True History. True Stories or True Fictions (Ancient Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα) is a parody of travel tales, by the Greek-speaking Syrian author Lucian of Samosata, the earliest known fiction about travelling to outer space, alien life-forms and interplanetary warfare. Written in the 2nd century, the novel has been referred to as "the first known text that could be called science fiction".[1][2][3][4][5] The work was intended by Lucian as a satire against contemporary and ancient sources, which quote fantastic and mythical events as truth. Lucian's True Stories eludes a clear-cut literary classification. Its multilayered character has given rise to interpretations as diverse as science fiction, fantasy, satire or parody, depending on how much importance scholars attach to Lucian's explicit intention of telling a story of falsehoods.
Plot[edit] Shortly after leaving the island, they are lifted up by a whirlwind and after seven days deposited on the Moon. Analysis[edit] Satire[edit] Science fiction[edit] 10 Nonfiction Books To Read If You Think You Hate Nonfiction. I have a secret for you: nonfiction books are kind of amazing. I know, I know, you read Walden one too many times in high school and as a result have sworn off all nonfiction entirely. You’re actually pretty convinced that you hate it. Sound familiar? (Unless you actually do love Walden, in which case: call me, we should get coffee sometime.) Not to discredit Mr. Thoreau here, but he’s not necessarily the first fellow you want to turn to when attempting to cultivate a diehard love of nonfiction — maybe a love of ponds, but nonfiction?
Unlikely. Now, I’ve adored many a book across many a genre in my days as a reader, but in my opinion there’s nothing quite like falling into a spectacular love affair with a nonfiction book. Think you can handle the truth? Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly Nellie Bly was one of the original immersion journalists — you know, the writers who dive so far into their story that they actually become part of it? The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer. Saccadic masking. The phenomenon was first described by Erdmann and Dodge in 1898,[1] when it was noticed during unrelated experiments that an observer could never see the motion of their own eyes.
This can easily be duplicated by looking into a mirror, and looking from one eye to another. The eyes can never be observed in motion, yet an external observer clearly sees the motion of the eyes. The phenomenon is often used to help explain a temporal illusion by the name of chronostasis, which momentarily occurs following a rapid eye-movement. Mechanism[edit] A saccade is a fast eye motion, and because it is a motion that is optimised for speed, there is inevitable blurring of the image on the retina, as the retina is sweeping the visual field. Blurred retinal images are not of much use, and the eye has a mechanism that "cuts off" the processing of retinal images when it becomes blurred. Intrasaccadic perception: relationship with saccadic movements and motion blur[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] The faces of transgender teen America. How to Install Linux on a Chromebook and Unlock Its Full Potential. Unfuck Your Habitat. [Method] 53 Seconds (How Flossing Changed My Life...seriously) : getdisciplined.
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For me, a first-generation Korean-American, comfort food is a plate of kimchi, white rice, and fried Spam. Such preferences are personally meaningful — and also culturally meaningful. Our comfort foods map who are, where we come from, and what happened to us along the way. Notes Jennifer 8. Lee (TED Talk: Jennifer 8. Lee looks for General Tso), “what you want to cook and eat is an accumulation, a function of your experiences — the people you’ve dated, what you’ve learned, where you’ve gone. There may be inbound elements from other cultures, but you’ll always eat things that mean something to you.” In much of China, only the older generations still shop every day in the wet market, then go home and cook traditional dishes.
Jennifer Berg, director of graduate food studies at New York University, notes that food is particularly important when you become part of a diaspora, separated from your mother culture. Food as identity Most cultures don’t think about their cuisine in monolithic terms. Five Things the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Medicine Today. The ancient Greeks are widely seen as having been the founders of Western medicine more than 2,000 years ago. But since then our understanding of the human body and how to treat it has changed beyond recognition. So what would be the point of studying ancient Greek medicine today? It’s part of a more general question: why bother studying medicine from times before people knew about germs, antibiotics, the circulation of the blood, or anaesthetics? Although we now have a far more detailed and accurate picture of medicine, I think the ancient Greeks can help us think through a number of topics that are still relevant today. 1.
The idea that we might uncover an unknown treatment in a forgotten treatise looks like a promising reason to study the ancient Greeks. However, drugs weren’t the starting point of ancient medicine. A patient’s condition was thought to result not just from the balance of their body, but from how that body relates to the environment. 2. 3. 4. Why me? 5. Businessinsider. One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric. By Gaia Vince. When Maria Vrind, a former gymnast from Volendam in the Netherlands, found that the only way she could put her socks on in the morning was to lie on her back with her feet in the air, she had to accept that things had reached a crisis point.
“I had become so stiff I couldn’t stand up,” she says. It was 1993. Waiting rooms outside rheumatoid arthritis clinics used to be full of people in wheelchairs. Like many patients, Vrind was given several different medications, including painkillers, a cancer drug called methotrexate to dampen her entire immune system, and biopharmaceuticals to block the production of specific inflammatory proteins. “I was on holiday with my family and my arthritis suddenly became terrible and I couldn’t walk – my daughter-in-law had to wash me.” Luckily, she would not have to. The nerve hunter The wandering nerve. Infographics for Entrepreneurs - Album on Imgur.
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Polyamory is the idea or practice of being polyamorous or having polyamorous relationships. So polyamory is like swinging? Not exactly. Oh, I gotcha. No. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. No. If you are married, and you have a girlfriend that your wife doesn’t know about, or that your wife suspects but isn’t sure about, or that your wife knows about but isn’t happy with, you’re not poly, you’re cheating. Polyamory is defined by informed consent of all the participants. Poly, schmolly. No. Okay, okay, I understand. No, no, no. Rules? Yeah? Uh-huh. No. Yes, We Are Polyamorous, The Safe Space Network. The Toxic Attraction Between an Empath & a Narcissist.
Get elephant's newsletter We know that “narcissist” has become a bit of a buzzword recently, and some folks are quick to apply it to an ex-lover or family member or friend. While awareness of this concept is healthy, so is remembering that it is, in a mental health context, a serious condition that shouldn’t be applied to someone you’re mad at because they stole your mirror. ~ Eds. I am an empath. I discovered I was an empath after I got involved in a very deep and highly destructive relationship with a narcissist. I am writing this article from the perspective of an empath, however, would love to read the view from the opposite side if there are any narcissists that would like to offer their perception on this.
Through writing about the empath personality type I have connected with many other people who class themselves as an empath and time and again I have heard people tell me how they have also attracted relationships with narcissists. This is my theory… We are not here to fix anyone. How to fight | A Long-Awaited Treachery | Pinterest. How to learn programming from scratch - Album on Imgur. Top 10 things to do in Colorado in your lifetime. The Denver Post Posted: 01/21/2007 01:00:00 AM MST|Updated: 6 months ago (Post file / Karl Ghering) Imagine, for the sake of argument, that you only had time to experience 10 adventures in this state. What would those journeys - so special to this purple-mountained mecca - be? At 14,060 feet, Mount Bierstadt (above) is one of the easiest to ascend, with a wide trail that winds its way through swamps, high-mountain meadows and boulder fields.
Long's Peak by moonlight just might be the ultimate adventure. Related: Quiz: How many of Colorado's 54 14ers can you name? Download: the free Denver Post Ten Things iPad app (Post file) Pack a picnic dinner, get there early and hope it's a full-moon night. Sometimes we tend to downplay what's in our own backyard, but as with other ancient ruins around the world, the cliff dwellings at this national park near Cortez should be visited over and over again. (Post file / John Leyba) Let's be honest. How cool (hot?) Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person... Years ago, some feminist on the internet told me I was “Privileged.” “THE FUCK!?!?” I said. I came from the kind of Poor that people don’t want to believe still exists in this country. Have you ever spent a frigid northern Illinois winter without heat or running water?
I have. At twelve years old, were you making ramen noodles in a coffee maker with water you fetched from a public bathroom? I was. (This was a much nicer camper setup than the one we had.) So when that feminist told me I had “white privilege,” I told her that my white skin didn’t do shit to prevent me from experiencing poverty. After one reads McIntosh’s powerful essay, it’s impossible to deny that being born with white skin in America affords people certain unearned privileges in life that people of another skin color simple are not afforded. “I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.”
I do understand McIntosh’s essay may rub some people the wrong way. I Grew Up in a Polyamorous Household. Few cultural symbols have as much heft as the "traditional" nuclear family. You know the one: two heterosexual parents, two kids, one dog, two tablespoons of white picket fence, whisk gently. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with that—it's just not how I was raised. My parents are polyamorous, a Greek/Latin mishmash word meaning romantic non-monogamy with the consent of everyone involved.
As a kid, I lived with my dad, my mom, my mom's partner, and for a while, my mom's partner's partner. Mom might have up to four partners at a time. Dad had partners too. I was raised by an interconnected network of grownups whose relationships weren't exclusive but remained committed for years, even decades. They first explained it to me when I was about eight. "Because I love him," Mom said, matter-of-factly. "Well, that's good," my brother replied, "because I love him too. " It was never really any more complicated than that. I never resented my parents for hanging out with their partners. 51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature. 10 places where anyone can learn to code.
Teens, tweens and kids are often referred to as “digital natives.” Having grown up with the Internet, smartphones and tablets, they’re often extraordinarily adept at interacting with digital technology. But Mitch Resnick, who spoke at TEDxBeaconStreet, is skeptical of this descriptor. Sure, young people can text and chat and play games, he says, “but that doesn’t really make you fluent.” Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code Fluency, Resnick proposes in this TED Talk, comes not through interacting with new technologies, but through creating them. The former is like reading, while the latter is like writing. The point isn’t to create a generation of programmers, Resnick argues. In his talk, Resnick describes Scratch, the programming software that he and a research group at MIT Media Lab developed to allow people to easily create and share their own interactive games and animations.
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While we supported mom, we were, in turn, supported by a gifted palliative care nurse, Ann, who came every few days to care for mom and to talk to us about what we could expect in the coming days. She taught us how to inject Mom with morphine when she became restless, she offered to do the difficult tasks (like giving Mom a bath), and she gave us only as much information as we needed about what to do with Mom’s body after her spirit had passed. “Take your time,” she said. “You don’t need to call the funeral home until you’re ready.
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