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So Dan Miller decided to roast a pig. The idea took hold of him after another eruption on August 7. He would roast a pig in the steaming volcano fields at the base of St. Helens. Being a scientist meant that he would do it in a methodical fashion: notes would be kept and he would document everything. The operation needed a cover name because reporters and others were monitoring all radio communication around the volcano, so he called it the 'FPP temperature experiment'. FPP stood for Front Page Palmer, a name the scientists had given a local geology professor who had irritated the Survey geologists by grandstanding for the press. Miller would roast a pig and Palmer at the same time.


Dick Thompson


#geology-humor #mt-st-helens #science #usgs #volcanoes

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.


Rick Perlstein


#persuasion #communication

Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider connection weakens the sense of community. This happens in scholarly life when such essential functions as professional service or teaching do not get discussed openly or often enough.


Charles E. Glassick


#communication #scholarship #communication

The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it was certainly expected also in another sense. The converts in all the cities of Asia and (soon) of Europe where the small groups were founded had known, in their conversion, one way or another, a first coming of their Redeemer. And then? And then! That was the consequent task and trouble — the then. He had come, and they adored and believed, they communicated and practiced, and waited for his further exhibition of himself. The then lasted, and there seemed to be no farther equivalent Now. Time became the individual and catholic problem. The Church had to become as catholic — as universal and as durable — as time.


Charles Williams


#eschatology #theology #communication

If you aren't making somebody else's life better than you're wasting your time.


Unknown


#inspirational #change

When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the time,people can relate to what was written. I have always believed that books can change people's lives. Especially ones where the author is sincere,and writes deep,thoughtful,touching things from their hearts."-Nina Jean Slack


Nina Jean Slack


#heart #inspirational #touching #writers #change

One day, you will stop and think of something. Now it different for everyone but it will change your life forever because you will think of an idea. an idea that will go toe and toe with your dreams. When you think of this Idea, grab it and hold on to it


Unknown


#ideas-are-power #change

These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I believe that the Evil—an acute form of Evil—which it expresses, has a sovereign value for us. But this concept does not exclude morality: on the contrary, it demands a 'hypermorality.' Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication. —Literature and Evil


Georges Bataille


#evil #literature #morality #communication

Una verdad sin interés puede ser eclipsada por una falsedad emocionante.


Aldous Huxley


#politics #propaganda #communication

Das Internet ist das erste Medium, das diese Grenze [zwischen Publikation und Kommunikation] aufhebt.


Thomas Knüwer


#internet #media #communication






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