Rhetoric, the ancient art of verbal manipulation, excels when a narrative can be framed to hook the receiver on a core value. Aristotle defined rhetoric as “the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion”, and since mastery of the art was necessary for victory in a case at law, for passage…
As I engage more on Bluesky to avoid providing X my eyeballs, a great challenge caught me. List your top 20 books that have shaped your life, regardless of order. At first, it sounds really easy, then when I had to limit it to 20 – the challenge hit me full on. See everybody’s here….
Fiction readers are well familiar with unreliable narrators. Wikipedia summarizes like this: In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised. They can be found in fiction and film, and range from children to mature characters. While unreliable narrators are almost by definition first-person narrators, arguments have been made for the existence…
This post I stumbled upon from The Guardian. The key to the post was a research paper in Frontiers in Plant Science. Here’s the Guardian’s summary that should get everybody’s attention. Streetlights left on all night cause leaves to become so tough that insects cannot eat them, threatening the food chain, a study has found….
Stonehenge continues to teach us important lessons – as long as we reject the distractions. Reuters of all places was where I found a new study in Nature about the provenance of the Altar Stone – Scotland, almost 500 miles away per this study. Here’s the summary from Nature article: Understanding the provenance of megaliths…
Grist published an article explaining the day – there’s a day called “Earth Overshoot Day”. “Earth Overshoot Day” reminds us that humans consume more resources than the planet can provide. Correcting that requires reimagining human behavior. Grist Humans have taken more from earth than the earth can supply within balance since 1971. The question for…
