Legacies. They're a fascinating thing. A person's legacy is the very definition of how they will be remembered. And they're constantly evolving. For instance, the Manning family's legacy just a few years ago would have been that they can't win the big game (or that the only Bowl game Peyton or Eli would ever win was the Pro Bowl). And here we are, coming off of back-to-back Manning family Super Bo
It was probably the April of 1974. Bangalore was getting warm and gulmohars were blooming at the IISC campus. I was the only girl in my post graduate department and was staying at the ladies' hostel. Other girls were pursuing research in different departments of Science. I was looking forward to going abroad to complete a doctorate in computer science. I had been offered scholarships from Uni
Frederick Douglass was the first black man who had such a long and arduous climb from slavery to some of the highest positions in the land, wielding considerable influence on not only the minds of many ordinary folks but also of Presidents. His name and legacies remain unforgettable as seen in the many quotes attributed [...]
Feel like your Getting-Things-Done-style next-action list is slipping away from you? Having a hard time getting through the list because it’s feeling overwhelming? The Tools for Thought blog suggests taking a hard-eyed look at what tasks or projects might be irrelevant without your noticing the change:Maybe an increase in gas prices has made that road [...]
While most people are busy trying to replace and improve their home designs with the onslaught of newly released furniture designs, there are still some people like Wilhelmina Garcia, a 28 year old interior designer from the Philippines in preserving old furniture and recycling them to be what they once were.
Indeed not many people would go through to all the trouble of trying to refurbish their old furniture. There are still remaining sentimental values in them and if only people would give it a thought, nothing beats the design and complement of old furniture in homes today.
“Iam a big believer of recycling, workin the concept of going back to the basics, of preserving nature’s legacy,” says 28-year-old interior designer, Wilhelmina Garcia. Such ardor for everything recycled and “nature-based” produced the refreshing unit design which won the grand prize in the 2007 Metrobank Art and Design Excellence (MADE) National Competition for Interior Design.
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Isaac Newton (Lives and Legacies Series)
Cambridge University Press | ISBN 019530070X | 2005-09-27 |160 pages
Quarrelsome and quirky, a disheveled recluse who ate little, slept less, and yet had an iron constitution, Isaac Newton rose from a virtually illiterate family to become one of the towering intellects of science. Now, in this fast-paced, colorful biography, Gale E. Christianson paints an engaging portrait of Newton and the times in which he lived. We follow Newton from his childhood in rural England to his student days at Cambridge, where he devoured the works of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, and taught himself mathematics. There ensued two miraculous years at home in Woolsthorpe Manor, where he fled when plague threatened Cambridge, a remarkably fertile period when Newton formulated his theory of gravity, a new theory of light, and calculus–all by his twenty-fourth birthday. Christianson describes Newton’s creation of the first working model of the reflecting
When most people think about mass genocide, they usually envision brutal dictators intentionally killing their own citizens. Few people, however, consider indirect causes of genocide, but these indirect causes are no less abominable. Without a doubt, the greatest indirect link to mass genocide is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Silent Spring was written in the 1960s after the use of DDT became very prevalent in America. DDT is the most effective and least expensive chemical in the world at killing mosquitoes. In fact, it once was very common for trucks to drive through neighborhoods spraying enormous quantities of the substance everywhere. However, since that time, research has proven that only small drops of DDT are needed to eradicate any mosquito problem. Nevertheless, instead of limiting the quantity of DDT used, Rachel Carson went even further. Based on faulty research, and anecdotal exaggerations, she wrote her book about the horrors of DDT and called for its total p
i watched the movie 'stranger than fiction' last night. excellent movie smartly done- i highly recommend it. it is not will farrell being 'blades of glory' funny but it is well written- which is a rarity these days in entertainment. i won't tell you about the movie because i want you to see it- but suffice to say it ties in with my other thoughts of the week- legacies. everyone wants to leave one- whether through work or offspring- and since i have neither- i guess i started thinking about mine. actually, i got thinking about contributing to the world and how people would remember me. i was hoping folks would remember me fondly- although i am outspoken, opinionated and downright anti-social at any given time. then i started thinking about the bigger picture.jason giambi admitted to steroid use. i know this because i was at my favorite thinking place- the laundromat- and heard it on the tv they have on the sports channel. then, i started thinking about my mother. i am he
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In 1992 Weissmark brought together 22 Jews and Germans for a four-day meeting at Harvard University. They were sons and daughters of concentration camp survivors and sons and daughters of Nazis. Weissmark, a psychologist and the child of Holocaust survivors, undertook a study to examine how injustice influences interpersonal behavior as the participants tried to come to terms with
