text stringlengths 1 2.7k | source stringlengths 21 174 |
|---|---|
And here, Kant says, we are liable to error in two ways. The first type of error consists in trying to attract students into being moral by providing them examples in which morality and self-love coincide. The second type of error consists in trying to emotionally arouse the students about morality by providing example... | Wikipedia - Critique of Practical Reason - Doctrine of method |
The examples we choose should stress simple dutifulness. The first of these methods, argues Kant, is destined to fail because students will not come to understand the unconditional nature of duty. The examples will also not be very inspiring. | Wikipedia - Critique of Practical Reason - Doctrine of method |
When we see extraordinary self-sacrifice in the name of following a principle we are inspired and moved. But when we see someone following a principle with hardly any sacrifice or cost to himself, we are not equally impressed. The second method will also fail because it appeals to the emotions rather than to reason. | Wikipedia - Critique of Practical Reason - Doctrine of method |
It is only reason that can produce long-lasting change in a person's character. This method also leads students to associate morality with the impossible theatrics of melodrama, and therefore to disdain the everyday obligations they should be fulfilling as boring and useless. Kant ends the second Critique on a hopeful ... | Wikipedia - Critique of Practical Reason - Doctrine of method |
The wonders of both the physical and the ethical worlds are not far for us to find: to feel awe, we should only look upward to the stars or inward to the moral law which we carry around within us. The study of the physical world was dormant for centuries and wrapped in superstition before the physical sciences actually... | Wikipedia - Critique of Practical Reason - Doctrine of method |
In the first Olympic games, Apollo defeated Ares and became the victor in wrestling. He outran Hermes in the race and won first place.Apollo divides months into summer and winter. He rides on the back of a swan to the land of the Hyperboreans during the winter months, and the absence of warmth in winter is due to his d... | Wikipedia - Apollo - Other stories |
In the first San Diego case, Alcatel-Lucent claims ownership of several patents relating to MP3 and MPEG encoding and compression technologies, as well as other technologies. The patents were obtained as the result of work done at Bell Labs before the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph. Certain patents at issue ... | Wikipedia - Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft Corp. - Patents |
Patent No. 5,341,457, Perceptual Coding of Audio Signals, to Joseph L. Hall and James D. Johnston. Filed: August 20, 1993 Granted: August 23, 1994U.S. Reissue Patent No. RE39,080, Rate loop processor for perceptual encoder/decoder, to James D. Johnston. Filed: August 13, 2002. Reissue of 05627938 Filed: Sep., 1994 Gran... | Wikipedia - Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft Corp. - Patents |
In the first Test, Sri Lanka notified match referee Chris Broad that Australian bowler Peter Siddle may have been raising the seam of the ball during Sri Lanka's first innings. Peter Siddle collected 5/54. He was later cleared by the ICC. | Wikipedia - Ball tampering - Australia vs Sri Lanka, 2012 |
In the first U.S. stamp application of thermochromic ink, the Total Eclipse of the Sun Forever stamps reveal a second image. By rubbing a thumb or finger on the image, the heat imparted will cause an underlying image of the full moon to be revealed. Afterward, the image reverts to the dark image as it cools. | Wikipedia - 2017 Total Solar Eclipse stamp - Details |
The US Postal Service notes that exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light causes degradation of thermochromic inks, so the eclipse stamps should be shielded from sunlight to preserve their thermochromic behavior. To help with this, the Postal Service sends panes of this stamp to purchasers in special UV-blocking envelopes. I... | Wikipedia - 2017 Total Solar Eclipse stamp - Details |
The photograph of the total solar eclipse on the stamp was taken at Jalu, Libya on March 29, 2006 by Fred Espenak. The stamp's alternate image is a photo of the full moon taken by Espenak at his observatory in Portal, Arizona in 2010. Known as "Mr. Eclipse", Espenak is a retired NASA astrophysicist. The stamp was desig... | Wikipedia - 2017 Total Solar Eclipse stamp - Details |
In the first age of Amiga (1986–1989) there were cross-platform spreadsheets available, such as MaxiPlan, which was available also for MS-DOS and Macintosh. Logistix (real name LoGisTiX), one of the first spreadsheets for Amiga, Microfiche Filer Plus was a database which gave the user the experience of exploring data a... | Wikipedia - Amiga productivity software - Database and spreadsheets |
But on Amiga, it would become a standard reference, available in two versions Superbase Personal and SuperBase Professional It could handle SQL databases and had a query internal language such as BASIC. It was capable of creating forms and masks on records and handling multimedia files into its records years before Mic... | Wikipedia - Amiga productivity software - Database and spreadsheets |
Softwood File II was another simple multimedia database which then evolved into Final Data, a good database available for Amiga from Softwood Inc. From the same firm there was Final Calc, a very powerful spreadsheet, similar to TurboCalc from the German company Schatztruhe. ProChart was a tool to draw flow charts and d... | Wikipedia - Amiga productivity software - Database and spreadsheets |
was a fairly full featured (for the time) spreadsheet developed for the Amiga. Organize! was a flat file database package. | Wikipedia - Amiga productivity software - Database and spreadsheets |
Gnumeric spreadsheet has also been ported on Amiga through an X11 engine called AmiCygnix. In recent times MUIbase was born and mainly cross-platform MySQL database language became a reference on Amiga also. SQLite, a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine, can also be found available on Ami... | Wikipedia - Amiga productivity software - Database and spreadsheets |
In the first and second editions of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage Fowler uses the heading false scent to explain writing that causes the reader to second-guess: because the writer knows what is coming ahead, he may forget that his reader does not, and unwittingly "lay false scent" by writing something ambiguous ... | Wikipedia - False scent - Metaphorical usage |
In the first and second persons, Latin uses the ordinary oblique forms of the personal pronouns as reflexive pronouns. In the third person, Latin uses the special reflexive pronoun se, which is the same for all genders and numbers, and declined in all cases except the nominative and the vocative. | Wikipedia - Reflexive pronoun - Latin |
In the first and the most abstract version, which is called Abstract Machine, the designer should specify the goal of the design. | Wikipedia - B-Toolkit - Abstract machine |
In the first approach, the given circles are shrunk or swelled (appropriately to their tangency) until one given circle is shrunk to a point P. In that case, Apollonius' problem degenerates to the CCP limiting case, which is the problem of finding a solution circle tangent to the two remaining given circles that passes... | Wikipedia - Apollonius problem - Shrinking one given circle to a point |
In the first approximation, the current in a thin antenna is distributedexactly as in a transmission line. — Schelkunoff & Friis (1952)(p 217 (§8.4)) The flow of current in wire antennas is identical to the solution of counter-propagating waves in a single conductor transmission line, which can be solved using the tele... | Wikipedia - Radio antenna - Modeling antennas with line equations |
The combination of the incident and reflected wave, just as in a transmission line, forms a standing wave with a current node at the conductor's end, and a voltage node one-quarter wavelength from the end (if the element is at least that long).In a resonant antenna, the feedpoint of the antenna is at one of those volta... | Wikipedia - Radio antenna - Modeling antennas with line equations |
Feeding the antenna at other points involves a large voltage, thus a large impedance, and usually one that is primarily reactive (low power factor), which is a terrible impedance match to available transmission lines. Therefore it is usually desired for an antenna to operate as a resonant element with each conductor ha... | Wikipedia - Radio antenna - Modeling antennas with line equations |
Depending on the conductors' diameters, a small deviation from this length is adopted in order to reach the point where the antenna current and the (small) feedpoint voltage are exactly in phase. Then the antenna presents a purely resistive impedance, and ideally one close to the characteristic impedance of an availabl... | Wikipedia - Radio antenna - Modeling antennas with line equations |
In the first approximation, the optical decay can be treated as just spontaneous emission, and its rate is determined with the Einstein Coefficients. For the most of laser systems, the effects of decoherence determine the spectral width of the emitted photons, and there is no reason to consider in detail the evolution ... | Wikipedia - Optical decay - Phenomenology of optical decay |
In the first assertion, Śāntarakṣita makes the Sautrantika distinction that objects of cognition are of two kinds: abstract, theoretical mental objects (including generalities, like classes of objects and their names) and actual things, defined as things which function. Although the Sautantrika made that distinction fo... | Wikipedia - Madhyamakālaṃkāra - First |
In the first automatic horizontal flask lines the sand was shot or slung down on the pattern in a flask and squeezed with hydraulic pressure of up to 140 bars. The subsequent mold handling including turn-over, assembling, pushing-out on a conveyor were accomplished either manually or automatically. In the late fifties ... | Wikipedia - Sand casting - Horizontal sand flask molding |
In the late sixties mold compaction by fast air pressure or gas pressure drop over the pre-compacted sand mold was developed (sand-impulse and gas-impact). The general working principle for most of the horizontal flask line systems is shown on the sketch below. Today there are many manufacturers of the automatic horizo... | Wikipedia - Sand casting - Horizontal sand flask molding |
In the first campaign, Hideyoshi appointed Ukita Hideie as field marshal, and had him go to the Korean peninsula in April 1592. Konishi Yukinaga occupied Seoul, which was the capital of the Joseon dynasty of Korea, on June 19. After Seoul fell easily, Japanese commanders held a war council in June in Seoul and determin... | Wikipedia - Toyotomi Hideyoshi - First campaign against Korea |
Hamgyong by the Second Division led by Katō Kiyomasa. Hwanghae by the Third Division led by Kuroda Nagamasa. Gangwon by the Fourth Division led by Mōri Katsunaga. | Wikipedia - Toyotomi Hideyoshi - First campaign against Korea |
Chungcheong by the Fifth Division led by Fukushima Masanori. Jeolla by the Sixth Division led by Kobayakawa Takakage. Gyeongsang by the Seventh Division led by Mōri Terumoto. | Wikipedia - Toyotomi Hideyoshi - First campaign against Korea |
Gyeonggi by the Eighth Division led by Ukita Hideie.In only four months, Hideyoshi's forces had a route into Manchuria and occupied much of Korea. The Korean king Seonjo of Joseon escaped to Uiju and requested military intervention from China. In 1593, the Wanli Emperor of Ming China sent an army under general Li Ruson... | Wikipedia - Toyotomi Hideyoshi - First campaign against Korea |
The Ming army of 43,000 soldiers headed by general Li Ru-song proceeded to attack Pyongyang. On January 7, 1593, the Ming relief forces under Li recaptured Pyongyang and surrounded Seoul, but Kobayakawa Takakage, Ukita Hideie, Tachibana Muneshige and Kikkawa Hiroie won the Battle of Byeokjegwan north of Seoul, in moder... | Wikipedia - Toyotomi Hideyoshi - First campaign against Korea |
In the first case, two solid plates are placed in a solution of rigid spherical macromolecules. If the distance between two plates, a {\displaystyle a} , is smaller than the diameter of solute molecules, d {\displaystyle d} , then no solute can enter between the plates. This results in pure solvent existing between the... | Wikipedia - Depletion force - Solid plates in a solution of macromolecules |
In the first centuries of typesetting, quotations were distinguished merely by indicating the speaker, and this can still be seen in some editions of the Christian Bible. During the Renaissance, quotations were distinguished by setting in a typeface contrasting with the main body text (often italic type with roman, or ... | Wikipedia - Quotation marks in English - History |
In some Baroque and Romantic-period books, they would be repeated at the beginning of every line of a long quotation. When this practice was abandoned, the empty margin remained, leaving the modern form of indented block quotation.In Early Modern English, quotation marks were used to denote pithy comments. They were us... | Wikipedia - Quotation marks in English - History |
In the first century B.C., at lines 1026-29 of the fourth book of his On the Nature of Things, Lucretius gave a high-style description of bed-wetting: "Innocent children often, when they are bound up by sleep, believe they are raising up their clothing by a latrine or shallow pot; they pour out the urine from their who... | Wikipedia - Nocturnal enuresis - History |
In the first century BC, the Roman architect Vitruvius said all buildings should have three things: strength, utility, and beauty. Vitruvius's work De Architectura, the only surviving work on the subject from classical antiquity, would have profound influence on architectural theory for thousands of years to come. Even... | Wikipedia - Space architecture - Ideology of building |
However, the tremendous challenge of living in space has led to habitat design based largely on functional necessity with little or no applied ornament. In this sense space architecture as we know it shares the form follows function principle with modern architecture. Some theorists link different elements of the Vitru... | Wikipedia - Space architecture - Ideology of building |
In the first century BCE Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor wrote: The Pythagorean doctrine prevails among the Gauls' teaching that the souls of men are immortal, and that after a fixed number of years they will enter into another body. Julius Caesar recorded that the druids of Gaul, Britain and Ireland had metempsychosis ... | Wikipedia - Transmigration of souls - Celtic paganism |
Valerius Maximus also recounted they had the custom of lending sums of money to each other which would be repayable in the next world. This was mentioned by Pomponius Mela, who also recorded Gauls buried or burnt with them things they would need in a next life, to the point some would jump into the funeral piles of the... | Wikipedia - Transmigration of souls - Celtic paganism |
Conversely, Clement of Alexandria believed Pythagoras himself had learned it from the Celts and not the opposite, claiming he had been taught by Galatian Gauls, Hindu priests and Zoroastrians. However, author T. D. Kendrick rejected a real connection between Pythagoras and the Celtic idea reincarnation, noting their be... | Wikipedia - Transmigration of souls - Celtic paganism |
In the first century of the American republic, No. 10 was not regarded as among the more important numbers of The Federalist. For example, in Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville refers specifically to more than fifty of the essays, but No. 10 is not among them. Today, however, No. 10 is regarded as a seminal wo... | Wikipedia - Federalist 10 - Modern analysis and reaction |
News & World Report, No. 10 (along with Federalist No. 51, also by Madison) was chosen as the 20th most influential document in United States history. David Epstein, writing in 1984, described it as among the most highly regarded of all American political writing.The historian Charles A. Beard identified Federalist No.... | Wikipedia - Federalist 10 - Modern analysis and reaction |
At the outset of his study, Beard writes that Madison provided "a masterly statement of the theory of economic determinism in politics" (Beard 1913, p. 15). Later in his study, Beard repeated his point, providing more emphasis. | Wikipedia - Federalist 10 - Modern analysis and reaction |
"The most philosophical examination of the foundations of political science is made by Madison in the tenth number," Beard writes. "Here he lays down, in no uncertain language, the principle that the first and elemental concern of every government is economic" (Beard 1913, p. 156). | Wikipedia - Federalist 10 - Modern analysis and reaction |
Douglass Adair attributes the increased interest in the tenth number to Beard's book. Adair also contends that Beard's selective focus on the issue of class struggle, and his political progressivism, has colored modern scholarship on the essay. According to Adair, Beard reads No. 10 as evidence for his belief in "the C... | Wikipedia - Federalist 10 - Modern analysis and reaction |
Adair's own view is that Federalist No. 10 should be read as "eighteenth-century political theory directed to an eighteenth-century problem; and ... one of the great creative achievements of that intellectual movement that later ages have christened 'Jeffersonian democracy'".Garry Wills is a noted critic of Madison's a... | Wikipedia - Federalist 10 - Modern analysis and reaction |
But these weapons for delay are given to the minority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character; and they can be used against the majority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character. What Madison prevents is not faction, but action. What he protects is not the common good but delay as such". | Wikipedia - Federalist 10 - Modern analysis and reaction |
In the first century, Ptolemy's Almagest established the common Western depiction of Aquarius. His water jar, an asterism itself, consists of Gamma, Pi, Eta, and Zeta Aquarii; it pours water in a stream of more than 20 stars terminating with Fomalhaut, now assigned solely to Piscis Austrinus. The water bearer's head is... | Wikipedia - Aquarius (constellation) - Depictions |
In the first chapter Darwin described the British orchids he had studied, giving detailed explanations of their various mechanisms for transferring pollen to insects. The first mechanism described is that of Orchis mascula, which serves as an introduction to the explanation of other Orchidaceae. In the upper part of th... | Wikipedia - Fertilisation of Orchids - British orchids |
When an insect lands on the large projecting lower petal, the labellum, and pushes its head and proboscis into the centre of the flower and down to the nectary, it breaks the cup and the adhesive balls attach the pollen masses to the front of the insect. As the insect flies off, each stalk rotates the pollen mass downw... | Wikipedia - Fertilisation of Orchids - British orchids |
This is followed by descriptions of the differences in the mechanisms of several other orchids. In Orchis pyramidalis, the adhesive balls are combined together into a strap or saddle shape, which curls round the thin proboscis of a moth or butterfly to attach to it the pair of pollen masses, illustrated in the book by ... | Wikipedia - Fertilisation of Orchids - British orchids |
As an example of "how beautifully everything is contrived", Darwin described how he had found that in Spiranthes flowers the pollen is ready for collection before access is open for the female organ to receive pollen. At Torquay he had watched bees visiting spires of these flowers, starting at the bottom of the spire a... | Wikipedia - Fertilisation of Orchids - British orchids |
In the first chapter of Christopher Isherwood's My Guru and his Disciple, written in 1940, the writer tells of conversations with Gerald Heard concerning Heard's spiritual values. In their conversations, Heard explains that he follows a lifestyle called "intentional living" (Isherwood put the phrase in quotes). Heard s... | Wikipedia - Intentional living - History |
In the first chapter of Thomas Hardy's 1887 novel The Woodlanders, the narrator states, "He knew every subtle incline of the ten miles of ground between Abbot's Cernel and Sherton—the market town to which he journeyed—as accurately as any surveyor could have learnt it by a Dumpy level." In the online game World of Warc... | Wikipedia - Dumpy level - In popular culture |
In the first chapter of his book Pyrronian Reflexions on Truth and Justification, Robert Fogelin gives a diagnosis that leads to a dialogical solution to Gettier's problem. The problem always arises when the given justification has nothing to do with what really makes the proposition true. Now, he notes that in such ca... | Wikipedia - Gettier problem - Robert Fogelin's perspectival account |
In the first chapter of his book, Papineau offers the causal argument as what he considers the best argument for materialism: Conscious mental occurrences have physical effects All physical effects are fully caused by purely physical prior histories The physical effects of conscious states are not always overdetermined... | Wikipedia - Thinking about Consciousness - Causal argument |
In the first chapter, Deckers abstracts from some of the deeper questions associated with this topic by focusing on the narrow global health impacts, ignoring the question how nonhuman organisms ought or ought not to be treated when human beings make decisions about what to eat. The chapter reveals that, in many situat... | Wikipedia - Animal (De)liberation - Synopsis |
In chapter two, Deckers argues that human moral agents must move beyond these narrow considerations as our duty to strive for holistic human health cannot be fulfilled unless the interests of nonhuman organisms are also considered. In contrast to mainstream theories in animal ethics, which have argued mainly for duties... | Wikipedia - Animal (De)liberation - Synopsis |
This prima facie taboo on the consumption of animal products is also brought to bear on the issue presented by those who entertain the idea of genetically engineering animals in the hope that doing so might reduce their capacities to feel pain or to suffer. Another interest that Deckers considers to be relevant in rela... | Wikipedia - Animal (De)liberation - Synopsis |
The human interests in adopting a taboo on the consumption of animal products and in safeguarding the integrity of nature are also brought to bear on the issue presented by another technology that is currently being developed to reduce some of the concerns sketched in the book: the production of lab-grown, cultured, sy... | Wikipedia - Animal (De)liberation - Synopsis |
In addition, Deckers argues that, if the assumptions that domesticated cats cannot maintain good health on vegan diets and that they must consume some flesh are correct, the development of in-vitro flesh in order to feed them would be appropriate. Chapter two culminates in the development of a theory which Deckers call... | Wikipedia - Animal (De)liberation - Synopsis |
It is a moral rather than a dietary position that can be adopted by everyone, even by those who have very good reasons not to adopt vegan diets. It is a vegan theory in the sense that vegan diets ought to be the default diets for the majority of the human population. Chapter three sets out the political project that is... | Wikipedia - Animal (De)liberation - Synopsis |
The vegan project does not stand or fall if governments either fail to relate to some of the interests that Deckers brings to bear on the issue or do not ascribe the same weight to them. Rather, Deckers argues that something like the vegan project can also be justified merely by appealing to the much narrower range of ... | Wikipedia - Animal (De)liberation - Synopsis |
The first is that it would be pointless in view of the fact that many people are not prepared to embrace it; the second that it should be rejected as it would jeopardise human food security unjustifiably; and the third that the vegan project alienates human beings from the natural world. In chapter four Deckers explore... | Wikipedia - Animal (De)liberation - Synopsis |
In the first chapter, Hawking discusses the history of astronomical studies, particularly ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's conclusions about spherical Earth and a circular geocentric model of the Universe, later elaborated upon by the second-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy. Hawking then depicts the rejection of t... | Wikipedia - A Brief History of Time - Chapter 1: Our Picture of the Universe |
In the modern age, German philosopher Immanuel Kant argued again that time had no beginning. In 1929, American astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding Universe implied that between ten and twenty billion years ago, the entire Universe was contained in one singular extremely dense place. This discovery brou... | Wikipedia - A Brief History of Time - Chapter 1: Our Picture of the Universe |
In the first chapter, Prahalad and Krishnan outline their central thesis; that there are new managerial demands in business, requiring new sources of value creation. They argue that these demands have created an N=1 and R=G environment, where companies need to customize their product for each customer by gaining access... | Wikipedia - The New Age of Innovation - Book summary |
They also argue that a focus on co-creation, by developing an R=G supply network and emphasizing analytics which identify trends and unique opportunities can create a strong competitive advantage. The last four chapters describe how to implement these new strategies. Recognizing that many companies have fragmented and ... | Wikipedia - The New Age of Innovation - Book summary |
In the first chapters of Das Kapital, Marx traces out a brief logical summary of the development of the forms of trade, beginning with barter and simple exchange, and ending with a capitalistically produced commodity. This sketch of the process of "marketisation" shows that the commodity form is not fixed once and for ... | Wikipedia - Exchange value - Commodification |
It is a process that may be influenced not just by economic or technical factors, but also political and cultural factors, insofar as it involves property rights, claims to access to resources, and guarantees about quality or safety of use. "To trade or not to trade", that may be the question. | Wikipedia - Exchange value - Commodification |
The modern debate in this regard focuses often on intellectual property rights because ideas are increasingly becoming objects of trade, and the technology now exists to transform ideas into commodities much more easily. In absolute terms, exchange values can also be measured as quantities of average labour-hours. By c... | Wikipedia - Exchange value - Commodification |
In the first chapters of the book, Darwin argued that there is no fundamental gap between humans and other animals in intellectual and moral faculties as well as anatomy. Retreating from his egalitarian ideas of the 1830s, he ranked life on a hierarchic scale which he extended to human races on the basis of anthropolog... | Wikipedia - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - On the Races of Man |
At the same time, all human races had many mental similarities, and early artefacts showing shared culture were evidence of evolution through common descent from an ancestral species which was likely to have been fully human.Introducing chapter seven ("On the Races of Man"), Darwin wrote: "It is not my intention here t... | Wikipedia - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - On the Races of Man |
Darwin then presented the stronger evidence that human races are all the same species, noting that when races mixed together, they intercrossed beyond the "usual test of specific distinctness" and that characteristics identifying races were highly variable. He put great weight on the point that races graduate into each... | Wikipedia - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - On the Races of Man |
Darwin commented that the "question whether mankind consists of one or several species has of late years been much agitated by anthropologists, who are divided into two schools of monogenists and polygenists." The latter had to "look at species either as separate creations or as in some manner distinct entities" but th... | Wikipedia - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - On the Races of Man |
Although races differed considerably, they also shared so many features "that it is extremely improbable that they should have been independently acquired by aboriginally distinct species or races." He drew on his memories of Jemmy Button and John Edmonstone to emphasise "the numerous points of mental similarity betwee... | Wikipedia - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - On the Races of Man |
Darwin concluded that "when the principles of evolution are generally accepted, as they surely will be before long, the dispute between the monogenists and the polygenists will die a silent and unobserved death. "Darwin rejected both the idea that races had been separately created, and the concept that races had evolve... | Wikipedia - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - On the Races of Man |
In the first civil trial regarding the explosion, four workers filed suit against Williams Olefins LLC and parent company Williams Companies, Inc. for their alleged negligence. | Wikipedia - Williams Olefins Plant explosion - Lawsuits |
In the first claimed synthesis of flerovium, an isotope assigned as 289Fl decayed by emitting a 9.71 MeV alpha particle with a lifetime of 30 seconds. This activity was not observed in repetitions of the direct synthesis of this isotope. However, in a single case from the synthesis of 293Lv, a decay chain was measured ... | Wikipedia - Ununquadium-288 - 289Fl |
This strongly suggests that the activity should be assigned to an isomeric level. The absence of the activity in recent experiments indicates that the yield of the isomer is ~20% compared to the supposed ground state and that the observation in the first experiment was a fortunate (or not as the case history indicates)... | Wikipedia - Ununquadium-288 - 289Fl |
It is possible that these decays are due to 290Fl, as the beam energies in these early experiments were set quite low, low enough to make the 2n channel plausible. This assignment necessitates the postulation of undetected electron capture to 290Nh, because it would otherwise be difficult to explain the long half-lives... | Wikipedia - Ununquadium-288 - 289Fl |
In the first class (process accidents) during the processing of fissile material, accidents have occurred when a critical mass has been created by accident. For instance at Charlestown, Rhode Island, United States, on July 24, 1964, one death occurred. At Tokaimura, Japan, nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, on September ... | Wikipedia - Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases - Process accidents |
The building in which the accident occurred was not designed as a containment building, yet it was able to retard the spread of radioactivity. Because the temperature rise in the nuclear reaction vessel was small, the majority of the fission products remained in the vessel. These accidents tend to lead to very high dos... | Wikipedia - Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases - Process accidents |
In the first couple of years of mass arrests of members of the Communist Party and Soviet government that began after the assassination of Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov (1 December 1934), Beria was one of the few regional party leaders considered ruthless enough to purge the region under his control, without outsid... | Wikipedia - Lavrentiy Beria - The Great Purge |
It was later reported that he was poisoned by Beria. His widow was later arrested, tortured, and made to watch their teenage son being tortured. In December 1936, Nikolai Yezhov the newly appointed head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the ministry which oversaw the state security and police fo... | Wikipedia - Lavrentiy Beria - The Great Purge |
In June 1937, Beria said in a speech, "Let our enemies know that anyone who attempts to raise a hand against the will of our people, against the will of the party of Lenin and Stalin, will be mercilessly crushed and destroyed. "On 20 July, he wrote to Stalin to report that he had had 200 people shot, and was about to s... | Wikipedia - Lavrentiy Beria - The Great Purge |
In the first creation narrative (Elohim) account, it says "male and female created them" (Genesis 1:27), which has been interpreted to imply simultaneous creation of the man and the woman. Whereas the second creation account states that YHWH created Eve from Adam's rib, because he was lonely (Genesis 2:18 ff.). Thus t... | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
If I create her from the eye, then she will wish to pry into all things; if from the ear, she will wish to hear all things; if from the mouth, she will talk much; if from the heart, she will envy people; if from the hand, she will desire to take all things; if from the feet, she will be a gadabout. Therefore, I will cr... | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
"According to the Midrash of Genesis Rabba and other later sources, either Cain had a twin sister, and Abel had two twin sisters, or Cain had a twin sister named Lebuda, and Abel a twin sister named Qelimath. The traditional Jewish belief is that Eve is buried in the Cave of Machpelah. Midrash Rabbah Genesis VIII:1 int... | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
In this way, adam was bodily and spiritually male and female. God later decides that "it is not good for adam to be alone", and creates the separate beings, Adam and Eve. This promotes the idea of two people joining to achieve a union of the two separate spirits. | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
The early rabbinic literature contains also the traditions which portray Eve in a less positive manner. According to Genesis Rabbah 18:4 Adam quickly realizes that Eve is destined to engage in constant quarrels with him. The first woman also becomes the object of accusations ascribed to Rabbi Joshua of Siknin, accordin... | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
18:2). A similar set of charges appears in Genesis Rabbah 17:8, according to which Eve's creation from Adam's rib rather than from the earth makes her inferior to Adam and never satisfied with anything. | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
Finally, the gravest evils attributed to Eve appear in Genesis Rabbah 17:8:Why does a man go out bareheaded while a woman goes out with her head covered? She is like one who has done wrong and is ashamed of people; therefore she goes out with her head covered. Why do they walk in front of the corpse ? | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
Because they brought death into the world, they therefore walk in front of the corpse, , “For he is borne to the grave ... and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him” (Job 21:32f). And why was the precept of menstruation (nidah) given to her? Because she shed the blood of Adam , therefore was the ... | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
And why was the precept of “dough” (ḥalah) given to her? Because she corrupted Adam, who was the dough of the world, therefore was the precept of dough given to her. And why was the precept of the Sabbath lights (nerot shabat) given to her? | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
Because she extinguished the soul of Adam, therefore was the precept of the Sabbath lights given to her.In addition to this, the early rabbinic literature contains numerous instances in which Eve is accused of various sexual transgressions. Told in Genesis 3:16 that “your desire shall be for your husband,” she is accus... | Wikipedia - Eve - Judaism |
In the first creation story in the Bible the world is created as a space inside of the water or Tehom, and is hence surrounded of it, "And Yahweh said, 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'" (Genesis 1:6). It is clear that this upper water refers to the wat... | Wikipedia - Cosmic Ocean - Canaanite mythology |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.