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  1. Jul 2022
    1. With the reading portion of the world it is generally known that I have devoted the greater partof my life in visiting, and recording the looks of, the various native Races of North and SouthAmerica; and during those researches, observing the healthy condition and physical perfection ofthose people, in their primitive state, as contrasted with the deplorable mortality, the numerousdiseases and deformities, in civilized communities, I have been led to search for, and able, Ibelieve, to discover, the main causes leading to such different results.

      catlin e l'analisi dei popoli dei nativi americani

  2. Feb 2022
    1. The Function of LanguageFinally, we replace the concept with a single, specific, perceptual concrete — a placeholder that differentiates it from all other concretes and all other concepts: a word. This is the function of language.

      Function of Language in articulating concepts in to vocabulary word

    1. அறிவியல்-கவிதை புத்தகமான “ஹோலுப் கவிதைகள்” என்ற புத்தகத்தின் வரிகள் நினைவிற்கு வந்ததாய்ச் சொன்னார். அந்தப் பக்கத்தை எனக்கு அனுப்பினார். நான் அதை வாசித்தபோது ‘அட!  இரண்டுமே ஒரே மூலத்தையே சென்றடைகின்றன.  ஆனால் சென்றடைந்த பாதை வேறு.’ என்று சொன்னேன்.

      கண்டடைதல் எடுத்துக்காட்டு

  3. Jan 2022
    1. Boxes (purple): while you're scribbling, you’ll want to add boxes around whatever you judge to be a key point.
    1. Silappadikaram means ‘The Story of the Anklet’, silambu being the anklet worn by young, unmarried Tamil girls in ancient times that was removed on their wedding day. So silambu is a metaphor for virginity and innocence, which later became the insignia of the pathni cult (the worship of chastity).

      Theme and values in Silappadikaram (story of anklet)

      => why kannagi was called pathni/karpukku arasi (Queen of chastity)

    2. According to Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943), Sanskrit being the common language of communication among the intellectuals of India in those days, many of the metaphysical and theoretical works in Sanskrit might have had South Indian authorship.

      R? Tamil authors of metaphysical and theoretical Sanskrit works

    1. height of a 5G antenna and the power of the signal are the factors that determine how close it can be allowed near an airport or a flight path
  4. Nov 2020
    1. p=12 p = \frac{1}{2} . Finally, note that it does not really make sense to consider LL L as a function of SS S , since SS S is a statistic rather than an algebraic variable. Similarly, it does not make sense to consider LL L as a function of nn n , since changing nn n means new data and hence a new value of SS S .

      didnt really understand this