But with the unnatural process of irradiation, we can continue the unnatural but cheap practice of feeding cows corn, which they can't digest, so we can continue the unnatural process of consuming lots and lots
of this modern invention called the cow.
Aside from the basics and generic marvels
of modern invention (roof over my head, car, cell phones, internet, elevators, dishwashers, tampons, etc, etc), in my own life and particular circumstances I'm especially grateful for my Ergo baby carrier, very involved and very good Grandparents on both sides, a very involved and very amazing husband, and the luxury of eating out more often than I should.
Around 1910, he began contributing cartoons to magazines like Life and Judge, doing cartoon series like «In Ye Goode Old Days» (in Life), «In Ancient Times» and «Ancient Sources
of Modern Inventions» (both in Judge) throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.
Not exact matches
Best known for his
invention of the
modern alternating current electricity supply system, Tesla exercised religiously.
More famously, Twain lost the
modern - day equivalent
of millions on a publishing
invention called the Paige compositor, which never really worked.
That
invention, by Chester Carlson, a patent lawyer, led to the creation
of the
modern copy machine.
To make this point is to disagree with the subtitle
of Harold Bloom's recent opus, Shakespeare: The
Invention of the Human, which credits Shakespeare with the creation
of the
modern self.
His knowledge
of modern linguistics led him to assert: «Language is a human
invention, in that it reflects social convention regarding the relationship between the sound and the meaning.
She shows how the covenantal
invention of identity can be violent, in both ancient Israel and
modern states.
Thus,
modern inventions have reinforced the democratization
of society by obliterating the duality
of manual labor and intellectual labor and by making it possible — even necessary for the sake
of efficiency — for everyone to engage in the kinds
of work reserved in aristocratic societies for gentlemen.
Now THAT would be a
modern invention to be proud
of... too bad it doesn't exist.
While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «
of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a
modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).
II.m), parallels the concluding concern
of Science and the
Modern World with «Social Progress» in the face
of a technology that has mastered the
invention of inventions and accelerated the pace
of occupational change well beyond any past rate, which was always less than one generation per major innovation.
To say that the words
of our doctrinal formulations must resonate if they are to retain their constitutive power is not a
modern invention.
In spite
of its innumerable positive contributions,
modern science has played its part in the creation
of phenomena that threaten the planet with extinction: the despoliation
of the non-human natural world and the
invention of weapons capable
of omnicide.
«One
of the effects
of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead
of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he can not communicate with us, can not reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so and that religion is our own sweet
invention» (p. 479).
In a wonderfully concise passage in his 1940 preface to Adolfo Bioy Casares's The
Invention of Morel, Jorge Luis Borges — taking issue with Ortega y Gasset's elevation
of «psychological» fiction over the «fantastic» — offers a devastating critique
of the pretensions
of a great deal
of modern «psychological realism»:
The
Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by J.B. Scheewind Cambridge University Press, 624 pages, $ 69.95 cloth, $ 24.95 The autonomy whose invention J. B. Schneewind explores in this long and magisterial history of seventeenth - and eighteenth - century moral philosophy is Ka
Invention of Autonomy: A History
of Modern Moral Philosophy by J.B. Scheewind Cambridge University Press, 624 pages, $ 69.95 cloth, $ 24.95 The autonomy whose
invention J. B. Schneewind explores in this long and magisterial history of seventeenth - and eighteenth - century moral philosophy is Ka
invention J. B. Schneewind explores in this long and magisterial history
of seventeenth - and eighteenth - century moral philosophy is Kantian....
The office
of modern education is to nurture humaneness within the new world generated by the progress
of invention.
The current form
of the Bible that typically sits on our bookshelves is actually a
modern invention.
I say that, because I disagree with the
modern invention of the sinners prayer.
Greenberg suggests that the idea
of a stable, lifelong homosexual identity is an
invention of modern Western societies.
McLuhan locates the root
of Cartesian certainty, the notion
of clear and distinct ideas in an intelligible and perfectly coherent system
of logic and reason (arguably the genesis
of the
modern ideal
of rationality), in the
invention of movable print.
it is a
modern invention that is rarely seen outside
of the foothills
of afghanistan, designed solely to make women invisible.
Namely it should be acknowledged that Catholic lack
of interest in the metaphysical and theistic implications
of modern science over the two centuries leading up to the
invention of the «direct conflict» myth, aided that
invention - and thecontinued lack continues to aid it.
The «nominal Christian» is not an
invention of modern times.
He also asserts that «
modern science is an
invention of medieval Christianity, and the greatest breakthroughs in scientific reason have largely been the work
of Christians.»
The
modern clerical collar dates from about 1865, and in spite
of its common description as «Roman collar» is apparently a convenient Anglican
invention.
The bad old days
of margarine whose production quality was difficult to control are over, thanks to one man's
invention of the
modern emulsifier.
In Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the
Invention of America's First Food, Andrew Warnes searches for the origin
of barbecue and is alternately overly scholarly and very interesting, especially when he finds great quotes, like this one from journalist David Dudley: «Barbecue's appeal isn't hard to fathom and may explain why barbecue cookery seems such a Neanderthal corner
of modern gastronomy.
As we looked at, the
invention of the
modern pushchair led to a huge decline in babywearing as Mothers wanted only the best for their children.
All
of the skulls were from populations living before the
invention of the
modern baby bottle or were from breastfeeding cultures, and therefore these individuals were necessarily breastfed.
Waterbirth for humans is an
invention of the last hundred years, facilitated by
modern plumbing, heating and sewage systems.
This is a
modern invention due to the extensive scientific knowledge we have today about conception and the development
of an unborn baby.
Modern inventions (like flushable liners and the diaper sprayer) have taken the grossness factor out
of this issue.
Similar to many great
inventions, no one can identify a single person as the inventor
of the
modern disposable baby diaper.
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Contemporary armed forces consider drones to be among the most useful military
inventions of modern times, but the general public has been less enthusiastic.
North Korea, a peculiar country that managed to secure generations
of totalitarian rule, is, indeed, itself a contradiction: the elite on the top try to make use
of nuclear weapons — the technology
of modern social
invention, to maintain social culture and tradition that has long been lost in other parts
of East Asia.
We think
of journalism as a
modern invention, but fans
of WT Stead can probably lay claim to his being the first investigative journalist
of the Victorian era.
«From the Magna Carta to the first Parliament to the industrial revolution to an empire that covered the world; most
of the great
inventions of modern times with Britain stamped on them: the telephone; the television; the computer; penicillin; the hovercraft; radar...
Perhaps no
invention of modern times has delivered so much while initially promising so little.
The MRC Laboratory
of Molecular Biology (LMB) is one
of the birthplaces
of modern molecular biology and it continues to be a prolific source
of new ideas, discoveries and
inventions.
«Childhood, as we now know it, is a thoroughly
modern invention,» says anthropologist David Lancy
of Utah State University in Logan.
Astronomers have for the first time recorded the full force
of the shock wave hurled from supernova 1987A, the brightest stellar explosion witnessed from Earth since the
invention of the
modern telescope.
A sophisticated
invention The tablet has long been in the collection at the British Museum in London, and it was likely created in Babylon (located in
modern - day Iraq) between 350 and 50 B.C. Ossendrijver recently deciphered the text, and he described his discovery in an article that's featured on the cover
of the journal Science this week.
Professor Thilo Rehren,
of the UCL Institute
of Archaeology, explains the significance
of these results: «The
invention of metallurgy is foundational for all
modern cultures, and clearly happened repeatedly in different places across the globe.
As such, they are either a demonstration
of independent
invention by Neandertals or an indication that
modern humans started influencing European Neandertals much earlier than previously believed.
And it's not as if
modern Westerners are born with the ability to produce the Principia Mathematica, airplanes and skyscrapers — these cultural
inventions depend on millennia
of accumulated discoveries, and no single brain could produce them from scratch.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls visited the Mer de Glace (the Sea
of Ice) Friday on Mont Blanc, where the retreating glacier has been documented for more than a century, through water colors painted before the
invention of the still camera, black - and - white photos depicting a then -
modern steam locomotive chuffing alongside the ice and today's high - definition satellite photos.