BONUS:
Showing posts with label Wednesday's Word. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wednesday's Word. Show all posts
Blog Tip | Wednesday Word
BONUS:
this MIGHT hurt
Definition:
pain in the abdomen and especially in the stomach; a bellyacheExample:
"... unfortunately I awoke this morning with collywobbles, and had to take a small dose of laudanum with the usual consequences of dry throat, intoxicated legs, partial madness and total imbecility..." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, 1890-1894About the Word:
Etymologist believe that collywobbles most likely has its origin in cholera morbus, the Latin term for the disease cholera (the symptoms of which include severe gastrointestinal disturbance).How would cholera morbus have shifted into collywobbles? By folk etymology – a process in which speakers make an unfamiliar term sound more familiar. In this case, the transformation was probably influenced by the words colic and wobble.
Wednesday Words: Message on the Golden Record
The record, curated by a team led by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan, featured the music of Beethoven, Chuck Berry, Kesarbai Kerkar, and Blind Willie Johnson, and various folk music from around the world. Images, placed electronically on the phonograph, included photographs of a mother nursing her baby; a woman with a microscope; an astronaut in space, highway traffic in Ithaca, New York; the pages of an open book; a violin with sheet music; men laying bricks to build a house in Africa; a woman eating grapes at a supermarket; and a number of diagrams and illustrations of concepts like continental drift and vertebrate evolution. There were also audio clips depicting scenes of life on Earth—the sounds of rushing wind and the roar of ocean tides, whale songs, elephants trumpeting, human footsteps and human laughter.It occurred to me last fall that I’d never actually heard the laughter track—and that I wanted to.
Keep reading here, as Adrienne sets out to solve the mystery of whose laughter is on the Golden Record. (And you can hear the golden record!) BOOM
Wednesday's Words: cosmic modesty
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| NASA image of Earth |
Finding the answer to the important question: “Are we alone?” will change our perspective on our place in the universe and will open new interdisciplinary fields of research, such as astrolinguistics (how to communicate with aliens), astropolitics (how to negotiate with them for information), astrosociology (how to interpret their collective behavior), astroeconomics (how to trade space-based resources) and so on.We could shortcut our own progress by learning from civilizations that benefited from a head start of billions of years. READ
Wednesday Word (s): odd verbs
Verbs
Trees migrate, Twin Peaks revisited, Dear White People dissected, impeachment process explained, Midlife crisis filmed, alien megastructure suspected, Weiner repents, Kimmy Schmidt gets stuck..
Wednesday's Word: twenty-sixteen
What Do You Know?
1. All together, Americans eat about ____________ Big Macs every year.
2. Since 720 B.C.E., when the first recorded eclipse was observed, Earth’s rotation has gotten about ____________ slower.
3. When you’re in a deep sleep, your neurons fire one to four times per second—compared to ____________ times per second when you’re concentrating on a memory.
What Do You Know?
4. ____________ have always been canvases for political commentary and projection, regardless if their manufacturers want them to be.
Wednesday Word: twenty-sixteen (so friggin' glad to see you go)Answers: 550 million, six hours, 30 to 90, Sneakers
wednesday word: patti
Patti Smith on How She Writes a Song
Patti::: Because I had so much responsibility to others. If I was writing lyrics to someone’s music, I had responsibility to that musician. I had to project beyond myself and beyond my world out into the greater world. Allen Ginsberg told me, “If you have trouble writing, just write what you mean.” [Laughs] And that’s a good lesson when you’re trying to write a song.
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Wednesday's WORD
Epeolatry
“I’m a book-bosomed literarian guilty of epeolatry and bibliosmia, which means I ALWAYS have a book with me, I’m educated, and I worship words and smell books.” (Fortified By Books)
Wednesday's Word
psyops [Psychological Operations or PSYOP]
I see that word popping up. Scary idea...
PSYOP is one of the oldest weapons in the arsenal of man.
"PSYOP is the dissemination of truthful information to foreign audiences in support of U.S. policy and national objectives. Used during peacetime, contingencies, and declared war, these activities are not a form of force, but are force multipliers that use nonviolent means in often violent environments." ---US Military
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I see that word popping up. Scary idea...
PSYOP is one of the oldest weapons in the arsenal of man.
"PSYOP is the dissemination of truthful information to foreign audiences in support of U.S. policy and national objectives. Used during peacetime, contingencies, and declared war, these activities are not a form of force, but are force multipliers that use nonviolent means in often violent environments." ---US Military
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Wednesday's word
So tacky or lame that is has a certain ironic appeal.
Lava lamps, and trucker hats are very kitschy.
Simple Definition of kitsch
- : things (such as movies or works of art) that are of low quality and that many people find amusing and enjoyable
Source: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary
Full Definition of kitsch
- 1 : something that appeals to popular or lowbrow taste and is often of poor quality
- 2 : a tacky or lowbrow quality or condition <teetering on the brink of kitsch — Ron Miller>
kitsch
adjectiveWord of the Day: Cure
The Cure for Cancer: Guyabano Fruit - I love researching & prevention on my own. pic.twitter.com/88wbqg3YjR— Violet Starr-Goforth (@23Darose) October 20, 2015
According to Dr. Leonard Caldwell, there are over 300 cures for cancer but most doctors are required by law to use surgery, radiation or chemotherapy before any proven holistic measures such as the Rife Machine, THC Oil, etc.. This is but one small example of how beneficial technology and ideas have been suppressed from us, all in the interests of money, greed and eugenics.
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For example, the last thing that Big Pharma cured was polio and they realized that there is no money in providing a cure for anything. Essentially, Big Pharma places a bandaid over our illnesses and diseases through perpetual maintenance versus finding a cure. From this point forward, Big Pharma will focus on cures instead of temporary bandages that support their industry through lifelong medications.
A new breed of doctors will emerge who place holistic treatment ahead of anything else. In time, the Big Pharma doctor will either need to learn holistic medicine or will be phased out of existence. Of course, there are some things that cannot be cured and need maintenance through Big Pharma, but instead of using holistic treatment as a last resort, it will become the primary option.
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