In the big list of “terms of art in a specific discipline that suddenly everybody is familiar with”, I think that to go with “coronavirus”, “core inflation”, etc. we’ll shortly be adding “cascading failure.”
There’s a fancy word for this phenomenon, used by scientists who study infectious diseases from an ecological perspective: zoonosis. […] It’s a word of the future, destined for heavy use in the twenty-first century.
2014 Oct: Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus, by David Quammen
That’s getting at the same idea, yeah, but I don’t think it’s the exact line I was thinking of. (I wouldn’t be surprised if the thing I saw was a David Quammen author interview, though.)
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#reply via reblog #illness tw #amnesia cw? #apocalypse cw?
In the big list of “terms of art in a specific discipline that suddenly everybody is familiar with”, I think that to go with “coronavirus”, “core inflation”, etc. we’ll shortly be adding “cascading failure.”
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#I desperately want to make an ”in the future‚ ‘zoonosis’ will be a word everyone knows” reference here #but I can’t think of a suitable word to stick in there #maybe if I were more fluent in webdev jargon #(…why does that quote not turn up on search engines) #(please tell me somebody knows what I’m talking about) #(I feel like I read that line in an article or something years ago and it has lived in my head ever since) #((I don’t *object* to it living here‚ it pays rent and all that‚ but it sure was striking)) #Twitter #amnesia cw? #illness tw? #apocalypse cw?
a clock with a 0.1% error in the length of a second is right once every five hundred days, if you don’t apply corrections
this is not a metaphor for anything
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#…I’ve had this in my to-consider-reblogging tabs multiple days longer than the previous post #I didn’t *intend* to pair them #but something interesting might shake out of the juxtaposition #clocks
#Sapphire and Steel #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #juxtaposition #storytime #clocks #(also in all seriousness that house sounds like hell to live in) #(my brother recently tried to put up an analog clock in the living room and I couldn’t stand it)
this comic brought to you by my bachelors degree in linguistics
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#me‚ a th-fronter: this is just fae pronouns #we tried those‚ and they’re not *nonexistent* but they didn’t get super popular‚ didn’t *stick* like singular they did #galaxy brain: pronounce the *plural* they with a θ #language #comics #art #fun wif forn fronting #gender
Brinens and Things 