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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.
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Depending on the charger you can actually wireless charge a phone with a 1cm air gap between the charger and your phone.
And if you want to see wireless power transmission over long (many meters) distances then this MIT demo is basically the best out there I know of, even though technically it's to show dipole radiation and not power transfer. Also it's a very good demonstration that you don't need to have a complete circuit for electricity to flow.
Most people, even the scientifically inclined, have absolutely zero idea of how electricity really works. And yet their vote counts just as much as mine... (yes I am salty about this)
If you're going to be walking at all with your luggage outside the airport then carts don't help you at all. The lack of wheels only works if you're assuming a car direct from your house door to the airport and vice versa, that's very much not the case in large parts of the world (in London I'd take the Elizabeth line underground tube from Heathrow to Liverpool Street and then take a taxi from there if necessary, I wouldn't take a taxi from Heathrow back home).
We already have wireless power transmission, you can charge your phone etc wirelessly very easily these days
As late as the 1990's, part of an old-school mathematical education was the idea that submitting a correct co-ordinate geometry proof when a classical one was available would get you full marks and the lasting scorn and derision of the examiner.
Funnily enough classical geometry can be made to admit a coordinate system over it so both classical and (basic) coordinate geometry are effectively isomorphic in the sense that C++ and Conway's game of life are isomorphic (both are Turing Complete). Both classical and coordinate geometry have a proof theoretic ordinal of omega and even more there's actually a canonical way to convert statements of coordinate geometry to statements of classical geometry and vice versa so it's not even like using coordinate geometry when there's a classical geometry proof is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Both theories are equally powerful in what they can do, it's just that the coordinate geometry formalism is easier to build upon which in my view makes it superior.
(Can you tell I hated the geometry problems in olympiads?)
Song China was relatively free market over 1000 years ago. And yes, this led to them having much more prosperity for everyone than either the dynasty before or after them.
I liked the cute twins pics. That alone is enough of a reason for him to have more kids by my book.
Not a fan of this, the taking of a scarf that isn't yours is bad enough but the lying is the real red flag. Smash and pass, if you are inclined that way.
Something similar is the reason why in many modern democracies we use shitty FPTP instead of enlightened Approval Voting. The story is that back in ancient Greece they voted by placing stones in jars so when their democracies tried to do Approval voting some unscrupulous voters would put all their pebbles in the jar of their favourite candidate instead of putting no more than one in each. This being the time before cheap paper the only real solution they had was to give each voter only 1 pebble, and hey shitty FPTP was born...
Churchill is by far the most beloved British political / cultural figure in history, topping almost every single poll of the greatest British people of all time.
An absolute tragedy. Churchill isn't even a top 3 prime minister of UK.
Rates were around £35 per hour back when I did supos. Admitted this was a few years ago.
extended the time needed for indefinite leave to 10 years in most cases
That's only a white paper and will take at least until next year to pass into law. Currently rules are the same. Also there's a concept in UK common law called "legitimate expectation" where the migrants can argue that they had a legitimate expectation that they'd be granted ILR after 5 years on a visa and that influenced their decision to accept it so now that can't be changed unilaterally (much like how if I have a job contract with you you can't cut my salary unilaterally). They can apply for judicial review on the basis of legitimate expectation and will very likely win and there's even precedent for it: last time the government increased ILR length from 4 years to 5 years the people on the skilled worker visa at the time were able to win in high court.
If you go cold turkey on benzos you run the risk of killing yourself because your body can't handle the stress. The question now is whether migrants are like benzos or, say, antihistamines.
I personally prefer to think in terms of money as the abstraction helps me to reason more efficiently. However for teaching the common man the real resources framework is absolutely the way to go as that way you don't have to waste epicycles telling them why their objection they thought up in 20 seconds isn't gonna solve the issue.
The Oxbridge tutorial system where the students have to intelligently defend their work orally on a weekly basis wins again. Other places should just copy it, smh
Damn, Trump actually did something good. Here's hoping this doesn't get bogged down by the courts.
Ouch the Indians need to step up their meme game.
There are different ways people define what is an "institution", for example you'll find plenty of people here willing to defend the idea that marriage is an institution and if you're willing to be that broad then it easily wins over basically anything else as it goes back into prehistory. It all depends on how broadly you define "institution", and if your definition of one is narrow enough to not include the different, somewhat diffuse ideas that come under Theravada Buddhism then Christianity as an institution isn't 2000 years old either, it's more like 1700 years old and really came into being after the Council of Nicea when the Nicene Creed was affirmed and the Arians declared heretical. Before this point the Bishop of Rome wasn't even universally seen as being above the bishops of the other dioceses.
Sure, the current Catholic church may claim that the popes before the Council of Nicea were part of the exact same tradition to the extent that it all counts as one "institution" stretching back to the Pentecost but that doesn't mean the people who had lived back then would have seen things the same way. It's no different to how the current Japanese Monarchy may well claim it stretches back to the 7th Century BC but the rest of us don't have to take them at face value.
And if we take Christianity to only really be an institution since the Nicene creed then it gets handily beaten out by the White Horse Buddhist Temple in China which has been going strong since 68CE.
Dude wasn't even a cardinal 2 years ago and is now Pope...
His Bachelor's was also in Mathematics. I am liking this new pope more and more by the minute!
It is in times of change like these that I remember how important it is for the Catholic Church to reach out towards each and every human, no matter how different their tastes may be. After all, it is the catholic church, and so what better way to do this than give the people for mass something with a bit more oomph to it. May I present to you The Vatican Rag.
(All credits to Tom Lehrer)
Theravada Buddhism then if we're going to go down to considering different sects as being distinct entities. Still significantly older than the Catholic church and going strong today..
The Church has existed for 2000 years. Can you name anything else that has 'bumbled along, with zero internal consistency' for so many 'centuries and centuries'?
Hinduism. Looks like we should all start worshipping Lord Krishna soon with this logic.
I wish Christianity were true. I really do. It would certainly make my dating life easier.
Personally I'd rank the chance of eternal salvation and neverending bliss somewhat higher than an easier dating life on this moral coil but I guess we all have our priorities.
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