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Description: and the night before I left for vacation, I slapped a quasi subversive name on it and emailed it back from that anonymous email address to everyone who voted. The Black List. A tribute to those who lost their careers during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s and 50s, and a conscious inversion of the notion that black somehow had a negative connotation.

Susan Orlean

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

American Journalist

Benedict Cumberbatch

Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.

English Actor

Sara Pascoe

A show that I loved as a kid was 'Maid Marian And Her Merry Men'. It was a really strong female character making fun of the boys, an inversion of gender politics. But it was very funny, too. I always wanted to be one of the village people messing about in the mud and being stinky.

English Comedian

Jools Holland

I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.

English Musician

Ayn Rand

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Russian Writer

Wilhelm Ostwald

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

German Scientist

Patti Harrison

A lot of what I say isn't my real thoughts, it's this character, and maybe that's true for a lot of comedians. It's really the inversion of my thoughts.

American Actress

Dick Durbin

With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't.

American Politician

Blaise Pascal

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

French Philosopher

Joel Hodgson

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

American Entertainer

In arts and crafts, 'inversion' often refers to flipping an object's orientation.

Physical Representation

'Inversion' is a concept in puzzles that requires turning elements upside down to solve.

Common in Puzzles

In rhetorical questions, inversion emphasizes the speaker's point or opinion.

In Questions

'Inversion' can stress a certain word or idea in writing or speech.

For Emphasis

Using inversion can express surprise or a strong feeling in a statement.

Expression of Surprise

'Inversion' in health practice implies changing your position for therapeutic reasons.

Health Context

Inversion therapy often requires specific tools, like an inversion table.

Specialized Equipment

Writers use 'inversion' to create rhythm or to rhyme in poetry.

Poetry and Rhythm

'Inversion' is a stylistic choice in literature to play with language creatively.

Creative License

In meteorology, 'inversion' doesn't relate to weather directly but to air temperature layers.

Not Weather

'Inversion' can sometimes result in genetic diversity, without obvious effects.

Genetic Variation

Chromosomal inversions don't always cause health issues or visible defects.

Not Always Harmful

 and the night before I left for vacation, I slapped a quasi subversive name on it and emailed it back from that anonymous email address to everyone who voted. The Black List. A tribute to those who lost their careers during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s and 50s, and a conscious inversion of the notion that black somehow had a negative connotation.

How I accidentally...

 Saharan air layer can actually act to change the microphysics in the clouds and actually reduce the hurricane activity and even the thunderstorm activity it can also warm the Saharan air layer and create what we call a temperature inversion which makes it very hard for the thunderstorm tops to

Hurricane Dust PIPE...

 And then we realized that it was actually a mirror image of the real aorta. And it was a mirror image because in the real world, we always look down on plans, plans of houses, or streets, or maps. In the medical world, they look up at plans. So the horizontal images were all in inversion.

Tal Golesworthy: How I...

 are also especially vulnerable to smog since there's nowhere for it to dissipate. That's also partially due to a phenomenon known as temperature inversion, where instead of warm air continuously rising upward, a pollution-filled layer of air remains trapped near the Earth's surface

The science of smog -...

 a completely different skill set in terms of digital media than I do and many of the other senior leaders. And yet, we need to have that shared sense. It also produced something which I call an inversion of expertise,

Stanley McChrystal:...

 They even have some of the behaviors of the cockroaches. So they can use their smart, compliant body to transition up a wall in a very simple way. They even have some of the beginnings of the rapid inversion behavior

Robert Full: The secrets...

 are going to be different than the proposed effects. The threat, in fact, is this inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create,

Defend our freedom to...

 And the reason she brought her mother is that this six-year-old child had been teaching her mother how to read and write. Her mother had not gone to primary school. And this is such an inversion,

Nicholas Negroponte...

 In music that's called an inversion, and it's the equivalent of addition from earlier. Each inversion changes the sound of the chord, but it never stops being a C diminished seventh.

Group theory 101: How to...

 we would think, oh my goodness, do I ever want to hug that. This is the strange inversion.

Inversion

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