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"The greater our self-reliance & skills of discovery, the likelier it is we'll attract the mentors we admire." --- Marsha Sinetar 1998 _The Mentor's Spirit_ pg 128 |
U | M | T | W | R | F | S |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
29 | 30 | 31 |
"This very old idea of a State socially engineered by experts to reach comprehensively into every corner of human life is a compelling one -- but also one soundly rejected through-out European history -- until waves of mass immigration provided Public Terror among established classes in the NE USA about 1845. New institutions sprang up quickly to deal with the menace: chief among them being state-controlled schooling. A constellation of support mechanisms which eventually included uniform testing, licensing, a radical new adoption law, Children's Courts, medical policing, State police forces & cradle-to-grave surveillance followed in the van." --- John Taylor Gatto 1991-10-01 _The Exhausted School_ pg 22 |
"This may be the origin of the ‷Toddler's Creed‴, or what I like to call ‷7 Rules of Management from a Baby's Perspective‴ [or, ‷the government creed‴, or ‷the Illiberal Leftist/ Dem/ Red/ Regressive/ Socialist/ Fascist/ Marxist/ Communist/ Collectivist Creed‴]: If I want it, it is mine. If I give it to you and change my mind later, it is mine. If I can take it away from you, it is mine. If we are building something together, all of the pieces are mine. If it looks just like mine, it is mine. If it is mine, it will never belong to anybody else, no matter what. If it is yours, it is mine." --- John Medina 2014 _Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School_ pg268 |
K | kilo- | thousand | 10^3 | 1,000 | |
M | mega- | million | one thousand thousand | 10^6 | 1,000,000 |
G | giga- | billion | one thousand million | 10^9 | 1,000,000,000 |
T | tera- | trillion | one million million | 10^12 | 1,000,000,000,000 |
P | peta- | quadrillion | one million billion | 10^15 | 1,000,000,000,000,000 |
E | exa- | quintillion | one billion billion | 10^18 | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
Z | zetta- | sextillion | one billion trillion | 10^21 | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
Y | yotta- | septillion | one trillion trillion | 10^24 | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
Except that computer people use 2 as a base raised to multiples of powers of 10, instead of 10 raised to multiples of powers of 3 because powers of 2 are handier for them, but they also want to stay somewhat close to the values of 10 most folks are used to.
1,024 | K | kilo- (kibi-) | 2^10 |
1,048,576 | M | mega- (mebi-) | 2^20 |
1,073,741,824 | G | giga- (gibi-) | 2^30 |
1,099,511,627,776 | T | tera- (tebi-) | 2^40 |
1,125,899,906,842,624 | P | peta- (pebi-) | 2^50 |
1,152,921,504,606,846,976 | E | exa- (exbi-) | 2^60 |
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 | Z | zetta- (zebi-) | 2^70 |
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 | Y | yotta- (yobi-) | 2^80 |
3. 14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 ≅ π
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"By 2000BCE, Mesopotamians were extracting tons of petroleum by heating rock asphalt. Ancient Greeks discovered the uses of various mixtures of petroleum, pitch, resins, sulfur, and quicklime [calcium oxide] as incendiary weapons... The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries... By then, the Chinese had observed that a particular mixture of sulfur, char-coal, and saltpeter, which became known as gun-powder, was especially explosive. An Islamic chemical treatise of about 1100CE describes 7 gun-powder recipes, while a treatise from 1280CE gives more than 70 recipes that had proved suitable for diverse purposes (one for rockets, another for cannon). As for post-medieval petroleum distillation, 19th century chemists found the middle distillate fraction (gasoline) as an unfortunate waste product -- until it was found to be an ideal fuel for internal-combustion engines." --- Jared Diamond 1997 _Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies_ pg247 |
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