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How Light Travels
along its path unobstructed. If you were to trace a line from the source of light to the edge of the object and then on to the edge of the object's shadow, it would be straight. Similarly, if you stand in an object's shadow looking back toward the object c...
Carroll Lewis
life has remained little examined. However, Karoline Leach has criticized in her book In the Shadow of the Dreamchild (1999) the Freudian mythology and the "strange incestuous kind of immortality" created around the author and the real-life Alice. According to...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich
of reason. They all shared a scientific positivism which they combined with a contrasting moral/religious positivism — this latter based on the assumption that higher values and the reality of divine things can be intuitively assessed by way of feeling. This younger genera...
The Unchanging
Roman Mythology Reference Desk Atlas Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia FunBrain Classics > Poetry > Flame and Shadow > By the Sea The Unchanging by Sara Teasdale Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing From the immense blue circle of the sea, And the soft thu...
NOVA scienceNOW - Lightning: Lightning Varieties
Camp Blanding, Florida. MARTIN UMAN:It's the brightest light that we see; it's the loudest noise that we hear. The only thing hotter than lightning on Earth would be a nuclear weapon explosion. CHAD COHEN: But what triggers the release of all that power? We know that lightning is...
NOVA scienceNOW - Twin Prime Conjecture: Seven Prime Questions
for the future of physics. Elements in the Ocean Marine geochemist Catherine Jeandel has bottled the world’s oceans to decipher their past—and future. Name That Element! Think you know the periodic table? See how quickly you can name the mystery elements we describe. Desc...
Shadows...
for further ideas or more information: Io's shadow on Jupiter Lunar Lollipops - another classroom activity Motion of the Earth about the Sun An old headline piece about a lunar eclipse Solar eclipses...the Moon's shadow The Sun A tour on light Venus capab...
On "Burnt Norton"
section of 'Burnt Norton' provides a second experience, located not in the Garden but in the City, or rather beneath the City, on an underground platform, no doubt of the Circle Line. The Underground's 'flicker' is a mechanical reconciliation of light and darkness, the tw...
How Light Moves
Ask students to take a light and shadow walk around their neighborhood. Depending on weather, this may have to be done one to two days in advance. Distribute the Flashlight Predictions PDF Document for students to record their observations during their walk. The Lesson P...
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
the imposing form of Hegel, under whose shadow Schelling could still be said to be struggling, but also, more anxiously and melancholically, in the "Hegelianism" that Schelling himself once powerfully advanced and was never able completely to disavow. Whether dead, or alive,...
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