Rhetoric

The art of persuasion of a speaker. Aristotle -- the father of rhetoric -- suggested three ways to accomplish a successful rhetoric:

• Ethos: an appeal to the teller's/speaker's character
  
• Pathos: an appeal to the audience's emotion
  
• Logos: an appeal to logical reasoning
  

Apartments at Des-Moines

• *Imperial Apartments
  • 5 min drive - 1.6 miles 
  • 2 bed 1 bath
    
  • nice interior 
  • 850 sqft
    
  • $900 
    
  • application portal 
   
• Ingersoll Towers 
• 4 mins drive --1.6 miles
• nice interior + spacious and open + swimming pool
  
• 2 bed 1 bath $945
• a lot of hidden fees (up to $150)
• 900 sqft 
• application portal 

• Chetwynd Apartments  
  • 900 sqft
  • spacious + swimming pool
  • old building
    
  • $800
   
• The Flats Apartments
  
• 10 mins 5.6 miles 
• nice interior + swimming pool
• 775 sqft 
• $900
• plus a lot of utility bills that are hidden
  
• application portal 
• 07/14/21 
  

• Hubbell Tower Apartments
• 6 mins drive
• did not find one with balcony 
• awesome building + nice interior
• 634 sqft
• pretty small and congested
  
• little expensive
• 1 month free (1 year lease + move-in by 7/31)
  

• Rowat Lofts
• not available
• awesome building + interior
• bit expensive
  

 

• The Drake Apartments 
• 3 mins drive - 0.6 mile
• application portal 
• small rooms
• congested
  
• $500 off for first month
  
• Old Main Drake Apartments 
• 3 mins drive - 0.5 mile
• swimming pool 
• small rooms 
• congested
  
• application portal
• 1st month free
  
• Beaverdale Housing 
• 3 mins drive - 0.9 mile 
• old building
• not available 
  

 

Useful references:

• Grand Apartments 
• suggested imperial
  
• Hamilton Apartments
• old building
  

Olympic 2021

Track and Field

• 100m
• *ShaCarri Richardson (W) (US Best 10.64s)
  
• *Bromel (M) (US Best 9.77s)
  
• *Grant Holloway (M) (Hurdles)
• Keni Harrison (W) (Hurdles)
  
• 200m
• *Noah Lyle (M)
  
• *Knighton (M)
• Gaby Thomas (W) (US Best ~21s)
  
• Jenna Prandini (W)
• 400m
• *Rai Benjamin (M) 
• *Sydney McLaughlin (W) (World Record Holder)  (Hurdles)
  
• *Delilah Mohammad (W): (Previous World Record Holder) (Hurdles)
• Michael Norman (M)
  
• 800m
• Clayton Murphy (M) 
• *Athing Mu (W)
  
• 5000m
• Paul Chelimo (M)
• 1500m
• Cole Howker (M)
  
• *Mathew Centrowitz (M)
• Hammer Throw
• *DeAnna Price (W): (US Record Holder 80m)
• Shot Put
• Ryan Crouser (M): (US Record holder 76'8.25'')
  

Swimming:

• *Katie Ledecky (W)
• *Caleb Dressel (M)
• *Michael Andrew (M) 
• Ryan Lochte and Nathan Adrian did not qualify
  
• *Ryan Murphy (M)
  
• Abbey Witzel (W) 

Gymnastics:

• *Simone Biles
  
• Suni Lee
• Jordan Chiles
• Grace McCullum
• McKayla Skinner
• Jade Carey
  

Pursuit of Happiness VI

Synthetic happiness vs Natural happiness.

People roll an eye on synthetically happy people. So why is the case that synthetic happiness is devalued to a lower status? One reason is 'economic interest'. Allowing people happy won't drive the market.

Do debunk the perception experiments were conducted to find out whether synthetic people are happy for 'real'. Looks like amnesiac people experiment supports that.

Reference: The surprising science of happiness - Dan Gilbert

Distance

 

Reference: Maarten Grootendorst

Joker

 

                                     

 

                                

When joker is serious, everyone laughs. 

But none laughs, when he jokes.    

A stellar history of modern astronomy

https://www.ted.com 

Other old stuff in my blog: Jocelyn Bell Burnell on pulsars (1971)