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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… collaborate (verb) – 1 : to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor 2 : to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one’s country and especially an occupying force 3 : to cooperate with an agency or instrumentality with which one is

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… solipsism (noun)- : a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing : extreme egocentrism Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Fans of René Descartes credit the French philosopher with introducing solipsism as a major

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… enjoin (verb) – 1 : to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition 2a : forbid, prohibit b : to prohibit by a judicial order : put an injunction on Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Please concentrate this morning, this is not the easiest of offerings to get

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… majuscule (noun) – a large letter (such as a capital) Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Majuscule looks like the complement to “minuscule,” and the resemblance is no coincidence. “Minuscule” appeared in the early 18th century as a word for a lowercase letter, then later as the word

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Fight for Control Threatens to Destabilize and Fragment the Internet

Fight for Control Threatens to Destabilize and Fragment the Internet

Nick Merrill University of California, Berkeley Nick Merril is a researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, where he directs the Daylight Lab (daylight.berkeley.edu). He received my Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Information. His adviser was John Chuang. You try to use your

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… verdant (adjective) – 1a : green in tint or color b : green with growing plants 2 : unripe in experience or judgment Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers have been using “verdant” as a ripe synonym of “green” since the late 16th century, and as a descriptive term

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Silly Speech

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Of all the silly speech affectations of the past few decades (it’s an inexplicable modern phenomenon) probably nothing is as bad as “window of opportunity”. In recent years this frequently has been shortened to just “window”. I’ve yet to read it when it

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Language Abuse

Language Abuse

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com For those for whom reading is a key activity, language abuse smacks them in the nose when it’s encountered. I’ve written before about the commercial property agency practise of reinventing the language. This began about thirty years ago in Sydney then quickly spread

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… pluvial (adjective) – 1a : of or relating to rain b : characterized by abundant rain 2 of a geologic change : resulting from the action of rain Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : In the early 17th century, clerics began wearing long cloaks known as “pluvials” for protection against the

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Why Calling Ordinary Kiwi Cyclists ‘Elitist’ Just Doesn’t Add Up

Why Calling Ordinary Kiwi Cyclists ‘Elitist’ Just Doesn’t Add Up

Timothy Welch University of Auckland Tim Welch specialises transportation, infrastructure and urban modelling with a focus on the use of big data and technology. Much of Dr. Welch’s research is applied with a focus on equity and climate change. Something strange has happened to the perception of cyclists and

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… glean (verb) – 1 : to gather grain or other produce left by reapers – glean a field 2a : to gather (something, such as information) bit by bit b : to pick over in search of relevant material 3 : find out Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Glean comes from Middle

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When Less Is More: Tiny Homes

conexboxes.com A somewhat more common occurrence in recent decades, tiny homes are growing in popularity. You might already be quite familiar with tiny homes and are here, hoping to learn more. Maybe you are considering building or buying a tiny home yourself? Either as your main place to live

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The Approaching Storm

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org So, it looks like GloboCap isn’t going to be happy until they have fomented the widespread social unrest — or de facto global civil war — that they need as a pretext to lock in the new pathologized totalitarianism and remake whatever remains of society into a

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Is 150 Years Really the Limit of Human Lifespan?

Is 150 Years Really the Limit of Human Lifespan?

Richard Faragher University of Brighton Richard Faragher is Professor of Biogerontology at the University of Brighton and is past Chair of both the British Society for Research on Ageing and the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology. He read Biochemistry at Imperial College, London and undertook doctoral studies at the University

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