent questions pound inside his head. "Where was I last night? Who was I with?" Marcus suffers from parasomnia, a rare sleep disorder which causes him to do things in his sleep which he cannot remember the next day.
Actually, Marcus seems to suffer from a number of parasomnias including sleep-walking and sexsomnia. The film…