Word: overloadã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...October afternoon in the year 2000. A girl stands beside her father, gazing out over the water as the setting sun burns orange into the soft waves. There’s a sensory overload??the whoosh of oars slicing the smooth surface of the river combines with the smell of hot dog vendors, the sight of families stretched out on picnic blankets, and the faint buzz of cars rolling by on Memorial Drive. Little does the girl, standing at water’s edge with her father on that October afternoon, know that in a few years...
...popular nature television series, and honorary member of two Native American tribes, was presented with the Peterson award for his work in sustainable ecology and environmental advocacy. Before a crowd of about 250 people, Suzuki warned of the dangers of population growth, reductionist scientific theorizing, and information overload??but reserved his outrage for the field of economics. “Economics is not a science,” he said. “[It is] a set of values posing as science.” Suzuki said the practice of renaming the natural world...
Students began their summer with a week-long seminar on the Harvard campus, where they heard from a “daily overload?? of four or five speakers, many of whom spoke about their personal involvement in the Civil Rights movement, according to participant Najiba Akbar, a rising junior at Wellesley College...
| 1 |