Tag: Context

A lot of people use spaced repetition (i.e. smart flash cards) to study vocabulary when learning a language. This makes sense, because you need to learn approximately one metric ton of words to reach intermediate competency in a language, and flash cards are a great ...

Creating a Pdf to save an invoice , letter , CV ..etc is now one of the most important things in the world of programming. For example : You are creating a system and one of the requirements is to produce a pdf that will be printable and it will contain information related to a single bill, will...

Long before I stumbled upon the phrase “context collapse,” I witnessed the paradigm shift of younger users abandoning social media stalwarts like Facebook or Twitter for, at the time, smaller, more “artisanal” platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. Facebook soon bec...

During an interview for the Boston Globe, the reporter asked me whether working on the new frontier of interstellar objects in search for extraterrestrial gadgets resulted in a different experience than my academic work on other topics. I replied that I approach all scientific matters the same way. ...

Isthat glass of water sitting on the edge of your table half-empty or half-full? While a thirsty person may call the glass half-empty, someone less eager to take another sip may call the glass half-full. It's more than a matter of perspective but also one of context. When it comes to American po...

My fascination with the context of Isaiah 53 probably began at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park. A famous place for religious and political debate. Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and George Orwell have spoken there. But you don’t need a following of millions. Since 1872, it ha...

A common modern perception of the inspiration of Scripture often portrays it as a rigid, divine dictation of words from God to be written down verbatim. This perspective leads to concerns among some religious communities, such as Muslims, who view any alteration or addition to the text as a potentia...