> .. #FlorenceNightingale.. sent for an ax and commanded the storehouse doors to be broken open.
The Pacific Rural Press and California Farmer1887/11/12
- ^1 note.com/kuga_spqr/n/n12496411…
#LadyOfTheAx
【調査3/3】ナイチンゲールが「斧を持って英軍倉庫から薬を奪う」アメリカの新聞報道の変遷と、「ハンマーを持った淑女」の由来探し
はじめに 以下は回答だけではなく、プロセスも載せているため、長いです。 フロレンス・ナイチンゲールについて、ネットでは「ナイチンゲールが斧を持って倉庫を襲撃し、薬を奪った」というエピソードに加え、最近刊行された『超人ナイチンゲール』でもこの話題について「ハンマーを持って襲撃した」という記述があります。 ナイチンゲールの「薬を貰うために薬箱を斧で叩き割った」という逸話(※史実)に驚愕する人々 あらやだ素敵… togetter.久我真樹 (note(ノート))
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無用の用 The usefulness of the useless..
It's been a few years since I ask classes of 40 to 80 students for the meaning of "Don Quijote". They tell me it's a store. My question was intstigated by the extra (Not on the test!! just for your enjoyment if you finish quick) reading on the back side of a worksheet. While discussing proverbs in comparison with science, literature, and slang Bertrand Russel mentions Sancho Panza.^1
Sancho Panza produced more proverbs than any other character in fiction
サンチョ・パンザは、他の小説の主人公の誰よりも多くの諺を創りだした。
Bertrand Russel also refers to Don Quijote to illustrate a type of thinking.^2
The classic example of subjectivity is Don Quixote. The first time he made a helmet, he tested its capacity for resisting blows, and battered it out of shape ; next time he did not test it, but “deemed” it to be a very good helmet.
Don Quijote illustrates "subjectivity" in On Education in 1925, and decades later Albert Camus's Myth of Sisyphus uses Quijote thinking to illustrate the difference between "lyricism" and "truism":
... there are probably but two methods of thought: the method of La Palisse and the method of Don Quixote. Solely the balance between evidence and lyricism can allow us to achieve simultaneously emotion and lucidity.... If Faust and Don Quixote are eminent creations of art, this is because of the immeasurable nobilities they point out to us with their earthly hands. Yet a moment always comes when the mind negates the truths that those hands can touch....
- ^1 russell-j.com/PROVERB.HTM
- ^2 russell-j.com/wp/archives/2640
- russell-j.com/beginner/OE16-07…
- ^3 pixelfed.social/bobfisherphoto
- pixelfed.social/p/bobfisherpho…
- pixelfed.social/i/web/post/828…
#BertrandRussel #AlbertCamus #MethodsOfThought #TypesOfThinking
#RusselWithQuijote #CamusWithQuijote
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"I read a really great phrase recently that said something along the lines of 'why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write' and that is such a powerful statement and one that aligns absolutely with my views."
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"If you want to know why a decision is made, we will need humans. If we don't care about that, then we will probably use AI," he says.
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"Even when you do a Google search it includes an AI overview, while some emails have a topline summary, So now it almost feels like we have no control. How do I turn all that off? It's snowballing."
bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzd…
#SabineZetteler
#AISalami #SalamiAI
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Would you support a proposal that we all take out sledgehammers every May 12th in memory of Florence Nightingale: Lady of the Hammer (and Data Visualization used to shift toward reasonable policies)...
> And the ‘Lady with the Lamp’? In reality, Nightingale was known to the troops as ‘The Lady with the Hammer’ after she broke into a locked storeroom to release much-needed medical supplies, in defiance of a military commander who had blocked her every move. They revered her for it, of course. But as Russell knew, a powerful, belligerent, rebel woman was far too coarse and unladylike for the readers of The Times, so in the finest traditions of journalism, he simply made it up.
virago.co.uk/virago-news/2020/…
#LadyOfTheHammer #LadyOfTheLamp #FlorenceNightingale
#NursingSchool #FlorenceNightingale #LadyOfTheHammer #ハンマーの貴婦人
Rebel Women, Florence Nightingale
In one of the poems of his later life, Thomas Hardy mused upon the devastation caused by the First World War, and called it ‘A Time of the Breaking of Nations’. Like the revolutions of the 1800s, t…Hachette UK
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> All Crimean War hospitals were ghastly, she insists, and the statistics suggest that at least two had higher death rates than Scutari. McDonald also makes a persuasive case that Nightingale believed the blame for Scutari’s dreadful state lay elsewhere. In her letters, she pointed repeatedly at military doctors and administrators, chastising them for a host of “murderous” errors including sending cholera cases to overcrowded wards and delaying having the hospital “drained and ventilated.” The sanitary commission’s investigation confirmed Nightingale’s suspicions about the links between filth and disease, McDonald contends, and she became determined never to let those conditions occur again. “That is the foundation of all she does in public health for the rest of her life,” McDonald says...
> Throughout her sojourn, she faced the resentment of officers and bureaucrats who regarded her as an interloper. “There is not an official who would not burn me like Joan of Arc if he could,” Nightingale wrote from Crimea, “but they know that the War Office cannot turn me out because the country is with me.”
- smithsonianmag.com/history/the…
#FlorenceNightingale #LadyOfTheLamp #LadyOfTheHammer #Scutari
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The Defiance of Florence Nightingale
Scholars are finding there’s much more to the “lady with the lamp” than her famous exploits as a nurse in the Crimean WarSmithsonian Magazine
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#SewageSystem #hospitalhygiene #FlorenceNightingale #LadyOfTheHammer #NightingaleStatistician
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#StatisticsGodliness
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【調査3/3】ナイチンゲールが「斧を持って英軍倉庫から薬を奪う」アメリカの新聞報道の変遷と、「ハンマーを持った淑女」の由来探し
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