The Machine Stops "The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. Plot summary[edit] The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. As time passes, and Vashti continues the routine of her daily life, there are two important developments. During this time, Kuno is transferred to a cell near Vashti's. Themes[edit] In the preface to his Collected Short Stories (1947), Forster wrote that "The Machine Stops is a reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H. Adaptations[edit] A television adaptation, directed by Philip Saville, was shown in the UK on 6 October 1966 as part of the British science-fiction anthology TV series Out of the Unknown. BBC Radio 4 aired Gregory Norminton's adaptation as a radio play. Derivative works[edit]
Experts rethink good study habits Ask someone for tips on proper study skills, and you’re likely going to get an answer that ranges from “study in a quiet, sealed room” to “drink a sip of water each time you need to remember a fact.” But from folksy suggestions to ideas based in actual science, study skills are just about how well you train your brain to absorb information. The New York Times reports that scientists have determined a few simple techniques that can enable a student to absorb more information. Many of these new findings contradict commonly-accepted study habits. One might think that focusing on a particular subject for intense, long stretches makes the most sense. Or putting yourself in a closed room with no distractions enables the best mental retention. Retaining information is all in how the brain operates. Nate Kornell is a psychologist atWilliams Collegewho has studied how the brain absorbs information. For further reading: Forget what you know about good study habits
Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy {*style:<b> Two grea </b>*} During the Civil War (1861-1865), President Lincoln needed money to finance the War from the North. The Bankers were going to charge him 24% to 36% interest. Eventually President Lincoln was advised to get Congress to pass a law authorizing the printing of full legal tender Treasury notes to pay for the War effort. The Treasury notes were printed with green ink on the back, so the people called them “Greenbacks”. Lincoln printed 400 million dollars worth of Greenbacks (the exact amount being $449,338,902), money that he delegated to be created, a debt-free and interest-free money to finance the War. Shortly after that happened, “The London Times” printed the following: After this was published in "The London Times", the British Government, which was controlled by the London and other European Bankers, moved to support the Confederate South, hoping to defeat Lincoln and the Union, and destroy this government which they said had to be destroyed.
How To Know If You’ll Be Successful – Thrive Global Life is complex and messy. It can be extremely difficult to get traction, let alone find motivation. But motivation is something you can learn to create at will. Here’s how: 1. “Life is a game, play it.” — Mother Theresa We hear a lot about people “grinding” these days. The best performers in the world don’t grind, they game! According to author, Daniel Coyle, “If it can be counted, you can turn it into a game.” I recently had this experience learning Spanish on the app, Duolingo. 2. “Ignition (n): The motivational process that occurs when your identity becomes linked to a long-term vision of your future. There’s a moment when you see what you want and a voice organically speaks within you — “I could be that.” This experience is pivotal! How could you ever become an Olympic Athlete if you didn’t at some point see it and believe it in your mind? Put simply, you need to have an identity shift. 3. What other people think of you is none of your business. 4. What’s your vision? 5. Why? 6. 7. 8. 9.
Plotinus Biography[edit] Plotinus had an inherent distrust of materiality (an attitude common to Platonism), holding to the view that phenomena were a poor image or mimicry (mimesis) of something "higher and intelligible" [VI.I] which was the "truer part of genuine Being". This distrust extended to the body, including his own; it is reported by Porphyry that at one point he refused to have his portrait painted, presumably for much the same reasons of dislike. Likewise Plotinus never discussed his ancestry, childhood, or his place or date of birth. Plotinus took up the study of philosophy at the age of twenty-seven, around the year 232, and travelled to Alexandria to study. Expedition to Persia and return to Rome[edit] Later life[edit] While in Rome Plotinus also gained the respect of the Emperor Gallienus and his wife Salonina. Porphyry subsequently went to live in Sicily, where word reached him that his former teacher had died. Major ideas[edit] One[edit] Emanation by the One[edit]
Postmodernism and Truth Explanations > Critical Theory > Concepts > Postmodernism and Truth Pre-modernist truth | Modernist truth | Post-modernist truth | See also Postmodernism can be a confusing concept that gets dropped into intellectual conversation and presentations, typically to make a complexifying point that prevents easy conclusions being made. But what is postmodernism? Mostly, it is about truth. Pre-modernist truth In the days before modern science emerged, how did you know if something was true? The other way of knowing truth was to trust another person who declared something to be true. Archetypally, priests were critical truthsayers. Truth could also be asserted by one's superiors, from parents to craft masters to judges to the monarch. Pre-modernist philosophers, from Socrates onward (and probably before), sought truth through thought and reason. There is still plenty of pre-modernist truth around today, yet there are serious challenges to this order. Modernist truth Postmodernist truth See also
Atheism Everywhere: Zero-Zero Banking; an alternative to Fractional Reserve by Cyrus "Kir" Komrik We'd like to tackle some common myths here about banking in free enterprise systems in which the United States is usually given as the template for the re-telling of a description of fractional reserve banking that, unfortunately, reflects a fundamental lack of understanding of how the banking system in the U.S. really works. Because this misunderstanding is so common we felt it an imperative to clear this up here so that banking under General Federalism can also be properly understood. The basic premise of the detractors of fractional banking begins with the premise that the system is basically a "ponzi" scheme that must ultimately fail. Modern, capitalist-style banking was invented, or at least become common, in Europe hundreds of years ago when people with capital learned that they could loan money to people and profit by charging interest. But, how does one control M1 values at any given time? And this is not the whole story.
To Detect Bombs Efficiently and Cheaply, Try Using Wi-Fi WI-FI FOR GOOD. You probably use Wi-Fi on the regular to connect your smartphone, computer, or other electronic device to the glory of the world wide web. But soon, that same technology could also keep you safe in real-life public areas. According to a peer-reviewed study led by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, ordinary Wi-Fi can effectively and cheaply detect weapons, bombs, or explosive chemicals contained within bags. The study earned the researchers a best paper award at the 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, which focused solely on cybersecurity. DETECTING DANGER. For their study, the researchers built a Wi-Fi weapon detection system that could analyze what happened to Wi-Fi signals as they encountered a nearby object or material. The bag the object was in presented another variable. PUBLIC SAFETY. READ MORE: Wi-Fi Could Be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs [BBC]
Emanuel Swedenborg Emanuel Swedenborg ( Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741, at age 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions, beginning on Easter weekend of April 6, 1744. For the remaining 28 years of his life, Swedenborg wrote 18 published theological works, and several more which were unpublished. Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Memorial plaque at the former location of Emanuel Swedenborg's house at Hornsgatan on Södermalm, Stockholm. Swedenborg's father, Jesper Swedberg (1653–1735), descended from a wealthy mining family. Jesper took an interest in the beliefs of the dissenting Lutheran Pietist movement, which emphasised the virtues of communion with God rather than relying on sheer faith (sola fide).[14] Sola fide is a tenet of the Lutheran Church, and Jesper was charged with being a pietist heretic. In 1703-1709 Swedenborg lived in Erik Benzelius the younger's house. Scientific period[edit] Journal of Dreams[edit]
Values Explanations > Values About values | Historical values | Research on values | So what? Values is a confusing word that often gets confused with 'value' as in the value you get from buying a cheap, but well-built house. About values Value categories: different spheres into which we place values. Historical values American Values: A list of traditional US cultural values. Research on values Career Anchors: identified by Edgar Schein as shapers of what we do. Values are also often a significant element of culture, where they form a part of the shared ruleset of a group. When I break my values, I will feel shame and guilt. Know the the values to which the other person will subscribe (these are often common sense) as well as the actual values they enact in practice (watch them for this). Beware of the values in practice which can be harmful to you (will they betray you?). If you act in a way which supports their values they will increase their trust in you. See also Two Types of Truth
Who Owns The Federal Reserve? This article was first published by Global Research in October 2008 “Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.” – The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s The Federal Reserve (or Fed) has assumed sweeping new powers in the last year. In an unprecedented move in March 2008, the New York Fed advanced the funds for JPMorgan Chase Bank to buy investment bank Bear Stearns for pennies on the dollar. “The Treasury Department, for the first time in its history, said it would begin selling bonds for the Federal Reserve in an effort to help the central bank deal with its unprecedented borrowing needs.”2 This is extraordinary. “The U.S. Not Private and Not for Profit? 1. 2. 3.
Dr. Death: The Shocking Story of Christopher Duntsch, a Madman with a Scalpel Lee Passmore can’t feel his feet. His right leg is as stiff as his pressed blue jeans, and when he walks, he appears to use his hips to heave it forward. He also vibrates—his chest shakes, his right hand jitters. But Passmore is one of the lucky ones. He’ll tell you as much. He’s alive. In November 2011, Passmore was hooked on prescription opiates. Duntsch had only been in the Dallas area for a few months. But he’d make troubling, bizarre pronouncements, like “Everybody’s doing it wrong. This would be the first and last time Hoyle worked next to Duntsch. But as Duntsch worked, Hoyle looked over and saw blood and not much else. “We need to talk about this,” Hoyle said, locking eyes with him. The operation continued. Hoyle called the whole surgery sloppy, enough so that he canceled the remaining three or four operations he had scheduled with Duntsch and vowed never to work with him again. Duntsch had a comfortable upbringing. “It wasn’t his invention,” Kukekov says. “Dr.
The American Scholar Texts : Nature: Addresses/Lectures : Addresses : THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR from Addresses, published as part of Nature; Addresses and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 Mr. President and Gentlemen, I greet you on the re-commencement of our literary year. In this hope, I accept the topic which not only usage, but the nature of our association, seem to prescribe to this day, — the AMERICAN SCHOLAR. It is one of those fables, which, out of an unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end. The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man, — present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man. I. II. The theory of books is noble. III.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. Where does it end? Maybe I’m just a worrywart.