Ziad Shihab

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Public Domain Day 2022: Trespassers Will

The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken board which had "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather’s name, and had been in the family for a long time, Christopher Robin said you couldn’t be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, because his gran...

Ukrainian Names U to Z

U is for unrulySourceURL: https://drkottaway.com/2022/04/25/u-is-for-unruly/ I am blogging from A to Z about Helen Burling Ottaway, my artist mother, and other women artists. Artists are unruly. They are not obedient. They are usurpers. They are unreasonable. This is another etching of my mother, a self portrait, titled "Giantess". She looks giant, rising from an ocean. Will she have arms and hands and legs, or is she an octopus? We do not know. It may depend on her mood. ...

Ectropy (idea) by ianah0 - Everything2.com

Ectropy (idea) See all of Ectropy, no other writeups in this node. by ianah0 (4.2 y) CC Rep: 2 ( +8 / -6 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Fri Jan 09 2004 at 10:09:54 While discussing the coaction cardioid,in 1969, Willard Van Orman Quine coined the word ectropy. He reasoned that since entropy is Greek for turning in, the opposite term, turning out, in Greek would be ectropy. Ectropy also refers to the general increase in organization, or making order from chaos. It also lead to the coining ...