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“I think that is how a small northern town in America works. It enlists one beautiful thing like the ocean or the mountains or the snow to keep people stuck and stagnant and staring out to sea.”
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Kelly Jean White
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Kelly Jean White
@AYankeeInExile
for this he paid his native city with lifelong exile exiles of all times know what price that is.
Katılım Eylül 2013
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“The primary choice is not between a “yes” or “no” to technology, but rather between constructing Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem.”
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“Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice:
either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and
humanity dwell together.”
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@catamaran1066 does it count if I call it “melk”?
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Name ANY drink without the letter “e” I BET YOU CANT! 🧐
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@theistinthought I worked in a restaurant where the manager who only wanted to hire Catholics because of our work ethic and reliability. Her assistant had to step in to stop her from asking in interviews.
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Heard a sermon today about being a Christian at work. Pastor said if you work really hard for your non-Christian boss, eventually your boss might ask, “You always work so hard for me, why do you do it?” And then you can tell your boss about Jesus.
No offense, but this is so out of touch with reality it’s insane.
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30 Rock’s Grizzwald ‘Grizz’ Chapman has died at the age of 52. The news was confirmed by Kevin Brown, who played Dot Com. vulture.com/article/30-roc…
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@CSMFHT Careful. Your series may end with a child and a marriage.
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@anishmoonka I’ve seen videos of dogs trained to use sound buttons, and they often ask questions. Is there any literature discussing that phenomenon?
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In the 1970s, David Premack wondered if a chimpanzee could be taught to ask a question. He taught Sarah 130 plastic word-tokens. She answered his questions easily. After years of work, she had never asked one of her own. Sixty years later, no signing ape has.
A four-year-old human asks about 25 questions an hour. Paul Harris at Harvard counted them: kids ask their parents around 40,000 questions between ages two and five.
Premack even worked out a method for teaching an ape to ask. Hide a snack the chimp expects. Wait for her to sign "where is it." He never bothered running it on Sarah. She spent her sessions answering his questions, never asking her own. A normal kid, he pointed out, asks "what that? who making noise? when Daddy come home?" on a loop.
Washoe the chimpanzee, the first one taught American Sign Language, knew 250 signs. She could request food. She could sign her name. She once saw a swan and called it "water bird," a sharp invention for an animal she had no sign for. She never asked what the swan was, or where it came from, or anything else.
Koko the gorilla knew about 1,000 signs. Kanzi the bonobo understands more than 3,000 spoken English words. Nim Chimpsky, Herbert Terrace's chimp at Columbia (named to mock the linguist Noam Chomsky), strung 125 signs into more than 20,000 combinations. His longest stretch was "give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." He never asked a thing.
Joseph Jordania, a researcher in Melbourne, thinks this is the line between us and them. To ask a question, you first have to know that the person across from you knows something you don't. Apes do not seem to get to that step, even after a lifetime of being talked at by humans.
Human kids cross that line around their fourth birthday. Apes never do.
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Scientists have been communicating with apes via sign language since the 1960s; apes have never asked one question.
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@KensingtonRoyal She has a braid but her reflection in the mirror doesn’t…
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A pleasure to meet with Māori Queen Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po today at Windsor Castle.
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