Tag: Construct

Java 21 brings in a lot of cool features, and one of them is the String Templates. While it serves more purposes than just classic String interpolation, for us Java developers, it’s yet another way to concatenate Strings in a “proper” way. What is proper, though? I pok...

Java 21 brings in a lot of cool features, and one of them is the String Templates. While it serves more purposes than just classic String interpolation, for us Java developers, it’s yet another way to concatenate Strings in a “proper” way. What is proper, though? I pok...

Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize near the end of his life as a public relations move. He’d invented dynamite for mining and construction. But people used it as a weapon, killing thousands, and earning him the label, “The Merchant of Death”. There was Alfred Binet, ...

Among the world’s great languages, perhaps none punches below its weight like Arabic. It is the mother tongue of 350 million people, and has a daily presence in the spiritual lives of a billion more; it is the official language of 26 countries, and one of the six of the United Nations. Yet,...

Have you ever wondered in the modern world, why we put so much weight on age? Why people are more concerned about their age every year? Have you ever thought that factors such as our metabolism, hormones, and lifestyle changes play major factors in our biological age as compared to these mathemat...

The greater the number of sides, the higher the social status of the Flatlander: the nobility was composed by regular n-gons called Circles (thousands of sides), the priests. Squares and Pentagons belonged to the professional class. Equilateral triangles were part of the middle class and Isoceles we...

The traditional role of the fashion designer is no longer relevant or sustainable. As the contemporary fashion marketplace reaches unprecedented levels of abundance and consumption, consumers’ needs and desires for design move well beyond the material realm. Thus, fashion designers can no long...

Here is a profound and definitive construct which clarifies the critical distinction between these two everyday words and why that distinction is important. NEED: The term, “need,” always invokes a CONDITION. Needs are always conditional. If I say I need something, there is a conditio...