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A Franciscan Benediction
May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial
relationships, so that we may live deep within our hearts.
May God bless us with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so
that we may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless us with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection,
starvation and war, so that we may reach out our hands to comfort them and turn
their pain into joy.
And may God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a
difference in this world, so that we can do what others claim cannot be done.
Amen.
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so
long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much
so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
-E. M. Forster
“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science
explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.”
-Viva Le Guin
who consider themselves value investors are going to have to shift from exploiting “fear and greed”,
and instead look more closely at taking advantage of
the pricing inefficiencies that are being created by the growing amount of money controlled by
rules-based ETFs and other passive funds. - - FT
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in
him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the
Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of
God abides forever.John 2:15
John Maynard Keynes: The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Boggarts are malevolent household spirits of British folklore that latch onto unfortunate families and cause
trouble for them
From chorus mrinal sen movie
the fundamental attribution error (FAE), also known as the correspondence bias or attribution
effect, is the claim that in contrast to interpretations of their own behavior, people place undue
emphasis on internal characteristics of the agent (character or intention), rather than external
factors, in explaining other people's behavior. The effect has been described as "the tendency to
believe that what people do reflects who they are"
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but
positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind-
Henry David Thoreau
ಕರವ ಮು ದನು, ಮುಖ ಾ ಣ
ಕರವ ಮು ದನು ||ಪ||
ಕರವ ಮು ದ ೕ ಹ ಯ ಇ ಾ
ದುರುಳರ ಸ ದು ಶರಣರ ಂದು || ಅ.ಪ||
ೕ ೕಶ ೖಕ ವ ಜಗತು ಥ ಂದು
ಈ ಧ ೕಳುವ ಾ ಗಳ ಂದು ||
ಇ ಾತ ವ ೕದ , ಅ ಒಂ ೕ ಎಂಬ
ುಲ ಕರನು ದ ಲು ಮು ಮು ||
ಾರತಮ ಪಂಚ ೕದ ಸತ ಂಬ
ಾರು ಮತ ಂ ದವರನು ಸಲ ಂದು ||
ಪ ಪ ಭಕ ರ ಹೃದಯದ ಂದು
ರತ ಾಡುವ ಕಮ ಹ ಅ ತ ಂದು ||
ಹ ಾ ೂೕ ಾ ಾರ ಬಲ ಾರಣ ನಮ
ಪ ರಂದರ ಠಲನ ಚರಣ ರ ಂದು ||
"समर शेष है , नह ं पाप का भागी केवल याध
जो तट थ ह, समय लखेगा उनके भी अपराध I"
आधु नक हंद सा ह य क अमू य न ध रामधार संह दनकर (१९०८-७४) के ज म दवस पर धांज लमन sep 23
ला यो मेरो यार, फ़क र म
जो सखु पाऊँ नाम भजन म
सो सख
ु ना हं अमीर म
-Kabir
“fanaticism consists in doubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim”.
- George Santayana
Measuring what worked in the past is a science. Understanding why things are different now is
an art.- Jul 5, 2018 by Morgan Housel
The tendency for investors to take more and greater risks when investing with profits. The house money effect gets its name from
the casino phrase "playing with the house's money." The house money effect was first described by Richard H. Thaler and Eric J.
Johnson
जो अग णत लघु द प हमारे
तफ
ू ान म एक कनारे ,
जल-जलाकर बझ ु गए कसी दन
माँगा नह ं नेह मँह
ु खोल
कलम, आज उनक जय बोल.
2. हमारे कृषक
जेठ हो क हो पसू , हमारे कृषक को आराम नह ं है
छूटे कभी संग बैल का ऐसा कोई याम नह ं है
मख
ु म जीभ शि त भज ु ा म जीवन म सख
ु का नाम नह ं है
वसन कहाँ? सख
ू ी रोट भी मलती दोन शाम नह ं है
दध
ू -दधू औ व स मं दर म बहरे पाषान यहाँ है
दधू -दधू तारे बोलो इन ब च के भगवान कहाँ ह
दध
ू -दधू गंगा तू ह अपनी पानी को दधू बना दे
दधू -दधू उफ कोई है तो इन भख
ू े मद
ु को जरा मना दे
दध
ू -दधू द ु नया सोती है लाऊँ दधू कहाँ कस घर से
दधू -दधू हे दे व गगन के कुछ बँद
ू टपका अ बर से
पर तम
ु नगर के लाल, अमीर के पत ु ले, य यथा भा यह न क मन म लाओगे?
जलता हो सारा दे श, क त,ु होकर अधीर तम
ु दौड़-दौड़कर य यह आग बझ
ु ाओगे?
4. परशरु ाम क ती ा
हे वीर ब धु ! दायी है कौन वपद का ?
हम दोषी कसको कह तु हारे वध का ?
जो स य जान कर भी न स य कहता है ,
या कसी लोभ के ववश मकू रहता है ,
उस कु टल राजत ी कदय को धक् है ,
यह मकू स यह ता कम नह ं व धक है ।
चोर के ह जो हत,ू ठग के बल ह,
िजनके ताप से पलते पाप सकल ह,
जो छल- पंच, सब को य दे ते ह,
या चाटुकार जन से सेवा लेते ह;
यह पाप उ ह ं का हमको मार गया है ,
भारत अपने घर म ह हार गया है ।
जब तक स न यह अनल, सग ु ुण हँसते है ;
है जहाँ ख ग, सब पु य वह ं बसते ह.
वीरता जहाँ पर नह ं, पु य का य है ,
वीरता जहाँ पर नह ं, वाथ क जय है .
हम द उस को वजय, हम तम ु बल दो,
दो श और अपना संक प अटल दो.
ह खड़े लोग क टब ध वहाँ य द घर म,
है कौन हम जीते जो यहाँ समर म ?
पज
ू रहा है जहाँ च कत हो जन-जन दे ख अकाज
सात वष हो गये राह म, अटका कहाँ वराज?
अटका कहाँ वराज? बोल द ल ! तू या कहती है ?
तू रानी बन गयी वेदना जनता य सहती है ?
सबके भा य दबा रखे ह कसने अपने कर म?
उतर थी जो वभा, हुई बं दनी बता कस घर म
त मर पु ये द यु कह ं कोई द ु का ड रच ना
सावधान हो खडी दे श भर म गाँधी क सेना
ब ल दे कर भी ब ल! नेह का यह मद ृ ु त साधो रे
मं दर औ' मि जद दोन पर एक तार बाँधो रे
-Khusro
-Financial express
(28-June-2018)
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and
mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of
life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them
-Henry David Thoreau
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly
honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers, and of love for our
posterity.
-John Quincy Adams
The middle-income trap is the situation in which a country's growth slows after reaching middle
income levels. The transition to high-income levels then seemingly becomes unattainable.
Defenestration: The term originates from two incidents in history, both occurring in Prague. In 1419, seven town
officials were thrown from the Town Hall window, precipitating the Hussite War. In 1618, two Imperial governors and
their secretary were tossed from Prague Castle, sparking the Thirty Years War. These incidents, particularly in 1618, were
referred to as the Defenestrations of Prague and gave rise to the term and the concept.
psychological distance—that is, gaps between yourself and other people (social distance), the
present and the future (temporal distance), your physical location and faraway places (spatial
distance), or imagining something and experiencing it (experiential distance).
The Schmidt Sting Pain Index is a scale that rates the relative pain caused by the stings of nearly 80
species of insects in the Hymenoptera order, which includes wasps, bees, and ants
We seek rich, satisfying lives, and richness goes along with complexity. Our favorite songs, stories,
games, and books are rich, satisfying, and complex. We need complexity even while we crave
simplicity… Some complexity is desirable. When things are too simple, they are also viewed as dull and
uneventful. Psychologists have demonstrated that people prefer a middle level of complexity: too simple
and we are bored, too complex and we are confused. Moreover, the ideal level of complexity is a moving
target, because the more expert we become at any subject, the more complexity we prefer. This holds
true whether the subject is music or art, detective stories or historical novels, hobbies or movies.--
Living with Complexity
The Enlightenment started with essentially philosophical insights spread by a new technology.
Our period is moving in the opposite direction. It has generated a potentially dominating
technology in search of a guiding philosophy. - end of enlightenment (Atlantic)
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to
appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy
The Celtic Tree of Life symbol has many different interpretations. The Tree of Life is a
representation harmony and balance in nature. The Tree of Life, to the Celts, symbolizes
strength, a long life, and wisdom. The tree also represents rebirth, as it will lose its leaves during
the fall season, hibernate throughout the winter, and will be reborn again once spring arrives.
The Celts also believed that they actually came from trees, and considered them magical, living
beings. Trees were said to guard the land and acted as a doorway into the spirit world.
And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds - Henry 8
Claudio-- The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope:I've hope to live, and am prepared to die. Measure for Measure
माया मर ना मन मारा, मर मर गए शर र |
आशा त ृ णा ना मर , कह गए दास कबीर ||
कबीरदास क उलट वाणी, बरसे क बल भींजे पानी। proverb
बझ
ू ो-बझ
ू ो पं डत अमत
ृ वाणी।
बरसे क बल भींजे पानी।।
No heresy can persist for very long: either it must triumph, and then it will form a new
orthodoxy of its own, or it will fade into oblivion. - Guardian
The Lake Wobegon effect, a natural human tendency to overestimate one's capabilities.. The
characterization of the fictional location, where "all the women are strong, all the men are good
looking, and all the children are above average," has been used to describe a real and pervasive
human tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others
serious investor’s time is better spent analysing industry structures, understanding businesses,
growth and capital characteristics and ensuring that one gets in at a reasonable price to protect
against analytical mistakes. Unfortunately, this skill set can’t be developed by watching business
news
In philosophy, supervenience is a relation used to describe cases where (roughly speaking) a
system's upper-level properties are determined by its lower-level properties. Some philosophers
hold that the world is structured into a kind of hierarchy of properties, where the higher-level
properties supervene on the lower-level properties
The collision theory states that when suitable particles of the reactant hit each other, only a certain
percentage of the collisions cause any noticeable or significant chemical change; these successful
changes are called successful collisions. The successful collisions have enough energy, also known
as activation energy, at the moment of impact to break the preexisting bonds and form all new
bonds. This results in the products of the reaction. Increasing the concentration of the reactant
particles or raising the temperature, thus bringing about more collisions and therefore many more
successful collisions, increases the rate of reaction
George Orwell: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present
controls the past.”
"right up the Wazoo", meaning "in large or excessive quantities, to
disgusting excess":: wazoo- buttocks
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing
it.- Feynman
Lisa says that only one person in a million would find the C:/DOS T-shirt funny, which Professor Frink
calls "The Dennis Miller" Ratio, making fun of the comedian's use of obscure facts and elaborate
metaphors
Principal Skinner notes that the town's trains are running on "metric time" while looking at an analog
clock numbered 1-10. Metric time does exist, however it is simply a way of using the second with metric
prefixes, and cannot be used to determine the time of day.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go
forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ethics refer to rules provided by an external source, e.g., codes of conduct in workplaces or principles in
religions.Morals refer to an individual's own principles regarding right and wrong.
Brood parasites are organisms that rely on others to raise their young.
A situation when increased interest rates lead to a reduction in private investment spending such that it
dampens the initial increase of total investment spending is called crowding out effect.
The Base effect relates to inflation in the corresponding period of the previous year, if the inflation rate
was too low in the corresponding period of the previous year, even a smaller rise in the Price Index will
arithmetically give a high rate of inflation now.
The Prayer of Jabez (1 Chronicles 4:10)
The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9–13)
Jonah’s Prayer for Salvation (Jonah 2:2–9)
David’s Prayer for Deliverance (Psalm 3)
Hannah’s Prayer of Praise (1 Samuel 2:1–10)
ಪಟ ಾಸನು ಾನಲ | ಟ ಾಸನು ಾನಲ |
ಟು ಾಸನು ಾನಲ | ಸುಟ ಾಸನು ಾನಲ |
ಸುಡ ಾಡು ಾಸ ಾನಲ |ಕಷ ಾಸ ಾನಲ |
ೂಟ ಾಸ ಾನಲ | ೂ ಾಸ ಾನಲ |
ಇ ಾಸ ಾನಲ | ಷ ಾಸ ಾನಲ |
ಷ ಾಸ ಾನಲ |ಭ ಷ ಾಸ ಾನಲ |
ೕಷ ಾಸ ಾನಲ | ತ ಾಸ ಾನಲ |
ಹುತ ಾಸ ಾನಲ |
ಾನು ಈ ೂಡಶ ಾಸರುಗಳ ಾಸನು ಾಸರ ಾ ಯರ
ಮ ಯ ಮಂಕು ಾಸರ ಮ ಯ ಶಂಕು ಾಸ ಾಡ ಾ ೕಶವ ||
Behulais regarded as the epitome of a loving and loyal wife in the Bengali
culture.
Time may suggest possible new ways. But to step on the right one is not the
work of Time. It is the work of man. Man therefore is a factor in the making
of history and that environmental forces whether impersonal or social if they
are the first are not the last things. - Ranade Lecture Ambedkar
Veer Teja or Tejaji was legendary Rajasthani folk hero. He is considered one of the major eleven
incarnations of Lord Shiva and worshipped as a deity in rural Rajasthan. Tejaji's legend is that of a young
man, striving for respect and recognition, who is willing to sacrifice everything in order maintain tribal
conceptions of honour.
Praxeology: with the action axiom (Action axioms are of the form "If a condition holds, then the following
should be done") as the starting point, it is possible to draw conclusions about human behavior that are
both objective and universal. For example, the notion that humans engage in acts of choice implies that
they have preferences, and this must be true for anyone who exhibits intentional behavior.
ಅ ಾ ೕನು ಾ ಾರ ಾ ದ
ಾನು ಾನ ಂಬ ಾಹನ ಾ ಾ ಾ
ಅ ಾ ೕನು ಾಟ ಂದ
ಾನು ೖತನ ಂಬ ಾಹನ ಾ ಾ ಾ
ಅ ಾ ೕನು ಆ ಾರ ಾ ದ
ಾನು ವೃಷಭ ಂಬ ಾಹನ ಾ ಾ ಾ
ಅ ಾ ೕ ನ ಭವವ ೂಂ ಂದು
ಜಂಗಮ ಾಂಛನ ಾ ಬಂದ
ಾನು ಭಕ ಂಬ ಾಹನ ಾ ಾ ಾ
ಕೂಡಲಸಂಗಮ ೕ ಾ.
ಾಲ ೂ ಲ ದ ಸರು, ಸಕ ಯ ಮಳಲು,
ತವ ಾಜದ ಯಂ ಆದ ರ ವಚನ ರಲು,
ೕ ಾ ಯ ೂೕ , ಉಪ ೕರನುಂಬುವ ಯಂ
ಆ ನ ಮ , ಕೂಡಲ ಸಂಗಮ ೕ ಾ.
Republican Party meeting of the 1954, Eisenhower remarked: "I heard a definition of an intellectual that I thought
was very interesting: a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows."
In his book, Hofstadter perceptively remarked that the Right "has always liked to blur the distinction between the
moderate progressive and the revolutionaries”
193,939 is a Circular Prime: regardless of what way you arrange the digits, the resulting number is prime
https://t.co/insrYEbSmj
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder- Chesterton(there's no dearth of
wonders in the world but of wonderment)
Ludwig von Mises in particular argued against empiricist approaches to the social sciences in general, because human events
are unique and "unrepeatable," whereas scientific experiments are necessarily reducible - on praxeology
l'esprit de l'escalier:A French phrase meaning "the wit of the staircase"; a perfect witty remark, retort, or rejoinder
that occurs to one after the fact or too late to be used. (Also written as "l'esprit d'escalier.")
We humans tend to think we’re basing our beliefs on solid evidence when we’re really
just cherry-picking anecdotes or plain telling stories to support our existing
beliefs. We think we’re making evidence-based decisions, but often we’re doing it
backwards -Kanheman
Graphical proof - Chitrabhanu
The European University comes before our vision, full-grown. That is why we cannot think of a University except
as a fully developed institution. The sight of my neighbour, with a sturdy son to help and support him, may naturally
provoke in my mind an envious wish to have a son myself. But if my wish be to have a full-grown son all at once,
then, in my hurry, I may stumble upon somebody who is fully grown up, but who is no son to me at all. An
impatient craving for result and an unfortunate weakness for imitation have led us to cherish just such an unnatural
desire for a National University, full-fledged from its very birth. So that most of our endeavours become fruitless, or
else the only fruit they produce is of the class of lacquer-ware fruit, which may rival the real thing in size and shape
and colouring, but which one has to beware of biting, much more of taking into the stomach. These solidly complete
Universities, over which our country is brooding, are like hard- boiled eggs from which you cannot expect chickens
to come out.
..I quite understand that food and the utensils to eat it out of are both needful to man. But where there is a shortage
of food, a parsimony in regard to utensils also becomes necessary. To make the paraphernalia of our Education so
expensive that Education itself becomes difficult of attainment would be like squandering all one's money in buying
money-bags.
… We in the East have had to arrive at our own solution of the problem of life. We have, as far as possible, made
our food and clothing unburdensome; and this our very climate has taught us to do. We require openings in the walls
more than the walls themselves. Light and air have more to do with our wearing apparel than the weavers' loom. The
sun makes for us the heat- producing factors which elsewhere are required from food-stuffs. All these natural
advantages have moulded our life to a particular shape, which I cannot believe it will be profitable to ignore in the
case of our education.
...I do not seek to glorify poverty. But simplicity is of greater price than the appendages of luxury. The simplicity of
which I speak is not merely the effect of a lack of superfluity: it is one of the signs of perfection. When this dawns
on mankind, the unhealthy fog which now besmirches civilization will be lifted. It is for lack of this simplicity that
the necessaries of life have become so rare and costly. .
..Most things in the civilized world, such as eating and merry-making ...occupy more than their legitimate space.
Much of their burden is needless; and in bearing it civilized man may be showing great strength, but little skill. ..
But though our physicians are now practising in every town and village and hamlet of the country, and though many
of them are of good repute and making money, all this extensive experience of theirs has not resulted in any new
theory, or great fact, being added to the science of medicine.
.. We boast of the up-to-dateness of our education; we forget that the mission of all education is to lead us beyond
the present date.
..Communication of life can only be through a living agency. And culture, which is the life of mind, can only be
imparted through man to man. Book learning, or scriptural texts, may merely make us pedants. They are static and
quantitative; they accumulate and are hoarded up under strict guards. Culture grows and moves and multiplies itself
in life.
..Our education to us is like the carriage to a horse; a bondage, the dragging of which merely serves to provide it
with food and shelter in the stable of its master; the horse has not the same freedom of relationship with the carriage
as its owner, and therefore the carriage ever remains for it an imposition of beggarly necessity.
- Meenaxi Mukherjee on Anand Math (epw 1982)
“Man,” Sartre wrote, “is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is
responsible for everything he does.“
...When words are used equivocally, I receive them in either sense; when they
are metaphorical, I adopt them in their primitive acceptation.
...WORDS ARE THE DAUGHTERS OF EARTH, AND THAT THINGS ARE THE SONS OF HEAVEN.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of
ideas.
...Our knowledge of the northern literature is so scanty, that of words
undoubtedly Teutonick the original is not always to be found in any ancient
language; and I have therefore inserted Dutch or German substitutes, which I
consider not as radical but parallel, not as the parents, but sisters of the
English.
...So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations,
that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the
writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English
undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction. Our language, for almost a
century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from
its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and
phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal it, by making our
ancient volumes the ground-work of stile, admitting among the additions of
later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily
adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native
idioms.
...Nor are all words which are not found in the vocabulary, to be lamented as
omissions. Of the laborious and mercantile part of the people, the diction is
in a great measure casual and mutable; many of their terms are formed for some
temporary or local convenience, and though current at certain times and places,
are in others utterly unknown. This fugitive cant(hypocritical and sanctimonious talk,
typically of a moral, religious, or political nature), which is always in a state of increase
or decay, cannot be regarded as any part of the durable materials of a
language, and therefore must be suffered to perish with other things unworthy
of preservation.
-Preface to English Dictionary by Johnson (Vasta mole superbus)
Furor Teutonicus ||| Jouhar
Respect is earned, not conferred. It is not a door prize. Equal respect is a contradiction in
terms, since the very concept of respect implies an inequality of esteem and regard. All may be
entitled to a common decency but not all can receive a higher relative ranking. -Thomas sowell
In statistical hypothesis testing, a type I error is the incorrect rejection of a true
null hypothesis (a "false positive"), while a type II error is incorrectly retaining a
false null hypothesis (a "false negative").More simply stated, a type I error is the
(false) detection of an effect that is not present, while a type II error is the failure
to detect an effect that is present.
Lycherl number: ex 196
solipsism: the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity- Aristotle
Centre of Indian culture: tagore
Fredrich Schiller, charles Fourier
Russian reversal: in America you do the act, in Russia act does you
In America you break the law, in Russia law breaks you
cliodynamics : attempts to identify the cycles of social unrest and violence
Deep story : story that agrees with us…
Red state paradox
Blue state paradox
ಾ ಂದ ಜನನ
ಹುಡು ಂದ ಮರಣ
ಾ ೂಟ ತುತು , ೂೕ ಾಕತು
ಹುಡು ೂಟ ಮುತು , ೕವ ಆಪತು
Written on kle College wall (near HDMC) 1sep17
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that
they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude - Nietzsche
Truth is, love and marriage would lose much of their allure if there were no reciprocation
tendency among partners. By loving, we literally may become loved.Displaying
generosity can be a powerful way to advance a relationship by setting up implicit
expectations of compliance from the other person.Perhaps the key to genuine
relationships lies at least partially in each party being kind without expectations
Hochschild says that both conservative and liberals have "deep stories" — about who
they are, and what their values are. Deep stories don't need to be completely accurate,
but they have to feel true. They're the stories we tell ourselves to capture our hopes,
pride, disappointments, fears, and anxieties.
History, Mark Twain is supposed to have said, doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme
2- The organisation of labour into social labour: through cooperation, division of labour
and the uniting of labour with the natural sciences;
commodity fetishism:
Commodity fetishism is the illusion emerging from the centrality of private property in
capitalism, which then determines not only how people work and interact, but also how
they perceive reality and understand social change.
All baking powders contain sodium bicarbonate (just like baking soda). But baking
powder also contains two acids. One of these acids is called monocalcium phosphate.
Monocalcium phosphate doesn’t react with the sodium bicarbonate while it’s dry. But
as soon as the baking powder is stirred into a wet dough or batter, the two ingredients
begin to react, releasing bubbles of CO2 and causing chemical leavening.
But to extend the chemical leavening process, baking powder also contains a second
acid, either sodium acid pyrophosphate or sodium aluminum sulfate. Neither of these
acids react with sodium bicarbonate until they are both: A) wet (i.e., stirred into the
batter) and B) hot.
Theorem — a mathematical statement that is proved using rigorous mathematical
reasoning. In a mathematical paper, the term theorem is often reserved for the most
important results. Lemma — a minor result whose sole purpose is to help in proving a
theorem. It is a stepping stone on the path to proving a theorem.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering
for. Bob Marley
“Whose bread I eat: his song I sing.”
—Proverb
Chesterton's fence : Just because there doesn't seem to be a reason for this fence to be here doesn't mean there isn't a reason
या ी यथा हरे त ् पु ान ् दं ा यां न च पीडयेत ्।
भीता पतन-भेदा यां त व वणान जोजयेत ्।।-पा णनी श ा- लोक २४
We are time's subjects, and time bids begone. (1.3.116)- Henry 2
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your
feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”- Tolkein
“Inevitability Thinking is thinking and acting as if what you are doing is a forgone conclusion because you
set up the conditions for it to happen.” — Eban Pagan
20 poems
1. “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. “If–” by Rudyard Kipling
3. “Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats
4. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
5. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
6. “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
7. “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” by Walt Whitman
8. “Horatius” by Thomas Babington
9. “On the Stork Tower” by Wang Zhihuan
10. “The Builders” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
11. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
12. “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke
13. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot
14. “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
15. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne
16. Poem from The Iron Heel by Jack London
17. The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
18. Opportunity” by John James Ingalls
19. Character of the Happy Warrior” by William Wordsworth
20. Ode 1.11 by Horace
"रं गी को नारं गी कहे , बने दध
ू को खोया ।
चलती को गाडी कहे , दे ख कबीरा रोया ॥"
Invest like a Bull, sit like a Bear and watch like an Eagle. (Mantra for long term investing)
Filioque (Ecclesiastical Latin: [filiˈɔkwe], literally "and [from] the Son" [discuss]) is a Latin term
added to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (NCC) which is not in the original version. It has
been the subject of great controversy between Eastern and Western Christianity.
The Story of Sinuhe is considered one of the finest works of Ancient Egyptian literature. It is a
narrative set in the aftermath of the death of Pharaoh Amenemhat I, founder of the 12th dynasty
of Egypt, in the early 20th century BC.
Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?" - Ecclesiastes
7:13
"I not only think we will tamper with Mother Nature. I think Mother wants us to." - Willard Gaylin
It is in the nature of things that many hard problems are best solved when they are addressed
backward - Jacobi
era-primum non nocere (“first do no harm”) - first principle of Hippocratic Oath
Net loss, the (usually bitten or delayed) damage from treatment in excess of the benefits, is
iatrogenics, literally, “caused by the healer,” iatros being a healer in Greek.
The JEDP Theory and the Book of Deuteronomy. The letters J, E, D, and P represent the
strands of documents from which selections are derived. J comes from the Jahwist strand or
tradition, E from the Elohist, D from the Deuteronomist, and P from the Priestly
Despite its name, the (ratel) honey badger does not closely resemble other badger
species; instead, it bears more anatomical similarities to weasels.
There are five Takhts (panj takht) and these Takhts are the five gurudwaras which
have a very special significance for the Sikh community.
The first and the most important one was established by Guru Hargobind in 1609.
It is called 'Akal Takht' (the Throne of the Timeless God) and is situated just
opposite the gate of Harmandir Sahib – The Golden Temple, Amritsar
Anandpur sahib, was founded in 1665 by the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur when he
bought a tract of land.Thakat Shri Kesh Garh Sahib is the central place of Anandpur Sahib.
This revered place is birthplace of Khalsa.
Mimesis
Mimesis is the imitation or representation of nature and human behavior in art.
Vodoun is an ancient, African, pantheistic religion. When it was brought to the Americas
by African slaves, it was blended with elements of Christianity into what is known as
"Voodoo."
Both herons and cranes are big grey birds, but there are some very distinct differences. The
heron flies with its neck bent and head tucked in so appears short necked, with long trailing
legs. The crane flies with neck outstretched like a goose and but also trails its long legs
behind.
Great egrets are a little smaller than the white-phase great blue heron, but the real
giveaway is the color of the legs. Great egrets have black legs while white-phase great
blue herons have much lighter legs. Herons also have slightly heavier beaks and
“shaggier” feathers on their breast
Ebbinghaus illusion or Titchener circles is an optical illusion of
relative size perception
Navya nyaya
Reality can be expressed in language - nayyayikas
Dharma-dharmi-sambandha: savikalpa jnana (Minimum requirment of language)
Nyaya vaiseshika have merged
Avachhedaka and avichhinna
Swaroopa sambandha
Panch Kedar
The five temples designated in the strict pecking order to be followed for pilgrimage
for worship are the Kedarnath (Sanskrit: केदारनाथ) at an altitude of 3,583 m (11,755
ft), the Tungnath (तंग
ु नाथ)(3,680 m or 12,070 ft), Rudranath ( नाथ) (2,286 m or
7,500 ft), Madhyamaheshwar (म यमहे वर) or Madmaheshwar (3,490 m or 11,450 ft)
and Kalpeshwar (क पे वर) (2,200 m or 7,200 ft).
For profit must with honor be comixt, Or else our actions are but scandalous- Shakespeare
some quotes and facts
“The telling of stories creates the real world” -Alberto Manguel
Diprotodon : 2 forward teeth
Resource curse: a place has onky product and gets rich only with that product
Ex:Saudi Arabia