![]() ![]() She attended the Johns Hopkins creative writing program and received fellowships at the McDowell Colony and the Yaddo Colony. She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer. ![]() Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. ![]() She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If the barnacles get too big, they can actually cause drag that slows the whale down or requires it to work harder to swim at the same speed.īut the humpback whales migrating through the Pacific Ocean off Australia’s Gold Coast have devised a clever solution to this problem, according to a new paper published this spring in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. These small, sticky crustaceans attach to whales’ skin and hitch a ride to filter more of the ocean’s nutrient-rich waters. But over time, a whale can be slowed down by animals that are a mere fraction of its size: barnacles. ![]() ![]() Despite their large size, whales are swift, sleek swimmers that can move through the water at high speeds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever. Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs-in companies of all sizes-a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late. ![]() It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. ![]() Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on "validated learning," rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. But many of those failures are preventable. Condition: Like new except for browning on page edges. Jude Deverauxs beloved bestseller has captivated readers the world over now in a special edition featuring new material, this timeless love story greets a new. ![]() ![]() But he praises Asperger's courage in speaking to the Nazis. Silberman shies away from using the terms high-functioning and low-functioning, because "both of those terms can be off base," he says. Steve Silberman's articles have been published in Wired, The New Yorker, Nature and Salon. ![]() Along the way, he revisits Asperger's calculated efforts to save his patients. Silberman chronicles the history of autism and examines some of the myths surrounding our current understanding of the condition in his new book, NeuroTribes. "That is where the idea of so-called high-functioning versus low-functioning autistic people comes from really - it comes from Asperger's attempt to save the lives of the children in his clinic," science writer Steve Silberman tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Asperger was speaking to an audience of Nazis, and he feared that his patients - children who fell onto what we now call the autism spectrum - were in danger of being sent to Nazi extermination camps.Īs Asperger spoke, he highlighted his "most promising" patients, a notion that would stick with the autistic spectrum for decades to come. In 1938, an Austrian pediatrician named Hans Asperger gave the first public talk on autism in history. ![]() The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 68 children has an autism spectrum disorder. ![]() ![]() So they strike a deal to be publicity-friendly (fake) boyfriends until the dust has settled. Unfortunately apart from being gay, single, and really, really in need of a date for a big event, Luc and Oliver have nothing in common. In other words: perfect boyfriend material. He’s a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and he’s never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. ![]() ![]() To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship…and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. Now that his dad’s making a comeback, Luc’s back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. ![]() His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he’s never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Luc O’Donnell is tangentially–and reluctantly–famous. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, it seems that only one place will take him. ![]() Little accidents – and not-so-little ones – keep him moving from one private school to another. He has the power of a wizard, but after spending his childhood trying to suppress it, he finds it blazing out of his control. Raised by a foster-mother with a sorcerer’s knack for material-magic, he has only the sketchiest possible notions of the world of weir or his place in it. He doesn’t know who his real parents were. Joseph McCauley – Seph to his friends – seems innocent enough. The result has been a perpetual wrangling for power over all the magic in the world, and innocent people are often caught in the crossfire. Two main parties, the White Rose and the Red Rose, have been in conflict for many generations. The wizards are strong, but their strength is divided by mutual enmity. The most powerful of the weirlind are the wizards, who for hundreds of years have ruled over the Anawizard Weir (enchanters, warriors, etc.) as masters over slaves. ![]() The Anaweir, like the Muggles of Harry Potterdom, are everybody else – and they don’t even know that such people exist. You will know, for example, that the Weir are folks who are born with a magical stone inside them, a stone that gives them certain powers, depending on whether they are sorcerers, seers, enchanters, or warriors. If you have read the first book in this trilogy, The Warrior Heir – which I highly recommend – you will already know a few things as you begin this second book. ![]() ![]() ![]() This sensitivity is primarily related to changes in the flow strength in the cavity inshore of the ridge. ![]() In this paper, we investigate the combined effect of these two processes: how does calving affect the melt rates on PIIS? Using numerical simulations of the ocean flow beneath the ice shelf, we identify a potentially high sensitivity of melt rates to calving, depending on the cavity geometry. However, the ice shelf has also lost large sections from its front in recent years, in a process referred to as calving. The combination of this seabed ridge and ice shelf above it reduce the amount of relatively warm water that is able to reach the ice shelf, therefore restricting the amount of ice shelf melting that can take place. The seabed beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf (PIIS)-the floating extension of Pine Island Glacier-features a large ridge. ![]() ![]() In Brainscapes, Rebecca Schwarzlose combines unforgettable real-life stories, cutting-edge research, and vivid illustrations to reveal brain maps’ surprising lessons about our place in the world-and about the world’s place within us. In the process, they invite us to view ourselves from a startling new perspective. Brain maps distort and shape our experience of the world, support complex thought, and make technology-enabled mind reading a modern-day reality, which raises important questions about what is real, what is fair, and what is private. They shine a light on our past and our possible futures. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets-and comprehend their profound impact on our lives. ![]() That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain’s surfaces are actual maps of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. ![]() A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of “maps” etched into your gray matter-and how technology can use them to read your mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Phoebe’s past threatens to destroy the fragile bond they’ve formed, even a budding belief in love might not be enough to save them. As passion flares wickedly between them, their marriage bed is quick to heat up. The more intrigued she becomes by the mysterious and devastatingly handsome Hugh, however, the more she realizes he’s holding back from opening his heart due to long-held secrets she struggles to understand. But then the woman he’s been corresponding with shows up on his doorstep, enticingly beautiful and offering a marriage of convenience in exchange for his protection… Lady Phoebe Maitland expected to marry for love and nothing else-until the man she gave her trust betrayed her. She has a warrior way, never give up on her dreams. Stacy lives a lot in the worlds she creates and actively speaks to her characters (out loud). , DUCHESS BY DAY MISTRESS BY NIGHT THE EARL IN MY BED THE SCANDALOUS DIARY OF LILY LAYTON MY DARLING DUKE WHEN THE EARL MET HIS MATCH HER WICKED. ![]() She especially loves romance and adores writing about people falling in love. ![]() Their back-and-forth letters on the true nature of love, something they disagree on wholeheartedly, leave him shocked-and intrigued. Stacy is an avid reader of novels with a deep passion for writing. When Hugh Winthrop, the future Earl of Albury, decides to advertise for a wife in the London paper, he never expected an anonymous response from a woman who matches him wit for wit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nkosana makes the Zulu language so romantic he makes it sound like French. Nkosana is very poetic, how he uses his words, and how he relays love to her. They serve couple goals from the get-go, even in prison.įor the viewer, one thing they’ll truly enjoy is their language. I’m happy that Season 2 comes out in February, which is the Month of Love because they have such a beautiful love story. ![]() Have you heard that guy’s voice? How’s the chemistry between Zandile and Nkosana? The only Zulu brother I’m exposed to is Nkosana. We caught up with Khanyi to find out more: Which Zulu brother do you think has the best swagger? The show trended at the top of Twitter every Thursday during its run, for 13 consecutive weeks. Produced by Stained Glass, Season 1 of The Wife opened to rave reviews in November 2021, becoming the most-watched launch on Showmax ever. Today’s trailer also gives us the first glimpse of International Emmy nominee Lerato Mvelase (Home Affairs, the Oscar-shortlisted Life, Above All), who also joins the cast this season, in good company with Bonko Khoza as South Africa’s disgraced national husband, Mqhele Abdul Khoza and Zikhona Sodlaka as Nqoba and Mandisa Kwenzo Ngcobo as Qhawe and Sipho Ndlovu as Sambulo. Season 1 was inspired by Hlomu The Wife Season 2 by Zandile The Resolute. ![]() The Wife is inspired by the bestselling books by Dudu Busani-Dube, which tell the story of the eight Zulu brothers, a formidable crime family, through the eyes of the wives they marry. ![]() |