Presentism is a modern stain. It is vehement in denying all explanations of now that go back in time, wanting to start anew with such passion that the past becomes trivial. Forgetting becomes less an explicit act and more an implicit elision brought about by massive...
The Human Development Index (HDI) developed in 1990 by Mahbub-ul-Haq added two dimensions, life expectancy and education, to income to come up with a country indicator which was not completely hung up on economic growth. UNDP has been publishing the index regularly...
Ex- – tract: land to be isolated, titled, massaged, pulverized for maximal maximality. – pert: momentary flush of hormonal zest in an otherwise untidy emotional jungle. – hume: portly thinker whose popping off in 1776 coincided roughly with the industrial revolution;...
In elementary school we are presented the table of elements. Once Democritus had postulated the atom, it became a logical imperative for those that followed to reduce nature to a fixed set of elements. Some went further and broke the atom down so much so that very...