![]() ![]() As Bertrand Russell pointed out, if everything were relative there would be nothing for it to be relative to. “The statement that everything is relative is as meaningful as the statement that everything is bigger. Newman wrote an extensive article on Einstein’s theories for The Saturday Evening Post in 1959. An act was only ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in relation to something else. It does not mean that we have the right to turn the world mischievously topsy-turvy.” (Read the entire the interview here “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck” October 26, 1929.)Īnd still Americans used the word for what they thought it should mean: Everything is relative. Relativity, as I see it, merely denotes that certain physical and mechanical facts, which have been regarded as positive and permanent, are relative with regard to certain other facts in the sphere of physics and mechanics. ![]() Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. ![]() “The meaning of relativity,” Einstein said in a 1929 interview with The Saturday Evening Post, “has been widely misunderstood. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Windows version is objectively inferior to Mac versionīottom Line: For a long time, Scrivener was my go-to writing software, and it is still a good option for most writers.Formatting tools are far too complicated.No real-time collaboration or co-author functionality.Cannot open DOC files or ODT files (though Scrivener does import DOCX files).It can be complicated to learn all of Scrivener’s many useful features.Offers a full 30-day free trial that only counts the days you actually open Scrivener.More affordable than comparable writing software.Can export (or “compile”) projects as EPUB, MOBI, PDF, RTF, RTFD, DOC, DOCX, OTD, HTML, TXT, or even FDX, MD, and FOUNTAIN files.Comments, footnotes, annotations, and synopses simplify keeping track of your stream-of-consciousness brainstorming.Templates to fit your writing needs (fiction, nonfiction, screenplay, poem, essay, etc.).Composition Mode erases all distractions and lets you write on a screen of nothing but text, though you can customize the background to be a texture or image as well. ![]() Organizes projects into one file with easy access to countless documents and research in the same window.How does it stack up to the competition?. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joining me now to talk more about it is Debbie Nathan, the author of "Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case." She joins us here in New York, at our studios. And after the book and the movie came out, the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder, well, you can guess it skyrocketed in the U.S, from less to 100 to thousands.īut was Sybil's story really true? A new book, "Sybil Exposed," suggests that Sybil, whose real name was Shirley, pretended - she pretended to have multiple personalities, in part to please her therapist. ![]() First it was a book and then a TV movie and then - remember that two-part miniseries, which was supposedly based on a true story? Sally Field played Sybil, a girl who suffered terrible abuse at the hands of her mother.Īnd to cope with the trauma, she developed multiple personalities - as many as 16. In the 1970s, you might remember that sensational story of Sybil, captured the attention of millions of Americans. IRA FLATOW, host: Up next, a look back at a famous case of multiple personality disorder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liz Baker and her three roommates work at the Nether Fields, a queer magazine in New York that’s on the verge of shutting down-until it’s bought at the last minute by two wealthy lesbians. ![]() The only thing worse than hating your boss? Being attracted to her. “A juicy sapphic romp sweet, sexy, and tender in all the right ways.”-Gabrielle Korn, author of Everybody (Else) Is Perfect “ The L Word, but better.”-TJ Alexander, author of Chef’s Kiss “Brims with heart, spice, and humor.”-Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care Equal parts witty and steamy, this debut rom-com brings a healthy dose of queerness and a whole lot of spirit to a Pride and Prejudice-inspired enemies-to-lovers romance. ![]() ![]() I think for this review I will start with the things I loved and then move onto the things that were OK or that I am not so sure about. Thank you to Pan Australia for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. By forming a tumultuous alliance with Nik, she must make herself ready. Now, darkness is coming, and with it, a force, more terrible and destructive than the world has ever seen, leaving Mari to cast the shadows from the earth. It is not until Nik, the son of the leader from a rival clan, strays across her path, that Mari experiences something she has never felt before. When a deadly attack tears her world apart, Mari reveals the strength of her powers and the forbidden secret of her dual nature as she embarks on a mission to save her people. Mari is an Earth Walker, heir to the unique healing powers of her Clan but she has cast her duties aside, until she is chosen by a special animal ally, altering her destiny forever. A world filled with beauty and danger and cruelty… Cast brings us a new epic fantasy set in a world where humans, their animal allies, and the earth itself has been drastically changed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Title: Moon Chosen: Tales of a New World 1 ![]() ![]() In one powerful section, Elijah causally uses the n-word to refer to himself and the other children of Buxton. ![]() Curtis confronts a wide array of issues in this novel and in many ways he is speaking both to Elijah and to the children of today. The year is 1860 and when a conman steals the money of a family friend that was intended to buy the man’s family from slavery in the South, Elijah embarks on a dangerous journey to America in pursuit of the thief and he discovers the unimaginable horrors of the life his parents fled.Īs readers have come to expect from Curtis, he delivers superior historical research (the author’s notes at the end of the book speak eloquently about the real Buxton settlement), heart-warming characters, lyrical prose, and a story rich in observations, perspective, and truth. ![]() ![]() Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis tells the story of Elijah Freeman, the first freeborn child born in the colony of Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. ![]() ![]() Too much overdeveloped British snark over too many pages. ![]() The most disappointing, despite being highly recommended by others in the food nethersphere, is Cooking With Fernet Branca. For more suggestions, from the books featured in these posts, you might find some additional good reads that might otherwise have escaped your notice. I search for a bit of history, a dab of satire, a perspective on cooking and something totally escapist too – although this summer my escapist adventure has been The Money Heist on Netflix. Summer reading is different, and a little bit more disciplined. My post Christmas reading follows a much stricter rule, whose only demand is that I don’t have to work hard for my enjoyment. But now, without any essays demanded, I love looking through summer reading suggestions that I get from my local book store, Old Town Books, or The New York Times and even some food websites. Back then, you had to write a long, penetrating essay on the meaning of the book, which added to the misery. Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent for English, Swann’s Way in French (that was going to be part of my major) and one other that I have blessedly obliterated from memory. ![]() The most painful obligatory summer reading list I have had to endure was the one sent to me the summer before my freshman year at college. Read Time: 5 Minutes Subscribe & Share Summer Reading Progression Home » Browse » Book Report » Book Report: Summer Reading With Bill Buford JWritten by: Nancy Pollard ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is more than fine with Peyton-after all, it’ll only help reassure her picture-perfect boyfriend back on campus that following the band is all totally professional.Yet being forced to look at Sam in a new way brings Peyton a different perspective on the past-and his magnetic baby-blues and rippling muscles are hard to ignore. Neither wants to deal with old pain and misunderstanding, and they agree to keep the past in the past. She and Sam have a history, one that has made them enemies. Then Peyton, a budding music journalist, joins the tour, tasked with chronicling the band’s every move. But for Sam, the band’s dazzling but troubled bassist, making sure his past stays locked away feels more important than winning the spotlight. When they get an offer to join a national tour, the musicians of Luminescent Juliet finally find their ticket to fame. ![]() ![]() ![]() wonderful characters, action, humor, a little sex, and a vivid picture of one of the last American rainforests. He enters a world of toxic salamanders, quirky characters and government conspiracies, where the outlandish becomes amazingly believable.“A memorable mind-altering venture of wildlife biologists exploring Washington’s rainforests, forging hilarious new trails beyond the beaten track, revealing secrets hidden beneath the skin of salamanders.” -Diana Somerville author of Inside Out Down Under: Stories from a Spiritual Sabbatical“. ![]() But when Douglas hires an eccentric old herpetologist as a research assistant, his plans for a successful future are derailed. Douglas Mortimer, just beginning graduate school, is on his way to fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a great scientist. ![]() Has evolution made humans into big babies? Can a grown man be toppled with a straw and a newt? Is salamander spit the newest weapon of mass destruction? The answers lie Somewhere Upriver. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. ![]() Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. ![]() Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. ![]() |