Most large cities have at least a few interesting buildings, but for my money, Chicago is the best. (This from someone who hasn't traveled that much.)...
Jamal resents your claim to be the "preeminent Shoutbox buffoon" because there has been so much competition for this title since the beginning. Why ha...
A highpoint in my Wright fan phase was touring Falling Water. It's not the sort of place I would enjoy living in, but it's a lovely and fascinating bu...
Yes, it's light, shape and surfaces are restful. It also 'works' as a space. The walls and ceiling are slightly asymmetrical, which reduces reverberat...
So, millions of people who are very accomplished, creative, admired thinkers, creators, performers, etc. have gone through various school systems over...
Apparently the development of children is outside your field of knowledge. I think that because I have observed children acquiring knowledge. Spoken l...
I'm 100% in favor of self-directed learning, with the caveat that most children need help in acquiring the most basic information, like the sounds ass...
I could, would, and do consider them reciprocal. Certainly, animals of all kinds learn without instruction (including us), but many animals teach thei...
The church was built in 1949. The large congregation wanted a typical American gothic church - big stained glass windows, arches, and so on, but that ...
University Departments of Rat Studies are finding that rats (rodents of several kinds) have more complex behaviors than we would suppose. I'm personal...
The church across the street was designed by the Finn Eliel Saarinen and his an addition by his son Eero. The local Finns feel entitled to hang out th...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oVxJ-yJvlCs Rats in the toilet are not wandering around on the floor -- they are swimming circles in your bowl, just in...
I am in total agreement with you. I attended school in a small town in Minnesota starting in 1952. Was it a good education? It was a mixed bag. Some e...
You raise an urgent and critical philosophical issue here: What is "real Chinese food"? If you are in China, eat a typical local native meal, and it i...
I would congratulate you on being the first person to use "inamorata" on TPF but you had help from me, so I can not thus praise you. On the other hand...
Yes. The Industrial Revolution changed things. 250 years ago, the economic activity that most people (outside of the elite) engaged in did not require...
It looks enough like Chinatown that anyone can find it. If it looked like a New York slum, that would be confusing. To New Yorkers, nothing is as impo...
https://64.media.tumblr.com/fc7f6195b2337b368a0eacedebfa701e/eb1e1a77b57f105e-2c/s1280x1920/b5520f55127feef36863841a85d09f3a2691fb1b.jpg Imagine life ...
@"Jamal" aka mynah bird... Per your question, I am pretty sure that I have failed to receive email alerts for the last 3 PMs in my inbox (over the las...
Quite a sweeping generalization! On the other hand, I agree that the program of mass education for Americans is, indeed, designed to produce compliant...
Have you tried a dermatologist? Maybe there is something wrong with you. You walk in, and he or she says "My god! I've been waiting for a case like th...
You are 6 hours ahead of the East Coast, 7 ahead of the central time zone, 9 of the west coast time zone, assuming you are also on daylight savings ti...
Well, automation is driven by the desire to increase production and reduce production costs, like labor. I don't think automation-designers are worrie...
Nothing, pretty much. I'm 76 and retired. I read a lot, do household chores, try to fit some tame exercise in, peruse the philosophy forum and other s...
I don't disagree with you on this. A) what one person finds mindlessly boring, somebody else will find tolerable. I enjoy sorting office mail for inst...
At the time, I was a principal secretary for a couple of departments in the College of Management. I applied for the job because I needed a paycheck q...
Chocolate babka is a regular item at the bakery I like, in log rolls and in large single rolls, like big cinnamon rolls. For a discussion of chocolate...
Do you sneeze when you go out into the sunshine? According to The Guardian, "A faulty connection in the nervous system may link sexual responses to th...
If quango is common, it must be a Britishism. "A semipublic administrative body outside the civil service but receiving financial support from the gov...
Get over it. They're pretty obscure. Being "obscure", you understand, isn't a judgement on the word's worth. They're all good words (except floccinauc...
Change over time. Here's an example that will be totally obscure to 99% of English readers: "A gentle knight was pricking on the plain..." This is the...
Words Words Words... For the past few years I've been collecting unfamiliar and previously unseen words from science fiction, history, and sociology a...
There are many pictures of lavender growing in rows in France and Spain. I don't get much from lavender as a scent or flavor. It is certainly beautifu...
@"Hanover" TWO QUESTIONS: IS THIS TRUE? A) NYT TRILOBITES HEADLINE: Outsiders Solve Problems. Just Ask Goats. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/04/...
The Anglo-Saxons borrowed the Norman French "bleu". Not sure what word they used to describe the sky on a clear day before the borrowing. Maybe they j...
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