Sitting atop a storage building in a small village just outside Albany, New York, is a four-ton, 28-foot tall steel and fiberglass statue of the canine mascot of the Radio Corporation of America.
2017年7月29日 星期六
2017年7月28日 星期五
clickbait
Washington Post
Whatever his talents as clickbait, a strong case can be made that Trudeau is not very good at the governing side of his job.
Opinion | The world needs to stop mindlessly fawning over Justin Trudeau
Living in a country run by a social media celebrity is a lot less fun than the…
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clickbait
ˈklɪkbeɪt/
noun
informal
noun: click bait
- (on the Internet) content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page."these recent reports of the show's imminent demise are hyperbolic clickbait"
fawn. A fawn is a young deer, but it's also a verb meaning to try and win favor by flattering. You might fawn over Bambi if you want to hang out with the cute and fuzzy gang. As a verb, fawn either refers to an attempt to get on someone's good side, or, oddly enough, to give birth to a deer.
fawn - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com
2017年7月27日 星期四
jamboree
The Boy Scouts of America leader issued a public apology to those offended by Trump's comments.
Definitions of jamboree
noun
a large celebration or party, typically a lavish and boisterous one.
the film industry's annual jamboree in Cannes
In Scouting, a jamboree is a large gathering of Scouts who rally at a national or international level.
The 1st World Scout Jamboree was held in 1920, and was hosted by the United Kingdom. Since then, there have been twenty three World Scout Jamborees, hosted in various countries, generally every four years. The 24th World Jamboree is to be held in North America in 2019.
There are also national and continental jamborees held around the world with varying frequency. Many of these events will invite and attract Scouts from overseas.
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[hide]Etymology[edit]
According to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, the etymology is "19th century, origin unknown". The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)identifies it as coming from American slang, identifying a use in the New York Herald in 1868 and in Irish writings later in the 19th century.[1] Robert Graves in The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures, 1954–1955 suggests Baden-Powell might have known the word through his regiment's Irish links rather than from the US slang. Poet Robert W. Service used the term well before the first Scouting jamboree. It appears in the poem "Athabaska Dick" in his Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, which was published in 1912. At the time, the word meant a rowdy, boisterous gathering.
Baden-Powell was once asked why he chose "jamboree". He replied, "What else would you call it?" His response made sense if the word had already meant a boisterous gathering. Even so, it is popularly believed within the Scout Movement that the word was coined by Baden-Powell.
Psychedelics
“Psychedelics are an extremely good way of teaching you how to think outside the box.” The Economist’s 1843 magazine meets the techies breakfasting on acid
Wiki
A psychedelic drug or classical hallucinogen is a substance whose primary action is to alter cognition and perception, typically as a serotonin receptor agonist,[2] causing thought and visual/auditory changes, and heightened state of consciousness.[3] Major psychedelic drugs include LSD, mescaline (peyote's active ingredient), DMT and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
迷幻藥物是指主要功效為改變認知與知覺的精神藥品，與游離藥品（dissociatives）、致譫妄藥三者因能誘發幻覺而包含在致幻劑這一門類下。相較興奮劑或鴉片類藥物等影響意識狀態效果較類似的藥物，迷幻藥物傾向於誘發心智產生與一般意識相比有定性差異的體驗。迷幻體驗通常與恍惚、冥想、瑜伽、宗教狂喜、夢境、甚至瀕死經驗等非通常意識狀態相比較。除了少數例外，大部分迷幻藥物成分為以下三者之一：色胺、苯乙胺、麥角酸胺。
迷幻藥物在大部分國家除了醫療外的用途是違法的。而除了常規使用外，迷幻藥物也常被用在娛樂用途。
Origin of term[edit]
The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή (psyche, "soul, mind") and δηλείν (delein, "to manifest"), hence "soul-manifesting", the implication being that psychedelics can access the soul and develop unused potentials of the human mind.[6] The word was coined in 1956 by British psychiatrist, Humphry Osmond, the spelling loathed by American ethnobotanist, Richard Schultes, but championed by the American psychologist, Timothy Leary.[7]
Aldous Huxley had suggested to Humphry Osmond in 1956 his own coinage phanerothyme (Greek "phaneroein-" visible + Greek "thymos" soul, thus "visible soul").[8] Recently, the term entheogenic has come into use to denote the use of psychedelic drugs in a religious/spiritual/mystical context.
Psychedelics
2017年7月26日 星期三
vacuum, robovac, robot vacuum
The most popular robot vacuum on Amazon is so much cheaper than ...
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Mar 30, 2017 - Here's another option: the Eufy RoboVac 11 is the best-selling robot vacuum on Amazon, and it costs a fraction of what you'll pay for a Roomba.The vacuum cleaner evolved from the carpet sweeper via manual vacuum cleaners. The first manual models, using bellows, were developed in the 1860s, and the first motorized designs appeared at the turn of the 20th century, with the first decade being the boom decade.
Your Roomba is also gathering data about the layout of your home.
2017年7月25日 星期二
Pyrex
From the very beginning, Pyrex was a product for women designed by women.
名稱由來[編輯]
康寧公司的代表在一次演講中[1]講解了Pyrex名字的由來。
- Pyrex這個名字純粹由縮寫而來，用於作為我們於1915年所研發出來的一系列玻璃商品的註冊商標。不少人猜測這個名字是由希臘字母"pyr"及拉丁字母"rex"合成，這種推測即使是著名學府哈佛大學的畢業生都覺得合理。雖然如此，但事實上"-ex"詞綴是已經廣泛應用於其他我們早前研發的產品中。加上我們第一種以這種技術發售的商品是一個製作不同派的盤子（pie plate），及符合發音的便捷我們在中間加入一個"r"，所有這些便組成Pyrex這個字了。
商標應用[編輯]
Pyrex是硼化玻璃的一種，雖然硼化玻璃比Pyrex發現得更早及更多種類，但現在Pyrex已作為硼化玻璃（或耐熱玻璃）的一種通用性商標。康寧公司於1998年把旗下的廚房用品部門分拆為World Kitchen Inc.（環球廚具公司）[2]，但康寧公司仍然保留Pyrex這個名稱的商標，並只授權環球廚具及一部份公司以Pyrex之名推出廚具用品。
由環球廚具公司推出的Pyrex廚具玻璃用品，實際上已不是硼化玻璃，而是鈉鈣玻璃（Soda-lime glass）[3]。在它們的包裝上寫上的使用指引提及這系列的用品不適用於一般的加熱、火爐上、灸肉器及多士焗爐中。
這個品牌在歐洲的使用權由Arc International Inc.於1990年獲得[4]。Arc International Inc.在其為Pyrex建立的網頁中指出它們的Pyrex產品仍使用硼化玻璃製造[5]。
Pyrex (trademarked as PYREX) is a brand introduced by Corning Inc. in 1908 for a line of clear, low-thermal-expansion borosilicate glass used for laboratory glassware and kitchenware. Pyrex sold in the United States is made of tempered soda-lime glass; outside of North America the costlier borosilicate is still used.
Corning no longer manufactures or markets Pyrex-branded borosilicate glass kitchenware and bakeware in the US. World Kitchen, LLC, which was spun off from Corning in 1998, licensed the pyrex (all lower case) brand for their own line of kitchenware products—differentiated by their use of clear tempered soda-lime glass instead of borosilicate.
2017年7月24日 星期一
Bigly.
Robert Reich 和 Washington Post 都分享了 1 條連結。
Opinion | Jared Kushner just threw Donald Trump Jr. under the bus. Bigly.
Kushner separates himself with scalpel-like precision from the known facts about the Russia affair that are already problematic.
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Bigly - Word of the Year 2016 Gallery - Surreal | Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year-2016/bigly
Did he really say bigly? Is bigly even a word? Donald Trump actually said big league and not biglyduring the September 26 debate, as linguists were able to.Urban Dictionary: bigly
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bigly
Your mom's a joke, bigly *sniffing sound* so so bigly" "Trust me Bushy, my lawyers are bigly, Sexual Harassment cases: 67/67 bra" "Trump Tower, grabbing
When stuff happens in a BIG way.
by Words Engineer August 28, 2016