Donald Duck

An interesting effect caused by breathing hehum is the change in one s voice when speaking. Because hehum is less dense than air, the vocal cords produce sounds at a higher pitch than normal and the speaker sounds hke Donald Duck. 

Accordingly, fishes evolved from invertebrates, humans from apes, even birds from dinosaurs. To suggest otherwise is tiresome nonsense, safely ignored, and best kept away from children and impressionable youth. In a Donald Duck cartoon strip of February 17 1986, one reads (Nielsen, 1987 Fig. 14) ... 

Since tales of potential atomic disaster drew heavily from biblical archetypes regarding the end of time, they resonated on a multitude of levels. Indeed, from 1945 to the present day, atomic-themed comic book adventures have never lost their appeal. In his lengthy list, Robert Beerbohm counted over 180 such tales from 1953 to 1989. From Donald Duck to the Gumps, from the Flash to Green Lantern, from Superman to Wonder Woman, it would be hard to find a cartoon character who did not confront nuclear themes. The following examples must serve as representative of a story genre that still continues, albeit in more subdued form since the end of the Cold War in 1989-90. Whether one looks at humorous or serious stories, the atomic theme is ever present. 

Donald Duck s Atom Bomb (1947), Cheerios Giveaway, Walt Disney Corporation. "Atomic Tot, All Humor Comics 2 (Summer 1946) (Comic Favorites). 

This quotation comes from a 1944 issue of Wat Disney s Comics and Stories, Donald Duck the Mad Chemist. It was discovered by Peter P. Caspar, then a postdoctoral feUow at Caltech, now a professor at Washington University. Those of us who work with CH2 have stiH not reproduced Professor Duck s experiment with osmotic fog, but a few of us are stih trying. 

Maybe, it does concern the level of expressions only if the explanans and the explanandum in a conceptual explanations, such as Donald is a drake because Donald is a male duck , are synonymous, and if synonymity is sufficient for conceptual identity, then even conceptual containment does not amount to triviality. 

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