... and "Freakanomics," and less worthwhile writing like this blog and Gawker. And where Art and Non-Art intersect is video games. The key to all intellectual discussions is to lay out the definitions and assumptions first, otherwise you end up arguing in circles. I define Art as such: something that manipulates the feelings, emotions, or beliefs of a person through visual means. Similarly, ...
... trinity, which is crucial for understanding basic math in kindergarten. Children begin recognizing geometric shapes as early as 18 months, studies find; by preschool, the brain can begin to grasp informal geometric definitions. It can when taught properly, that is. Many books use a pizza slice to illustrate a triangle, for example, even though slices are rounded at one end. Once a child has ...
auscultation : (n) 1. The action of listening or hearkening. 2. In Medicine: The action of listening, with ear or stethoscope, to the sound of the movement of heart, lungs, or other organs, in order to judge their condition of health or disease. lenticule : (n) 1. A lentil-shaped body. 2. In Photography: A minute lens of a lenticular film. peristylium : (n) In Architecture: A colonnade ...
I came across this definition of a non-Native ally in a scholarly article from 1994 by Sam McKegney of Queens University in Canada. The article is about non-Native people studying and teaching Native American literature, but I thought the definition had wider implications and connections to discussions of being a white ally that have taken place in this community. Here is the definition:
An ...
Last night, we invented Telephone Fictionary. The mechanics are just like Telephone Oracle, but instead of questions and answers, you alternate words and definitions, mostly made up or obscure. (The mechanics: You pass the papers around the table, folding them so that the next person can see only what you wrote.) Our short game: Undertropey Systematic slowing down of the atoms of a substance ...
... a tiny transmitter somewhere and someone can listen in or whatever. Dear author, When you keep mentioning that they found a "bug" in the computer system, I'm pretty sure you're combining both definitions. I think the word you're looking for is "virus", and that's completely different from a bug in both senses. Bugs don't download information or send information anywhere. It just keeps throwing ...
... rolled his eyes. “You do know what ‘gay’ means, right?” “I am aware of two different definitions in the human language, but I’m quite sure the one you are referring to is ‘homosexual’ or ‘... of them together, as it should always be. Spock didn’t need to understand the words or the definitions, he understood that he cared deeply and unconditionally for Jim and always would. And Jim felt all the ...
..., etc. The typewritten parts are stream-of-consciousness vignettes about Shae's past (both the real past and the dream past), favorite things, and secrets. Handwritten parts comprise the introduction and a list of definitions, each like its own little one-line poem. Shae sometimes doesn't like it when people say this, but there really are not any other zines like hers out there: raw, honest, ...
..., etc. The typewritten parts are stream-of-consciousness vignettes about Shae's past (both the real past and the dream past), favorite things, and secrets. Handwritten parts comprise the introduction and a list of definitions, each like its own little one-line poem. Shae sometimes doesn't like it when people say this, but there really are not any other zines like hers out there: raw, honest, ...
