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Why is passive voice ubiquitous in scientific writing? With the amount of such writing that I am about to perform in the next month, I need to vent. Passive voice can be quite useful, especially when...
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“The first six months that I was here working in the lab, I got absolutely nothing accomplished. At the end of that first six months I was very discouraged indeed and, if I could have done so...
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Book XI of Augustine’s Confessions consists almost entirely of him trying to figure out the nature of time based on a few clues in Genesis. Despite working from a bad Latin translation and having just...
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I recently finished C.S. Lewis’ Miracles – a philosophical work examining whether miracles (“an interference with Nature by a super-natural power”) are possible. It was a bit dense to start, but it...
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“With that manifest knowledge which God gave to Adam, whereby he gave names to Eve and to the animals, God did not reveal the discoveries of things that were concealed; but in the case of the hidden...
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