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Your Dog Knows Exactly What You’re Saying
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/dogs-know-saying-people-speech/ By Carrie Arnold PUBLISHED AUGUST 30, 2016 It doesn't take a scientific study for dog owners to believe that their pets know what they're saying. (We cat owners are a little less certain.) But it’s not always clear exactly what Fido is paying attention to. When we say “Good dog!” dogs hear both the words we … Continue reading Your Dog Knows Exactly What You’re Saying
WE THE LIVING
DO WE SEE REALITY AS IT IS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1310&v=oYp5XuGYqqY SEE ALSO: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality/ Look around you. What do you see? Other people going about their business? Rooms with tables and chairs? Nature with its sky, grass and trees? All that stuff, it's really there, right? Even if you were to disappear right now — poof! — the rest of the world would … Continue reading DO WE SEE REALITY AS IT IS?
THE INVENTION OF TELEVISION
It was on this day in 1927 that the first successful television image was demonstrated, by the inventor Philo T. Farnsworth. Farnsworth was a Mormon farm boy from Utah, and he grew up in a log cabin. When the family moved to a house in Idaho, Farnsworth was amazed that the house had electricity - … Continue reading THE INVENTION OF TELEVISION
Harry Burn, age 24, Gave Women The Right to Vote
On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. The first national constitutional amendment had been proposed in Congress in 1878, and in every Congress session after that. Finally, in 1919, it narrowly passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the states to be ratified. Most … Continue reading Harry Burn, age 24, Gave Women The Right to Vote
Last of the puns… for now
No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
“To push the envelope” is an expression that means to exceed or try to exceed the normal limits. “Stationery” is writing materials such as paper and envelopes. “Stationary” (-ary) means to not move. This pun plays with the word stationery/ stationery and the idea of pushing something (moving something) and staying still (stationary).
Whoever invented knock-knock jokes should get a no-bell prize.
If you knock on the door you do not use the doorbell. “No-bell prize” sounds like Nobel, Nobel Prize. This pun plays with the words no-bell/ Noble.
Energizer Bunny Arrested: Charged with Battery
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HOW AUTHORITARIANS WILL CHANGE THE GOP
Authoritarians, as a growing presence in the GOP, are a real constituency that exists independently of Trump — and will persist as a force in American politics regardless of the fate of his candidacy. If Trump loses the election, that will not remove the threats and social changes that trigger the “action side” of … Continue reading HOW AUTHORITARIANS WILL CHANGE THE GOP
HOW AUTHORITARIANISM WORKS
http://www.vox.com Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A 2010 protest against President Obama. In the early 2000s, as researchers began to make use of the NES data to understand how authoritarianism affected US politics, their work revealed three insights that help explain not just the rise of Trump, but seemingly a half-century of American political dynamics. The … Continue reading HOW AUTHORITARIANISM WORKS
WHAT IS AMERICAN AUTHORITARIANISM?
Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images For years now, before anyone thought a person like Donald Trump could possibly lead a presidential primary, a small but respected niche of academic research has been laboring over a question, part political science and part psychology, that had captivated political scientists since the rise of the Nazis. How do people come … Continue reading WHAT IS AMERICAN AUTHORITARIANISM?
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