![]() ![]() The AJI remained the property of the Utica State Hospital, though it served as the official publication of the Superintendents' Association (see below). In 1840, he published another monograph, An Inquiry into Diseases and Functions of The Brain, Spinal Cord and Nerves (New-York). ![]() He believed that insanity often resulted from ‘moral’ causes such as worries and anxieties. ![]() His book, Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation on Health (Hartford, 1832), went into three editions. In 1840, he became Superintendent of the Hartford Retreat, and in 1842, moved to the Utica State Hospital, the first public mental hospital in New York State.īrigham had published on mental illness prior to AJI. He spent the following year in Europe to further his medical education and returned to Massachusetts in 1829 to establish a practice. Amariah Brigham (1798-1849) was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts and received his medical training at the N.Y. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the 1930s marriages became again more common and in 1946 – the year after the Second World War ended – marriages reached a peak of 16.4 marriages per 1,000 people. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the rate fell sharply.Marriages in the US then were almost twice as common as today. In 1920, shortly after the First World War, there were 12 marriages annually for every 1,000 people in the US.This lets us see when the decline started, and trace the influence of social and economic changes during the process. Marriage rates in the US over the last centuryįor the US we have data on marriage rates going back to the start of the 20th century. You can change the selection of countries using the optionĭirectly in the interactive chart. It combines data from multiple sources, including statistical country offices and reports from the UN, Eurostat and the OECD. The chart here shows this trend for a selection of countries. The proportion of people who are getting married is going down in many countries across the world. ![]() Religion poisons everything book5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. ![]() “In all areas except religion,” Richard Dawkins claimed in a blogged panel discussion back in 2010, “we believe what we believe as a result of evidence.” By contrast, he went on to say, religion is “a nonsensical enterprise” that “poisons everything.” It is a “delusion,” he wrote in, well, The God Delusion (, 28), a “persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.” According to his fellow New Atheist Sam Harris ( Letter to a Christian Nation, 230-231), “Faith is generally nothing more than the permission religious people give one another to believe things strongly without evidence.” In his bestselling book The End of Faith, Harris writes ![]() Agatha christie vicarage5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But one thing she did have in common with her – though a cheerful person, she always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and was, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right." Mellowing with appearances (if not with age) Miss Marple graced twelve novels and twenty short stories during her career as an amateur detective, never paid and not always thanked. While Agatha Christie acknowledged that her grandmother had been a huge influence on the character, she writes that Miss Marple was "far more fussy and spinsterish than my grandmother ever was. Christie never expected Miss Marple to rival Poirot in the public’s affections but since the publication of The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, Marple's first full length novel, readers were hooked. It was first published in the December 1927 issue of Royal Magazine. Miss Marple first came into being in 1927 in The Tuesday Night Club, a short story pulled together into the collection The Thirteen Problems. ![]() Date onomics5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is Jon’s contact information if you’d like to get in touch with him: Jon Birger Author, Speaker and FORTUNE Contributor Twitter: jonbirger1 Amazon: Date-Onomics: How Dating Became A Lopsided Numbers Game LinkedIn: linkedin. I hope you enjoy the interview although we had a few issues with connection. Jon did a lot of good research of demographic data and he explains why you struggle if you are a college educated woman.Īlthough Jon’s agenda isn’t to give advice in his book, Jon gives valuable information that can help women in this struggle. ![]() Using a combination of demographics, statistics, game theory, and number-crunching, Date-onomics tells what every single, college-educated, heterosexual, looking-for-a-partner woman needs to know: The man deficit is real. I’ve had a chance to sit with Jon Birge3, the author of the book, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game. It’s not that he’s just not that into youit’s that there aren’t enough of him. This can be frustrating when you see men who don’t have as much going for them having multiple opportunities for dates. Have you ever wondered what’s wrong with you? You are very attractive, educated, kind, and successful, and yet you are struggling in the dating market. ![]() I ll judge you by your bookshelf5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The panels range from gently clever to surprisingly profound to laugh-out-loud." - Publishers Weekly "A prescient book for these times." - NewsaramaĪ look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator and creator of Incidental Comics. "This playful, self-aware collection of strips and gags on the joys and frustrations of reading and writing is equal parts lighthearted and sincere . . . I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf is the perfect gift for bookworms of all ages. In this lighthearted collection of one- and two-page comics, writer-artist Grant Snider explores bookishness in all its forms, and the love of writing and reading, building on the beloved literary comics featured on his website, Incidental Comics. We collect them, decorate with them, are inspired by them, and treat our books as sacred objects. ![]() But some of us surround ourselves with books. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books for new ones. It's no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator and creator of Incidental Comics. ![]() ![]() So she'll have to start asking, WWSGD: What would a straight girl do? If word got back to her mom, she could face a lot worse than rejection. Either way, Yami isn't going to make the same mistake again. The thing is, it's hard to fake being straight when Bo, the only openly queer girl at school, is so annoyingly perfect. Granted, she's never been great at any of those things, but that's a problem for Future Yami. But at least here no one knows she's gay, and Yami intends to keep it that way.Īfter being outed by her crush and ex-best friend before transferring to Slayton Catholic, Yami has new priorities: keep her brother out of trouble, make her mom proud, and, most importantly, don't fall in love. Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, very rich Catholic school. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Walter Honor Award Winner * Pura Belpré Honor BookĪ sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. National Book Award Finalist * William C. ![]() Yoga School Dropout by Lucy Edge5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() As any experienced yogi knows, when we practice we start to understand that moving our body changes our psychology – we begin to experience that link, and we get in touch with our life force – that Pranic experience – the vitality within. The practice of RAIN is most powerful when it is combined with movement. I’m not leaving you.’” As she wisely reminded us, we have to learn to do the same thing for ourselves: to hold ourselves in a loving and kind presence and give ourselves the opportunity to experience our own capacity for love and belonging to connect to the light within us – the light that radiates out the truth of love. To approach ourselves the same way we approach a friend who is struggling. ![]() Students came from near and far – one keen yogi traveling all the way from Dublin to join us.įocusing the class on practical tools for times of stress and anxiety, Wildman began with an explanation of RAIN – a simple practice that helps you, at any given point, (R) recognise what’s going on, (A) allow yourself some breathing space, (I) investigate what’s happening in your mind and body and take the steps to (N) nurture yourself.Īcknowledging the work of Buddhist psychologist Tara Brach (whose new book is listed in our OM Books section this month), Wildman explained to the class: “We have to be our own friend. With the kind permission of the Serpentine Galleries, at 8am in the cold but brilliant morning sunshine of Kensington Gardens, we got to it. ![]() The heretic queen book5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Since 2003, I have been supplying my Chef’s Essences® to the finest chefs and mixologists, along with many artisanal producers of fine chocolate, ice cream, candies, and baked goods. I am an advisor at The Institute for Art and Olfaction, which has created the Aftel Award for Handmade Perfume in my honor. I love adding a sense of luxury and well-being to people’s lives.Īs the founder of Aftelier Perfumes, I have been hailed as one of the fragrance industry’s “most prolific talents” by Vogue and an “angel of alchemy” by Vanity Fair, and listed as one of the top seven bespoke perfumers in the world by Forbes. I hand-blend and bottle all my products in small batches in my Berkeley, California studio, and personally attend to every detail of the process in creating every product. Some of the essences in my palette are antiques that have aged for many decades, like fine wines.Įverything I make is free from synthetics, parabens, glycols, and petrochemicals. Often I smell a dozen versions of the same oil, searching for one that surpasses all the rest. ![]() Finding these essences is a quest that I enjoy as much as the act of creating with them. I create each of my perfumes from the comprehensive collection of strikingly beautiful natural essences that I have assembled over the years from hidden corners of the world. ![]() I started making natural perfumes almost 30 years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle. TRANSCRIPT Carmen Rabell Typewritten Text Carmen Rabell Typewritten Text Aristotle. every scientist is in his debt."Īuthor: Aristotle, Introduction by Edward P.J. The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle. ![]() ![]() According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Aristotle was the first genuine scientist in history. The Poetics is much better known than the Rhetoric, though only the first book of the former, a treatment of epic and tragic poetry, survives. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great starting from 343 BC. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. Aristotle (/ˈærɪˌstɒtəl/ Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. ![]() |