Despite the profane wordings in title above, this paper will be a civilized and academic inquest into sacrosanct “compendium” world has come to venerate. Touted by lexicographer as panacea every linguistic worry, dictionary indeed become source of reference reverence from essentially walk life. This essay on other hand, direct contention with deeply erroneously held views laymen linguists alike...

"Soul surfers" consider surfing to be a profoundly meaningful practice that brings physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits. They generally agree on where surfing initially developed, that it assumed a religious character, was suppressed for religious reasons, has been undergoing a revival, and enjoins reverence for and protection of nature. This subset of the global surfing community sh...

NON-ARISTOTELIAN LOGICS One of the deep-seated cravings of the human mind seems to be a desire for something permanent, for something eternally the same, changeless and absolute. Of such an object of reverence it can then be exclaimed, "Oh Thou Who Changest Not !" This worship of the changeless is by no means confined to religion, for, in the field of philosophy, as is known, no less a person t...

Benchmarking—by which I mean any computer system that is driven by a controlled workload—is the ultimate in performance simulation. Aside from being a form of institutionalized cheating, it also offer countless opportunities for systematic mistakes in the way the workloads are applied and the resulting measurements interpreted. Right test, wrong conclusion is a ubiquitous mistake that happens b...

A reverence for ancestors that has pre-occupied humans since time immemorial persists to the present. Reconstructing ancestry is the focus of many biological studies but failure to distinguish between present-day descendants and long-dead ancestors has led to incorrect interpretation of phylogenetic trees. This has resulted in erroneous reconstruction of traits such as morphology and ancestral ...

I discuss whether animism, the worldview that (some) objects, plants and animals are capable of communication, rational reflection intentional action, is in conflict with contemporary science. distinguish two conflicts. The first points to conflicting claims regarding abilities made by scientists animists (agential vs. non-agential). argue alleged can be diffused noting science animism advance ...