Smoke rises from a cigarette because it is hot and lighter than air. The stream is smooth and shaped like a column because it is laminar, and all the smoke particles travel in parallel ( Read more... )

I took a good clear piece of Cork, and with a Pen-knife sharpen'd as keen as a Razor, I cut a piece of it off, and thereby left the surface of it exceeding smooth, then examining it very diligently with a Microscope, me thought I could perceive it to appear a little porous; but I could not so plainly distinguish them, as to be sure that they were ( Read more... )

Maxwell House Coffee's slogan, "Good to the Last Drop," ignited a controversy over the proper use of the word to. Pundits asked, "What's wrong with the last drop?" A renowned English professor at Columbia University finally decreed that the word to is good usage and includes the last drop. The word until would preclude the last drop. The slogan was ( Read more... )

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FINE RUSSIAN CUISINE SNACKS, ON A TRAVELING BUS

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1. utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.

2. the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.

Why is God putting up with our meaningless and futile defacement of His priceless work of art? I believe there is a complete explanation nestled in the middle of Romans 8:19-20 ( Read more... )

When the child's primal question, "Where is the other whom I can fall into?" must be answered, "There is no such one," the child must repress this catastrophic realization even as she forms a law of self-preservation based on it.