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As absurd as it may seem, she and Johnson sound like a couple of suitors (click to listen in on the courtship).
(The jump in the penalty from having a child is mainly due to the fact that a single parent making $23,750 gets a $500 earned-income tax credit, while a couple making $46,700 is ineligible for that credit.)
I just heard from New York that everyone is being sent home from work at 1 o'clock today; that would never have happened but for the incident a couple of weeks ago.
Are there ways of thinking about the emergence of structures that measure and discover sources of energy in nonequilibrium systems, together with the emergence of structures and processes that couple to sources of energy, do work to construct constraints, and propagate the constrained release of the discovered energy such that more diverse structures, constraints, and processes can arise, de novo, in the adjacent possible of the evolving universe?