Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and Computation.
The word for today is… extricate (verb): 1 : to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty 2a : to distinguish from a related thing b archaic : unravel Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : It can take an ample amount of dexterity – manual, verbal, or mental – to free yourself from a tangled situation.
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. With Christmas just around the corner, the perennial question is, what do you get for the man who has everything? How about a do-it-yourself 3D printed pod which doubles as a gas chamber and a coffin? You can’t
The word for today is… restaurateur (noun): : the operator or proprietor of a restaurant Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Restaurateur and restaurant were borrowed directly from related French words, and both ultimately derive from the Latin word restaurare (“to restore”). Restaurateur is the older of the two; our earliest evidence dates
The word for today is… amicable (adjective): characterized by friendly goodwill Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Amicable comes from Latin amicabilis, meaning “friendly,” and amare, “to feel affection for” or “to love.” Am?re has a number of English descendants, including amiable (“friendly, sociable, and congenial”), amorous (“strongly moved by love
T. K. Coleman fee.org T.K. Coleman is the Director of Entrepreneurial Education at FEE and is best described as a passionate voice for possibility. As a firm believer in the idea that freedom begins from within, his life mission is to help people reclaim a sense of personal
The word for today is… fret (verb): to become worried or concerned. Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The meat-and-potatoes meaning of fret is “to eat.” The verb is used literally, as in “Moths fretted the clothing,” but more often figuratively to describe actions that corrode or wear away. A river “frets
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Some time ago I predicted more books would be written about Trump than any other President. With circa 5,000 published to date, he’s currently in second place, although well behind Lincoln with 15,000. However, astonishing though it may seem, the production of
The word for today is… scion (noun): 1 : a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft 2 :an heir or descendant of a wealthy or influential family. Source : Merriam -Webster
The word for today is… cavalier (adjective , noun): adjective : marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful dismissal of important matters – a cavalier attitude toward money, has a cavalier disregard for the rights of others 2 : debonair 3a capitalized : of or relating to the party of Charles I of
Ulrich Kutschera mercatornet.com Ulrich Kutschera, PhD, is a Professor of Biology at AK Evolutionsbiologie in Freiburg, Germany, and a scientific collaborator at research institutes in Stanford, California (USA). He has a website at www.evolutionsbiologen.de. This year marks the centenary of the birth of a man who is
Matt Judd As someone who has a science qualification with chemistry, physics, maths and statistics and also another set of qualifications which required a series of about fifteen tertiary level exams through my twenties and thirties, I know the struggle that the average doctor goes through to get where they
The word for today is… loll (verb): 1 : to hang loosely or laxly : droop 2 : to act or move in a lax, lazy, or indolent manner Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Loll has origins similar to those of another soothing verb, lull, which means “to cause to rest or sleep.” Both
The word for today is… intransigent (adjective): characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an often extreme position or attitude Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers borrowed “intransigent” in the 19th century from Spanish intransigente (“uncompromising”), itself a combination of the familiar prefix in- (“not”) and “transigente” (“willing to
Annebella Pollen University of Brighton Dr Annebella Pollen is an academic with interests in material and visual culture. Her research areas include mass photography and the popular image, and histories of art, craft, design and dress, especially marginal, alternative and non-canonical forms. I look at nude bodies all the time
