![]() ![]() Deciding on a color took nearly as long as deciding on a mattress (Adrian liked firm, Tucker liked soft Adrian persuaded Tucker over to his side by whispering a graphic-for-him description of the benefits of a firm mattress), but, as usual, they’d managed a compromise. Their landlord, initially reticent to rent to a gay couple, had actually softened up toward them enough-or feared a lawsuit enough-to allow them to paint the living room of their new apartment. Also why Adrian had taken charge of the edgework and left Tucker wielding the roller in the wide-open spaces. That explained why Tucker was currently covered with at least two dozen smears of mocha-colored paint while Adrian remained relatively paint free. Adrian kept things in order, reined Tucker in, and Tucker pulled Adrian out of his shell, softened his sharp edges. It applied to nearly every aspect of their lives, and most of the time, it worked out quite well. ![]() Adrian was as meticulous as Tucker was haphazard. ![]()
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![]() So as we react to a situation in our external environment that produces an emotion, the resulting internal chemistry can signal our genes to either turn on (up-regulating, or producing an increased expression of the gene) or to turn off (down-regulating, or producing a decreased expression of the gene). What do I mean by the environment within our body? As I said previously, emotions are chemical feedback, the end products of experiences we have in our external environment. But we now know through the science of epigenetics that it’s not the gene that creates disease but the environment that programs our genes to create disease-and not just the external environment outside our body (cigarette smoke or pesticides, for example), but also the internal environment within our body: the environment outside our cells. So if many people in someone’s family died of heart disease, we assumed that their chances of also developing heart disease would be pretty high. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Making Genetic Changes We used to think that genes created disease and that we were at the mercy of our DNA. ![]() ![]() As we reach its pearl anniversary, I can’t help but connect this book with Matthew 7:6 and not “casting your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn again and rend you.” Such is the wisdom of this small, epiphanic book about a drifter, druggie, drunk, and ne’er do well as he slowly finds himself working out of drug addiction and acedia and toward a hard-earned, sober redemption and reengagement with the world. I’ll say no more.” I read it often, and I’ve been handing it to students, friends, and family members ever since. A professor at Brooklyn College handed me my first copy in the late 1990’s-he said only this: “Read this. It’s a repeat offender, in the best sense of the term. Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son is one of those books you read in a single sitting, again and again. It’s been three decades since a slim volume of 11 interconnected stories, cobbled together for a few thousand dollars to keep the IRS at bay, changed the landscape of American literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tim shares his remarkable journey in an accessible way that will speak to soccer fans, kids struggling with issues that make them feel "different," and any young person looking for a compelling autobiography to read for a report or just for fun.Īfter a successful seventeen-year professional soccer career, Tim became an overnight star during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. 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Joseph Donohue’s new translation of the horrific New Testament story has recast Wilde’s shockingly radical drama in the natural idiomatic language of our own day. Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé (1893) was written originally in French. ![]() ![]() Hyde has been in continual publication for over 120 years. But people forget that this novel was written as a " shilling shocker." Popular during the Victorian era (the mid-1800s to about 1900), shilling shockers were short, graphic, and inexpensive books eagerly consumed by the masses-like those cheap romance novels you find in the supermarket.īut the real (shilling) shocker is that this piece of pulp fiction has remained totally famous and totally respectable. Hyde was published in 1886 and was instrumental in launching the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, to literary fame. if he lived in a world without consequences. 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Within water electrolysis, alkaline-based solutions are recognised to achieve the greatest performance in terms of capital expenditure and longevity, and are thus much more likely to constitute the bulk of future capacity. Water electrolysis is accepted as a key component of the hydrogen economy if renewable sources of energy are to be employed, and a large amount of scientific research has been dedicated to this aim over many decades. ![]() ![]() This is where hydrogen is recognised to have the greatest scope for transformative change. ![]() ![]() Despite that good news, it is difficult to store electrical energy without expensive, complex, and most likely imported batteries. Renewable energy generation, such as solar and wind, is now the cheapest form of electricity across large parts of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Now, my high school sweetheart was not a bad guy by any means, but looking back I see how I only dated him for my entire high school career because I liked the idea of only having one boyfriend ever. I wish I had broken up with my boyfriend. If we did something cool, we had to tell people about it later, and we probably didn't have photographic proof, because pictures were these paper things you had to pay money to have made.Ģ. I can only imagine how cool it must be to get into hilarious hijinks with your friends, and be able to post pics of your shenanigans in real time. This seems frivolous, I know, but when I was in high school only the rich kids had cell phones at all, and wi-fi was a rare and wondrous thing. I wish smart phones had existed, and that I'd had one. ![]() Ten Things I Wish I Could Change about my High School Yearsġ. ![]() |