![]() Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics looms large today as the advances in genetics in the last thirty years-from the sequencing of the human genome to modern gene editing techniques-have brought the idea of population purification back into the mainstream.Įugenics has "a short history, but a long past," Rutherford writes. ![]() ![]() How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Ĭontrol is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for molding the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. ![]()
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![]() It is Walter's wife who drags him out of the fantasy that begins the story, when she exclaims that he is driving too fast. And ta-pocketa-pocketa sound that the hydroplane’s eight engines are making is actually being produced by the car that Walter is driving through his small town with his ever-vigilant wife by his side. No crew of any hydroplane could ever be afraid when Commander Walter Mitty is at the helm.Įxcept that Water Mitty is no naval commander. The level of danger is causing anxiety among the crew, but not fear. ![]() ![]() That situation is made all the more precarious as a result of ice forming on the pilot’s window. That story is taking place aboard a naval hydroplane equipped with eight engines and facing what appears to be a life-and-death situation. The reader is thrust right into what might well be the climax of a more traditional story. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Cassoulet kate hill![]() ![]() ![]() Kearns is running low on inventory, but you can order on her website and she will ship it to you when it’s ready. The handmade Cassoulet bowl from Crockett Pottery by Kathy Kearns is a classic design, small at the bottom and large at the top. It is the way it is assembled and cooked, however, that provides its flavor and popularity. Cassoulet is a simple French dish of beans, meat, and vegetables. ![]() Pair with a visit and help out.įor the Francophile – a Cassoulet bowl. ![]() These local organizations are doing good work: Yolo County Food Bank, Davis Farm to School or Yolo Farm to Fork. For fun, I suggest a pairing of companion items.įor those who care about the hungry, about kids learning to garden, about women and their families becoming self-sufficient through job training in the culinary field – A donation in their name. They come straight from my kitchen, my pantry, my library, my heart, my list, or my experience. The gift ideas below are for the cooks in your life. These gifts, to family, to a friend, or to a stranger, keep us human, keep us connected, and fill us with joy. As the holidays approach, we step back from the hectic pace and remind ourselves of the gifts of love, time and kindness. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Bleak house 1853![]() ![]()
6/23/2023 0 Comments Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari![]() That’s how my dad decided on the person with whom he was going to spend the rest of his life. Happily so-and probably more so than most people I know who had nonarranged marriages. ![]() A week later, they were married.Īnd they still are, 35 years later. He quickly deduced that she was the appropriate height (finally!), and they talked for about 30 minutes. The first girl, he said, was “a little too tall,” and the second girl was “a little too short.” Then he met my mom. I asked my dad about this experience, and here’s how he described it: he told his parents he was ready to get married, so his family arranged meetings with three neighboring families. ![]() I am perpetually indecisive about even the most mundane things, and I couldn’t imagine navigating such a huge life decision so quickly. ![]() ![]() ![]() For me, Helen Hayes and McKenzie are what I envisioned in the books. Lansbury was delightful, but on the young side McEwan, too knowing Hickson, too dry with no warmth. However, both Ustinov and Rutherford's characterizations worked great in the movies. My favorite, of course, is Margaret Rutherford, who was hilarious but, like Peter Ustinov, she has nothing to do with the character created by Christie. ![]() I've seen Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury, Helen Hayes, Joan Hickson, Geraldine McEwan, and McKenzie. I notice on this board that there is a lot of discussion about the different Miss Marples. And Rex's death is just the beginning, with the murders mimicking a nursery rhyme. ![]() Marple soon learns that plenty of people wanted Rex dead: His much younger wife, his son Percival, and his son Lance. Marple becomes involved when her former maid, who is working at the Fortescue household, winds up dead as well. It comes out that he was running his business into the ground, according to his son Percival, who worked in the family firm. The story concerns the Fortescue household - its patriarch, Rex, is poisoned. Perhaps this bodes well for the McKenzie series. It's been many years since I've read the books, but it's my understanding that while the stories McEwan appeared in were rewritten Christie, this one, "A Pocketful of Rye" is more faithful to the book. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments A catalog of unabashed gratitude![]() ![]() Whether you're feeling like you have a whole brass band of gratitude or if you're feeling like you only have a rusty horn, read this book. ![]() Gay's praise is Whitmanesque, full of manure, mulberry-stained purple bird poop, dirty clothes and hangovers, but also the pleasure of bare feet, of pruning a peach tree, of feeding a neighbor. Gay's poems burst forth in leggy, unexpected ways, zooming in on legs furred with pollen or soil breast-stroking into the xylem. "Like one big celebration bursting with joy. ![]() In ‘Burial,’ the speaker adds his father's ashes to the soil while planting a plum tree, and he sees his mother as a bison, dragging ‘her hooves through the ash / of her heart,’ in ‘c'mon!’ Whether by contemplating the extraordinary within everyday acts (sleeping in clothes, drinking water, buttoning and unbuttoning a shirt), or by entwining past and present as he pays homage to parents, friends, even his former love, Gay embraces the natural cycles of life and death as only an introspective gardener and accomplished poet can.” Often vulnerable and self-conscious in tone, they dig deep in the dirt of memory and unearth powerful images. ![]() These are accessible, alive poems that give one the sense of sitting and talking in the poet's kitchen. “The Bloomington Community Orchard must have spread its roots into Ross Gay, an Indiana University English professor, as the organic poems in his third collection bear fruit, line by line, with each fresh word or phrase. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's never been outside and she has no idea what she's up against, so I thought her mistakes were somewhat justified. Don't get me wrong, she's still very flawed as a person, and she makes mistakes throughout the book, but it's normal. She's fourteen (I think) and for a fourteen year old girl who's never been outside, she's actually really resourceful and once she gets the idea of what she's up against regarding the outside world, she's very cool. By the end of the book, I really loved Muthr and respected her a lot more. She was doing what she was programmed to do. Her whole purpose was to protect and teach Eva how to survive and live her life. When I continued to read on, I realized that my whole perception of her character was totally wrong. was way too uptight, and I really didn't understand her as a character. They are such a strong team and I'd love to read more about their life in the Sanctuary. The first few chapters were really cool, because they were a nice introduction to Eva and M.U.T.H.R. When I first started reading this book, I was kind of confused because I went into it blindly. His awesome illustrations are all throughout the book, and they just add to the awesome vibe that the book gave me. Tony DiTerlizzi is the co-creator and the illustrator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. Regan has been raving about this series and Tony DiTerlizzi in general. I saw this book and automatically thought of Regan from PeruseProject from YouTube. ![]() ![]() I got this book with my aunt when we went out to a college campus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus begins Yu-jin's frantic three-day search to uncover what happened that night, and to finally learn the truth about himself and his family. But was she calling for help? Or begging for her life? All he has is a faint impression of his mother calling his name. He can't remember much about the night before having suffered from seizures for most of his life, Yu-jin often has trouble with his memory. Yu-jin soon discovers her murdered body, lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs of their stylish Seoul duplex. Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself?Įarly one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all right at home – he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the #1 bestselling novelist known as “Korea's Stephen King” " maintains suspense about her inhuman-seeming protagonist's fate until the bitter end.” - The Wall Street Journalįinalist for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’s “Summer Reads” Book Club “Will leave even the most seasoned crime fiction readers guessing.” - CrimeReads “Ingeniously twisted.” - Entertainment Weekly, “Must List” ![]() ![]() ![]() He also wrote several books, among which “ Nietzsche et la Commune”, “Nietzsche for Beginners”, and “Les femmes, de leur emancipation”. A Doctor of Philosophy, he taught in high school, university, and was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. ![]() In the wake of his experiences, he published “Café for Socrates”, published by Editions Robert Laffont, which was translated into several languages. It was the first café-philo in the world.įounder of the “Cabinet de Philosophie” in 1992, Marc Sautet was also the pioneer of philosophical consultation in France. ![]() On Sundays he hosted philosophical debates for everybody at Café des Phares, Place de la Bastille in Paris. Marc Sautet, specialized in the writings and philosophy of Nietzsche, initiated the café-philo experience together with his friends. ![]() |