The Eclectacy Laboratory

This is a landscape painting by the Dutch master Rembrandt. The painting's main subject is a sturdy stone bridge crossing a body of water in a rural setting. It is not a detailed, realistic depiction but rather an emotional landscape. The palette is dominated by deep, dark tones—rich browns, ochr...

Murica 2.0 Dan Carpenter Creative non fiction Even though it seems to be a global path in the late 19th and early 20th century, America took a strikingly early lead in translating eugenic ideas into actual policy.
While Sir Francis Galton in Britain coined the term "eugenics" in 1883, and the concept certainly spread internationally, the U.S.
was a pioneer in enacting eugenic legislation.
This push began even before the 1920s; for example, Connecticut passed a eugenic marriage law restricting...

Strange Sea! why is it that you never rest? And tell me why you never go to sleep? Thou art like one so sad and sin-oppressed -- (And the waves are the tears you weep) -- And thou didst never sin -- what ails the sinless deep? To-night I hear you crying on the beach, Like a weary child on its mother's breast -- A cry with an infinite and lonesome reach Of unutterably deep unrest; And thou didst never sin -- why art thou so distressed? But, ah, sad Sea! the mother's breast is warm, Where criet...