Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
These articles are a great complement to each other.
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I’d agree with that. Basket in rushes vs capsule in the cornfield. But it’s a weak linkage given that the abandoned orphan is a trope older than the bible.
Superman ripped off Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter novels.
John Carter was from Virginia but was transported to Mars where he exhibited super strength and great leaping ability due to the lower gravity. Siegalman and Shuster reversed the premise and had an alien come to earth with…great strength and great leaping ability due to the lower gravity. Flying came later. Nothing about Moshe.
The Spice Girls were real stuff. They were put together but revolted against the producers who were trying to control the group. In an infamous episode they stole the masters for what became the first album and released it themselves.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/girl-power-spice-girls-jenny-stevens-geri-horner/
I’m amazed Prime Suspect didn’t make the list. I’d consider it to be top 3.
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The new potions professor.
I lived like this the first year of my postdoc and couldn’t have been happier. I had 4 place settings but only used one and washed it after every meal. Desk, computer, one camp chair, and an inflatable mattress. Stayed that way until my wife joined me my second year and made me get a real apartment.
Surely a cup is closer than your phone.
Richard Dawkins coined the term in The Selfish Gene to describe a unit of culture in the same way that a morpheme is a unit of meaning, a phoneme is a unit of aural language, and a grapheme is a unit of writing.
Another short-term decision by America could lead to more long-term loss of wealth and influence.
As was Last Vegas.
The creek is 3 feet wide in places and can dry up during dry seasons. The “lake” is 3 feet deep. The city was founded there because the governor owned land on the bald prairie, not the river valley where the fort and city already existed. Water is piped in from a lake several miles away.
Let me introduce you to Regina.
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Oldsmobile Delta 88. I learned to drive in the largest car the driving school had. The thinking was if I could maneuver that beast everything else should be easy. I guess it worked?