Ways of seeing – the Dayman Dome
The availability of very detailed topographic grids has provided geologists of new ways of looking at areas. Sometimes the results can be spectacular.
Government by crony
One of the reasons that Ayn Rand was successful was that she very clearly identified the problem of cronyism, a far too close association between government and industry. Recognising the problem is easy, however. What she signally failed to do was provide any workable solution.
Gaimard, linguist
Despite the distances involved, there was clearly much coming and going between the islands of the central Carolines in the early 1800s, and their languages, or dialects, would be expected to be very similar also. Gaimard, however, provided two vocabularies for these islands and where they overlap they have major differences, even in such basic matters as the names of the numerals.