#cavendish — Public Fediverse posts
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“A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up”*…
From the 1964 textbook Examine Your EnglishRussell Samora has been fooling around with figures of speech; with his colleagues at The Pudding, he’s fielded a fascinating analysis of of that comparative workhorse, the simile…
Similes are all around us. But, if you haven’t considered this figure of speech since grade school, here’s a refresher: similes compare a shared quality of two things, often using “like” or “as.”
I pulled every simile in the form “as ___ as ___” from tens of thousands of fiction books for the top 500 most common adjectives… I thought it would be a trivial exercise, but the more I poked around, the more questions I had…
Samora explains how similes are structured and how they are used (and with what relative frequency) in literature. He examines some of the most common– and several special cases (“The Ironic Ones”). And he explains his methodology and sources… all in the context of a lovely interactive data visualization.
It’s as cool as hell: “Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise,” from @pudding.cool.
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As we agree with Steve Martin that “a day without sunshine is like, you know, night,” we might recall that it was on this date in 1789 that Richard Kirwan published his essay in support of the phlogiston theory (the belief, that dates to alchemical times, in the existence of a fire-like element (dubbed “phlogiston”) contained within combustible bodies and released during burning. Kirwan was among the last of its advocates.
A well-regarded scientist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Kirwan met and corresponded with Black, Lavoisier, Priestley, and Cavendish. Indeed, while scientific history remembers him as a defender of an incorrect theory, his work probably spurred Priestley and Lavoisier, who respectively discovered and named the actual elemental agent of combustion, oxygen.
But Kirwan is also remembered for a personal eccentricity (one of many) that led to some referring to him (all too poignantly) as “crazy as a bed bug”: he hated bugs (especially flies). Kirwan paid his servants a bounty for each one they killed.
#bugs #Cavendish #culture #dataVisualization #eccentricity #figureOfSpeech #history #infographics #language #Lavoisier #literature #phlogiston #Priestley #RichardKirwan #Science #simile #similes -
Sophie Thatcher, Erin Kellyman & Joe Alwyn To Star In ‘Cavendish’
#News #Cavendish #Cornerstone #ErinKellyman #JoeAlwyn #SophieThatcherhttps://deadline.com/2026/04/sophie-thatcher-erin-kellyman-joe-alwyn-cavendish-1236873537/
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Huh, I'm curious what effect this knowledge might have (if any) on #transgender persons and their existence:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1122852?user_id=688df53416db12a71511c696
Does it mean that we might soon find whatever "causes" transgenderism in the DNA and be able to filter it out of the population over time using #eugenics?
This is a moral dilemma, and top of my mind right now as I'm #actuallyautistic that they might consider something similar if they can find an "autistic letter".
Is it moral to prevent someone from being born the sex that they don't "feel" before they have a chance to feel that way?
Is it moral to "fix" people from having #autism?
This also isn't just a moral question, but also a #scientific one and practical one, because if you can code "out" undesirable traits, that could lean to population "gene shallowing". Anyone remember what happened to the #GrosMichel #banana? And what might be starting to happen with the #Cavendish banana if the #Panamadisease continues to spread?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease
If we started gene or even DNA editing en masse, we could be writing #humanity an early grave.
It's something to consider and #discuss, I think.
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#Cavendish Experiment demonstriert Massenanziehung
https://borncity.eu/senioren/2026/04/09/massenanziehung-per-cavendish-experiment-demonstriert/
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@mojo @Su_G The aspect of the genetically-modified food debate that few folks focus on is the most important one: a genetically-modified crop is intellectual property.
“QUT is already committed to providing non-exclusive licenses for the commercial exploitation of QCAV-4 in
Australia to a number of other industry groups. QUT will endeavor to make QCAV-4 available to other groups
through likely non-exclusive licenses to Australian banana micropropagation operations. It is likely that QUT will
receive a royalty stream from the commercial exploitation of QCAV-4.QUT owns the intellectual property rights to QCAV-4.”
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𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗸𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝘁 𝗻𝘂 𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝗳𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝗮𝗻
Mark Cavendish beëindigt zondag in het Tour de France Criterium van Singapore zijn wielerloopbaan. Dat meldt de Britse topsprinter in een boodschap op Instagram. "Ik ben klaar voor een nieuw hoofdstuk in mijn leven", schrijft de renner, die afgelopen zomer met zijn 35e ritoverwinning in de Tour de...
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𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗮𝗳 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗦𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗮
SAITAMA (ANP/Belga) - Wielrenner Biniam Girmay uit Eritrea heeft het wielercriterium in het Japanse Saitama op zijn naam geschreven. De winnaar van de groene puntentrui uit de Tour de France sprintte naar de zege voor Primoz Roglic en Mark Cavendish.
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Right now, the ORA Singers perform #Chilcott #Allain #Dove #Cavendish and more in #London https://buff.ly/3YFQSW2 #wch
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In 20 minutes, the ORA Singers perform #Chilcott #Allain #Dove #Cavendish and more in #London https://buff.ly/3YFQSW2 #wch
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Today, the ORA Singers perform #Chilcott #Allain #Dove #Cavendish and more in #London https://buff.ly/3YFQSW2 #wch
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If yahs want to know about different bananas and possibly even buy them, here you go
https://www.seriouseats.com/a-guide-to-banana-varieties-around-the-world-8651542
Also, any Hispanic or Asian market has better deals so if you have those near you:
Diversification helps kibosh extinction, so do your part to like and associate with exogenes.
#bananas #fruit #plantains #GrosMichel #BigMike #Cavendish #NamWah #Mysore #PisangRaja #LadyFinger #Señorita #Red #BlueJava #Manzano #Musa #Musaceae #Ensete #banana #yummy #yellow #mellow #potassium #magnesium
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Cavendish region. #PEI #Cavendish #photography #RoadTrip #seascape #cows
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𝗖𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗿𝗮𝗮𝗸𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗺𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗮𝘁 𝗠ø𝗿𝗸ø𝘃 𝗸𝘄𝗶𝗷𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿
Sprinter Mark Cavendish ziet met Michael Mørkøv zijn volgende ploeggenoot bij Astana afhaken in de Tour de France. De Deense sprintvoorbereider testte na de etappe van woensdag positief op het coronavirus en voelde zich nog goed, maar met het oog op langetermijnrisico's heeft de medische...
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Watching this over and over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wi1pSLNV8c #letour2024 #cavendish
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𝗖𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗱𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗸𝘅 𝗺𝗲𝘁 35𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘇𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗻𝗼𝗴 𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻
Drie jaar nadat Mark Cavendish zijn 34e ritoverwinning in de Tour de France had behaald en daarmee het record van de meeste etappezeges van wielerlegende Eddy Merckx had geëvenaard, is hij alleen recordhouder geworden. De 39-jarige Britse sprinter bracht met de zege in de vijfde etappe in...
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So #Mørkøv didn't get the chance to lead #Cavendish out to his record breaking victory, and still Cavendish did it. Just kinda sorta awesome to watch it happen.
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Das was #Cavendish und sein Team heute bei der #TDF24 geleistet haben, ein Wahnsinn.
Ein historischer Moment. Chapeau
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What I admire about Mark Cavendish more than his 35 stage TdF win record is his perspective of the sport. Congrats, Sir Mark!
#cavendish #tourdefrance
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Ihr habt alle glück, dass ich kein Auto habe und keine Airzound am Rad und Rumhupen Scheiße finde.
Denn #Cavendish ist gerade zur Legende geworden.
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Ich und Mark Cavendish 😅
Gratulation!