Difference between ellipsis and subpuncting

Article: The Mysterious History of the Ellipsis, From Medieval Subpuncting to Irrational Numbers

In this article, author uses the literature of history to tell us about the difference between Ellipsis and subpuncting.

Ellipsis: A series of dots without words and to be simple asks the reader to make his/her own assumptions.

Subpuncting: Similar to strike off but, here the word is present and a series of dots are added under the word asking the reader to omit the word and continue reading.

My opinion: A simple article to explain us the history of ellipsis if any.

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How to become a rich person in an insignificant amount of time?

Article: Li Ka-Shing teaches you how to buy a car and house in 5 years

This article is fairly simple and teaches you how you can become a millionaire. To become a millionaire, there are few important rules to follow:

1. Spend some part of your income on yourself.
2.  Spend a few bucks for your network.
3. Spend some part on learning.
4. Spend a few bucks on savings for your future business.
5. Spend some money on a holiday in a foreign country.

If you follow this, you will for sure become a millionaire.

My opinion: This article is some person's experience and the author this article gives a very simple and pragmatic approach.

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Being late is not actually a bad trait

Article: Optimistic People all have one thing in common: They're always late

According to the author, being late is not really a bad trait. But these people who always are late enjoy each and every moment. They try to fit in a lot of tasks in a given time. They are positive thinkers. Because of this they will have a very good health and especially mental health. Author also talks about timing and its implications in different nations and gives a few examples. Even though it is not being late but it is not good too. These people will have to try to be as punctual as possible and learn from martinetish people also.

My opinion: From the tone of the passage, one can say that the author is a positive thinking person. That said he is not encouraging us to be late, but he is recommending late people to be as punctual as possible. He puts it in an other way - Think of what other people might think, if you are late?

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A better way to praise

Article: In praise of better praise

It’s not just inflated praise that can backfire; so can praise that links a child’s success to some personal trait

To be simple, this article based on a lot of experiments, if we praise people based on their work and not based on their intellect, there are positive results. Author has linked the same with psychological experiments and have given a elaborate explanation of the same.

My opinion: A simple and concise article. Author doesn't bring all the unwanted stuff into the passage. 

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Michealangelo's David

Article: David's Ankles: How Imperfections could bring down the world's most famous status

Author of this article talks about the failure of the present government to take preventive measures against the further damage of the statue of David. By the time author visits the statue in Florence, David had crack in his ankle.

Author also tells us that if the statue if inclined at 15 degrees, will give a maximum stress point on the ankles and there will be a failure. This brings him to the point to talk about, how this statue unveiled from a "Giant" rock to a beautiful master piece.

He tells us that the actual marble rock from which this statue was carved was cut with wrong dimensions and moreover it bathed with rainwater, dried in the sun and many more for 35 years. After 35 years, it was handed over to its architect Michealangelo who then carved it to a master piece.

After David was born he was installed in the city's square where it had stood for more than a century. After that it was moved to the present museum.

Author then talks about the duplicates, or replicas of David. He then talks about the anti seismic base that would protect David from getting any further fractures. He also talks about the failure of the government and its people of the same.

My opinion: Author of this article has given a complete picture about the present forces around David.

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Are we behind a true science or trans science?

Article: Saving Science

Advancing according to its own logic, much of science has lost sight of the better world it is supposed to help create.

This article to be simple talks about the wrong direction in which the so called scientific research has taken. Author starts with the post world war 2 facts.

When the world war 2 ended, Mr. Bush wanted the country to continue research so that they would deliver solutions for health, employment, and national security. And so did the federal government. But the public funds which were pumped into research mostly yielded defense solutions rather than solving the common mans problems. Of course these solutions were adopted for usage in our day to day lives but there wasn't a decent amount of outcome of problem solving in the field of medical research.

One such example was breast cancer. When NBCC attracted a lot of people including the government, funds were allocated to DOD to oversee the project. But after so many decades of research and after pumping lots of billions of dollars, it only the enhanced the careers of the scientists but hasn't given any solution to the problem. Also this project created many more hurdles. On one hand author blames the system in which we are living. On the other hand the author also mocks at the scientists who want to publish a lot of research papers rather than to find a solution for the main problem.

The author then applauds the technology which helped in measuring the progress of our research till date. He/She tell us that this is a tool to outside science to check whether our knowledge is advancing or not.

The author also points out the credibility of the papers published till date. He/She gives some statistical data the many papers that have been published, have been found to have a lot of errors a few decades later. Then the question arises - Are we believing something which is false? The answer to this question might be "Yes". In turn because of the citations in reference section adds to a bit more error to the published paper. This is becoming a rippling effect and according to the author, "Today's science is killing itself."

Then comes the research in which mice are used. Out of several dozens of drugs developed for Alzheimer's disease only one have been approved by the FDA for use on humans, and the drug itself is not working well.The reason why this might happen is because - We restrain ourselves to a few parameters during the research and in reality there are lot more complex parameters which nature offers. For example in the case of Alzheimer's disease, scientists create this disease in mice and then start their research. This artificiality has a conflict with the reality and thus the drug doesn't work.

Restraining to a few parameters is what is called as Trans-Science in the passage. Author also gives an example on the same.

The comes the point of "Big Data". In today's world we see a lot of people and companies running behind Big Data. But does this big data give you correct and accurate results. It might lead to Trans-Science. Because of considering a few parameters with a large volumes of data, this might give an ad hoc solution but on the long run, what you have proved might be wrong. The author also criticizes, the direction which technology has chosen - the same way science chose a few decades ago. Author also gives an example of Ocean observatories initiative. Again the big data mistake.

Then the author applauds Mr. Kumar. Mr. Kumar never took a side track to publish his paper or any other stuff but, he found a solution for the problem he wanted to find.

Today after pumping billions of dollars of money and moreover a lot of time, there has not been an appreciable solution for breast cancer and the problem is because of creating a lot of new problems rather than to find a solution to the given problem. The same is the case with lot of other bio medical research and the people who have been projected in the passage at the start have analyzed themselves and rectified their research process and we along with author will hope that there will be solutions in the field of health care.

My opinion: This passage is a very long passage with lots and lots of examples and to gain a true knowledge one should read the full article patiently. One question, I have for the author is -

Dear Author,
You have questioned in the passage about the credibility of the research papers. You have also given a statistic related to that. As this data is a Trans-Science again can I believe in that data? :D

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Are all liars incorrigible?

Article: The Liar

In this article, author walks us through her childhood. When she was a child she had stolen a watch of her friend's and had to tell a lie to her mother that it was gifted to her. She(author) quotes that, this was her first lie.

A few days after, she was enrolled in a private school. Here for every mischievous thing she did, she was taken to all teachers room and was thought how to lie. In fact she was spanked every time she was taken to teachers room.

One fine day she tells all her notorious things to her mother and her mother gets surprised. But to authors surprise her mother reveals a story to her.

Author concludes the passage with the context of confabulation which her mother with during the days of her dying. She tells us that there are people who tell lies willingly but that is not necessarily true. There are even people who tell lies unwillingly or to be simple, they tell lies not to deceive others but to fill some gap in their memory.

My opinion: Till the last extract the story was good. But I was not able to synchronize a connection with the rest of the passage and the last extract. These are the few which I inferred from the passage.

1. May be the author feels guilty of hiding all these facts from her mother.
2. May be the author suggests the readers not to adjudge people who seem to be incorrigible liars.
3. May be the author wants to suggest that children at a very tender age have confabulation.

There can also be a conclusion which I was not able to extrapolate, not to mention this passage had a sad and abrupt ending. 

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