The Second Century Papers: Looking Ahead in Aeronautics—11

1968 ◽  
Vol 72 (695) ◽  
pp. 911-914
Author(s):  
R. Stanton-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Clear Indication ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Better Than

The introduction to a book called “An Anthology of Partly Baked Ideas” states that it was compiled to provide an opportunity for the publication of ideas either half or partly baked, which might not otherwise be suitable for publication in established learned journals. However, the Royal Aeronautical Society's decision to solicit articles on aeronautical achievement in the latter half of the twenty-first century is a direct invitation from a learned society to expound on, what at best, can only be some very partly baked ideas. The author of this admirable anthology, I. J. Good, has defined partly baked ideas (PBIs) in some detail in the opening chapters where he gives a clear indication that reputable scientists and engineers should at very least endeavour to incubate their proposals to the point where the degree of “bakedness” should be greater than 0·5, i.e. better than half-baked.

‘I Have Heard from Some Teachers’: the Second-Century Struggle for Forgiveness and Reconciliation

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Christine Trevett
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Fictive Kinship ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Brothers And Sisters ◽  
Forgiveness And Reconciliation

In the close-knit valleys communities of South Wales where I was brought up, some fingers are still pointed at ‘the scab’, the miner who, for whatever reason, did not show solidarity in the strike of 1984-5, cement the definition between ‘them’ and ‘us’. In trouble-torn Palestine of the twenty-first century, or among the paramilitary groups of Northern Ireland today, suspected informers are summarily assassinated. In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Committee continues its work in the post-apartheid era. In second-century Rome and elsewhere, the ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ who made up the fictive kinship groups – the churches – in the growing but illicit cult of the Christians were conscious both of their own vulnerability to outside opinion and of their failures in relation to their co-religionists. The questions which they asked, too, were questions about reconciliation and/or (spiritual) death.

scholarly journals Health profile of Brazilian mothers in Massachusetts in the twenty-first century

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (40) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Gomes Siqueira ◽  
Teresa Roberts ◽  
Fernanda Lucchese
Keyword(s):  
Health Indicators ◽  
First Century ◽  
Health Profile ◽  
Live Births ◽  
Vital Records ◽  
Brazilian Immigrants ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
First Time ◽  
Better Than

This paper describes the health profile of Brazilian mothers in Massachusetts according to data collected through Massachusetts Standard Certificate of Live Births (1989 revision) filed with the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics during 1999 and 2009. To our knowledge this is the first time that such information is reviewed with a focus on Brazilian immigrants. The findings of this article suggests that Brazilian mothers who gave birth in Massachusetts between 1999 and 2009 fared better than all mothers in Massachusetts in most obstetric health indicators considered.

scholarly journals Envisioning a Twenty-First Century Children’s Library

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Andrew Medlar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Core ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Twenty First Century

Most children born today will still be alive when the twenty-second century dawns—along with about eleven billion other people—and it’s vital that the twenty-first century is dedicated to making sure that they’re ready. Libraries play a critical role in that preparation and that nurturing already happens every day in children’s libraries around the globe. Indeed, it is the core purpose of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) to “create a better future for children through libraries” and that very future is what the thousands of members of ALSC, and every single person serving children in libraries worldwide, are moving toward together.

Epilogue: How to Listen to Bach

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Melamed
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Better Than

There is, of course, no one way to listen to Bach. People listen in every conceivable manner, and there is no basis for saying that one way is better than any other. But there are ways of listening to Bach that might not have occurred to you, including those that take eighteenth-century musical sensibilities into account or that recognize the consequences of our place as listeners in the twenty-first century and as inheritors of a long performing tradition. The aim of this book has been to suggest and encourage those ways of listening....

scholarly journals Collective behaviour, uncertainty and environmental change

2015 ◽  
Vol 373 (2055) ◽  
pp. 20140461 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Alexander Bentley ◽  
Michael J. O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Considerable Change ◽  
First Century ◽  
False Sense ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Cumulative Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cultural Evolutionary ◽  
Response To Environmental Change ◽  
Better Than

A central aspect of cultural evolutionary theory concerns how human groups respond to environmental change. Although we are painting with a broad brush, it is fair to say that prior to the twenty-first century, adaptation often happened gradually over multiple human generations, through a combination of individual and social learning, cumulative cultural evolution and demographic shifts. The result was a generally resilient and sustainable population. In the twenty-first century, however, considerable change happens within small portions of a human generation, on a vastly larger range of geographical and population scales and involving a greater degree of horizontal learning. As a way of gauging the complexity of societal response to environmental change in a globalized future, we discuss several theoretical tools for understanding how human groups adapt to uncertainty. We use our analysis to estimate the limits of predictability of future societal change, in the belief that knowing when to hedge bets is better than relying on a false sense of predictability.

scholarly journals Introduction: the transformation of Tibet’s language ecology in the twenty-first century

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (245) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Roche
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Language Loss ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
The West ◽  
Language Ecology ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractTibet’s linguistic diversity is undergoing drastic transformations in the twenty-first century. In this article, I begin my examination of this issue by outlining the extent of Tibet’s linguistic diversity, including not only its numerous Tibetic languages, but also its non-Tibetic minority languages. Using a “language ecology” approach, I examine the mechanisms that have produced and maintained this diversity, as well as the ways this diversity was spatially and socially patterned. I argue that these processes and patterns were largely maintained up until the twenty-first century, when the Chinese state’s program to “Open the West” unleashed an ideologically driven modernization program on Tibet, radically altering its language ecology. I argue that the present trends emerging from this process are likely to continue throughout the twenty-first century, resulting in both language loss and the emergence of new languages, leaving the overall language ecology fundamentally altered by the beginning of the twenty-second century. It is hoped that this article will not only provide a useful framework for future discussions on linguistic diversity in Tibet, but will also focus attention on the challenges facing individual languages in Tibet today.

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