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A frog sitting on the handle of a saucepan on a hot stove. The frog in this photo was unharmed. [1] The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will ...
Creeping normality (also called gradualism, or landscape amnesia [1]) is a process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens gradually through small, often unnoticeable, increments of change.
According to this theory, population control is left to nature as it has its own way of weeding population. When nature comes in to control population, it takes the population level back to a size where the available food supply can sustain it . Nature controls population through earthquakes, famine, wars, flood and epidemics among others. The ...
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard,” H.L. Mencken famously said in another bit of prose I wish I’d written. I find that ...
The State of the Union should be an easy topic for a writer. It’s a televised event; you watch it; you react. But it’s actually quite challenging to find anything non-obvious to say about it ...
Written by Marcus Feldman and Jessica Riskin, the review claimed that Harden "disguises her radically subjective view of biological essentialism as an objective fact" and compared her writing to the parable of the "boiling frog" in the way that Harden gradually proceeds from less controversial premises to more controversial conclusions. [14]
Unless you’re planning to take a hatchet to entitlements and the Pentagon, both of which would amount to political arsenic, you’re not cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget.
Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) [2] was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), [3] cultural critic, [4] and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year.