Twain

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter XVII. 

This is a variation of the Patio and Cazo processes. Invented around 1860 at the Comstock mines, Nevada, and named after the district where it was developed. Mark Twain described the operations in his autobiographical novel Roughing It (Vol. 1, Chap. 36). 

This is an excerpt from Mark Twain s Roughing It. Twain gives an eyewitness account of the operation of the Pony Express, the West s first mail system. 

Finally, the episode was reworked yet again, in less direct fashion, in Mark Twain s set piece Those Extraordinary Twins, later a subplot for Pudd nhead Wilson (1894). Surely the New Orleans affair was somewhere in the back of Twain s mind when, after one of the novel s white... 

Mark Twain, Pudd nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins [1894]... 

I believe it was Mark Twain who quipped, when asked what he thought of the music of Richard Wagner, that It s not as bad as it sounds. Risk assessment might be similarly described. 

Mark Twain Pudd nhead Wilson s Calendar... 

There is something distinctly human about social anxiety. Mark Twain once remarked, Man is the only animal that blushes—or needs to. Although there are other mammalian species with complex social pecking orders, we, as humans, are particularly sensitive to how we are perceived by others. This sensitivity, when marked by a fear of evaluation by others, can become maladaptive. If that fear is transient and leads to little or no avoidance of social interactions, then it is considered normal shyness. However, when the social consequences of that fear become more pronounced, then the diagnosis of social phobia, now more commonly referred to as social anxiety disorder, is warranted. 

How can we put all this insight to pedagogical advantage A modern educator has said, The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows.But Mark Twain warned that It ain t what you don t know that hurts you, it s what you know that ain t so. ... 

This aphorism, with slight variations in wording (e.g., ...know for certain that ain t so ), is usually attributed to Twain. He may have said some such thing, but he seems never to have written it down. It is attributed less often to Will Rogers, in whose published work it also cannot be found and to Josh Billings, which ditto. Its attribution to Satchel Paige cannot be verified. 

All you need to do, to see that clearly, is to look at that one additional observation involving oral activity. This drug, 5-MeO-MIPT, is several times more potent when taken orally than it is when smoked. 5-MeO-DMT is much less active orally than when it is smoked. As a matter of fact, it is not active at all when taken orally. No active oral level has ever been found. What a rich area for speculation. Preferential metabolism First pass goings-on Chemical change from pyrolysis in the pipe Different receptors Lipophilicity I am reminded of the quote from Mark Twain "I like science because it gives one such a wholesome return of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact."... 

Talk about milking a story. The newspapers got all excited when pop star Shania Twain revealed that the secret behind her soft, supple skin wasn t some complex, highly touted product filled with liposomes, collagen, or ceramides. The secret, she said, was udderly simple Bag Balm delivered the goods. Just as it had done for cow udders since 1908, when a small Vermont company decided to take the bull by the horns and tackle the chronic problem of chapped cow udders. 

Which brings to mind a quotation of a hero of mine, Mark Twain. I like science because it gives one such a wholesome return of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. ... 

Kingdoms are clay our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man the nobleness of life Is to do thus when such a mutual pair And such a twain can do t, in which I bind. ... 

Abbgy, Theodore S. Elements and the Periodic Table What Things Are Made Of. Quincy, IL Mark Twain Media, 2001. 

Pugh, E. (2001) Rods are rods and cones cones, and (never) the twain shall meet Neuron vol. 32, pp 375-380... 

Cain, the ant with the multicolored abdomen, speaks. We have been following life on Earth since your Triassic led to the domination of dinosaurs. Our home world circled Betelgeuse, and, as the star grew, we survived by moving our planet into more distant orbits. We watched as mammals gradually arose on Earth and humans lifted their crafts to space. We eviscerated Einstein, Simon and Garfunkel, Brittney Spears, William Jefferson Clinton, and Shania Twain. What do you mean by eviscerated asks Bob. 

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