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Republicans are wrong, not only in their attacks on Bragg, but also in their premise that liberal democracy is immoral. It has not destroyed families or communities, or ended self-sacrifice: just the opposite. The principles of liberal democracy made nineteenth-century writer Harriet Beecher Stowe turn her grief for her dead
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People with an anxious attachment style actively seek closeness and are afraid of losing it, and have a harder time trusting and knowing their partner will be there for them The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture
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Nurturance, the literature teaches us, recognizes and responds appropriately, in an alive, moving dance, to the other person’s need for intimacy andneed for space, learning how to engage in nonverbal limbic communication that comforts, reassures, and breathes The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture
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“In a sense, we are all creatures of the deep. Hydrothermal vents, plumes of superheated water rich in minerals, are bursting with chemical potential and ripe for exploiting, and had an ancient role to play in the origins of life. Primordial oozes, organic soups struck by lightning, raising life in
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“This is earthlight, not sunlight. As the superheated water cools against its surroundings, it emits photons – thermal radiation. The light from vents is strong enough that, in the modern day, a species of bacterium is known to use it for photosynthesis, some 2.5 kilometres below the reaches of the
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“Without green wavelengths, about 100 metres down, at the bottom of what is called the euphotic zone, photosynthesis is no longer possible” Excerpt From: Halliday, Thomas. “Otherlands.” Random House Publishing Group, 2022-02-01. Apple Books.
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“These plants and fungi are becoming the first groups of organisms to break free from the water, and will become the foundational structures on which the terrestrial ecosystems of the future will be built” Excerpt From: Halliday, Thomas. “Otherlands.” Random House Publishing Group, 2022-02-01. Apple Books.
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“That they are present so early in the evolutionary history of plants suggests that this relationship is not just ecologically important but fundamental to the development of life on land” Excerpt From: Halliday, Thomas. “Otherlands.” Random House Publishing Group, 2022-02-01. Apple Books.
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“Today, no matter what the source of its energy, whether from the sun, from minerals, or from digesting other living creatures, every single living thing on Earth converts that energy, first and foremost, into a pyrophosphate compound, ATP, the so-called ‘universal energy currency of life’. Across all living things, that
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“No species evolves in isolation, but the synergy of plants and fungi has altered the future of life on Earth perhaps more than any other evolutionary innovation” Excerpt From: Halliday, Thomas. “Otherlands.” Random House Publishing Group, 2022-02-01. Apple Books.
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When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the
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“There are naturally distant transportations of minerals, in fact – the Amazon basin, for example, depends on the annual influx of blown sand from the Sahara Desert to replenish those minerals lost downriver” Excerpt From: Halliday, Thomas. “Otherlands.” Random House Publishing Group, 2022-02-01. Apple Books.