Trying out blogwrite
From my iphone. Here's emma:
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
Congratulations.iphoneblogwrite (maybe from now on I'll write only in URL-ese).
ReplyDeleteYeah, that pic is satisfactorily cute, but it doesn't adequately convey what a young beauty she is.
Is she dating?
ReplyDeleteGene,
ReplyDeleteMy daughter was born in 1998. Her mother & I decided we wanted to give her a beautiful yet rare name. We decided on Emma. Ten years later, we're drowning in little girls named Emma.
Your daughter looks of a certain age that you may have had the same experience. Just curious.
Yep. We discovered, after naming her, that "Emma" was the second most popular name the year she was born ('99).
ReplyDeleteOh, and Sydney, can you swim in the Gowanus canal? Can you do it wearing cement overshoes? Because this could be arranged.
ReplyDeleteGene, you are blessed!
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