Word: everydayness
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...most students, however, Mahadevan and Vella have clarified an everyday encounter in simple, understandable science terms...
...quote Samuel Johnson, ‘familiarity doesn’t mean understanding,’” said Mahadevan. “So that’s the beginning and the end: if you see something everyday it doesn’t mean you understand it. We start with the curiosity of a child—many times we failed, once in a while I succeed. Our contribution was merely to wrap our arms around and focus on the simplest aspects of the problem...
...experience in similar schools and institutions, I’ve never seen an administrator or leader who is so strongly committed to the well-being and happiness of everyday people within the community,” Katz said...
...time Washington started recognizing that everyone benefits from aviation. Though military, business and private aircraft all use the infrastructure, U.S. commercial carriers primarily carry the costs. Why shouldn't a corporate hotshot in his Gulfstream jet pay a fair share to use the same services? And why should everyday passengers pay for an airport that no commercial airline can ever serve? It's unfair that airline security costs (to protect our citizens from attack from the air) are paid for predominantly by passenger ticket taxes. Since everyone benefits, why not use some of the revenue collected from everyone on April...
There's something unnerving about Miville's writing. In fact there's everything unnerving about it. Miville just doesn't respect boundaries: the supernatural flows into the everyday, the dead return to life, the past intrudes into the present, human bodies combine with machines. In the opening story London has been transmogrified into a surreal, deadly jungle through which a forlorn lover pursues the titular Jake. In Reports of Certain Events in London, a man uncovers documents detailing a secret war being fought over time and space. The combatants in this war are, literally, city streets...