03 JAN 2017 by ideonexus

 Evolving Rules of a Wargame

We then began to humanise that wild and fearful fowl, the gun. We decided that a gun could not be fired if there were not six—afterwards we reduced the number to four—men within six inches of it. And we ruled that a gun could not both fire and move in the same general move: it could either be fired or moved (or left alone). If there were less than six men within six inches of a gun, then we tried letting it fire as many shots as there were men, and we permitted a single man to move a gun,...
Folksonomies: history gaming
Folksonomies: history gaming
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05 SEP 2013 by ideonexus

 The Great Learning (大學)

What the Great Learning teaches is: to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. 大學之道在明明德,在親民,在止於至善 The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. 知止而后有定;定而后能靜 To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose. In that repose there may be careful deliberation, and that del...
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Presented in another way, with original and translation next to one another.

01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus

 The Perpetual Rain of Sediments to the Ocean Floor

For the sediments are the materials of the most stupendous 'snowfall' the earth has ever seen. It began when the first rains fell on the barren rocks and set in motion the forces of erosion. It was accelerated when living creatures developed in the suface waters and the discarded little shells of lime or silica that had encased them in life began to drift downward to the bottom. Silently, endlessly, with the deliberation of earth processes that can afford to be slow because they have so much ...
Folksonomies: nature
Folksonomies: nature
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Dust from deserts, minerals from rivers, and shells from lifeforms in the ocean are constantly raining down onto the ocean floor.