''That's because we don't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don't look like that. Partly, ''he added, ''because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack! the end.''
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind, which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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"...there are two forces in the world, entrophy and energy. One leads into quietude, to happy equilibrium, the other to the destruction of equilibrium, to torturingly perpetual motion..."
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if Earth is in the middle of the heavens, and spherical, it doesn’t need either air or any other such physical necessity to stop it from falling; the complete uniformity, everywhere, of the heavens themselves and the equilibrium of the earth itself are sufficient to hold it up, because an object in equilibrium placed in the centre of a uniform container cannot incline any more or any less in any direction, and because it is in a uniform state it will stay where it is.
nine Basic physical abilities
Strength Factors
1. Dynamic strength: Ability to exert muscular force repeatedly or continuously over time
2. Trunk strength: Ability to exert muscular strength using the trunk (particularly abdominal) muscles
3. Static strength: Ability to exert force against external objects
4. Explosive strength: Ability to expend a maximum of energy in one or a series of explosive acts
Flexibility Factors
5. Extent flexibility: Ability to move the trunk and back muscles as far as possible
6. Dynamic flexibility: Ability to make rapid, repeated flexing movements
Other Factors
7. Body coordination: Ability to coordinate the simultaneous actions of different parts of the body
8. Balance: Ability to maintain equilibrium despite forces pulling off
balance
9. Stamina: Ability to continue maximum effort requiring prolonged
effort over time
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In competitive markets where prices are free to move up and down, those prices fluctuate in such a way that supply equals demand. To simplify somewhat, we can say that Optimization + Equilibrium = Economics. This is a powerful combination, nothing that other social sciences can match.
General equilibrium of an economy is determined by the intersection of the production possibilities frontier, the autarky relative price line, and the indifferent curve.
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David Hume constructed what has become known as the specie-flow theory of the movement of money and goods between nations to assure equilibrium among international prices and the distribution of specie (or commodity) money among countries that are trading with each other. Hume explained that as net exports increased and more gold flowed into a country to pay for them, the prices of goods in that country would rise. Thus, an increased flow of gold into England would not necessarily increase England’s wealth substantially.
According to Hume, an unequal distribution of wealth in society was a positive thing, because this is what makes people strive to improve themselves. Society gets innovation and individuals get self-actualization. Therefore, Hume, like Adam Smith, believed in freedom of expression in the marketplace. Equality would destroy industry and thrift, and lead a nation to poverty. (...)
Mercantilism was first questioned when Hume’s “Political Discourse” was published in 1752 and lost blood. If David Hume’s writings on various economic themes were more systematically developed and brought together, he might have been said to be the father of modern economics, rather than Adam Smith.
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In mammalian neurons, the potassium ion permeability may be as much as 100 times greater than that for sodium ion and chloride, so neuronal resting membrane potentials are typically fairly close to the equilibrium potential for potassium ion.
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Wilson (1975) suggests that male homosexuality may have evolved through kin selection:
The homosexual members of primitive societies may have functioned as helpers, either while hunting in company with other men or in more domestic occupations at the dwelling sites.... They could have operated with special efficiency in assisting close relatives. Genes favoring homosexuality could then be sustained at a high equilibrium level by kin selection alone. (p. 555)
So, there we have it: the "homosexual helpers at the nest" hypothesis, or as Kitcher (1985, p. 251) says, "the helpful homosexual. Every home should have one."
What evidence did Wilson have to make this claim?
Kitcher, P. 1985. Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Questfor Human Nature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Wilson, E. O. 1975a. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
