Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.

The same magnitude, but with a minus sign, i.e., the measure of macroscopic ordering, the measure of non-uniformity in the distribution of heat, the measure of the differences in temperature—temperature gradients—is called negentropy.

Never leave a child unattended when you are running a bath for them.

Jefferson's hyperracial culture was not just upheld by students making sly comments in the shadows. Teachers also played a significant role in maintaining racial hierarchies through jokes and biases of their own.