#trial

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#books #briefcase #cardboard #carry #faux

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#industrialization #language #wwi #age

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#argument #collapsed #design #dover #intellectually

She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics. ↗

— Carly Patterson

#did #get #good #happy #higher

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean. ↗

— Ann Rule

#court #court tv #fascinating #find #go

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop? ↗

— Craig Shirley

#put #stop #trial #where

I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine. ↗

— Jacques Verges

#course #court #decision #depending #i

The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private affairs. With hypothetical advanced aliens residing at a safely distant address in the hypothetical multiverse, that is - to the relief of folks like Gribbin, Dawkins and the New Scientist - manifestly not the case. ↗

— David Klinghoffer

#aliens #dawkins #extraterrestrials #id #intelligent-design

But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #industrial-food #western-diet #diet

That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#god-s-goodness #suffering #trials #faith