Vocabulary
Extant
(especially of a document) still in existence; surviving. "the original manuscript is no longer extant"
(especially of a document) still in existence; surviving. "the original manuscript is no longer extant"
Anthropocene
a term used to describe the current period in Earth's history when human activity has had a significant impact on the planet. The term is used in a variety of contexts, including the Earth sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
a term used to describe the current period in Earth's history when human activity has had a significant impact on the planet. The term is used in a variety of contexts, including the Earth sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Viticulture
the study, production, and practice of cultivating grapes, including the agricultural activities involved in growing them up to the time of harvest. It's a branch of horticulture
the study, production, and practice of cultivating grapes, including the agricultural activities involved in growing them up to the time of harvest. It's a branch of horticulture
Feijoada
Brazil's national dish, is a stew loaded with black beans and meats of every description: smoked pork loin, bacon and sausage such as chorizo.
Brazil's national dish, is a stew loaded with black beans and meats of every description: smoked pork loin, bacon and sausage such as chorizo.
Injunction
a judicial order that restrains a person from beginning or continuing an action threatening or invading the legal right of another, or that compels a person to carry out a certain act, e.g., to make restitution to an injured party.
a judicial order that restrains a person from beginning or continuing an action threatening or invading the legal right of another, or that compels a person to carry out a certain act, e.g., to make restitution to an injured party.
Empathy
...only came into popular use in the early twentieth century to describe the imaginative act of projecting oneself into a work of art in an effort to understand why art moves us
...only came into popular use in the early twentieth century to describe the imaginative act of projecting oneself into a work of art in an effort to understand why art moves us
Polymath
an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems
an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems
Koan
a paradoxical anecdote or riddle used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment.
a paradoxical anecdote or riddle used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment.
caisson
Military: A chest or wagon used to carry ammunition or to transport the casket of a fallen military member. The casket is carried in a horse-drawn caisson.
Military: A chest or wagon used to carry ammunition or to transport the casket of a fallen military member. The casket is carried in a horse-drawn caisson.
Rod of Asclepius
The Rod of Asclepius, also known as the Staff of Aesculapius, is a symbol of medicine and healing that depicts a rod with a single serpent wrapped around it. Re: Greek god Asclepius, who was the deity of medicine and healing. official insignia of the American Medical Association. It is also used by the World Health Organization and the American College of Physicians.
The Rod of Asclepius, also known as the Staff of Aesculapius, is a symbol of medicine and healing that depicts a rod with a single serpent wrapped around it. Re: Greek god Asclepius, who was the deity of medicine and healing. official insignia of the American Medical Association. It is also used by the World Health Organization and the American College of Physicians.
Baader-Meinhof
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is a cognitive bias that causes people to notice something more often after they become aware of it. It's also kno
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is a cognitive bias that causes people to notice something more often after they become aware of it. It's also kno
Epic
Use e.g. he lacked that level of physical wit, physical improvisation, and epic, his story was a good one... .
Use e.g. he lacked that level of physical wit, physical improvisation, and epic, his story was a good one... .
catafalque
a decorated wooden framework supporting the coffin of a distinguished person during a funeral or while lying in state.
a decorated wooden framework supporting the coffin of a distinguished person during a funeral or while lying in state.
Metacognition
An awareness that you don't know everything is often called "metacognition"; it essentially means "thinking about thinking" and includes the ability to recognize your own knowledge gaps and limitations
An awareness that you don't know everything is often called "metacognition"; it essentially means "thinking about thinking" and includes the ability to recognize your own knowledge gaps and limitations
Recrudesence
The renewal or reappearance of something, especially something dangerous or unhealthy. The return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
The renewal or reappearance of something, especially something dangerous or unhealthy. The return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
Polemics
a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something.
a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something.
Flaneur
A person who strolls through the city often observing life and their surroundings with curiosity and without a specific purpose.
A person who strolls through the city often observing life and their surroundings with curiosity and without a specific purpose.
Apostacy
the total rejection of Christianity by a baptized person who, having at one time professed the Christian faith, publicly rejects it.
the total rejection of Christianity by a baptized person who, having at one time professed the Christian faith, publicly rejects it.
Polemics
a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something.
a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something.
noblesse oblige
French phrase that means "nobility obligates". It's used to describe the idea that people of high social rank or wealth have a responsibility to help others.
French phrase that means "nobility obligates". It's used to describe the idea that people of high social rank or wealth have a responsibility to help others.
Hegelian Dialectic
Refers originally to a dialogue between people holding different ponts of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argumentation. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Refers originally to a dialogue between people holding different ponts of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argumentation. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht was made up of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy), and the Luftwaffe (air force). The term "Wehrmacht" is German for "defense force".
The Wehrmacht was made up of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy), and the Luftwaffe (air force). The term "Wehrmacht" is German for "defense force".
Mountebank
a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
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CHIPS Act (2022) - 80% to red (Republican) states
Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS)
Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS)
Noticing is a practice. Meditation begins with noticing each breath. Mindfulness begins with noticing change. Gratitude begins with noticing good.
- Omar Brownson
- Omar Brownson
If you want to escape the burdens that oppress you, you should not be somewhere else, but someone else.
Seneca
Seneca
“Pay attention to what you’re thinking about. You are drawing in what you’re constantly dwelling on. Your thoughts are running your life. Is what you’re thinking about what you want?...”
Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established intitutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, carless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
What should each of us say to every trial we face? This is what I've trained for, for this is my discipline!
- Epictetus
- Epictetus
Listening is not simply hearing the words that are spoken. Listening is understanding why the words were spoken.
- Simon Sinek
- Simon Sinek
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
B. Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
- Tom Robbins
- Tom Robbins
Observe and learn instead of react and respond. Everything doesn't need your reaction. Conserve your energy for what matters.
You are not your thoughts, you are the observer of and intelligence behind your thoughts. When you understand this, you are operating from higher consciousness.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is essential that we not respond impulsively...take a moment before reacting, and you will find it is easier to maintain control.
- Epictetus
- Epictetus
Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you are driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed.
- David Goggins
- David Goggins
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of a man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Reality cannot be ignored, except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
- Aldous Huxley
- Aldous Huxley
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed them must rely exclusively on force.
- George Orwell
- George Orwell
It is hard to understand yourself properly since something that you might be doing out of generosity and goodness is the same as you might be doing out of cowardice and indifference.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
William James
William James
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Kurt Vonnegut
Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. if you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you - to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain.
- Lori Deschene
- Lori Deschene
Every fragment of self-talk is a little story in the head that goes around, and then you look at reality through the lens of the little story.
- Eckhart Tolle
- Eckhart Tolle
Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.
- Epictetus
- Epictetus
"A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. But marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That’s why it’s a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you’re giving, you’re not giving to the other person: you’re giving to the relationship.
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
If a person gave away your body to some passerby you’d be furious. Yet you handover your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled—have you no shame in that?
- Epictetus
- Epictetus
Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down.
- Eckhart Tolle
- Eckhart Tolle
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.
- Jeremy Goldberg
- Jeremy Goldberg
The world is violent and mercurial - it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love - love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must same from it, all the time, is love.
- Tennessee Williams
- Tennessee Williams
Nothing can provoke one's anger if one does not add to one's pile of troubles by getting angry.
Seneca
Seneca
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and lead to rebirth.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer to every question.
- Edward Abbey
- Edward Abbey
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I used to feel like my side of the story needed to be told to keep the facts straight. Now I don't mind what people choose to believe.
Being aware of the sound of a bell does not mean the bell belongs to you. Likewise, being aware of your thoughts does not mean the thoughts belong to you.
Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
Shunryu Suzuki
Shunryu Suzuki
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.
- Eckhart Tolle
- Eckhart Tolle
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you should feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic ther is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief the evidence warrants.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
- Carl Jung
One, to a some degree, creates their own reality with their own thoughts. Be careful what you think about. Steer your thoughts, to the degree possible, towards the positive rather than negative.
IRA (2022) Reduce deficit, cost of prescriptions, promote clean energy spending
Inflation Reduction Act - Viktor Shvets
Inflation Reduction Act - Viktor Shvets
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
- Michael Crichton
- Michael Crichton
Self discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do.
Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions, not outside.
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
- Carl Jung
- Carl Jung
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
Nothing seems more conformist or more servile to me these days than the hackneyed mythology of 'revolt'.
- Rene Girard
- Rene Girard
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11
1 Corinthians 13:11
The greatest difficulty is the mental resistance to things that arise, and the underlying assumption that they should not.
- Eckhart Tolle
- Eckhart Tolle
Anything that is concealed is a secret. The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates their possessor from the community.
- Carl Jung
- Carl Jung
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you cannot control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
Health
Psychology
Co-rumination
the act of excessively discussing and rehashing personal problems with someone else without finding a solution
the act of excessively discussing and rehashing personal problems with someone else without finding a solution
General Knowledge
Schrodinger's Cat
The Schrödinger equation is a partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a non-relativistic quantum-mechanical system. - Erwin Schrodinger
The Schrödinger equation is a partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a non-relativistic quantum-mechanical system. - Erwin Schrodinger
Wavefunction / Schrödinger's Equation
The Schrödinger equation is a fundamental equation in quantum mechanics that describes how wave functions evolve over time in quantum systems. It's a partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a non-relativistic quantum system. Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed the equation in 1926. It's considered as central to quantum mechanics.
The Schrödinger equation is a fundamental equation in quantum mechanics that describes how wave functions evolve over time in quantum systems. It's a partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a non-relativistic quantum system. Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed the equation in 1926. It's considered as central to quantum mechanics.
GIA's color-grading scale for diamonds is the industry standard.
The scale begins with the letter D, representing colorless, and continues with increasing presence of color to the letter Z, or light yellow or brown.
The scale begins with the letter D, representing colorless, and continues with increasing presence of color to the letter Z, or light yellow or brown.
New York Times v Sullivan
The Court said the right to publish all statements is protected under the First Amendment. The Court also said in order to prove libel, a public official must show that what was said against them was made with actual malice – "that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard for the truth."
The Court said the right to publish all statements is protected under the First Amendment. The Court also said in order to prove libel, a public official must show that what was said against them was made with actual malice – "that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard for the truth."
Food
US Politics
Curtis Yarvin
Extra Constitutional, RAGE (Retire All Government Employees), CEO = Dictator, Dictator Phobia
Extra Constitutional, RAGE (Retire All Government Employees), CEO = Dictator, Dictator Phobia
World Politics
Vichy government
Vichy France was the French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, named after its seat of government, Vichy.
Vichy France was the French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, named after its seat of government, Vichy.
Budapest Memorandum, 1994
US gave security guarantees in exchange for Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons and ships.
US gave security guarantees in exchange for Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons and ships.