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In space flight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth and other spacecraft. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: the vehicle starts to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and it also strays from its course, which, if you’re short on time or fuel, could mean the difference between life and death. In the Soyuz, for example, we use every cue from every available source—periscope, multiple sensors, the horizon—to monitor our attitude constantly and adjust if necessary. We never want to lose attitude, since maintaining attitude is fundamental to success.
In my experience, something similar is true on Earth. Ultimately, I don’t determine whether I arrive at the desired professional destination. Too many variables are out of my control. There’s really just one thing I can control: my attitude during the journey, which is what keeps me feeling steady and stable, and what keeps me headed in the right direction. So I consciously monitor and correct, if necessary, because losing attitude would be far worse than not achieving my goal.
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Chris Hadfield (An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth)
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The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night.
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Mervyn Peake (Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3))
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I feel to that the gap between my new life in New York and the situation at home in Africa is stretching into a gulf, as Zimbabwe spirals downwards into a violent dictatorship. My head bulges with the effort to contain both worlds. When I am back in New York, Africa immediately seems fantastical – a wildly plumaged bird, as exotic as it is unlikely.
Most of us struggle in life to maintain the illusion of control, but in Africa that illusion is almost impossible to maintain. I always have the sense there that there is no equilibrium, that everything perpetually teeters on the brink of some dramatic change, that society constantly stands poised for some spasm, some tsunami in which you can do nothing but hope to bob up to the surface and not be sucked out into a dark and hungry sea. The origin of my permanent sense of unease, my general foreboding, is probably the fact that I have lived through just such change, such a sudden and violent upending of value systems.
In my part of Africa, death is never far away. With more Zimbabweans dying in their early thirties now, mortality has a seat at every table. The urgent, tugging winds themselves seem to whisper the message, memento mori, you too shall die. In Africa, you do not view death from the auditorium of life, as a spectator, but from the edge of the stage, waiting only for your cue. You feel perishable, temporary, transient. You feel mortal.
Maybe that is why you seem to live more vividly in Africa. The drama of life there is amplified by its constant proximity to death. That’s what infuses it with tension. It is the essence of its tragedy too. People love harder there. Love is the way that life forgets that it is terminal. Love is life’s alibi in the face of death.
For me, the illusion of control is much easier to maintain in England or America. In this temperate world, I feel more secure, as if change will only happen incrementally, in manageable, finely calibrated, bite-sized portions. There is a sense of continuity threaded through it all: the anchor of history, the tangible presence of antiquity, of buildings, of institutions. You live in the expectation of reaching old age.
At least you used to.
But on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, those two states of mind converge. Suddenly it feels like I am back in Africa, where things can be taken away from you at random, in a single violent stroke, as quick as the whip of a snake’s head. Where tumult is raised with an abruptness that is as breathtaking as the violence itself.
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Peter Godwin (When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa)
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Panicked, Mary stares into the camera, then holds up her hand, making a wiping motion and droning “Erase! Erase!” It’s the primal scene of reality TV stardom, rendered as bleak comedy.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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The morning sun and the endless sky beckoned. Behind her, as if on cue, Moondagger rose on his haunches, spread his white wings wide, lifted his head to the vaults, and roared. In unison, the armory crews saluted them. Anna returned their salute, crossing her chest with her fist. “Arming master,” Master Zar asked formally. “Is the rider ready for orders?” “Sir.” Master Jason nodded, fist crossing his chest. “The rider is ready.
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Peter Fane (The Blind Dragon (A Tale from the Canon of Tarn, #1))
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In The Sunset Sky
The sunset sky dazzling with the golden hues,
Taking bow in brilliant sparkle of experience
Is it not a climax, of the story so far, that was today?
Or is it building anticipation of the night yet to come.
Watch the days go,
some proud of their accomplishments
Some leaving sighs of disappointments, Leaving all in awe of its Amaranthine twists and turns
And the fortunate get to see the moon trying to steal the show from setting sun,
Oh she is such a show off, isn't she, basking in reflected glory
Its magical, the sunset sky,Puzzling, sometimes just like a riddle,
Leaving the nature stunned and amazed For it has been filling the canvas whole day with colours
And now the sunset threatens to hide them all
And in dark all the colours will be same
A cue for the wise.
Sunset sky has so much to offer,
is she not a fine exampleof how uncertain a life can be
Often reminding no matter what you planned, there will besome unexpected returns
For End has its own brain, its own script
Charting its own course
So why just the beginning,every moment of the life should be grand,
meted with equal passion and fervor
She has been so clever; the sunset sky
Leaving Twinkling cryptic messages for the night sky
For even the dark has sparkle and hope if you keep your head up,
A constant reminder that exuberance is an attitude of deep,rich, warm hearts
I want my sunset sky to be grand, magical, and full of stories of my life that has been
And its memories to linger on in this world, in the tomorrow and a few more years to come
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Soma Mukherjee
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In space flight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth and other spacecraft. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: the vehicle starts to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and it also strays from its course, which, if you’re short on time or fuel, could mean the difference between life and death. In the Soyuz, for example, we use every cue from every available source—periscope, multiple sensors, the horizon—to monitor our attitude constantly and adjust if necessary. We never want to lose attitude, since maintaining attitude is fundamental to success. In my experience, something similar is true on Earth. Ultimately, I don’t determine whether I arrive at the desired professional destination. Too many variables are out of my control. There’s really just one thing I can control: my attitude during the journey, which is what keeps me feeling steady and stable, and what keeps me headed in the right direction. So I consciously monitor and correct, if necessary, because losing attitude would be far worse than not achieving my goal.
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Chris Hadfield (An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth)
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… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted, liminal spaces, at a very narrow remove from the atavistic Wild. Arcadia is not the realm even of Giorgione and of Claude, with its cracked pillars and thunderbolts, its lurking banditti; still less is it Poussin’s sun-dappled and regularised realm of order, where, although the lamb may be destined for the altar and the spit, all things proceed with charm and gravity and studied gesture; least of all is it the degenerate and prettified Arcady of Fragonard and Watteau, filled with simpering courtier-Corydons, pallid Olympians, and fat-arsed putti. (It is only family piety that prevents me from taking a poker to an inherited coffee service in gilt porcelain with bastardised, deutero-Fragonard scenes painted on the sides of every damned thing. Cue Wallace Greenslade: ‘… “Round the Horne”, with Marie Antoinette as the dairymaid and Kenneth Williams as the manager of the camp-site….’) No: Arcadia is the very margin of the liminal space between the safe tilth and the threatening Wild, in which Pan lurks, shaggy and goatish, and Death proclaims, from ambush, et in Arcadia ego. Arcadia is not the Wide World nor the Riverbank, but the Wild Wood. And in that wood are worse than stoats and weasels, and the true Pan is no Francis of Assisi figure, sheltering infant otters. The Wild that borders and penetrates Arcady is red in tooth and claw.
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G.M.W. Wemyss
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Jasper would have been completely hidden if it weren't for Highway 17, the crumbling two-lane road that traced the coastline, splitting cypress swamps and tidal creeks edging right up to the 350,000-acre ACE Basin, where three rivers converged to form the largest, wildest estuarine preserve on the East Coast. Jasper bordered the northeast side of the basin where dolphins, gators, minks, otters, and every manner of waterfowl and shore bird prospered from the daily six-foot inflow and outflow of saltwater, freshwater, and brackish water that rose and fell on cue like the sun itself.
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Beth Webb Hart (The Wedding Machine (Women of Faith Fiction))
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I’m trusting you with my future, Rusty,” he said quietly. “She’s everything to me. You understand that?” Her smile was oddly sad. “I understand all too well what happens when a Kelly man decides a woman is his. It’s too bad the rest of the male population can’t take their cues from you.
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Maya Banks (Brighter Than the Sun (KGI #11))
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Spring had missed its cue. Snow still clings to the Derbyshire dales, and the sun hangs low, timid in the sky. Bluebells and snowdrops lie in wait, desperate for a climate in which they can thrive for a while. I suppose I wait like them too. Hardy to the core, but mindful that in the wrong environment, I can perish in an instant
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Madison Alexander Day (Despite It All: A Munchausen by Proxy Childhood, and Beyond)
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Mika laughed. “That sounds like my kind of place.” “Exactly.” His voice was more serious now, and she glanced sideways at him, confused and curious about where this was going. “Someone in that town loves flowers the way you love magic. They went all in, and you should, too. You should open that enchanted tea and potion shop.” “It just isn’t possible,” Mika objected. “I don’t know of a single place in the world where I could do that.” Perfectly on cue, the car turned in at a pair of iron gates. The storm had blown over and the air had that wonderful, earthy scent of wet grass and new possibilities. The low, golden sun gleamed over the gables and chimneys of Nowhere House. A sense of complete rightness filled Mika. “It’s not always enough to go looking for the place we belong,” Jamie said, his eyes on the house ahead. “Sometimes we need to make that place.
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Sangu Mandanna (The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches)
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It’s always the same, that someone was a small kid in Nowheresville, they were gay, they were hiding it, and then they saw Lance and realized they weren’t alone,” Susan told me. Lance recognized his celebrity as a vocation, which meant that he alone among the Louds accepted the Raymonds’ role,
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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pack in its acute focus on female suffering, offering up a unique blend of abjection and Vegas glitz, like The Bachelor crossed with GoFundMe.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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While Dragnet wasn’t a reality show, it played one on TV,
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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If the ’70s had given off the funk of a stained shag carpet after a basement orgy, the ’80s were more like a plastic slipcovered sofa in the living room, ready for company.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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He and the real estate mogul Donald Trump were supposed to develop a show based on the board game Monopoly, a project that was a model of corporate synergy, uniting three brands—a high-end documentarian, a fake tycoon, and a game that celebrated capitalism.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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The Bachelor was a more immersive experience, like being trapped inside an erotic terrarium, lulled by floating rose petals. In a world of tacky, The Bachelor was a fancy show.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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Langley’s next anti-drug project, the 1985 music video “Stop the Madness”—which you must google immediately—was a for-hire project produced by actor Tim Reid, a member of the Entertainment Industries Council for a Drug-Free Society.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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one version, gay male creativity is a superpower, healing the world and building bridges. In the other, it’s realpolitik, an awareness of how to “trade up.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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Who you sympathized with came down to which kind of behavior you found more unstable: the notion of marrying a stranger to get a free week in Vegas or the idea of seeking your soulmate on a Fox game show.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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Jon Kroll, a game show buff who had been raised in a hippie commune, amid what he described as “naked acid parties, hot tubs, and madness”—a perfect résumé for the job.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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Cherry Hill, like most local wineries, is on a peninsula that juts into the vast expanse of Lake Michigan’s northernmost curve. The vineyards sprawl across gently rolling hills on either side of the long gravel road that brings us to the winery itself, all sleek glass, balsa wood, and corrugated metal. The parking lot is jammed, the gardens that encircle it bursting with colorful blooms, all tinted pinkish by the setting sun. Out beyond the flowers and hedges, whitewashed tables dot a grassy stretch, customers milling from the bocce court on one end to a duck pond at the other, delicately stemmed glasses in hand. Globe lights hang over the seating area, just waiting for the falling night to give them the cue to light up.
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Emily Henry (Funny Story)
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Gio Willimas (Hip Hop Rhyming Dictionary: The Extensive Hip Hop & Rap Rhyming Dictionary for Rappers, Mcs,Poets,Slam Artist and lyricists: Hip Hop & Rap Rhyming Dictionary And General Rhyming Dictionary)
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In the basement of my fears,
I memorised every line
You wrote in your old perfumed letters.
You said you would come back in 3 days,
And each time I stood waiting
Reciting your letter like a poem,
I started to believe that you meant something else,
Something more poetic when you said 3 days.
I began to see everything in three;
God the son, God the father, God the Holy Spirit.
For three years I have been waiting
Because if I lost my faith in God
What would become of faith itself?
And so, when she came,
I took whatever she said with a grain of salt
She promised to erase every memory of you,
I did not want to disappoint her with the truth
That I still remember you
Whenever it rained
That was how we met,
You swept me with your beauty
And showed me a wet letter
When the sun shone,
We dried it and the letter was never whole again,
Maybe I should have taken a cue from it.
love makes us blind
When we are blind
We don’t see disappointments
Three days came,
Three days met three decades,
I was married,
I had a child
Yet I still had old memories of you,
Your perfumed letters
Were still ingrained in my mind
For me to love you
My lover had to die
And your husband too had to die.
So, we went to the chapel in secret
And prayed for the death of people
Who had promised to love us.
And when they did die
We run away
On a boat
Never to return
To love ourselves like the character
In the old perfume letters
So hard that we couldn’t distinguish reality from poetry
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J.Y. Frimpong
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If you don’t mind, I’d like to offer a Thanksgiving prayer.” “We’d like that,” my mother said. Taking our cue from Mr. Foster, we all bowed our heads. “Dear Lord, we are indeed grateful this day for the abundance of our lives. Help us to remember that you are the giver of all blessings. Thank you for this delicious food and for good neighbors to share it with. Beau and I are grateful to have new friends and we pray, dear Lord, that your favor will shine upon them like the morning sun.
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Richard Paul Evans (A Christmas Memory)
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Our ability to control our weight depends on deep sleep, which is directed by cues from the sun. Each new study strengthens the evidence for the connection between weight and sleep.
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Alan Christianson (The Adrenal Reset Diet: Strategically Cycle Carbs and Proteins to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Move from Stressed to Thriving)
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In 1612, two years after Galileo stunned the world with Sidereus nuncius, Cigoli completed a fresco in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, the most important Marian shrine in Christendom. During Galileo’s lifetime, the large basilica had two new chapels added[*10] and Cigoli was hired to paint a scene from the Book of Revelation, which takes place during the Apocalypse. His subject was “a Woman clothed with the Sun, and the Moon under her feet,” standing opposite Saint Michael the Archangel. Cigoli painted as he was told. But the Moon at her feet was not the smooth orb of many early counterparts, who used the spotless Aristotelian Moon as a metaphor for the spotless Virgin Mary, mother of Christ. It was Galileo’s Moon, craggy, crater-pocked, indented, marred. Cigoli painted an astronomical Moon, not the Platonic ideal of a Moon. This fresco is still the subject of debate among scholars, but whatever Cigoli’s intent—acting contra Counter-Reformation Church politics, or just making a very well-placed hat tip to his art school friend—his Moon changed things.[24] Moons in art became real. Paintings might have remained religious in nature, but their depictions of the sky and Moon were vivid, believable, and terrestrial, taking their cue from modern astronomy.
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Rebecca Boyle (Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are)
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Howard “Sandman” Sims, the “exterminator” from the amateur night at the Apollo Theater, also claimed to have inspired the gong.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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God is setting you up! He is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. And His angels are our advance team! Each trip around the sun has been carefully choreographed for us by the Creator of the universe. We just need to take His cues.
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Mark Batterson (A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime)
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pharmacist had everyone’s attention, he turned to the dog. “What would you rather do?” the pharmacist asked the dog. “Be a nigger or die?” The dog rolled over on cue. It flipped onto its back, folded its legs, shut its eyes, and froze. The grown people
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Isabel Wilkerson (The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration)
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Reality shows were strike-breakers, too—the slimy beneficiaries of anti-labor tactics, funded by executives who didn’t want to pay writers and actors.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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Frank Berry, then the head of the NAACP, also objected to the show, but from a different angle. The way he saw it, the problem with Cops wasn’t that it worked with the police—it was that cops behaved better on camera than they did in real life, concealing their racism.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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Early on, LAPD commander Daryl Gates had said no to Cops filming in his city. Then, in 1991, George Holliday recorded the beating of Rodney King, graphic evidence of police brutality that led to a mass uprising a year later, after the jury delivered a not-guilty verdict. In 1994, the new LAPD police chief, Willie Williams, agreed to let Cops film his officers. “At this juncture, it makes certain sense for the department to receive some positive coverage,” said Gary Greenebaum, the president of the police commission, in the Los Angeles Times.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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The catalyst for these protoreality shows was, as ever, a labor strike:
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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Since the beginning of evolutionary time, the Moon has sculpted life on this planet. The Moon stabilizes Earth’s tilt toward the Sun, making the Moon the captain of our seasons. The consistency of this tilt over millennia stabilizes our climate in turn. Life in all its endless forms, from corals to plants to humans, responds to the Moon’s cues. Oxygen exhaled by these breathing organisms streams out of our planet’s atmosphere, flies with the solar wind, and pools on the Moon as proof that we are here.
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Rebecca Boyle (Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are)
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The way most WGA writers saw it, the genre was the enemy—a wedge networks used to resist union demands, first in 1988, when the WGA struck for twenty-two weeks, and then again in 2001. If reality laborers suffered, maybe they deserved to.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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Anyone could rebrand a mediocre businessman, some small-timer in need of a glow-up. But taking a failed tycoon who was a heavily in hock and too risky for almost any bank to lend to, a crude, impulsive, bigoted, multiply-bankrupt ignoramus, a sexual predator so reckless he openly harassed women on his show, then finding a way to make him look attractive enough to elect as the president of the United States? That was a coup, even if no one could brag about it.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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Scanlon would go on to edit two more seasons of The Apprentice, then got fired, two weeks before Christmas, after a male editor came back from paternity leave.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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cartoonish stereotypes were the industry default.
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Emily Nussbaum (Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV)
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One of the early discoveries in neuroscience that helped to rekindle the field’s interest in habit came from a 1990s study that separated habit learning in humans from conscious understanding. Twenty participants had Parkinson’s disease, which attacks motor control systems in the basal ganglia, especially the putamen, and impedes the ability to learn new habits (even non-motor ones) and to activate old ones. Twelve participants were patients with amnesia who had dysfunction in a different brain area (the hippocampus), one that interfered with their ability to remember recent events. Parkinson’s patients could explain the task and the instructions. They knew consciously what to do. But it didn’t matter how much they practiced. They could not learn the connections between cues (cards) and rewarded responses (rain/sun forecast). They could not form a habit. In contrast, the amnesiacs acquired habits more readily as they practiced the task. After taking fifty chances at predicting the weather, they could make accurate forecasts based on the cards. But when they were asked about what they were doing, they could not remember the instructions or details of what they had seen. This research provided some of the first insights into the neural mechanics of habit formation. It suggested that, in humans, habit learning isn’t superseded or subordinated by more thoughtful learning systems, as assumed by many researchers during the cognitive revolution. Habits live in resilient, deep-seated neural structures—ones that are fundamental to mammalian life.
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Wendy Wood (Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick)