So far, over 3,000 questions have been logged, like "Should the tolerant tolerate intolerance?" (try saying that 10 times, fast); and "Why isn't it just as good to be happy as to be sad?" (duh); and even "Is it morally wrong to profit from other people's mistakes or stupidity?" (If it were, would AskPhilosophers.org even exist?) In this book, Professor George prints the most fertile exchanges.
The adventures of the "gauche divine" generation and its fertile exchange with Latin American writers living there in the late '60s and early '70s, including Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, are robust examples of creative dissidence and how clever people outwitted a stodgy regime.
The most interesting parts of the book are the more digressionary ones, such as the story of how a prolific letter-writing and copying monk, Marin Mersenne, and the couriers of the Taxis family made the fertile exchange of ideas in the "republic of letters" possible.
The cross-dialogue led to fertile ground for exchanging ideas, as well as a progressive space to experiment with subject matter and materials.
Indeed, Professor Clay Shirky believes that this fertile ground for exchange of dissenting and differing views in the public sphere often projected from our home sphere is far more alive and motivating than abstract political ideals.
China has metamorphosed from an isolated, intellectual desert into fertile ground for cultural exchange.
This finding is in contrast to, e.g., Magnaporthe grisea or Neurospora crassa, where strains in which the MAT locus was exchanged were fertile in crossings with the respective parental strains [ 16, 17].
Whether it was Juan Garrido or someone else who introduced wheat to the Americas, the fertile fields of central Mexico have been the epicenter of the global exchange of genetic plant material for 500 years.
However, some ant species have an extraordinary social organization, called 'unicoloniality', which is characterised by an absence of behavioural boundary among interconnected nests that contain many queens and exchange workers, brood and fertile queens [ 5].
Cyclotest 2 plus distinguishes between 3 fertility statuses: non-fertile, fertile and highly fertile.
Because male chimps step up hunting at the same time females in their troop come into estrus, researchers proposed in the 1970s that male chimps exchanged meat for sex with fertile females.
