Ian Stewart The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power, the shapes of things, their colours, lights and shades — these I saw. Look ye also while life lasts. The author of these poignant words is uncertain although they appear in the frontispiece of my favorite childhood book, Brendon Chase (1944) by ‘BB’ …
The Clean Water for Delaware Act passed unanimously out of the House Natural Resources Committee in January 2021, and now it is on to the next step.
Ian Stewart “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing – that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something …
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe’ These are the opening lines to The Jabberwocky, a poem about a mythical dreadful beast that appears in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 book ‘Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there’. The poem contains many bizarre words invented by the author and …
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