![]() ![]() Ringworld has a habitable flat inner surface equivalent in area to approximately three million Earth-sized planets. It rotates, providing an artificial gravity equivalent to 99.2% of Earth's gravity by way of Centrifugal force. The Ringworld is an artificial ring about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit (which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference), encircling a Sol-type star. On Ringworld, time longer than a day is measured in falans, with 1 falan being 10 turns or 75 Ringworld days (93.75 Earth days), so 4 falans is slightly longer than 1 Earth year. ![]() G3 verging on G2 "barely smaller and cooler than Sol".ħ.5 Ringworld days (225 hours, 9.375 Earth days) Ringworld engineering Ringworld parameters RadiusĢ×10 27 kg (1.8×10 24 short tons) (1,250,000 kg/m², e.g. ![]()
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![]() This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. ![]() At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. ![]() He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It is the wit and passion of the writing that keeps you engrossed. "It is the wit and passion of the writing that keeps you engrossed."-Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland " keeps the heart beating and the attention fixed from beginning to end."-Fergal Keane, international bestselling author of Wounds If you do, you will probably die." - The Guardian "Do NOT try to repeat Tim Butcher's audacious and terrifying Congo journey. a masterpiece." -John le Carré, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Butcher's forty-four-day journey along the Congo River is an unforgettable story of exploration, survival, and history come to life. Making his way in an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a pygmy rights advocate, he follows in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurer. ![]() Despite repeated warnings that his plan was suicidal, Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a backpack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. ![]() Stanley's nineteenth-century journey along the nearly three-thousand-mile waterway. he quickly became obsessed with the Congo River and the idea of recreating H. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to Africa in 2000. Tim Butcher on Blood River, Author Interview W F Howes 22 subscribers Subscribe 53 Share 9.5K views 13 years ago Tim Butcher talks about Blood River. Stanley in this "remarkable marriage of travelogue and history" (Max Hastings, author of Armageddon). A British journalist retraces the legendary 1874 expedition of H. ![]() ![]() Nor was the seeding program Hoqqueah's sole subject. Desire to know, but there was still more coming. Gorbel already knew more about the ancient - the very ancient history of the seeding program than he had had any. Secure in his coat of warm blubber, his eyes brown, liquid and merry, he sat in the forward greenhouse for most of each ship's day, watching the growth of the star Sol in the black skies ahead. He was as little discommoded by the emotional undertow as he was by the thin and frigid air the Rigellian crew maintained inside the battlecraft. As for Hoqqueah, he didn't appear to have a noticing center anywhere in his brain. ![]() But the crew plainly wasn't going to let Gorbel put it off that long. Maybe it would be better to keep sitting on the safety valve until Hoqqueah and the other Altarians were put off on - what was its name again? Oh yes. But it would be an uncomfortable moment, not only for Hoqqueah and the rest of the pantrope team, but for Gorbel himself. Gorbel wasn't sure whether he would be sorry or glad when the Adapted Man caught on. ![]() ![]() Sooner or later, Gorbel thought, sooner or later this idiotic sealcreature is going to notice them. ![]() Indefeasible had reached the point where they could no longer be ignored, well before the ship had come within fifty light years of its objective. Gorbel, being a military man, thought of it as "disaffection" - among the crew of the R.S.S. THE SEEDLING STARS JAMES BLISH BOOK FOUR WATERSHED The murmurs of discontent - Capt. ![]() ![]() (The English word “happiness” comes from the Icelandic root happ or “luck,” so at least etymologically, luck seems to have always played some role in our happiness.) It was the great iconoclast Socrates who became the first to suggest that happiness was a cognitive and meaning-making pursuit, something in a person’s control, rather than simply a gift bestowed by the gods. Throughout modern history, and with little contesting, happiness has been seen as the end goal and just reward for a life of laudable toil.īefore the ancient Greek philosophers, happiness, like most things in life, was seen as a benefaction granted by the gods. ![]() And let’s not forget Madison Avenue marketers - brands, and anyone associated with selling those brands - want to be involved with happiness, too. ![]() ![]() Between chief happiness officers, the Happy Planet Index, Gross National Happiness, and the World Happiness Report ( Finland scored the highest again this year), it seems as though happiness has some good PR. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to give the impression that this is a lightweight approach to the subject. A deadly serious exposé of our decision making Comic strip cartoons are also used to pithily bring home a point. ![]() Contrary to expectation there are many good jokes in the book, each illustrative of a human foible or failing in rationality. But the author avoids producing sentences that would defeat the ordinary reader and, where he has to use technical terms, he is careful always to explain what they mean. ![]() Pinker has the highest possible reputation as a Harvard Professor of Psychology and experimental cognitive scientist, areas of exploration much given to the use of terms unfamiliar to those outside the disciplines. It would be a bold reader who took issue with the sheer reasonableness of this significant book or who found fault with its lucidity and logic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Schwenk returns for her third and final outing, this time heating up not the football field but the basketball court. 3 by Catherine Gilbert Murdock RELEASE DATE: Oct. 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Urn:lcp:frontcenter0000murd:lcpdf:31851f86-4bba-4d00-a4a3-4197da569457 Catherine Murdock grew up on a small farm in Connecticut, where she wisely avoided all sports involving hand-eye coordination. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:08:01 Boxid IA40226104 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() This story highlighted the friendliness and peace between two women with different religions. " A Private Experience" (first published in Virginia Quarterly Review), in which two women caught up in a riot between Christians and Muslims take refuge in an abandoned shop.She finds out that his lover has moved into their Lagos home. " Imitation" (first published in Other Voices) is set in Philadelphia and concerns Nkem, a young mother whose art-dealer husband visits only two months a year." Cell One" (first published in The New Yorker) in which a spoilt brother and son of a professor is sent to a Nigerian prison and ends up in the infamous Cell One. ![]() Like all fine storytellers, she leaves us wanting more" ( The Times). "She makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong" ( Daily Telegraph) ![]() It received many positive reviews, including: The Thing Around Your Neck is a short-story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US. ![]() ![]() Imagine having a passion for something that is so strong you will stop at nothing to make sure it comes into fruition. It wasn’t until recently that I discovered how inspiring Walt himself could be. I liked how “Walt Disney: An American Original” left me feeling really connected to Walt Disney as a person. I want to know how it came to be and the history of it all. When I go to Disney World, I want to do more than go on their fantastic rides and watch their amazing nighttime shows. She continued that tradition with my sister and I as we grew up, and it continues today with our children. As a little girl my mom watched the original Mickey Mouse Club and the Wonderful World of Disney. ![]() My family and I have been Disney fans for a long time. I have found my greatest inspiration from a book called “Walt Disney: An American Original” by Bob Thomas. ![]() It’s easy to find inspiration in almost all of them. ![]() Many books have been written about the life and legacy of Walt Disney. ![]() ![]() ![]() The experience makes him feel “corrupted.” At one point, several members of his family’s waitstaff sexually abuse him, and he feels unable to tell anyone about it. As a young boy, he feels depressed by what he sees as “human dullness,” which is something he picks up on when he thinks about the logical, unaesthetic way people move through life. ![]() He has never seen the point of eating big meals, for instance, but he always eats large amounts to please other people. ![]() He begins by describing his childhood, explaining that certain things about society and humanity never made much sense to him. The novel then presents Yozo’s personal notebooks. But, the speaker says, there’s something deeply disturbing about Yozo, especially in the final picture, in which he stands in a run-down room while staring at the camera with a blank expression. The unnamed speaker finds each picture grotesque, saying he can hardly recognize Yozo as a human, even though he knows most people would find Yozo good-looking. There are three pictures of him: one as a child, one when he’s slightly older, and one as an adult. An unnamed speaker describes pictures of a man later revealed to be Yozo. ![]() |