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...find myself at 5 p.m. on January 22 (11 p.m.: time to break out the euro-and-66-cent bottle of wine or get some late-night gelato) feeling almost nostalgic about clearing my leftovers out of the office fridge and packing up my personal belongings (i.e., my favorite pen...
...Because of his extreme anti-Muslim views, Wilders is often compared to the leaders of Europe's other far-right parties, such as Nick Griffin of the British National Party and Jean-Marie Le Pen of France's National Front. But he claims (though his opponents strongly disagree) that his policies are rooted in the Dutch tradition of tolerance: he says that Islam is a threat to women's rights, and he criticizes Muslims' anti-gay rhetoric. Now under 24-hour surveillance because of the many death threats he's received, Wilders told TIME last year that Islam itself stirs...
Lieberman used the dropping of pen on a table as an analogy to illustrate the differences in impact...
...When you drop [the pen] vertically, the whole pen is the mass that comes to a dead stop,” he said. “When you drop it on a 45 degree angle, the collision is much less noisy, because part of the pen’s translational energy is converted to rotational energy...
...Charles Darwin came to write The Origin of Species. Unfortunately, we don't get to set sail on The Beagle, but in a literal sense the movie does deliver, in that we do get to see Darwin (Paul Bettany) repeatedly sit down at his desk and move a pen across paper. Eventually, we see him drop a fat parcel in the back of a horse-drawn wagon, sending his Origin manuscript off to his publisher...