12 DEC 2017 by ideonexus
Feminist Portrayal in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Writing
All day the memory of this interview haunted him. He felt that he had come very badly out of it. She had showed herself to be his superior on his own pet subject. She had been courteous while he had been rude, self-possessed when he had been angry. And then, above all, there was her presence, her monstrous intrusion to rankle in his mind. A woman doctor had been an abstract thing before, repugnant but distant. Now she was there in actual practice, with a brass plate up just like his own, comp...09 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
On Atoms Sharing Electrons
Saying that each of two atoms can attain closed electron shells by sharing a pair of electrons is equivalent to saying that husband and wife, by having a total of two dollars in a joint account and each having six dollars in individual bank accounts, have eight dollars apiece!The idea that by sharing electrons they close their shells seems absurd.
21 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
The Change in Environment for a Baby Post-Birth
Imagine for a while the nature of the changes in his world that occurred at birth. From 98.6-degree warmth to 70-degree room temperature. From total darkness to glaring overhead lights in the hospital. From relative quiet, where instead of mother's familiar voice and the soothing rhythmical sounds of her body (her heartbeat, breath sounds. etc.) there are sudden loud, unfamiliar, startling noises. From being carried constantly with the rocking motion from Mother's hip movements, to the utter ...Folksonomies: pregnancy childbirth
Folksonomies: pregnancy childbirth
...and changes for the mother as well.
03 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Marriage as a Partnership of Mutual Cooperation
The relationship between a mother and her child is fairly straightforward: Both are seeking roughly the same goal—the welfare of themselves and each other. The relationship between a man and his wife's lover or between a woman and her rival for a promotion is also fairly Straightforward: Both want the worst for each other. One relationship is all about cooperation, the ot other all about conflict. But what is the relationship between a woman and her husband? It is cooperation in the sense t...Where the father seeks to reproduce and the mother seeks a provider for the children.