The tsunameter pioneered at the Seattle lab is actually a system — a sophisticated pressure gauge set on the ocean floor that sends signals to a surface buoy.

As to thelony, it pleases us to exact old and just thelony from the merchants at bridges, and on ships and at markets. But let new or unjust thelony be not exacted where ropes are stretched or where ships pass under bridges, or in other similar cases in which no aid is lent to the travellers.

The capacity to receive and be disposed to (be affected by) sense turns on how a given particular time calls for what makes “unsense, unsense and no-longer-sense” […]

[scientists] played disco music to mice. Were they trying to turn mice into tiny John Travoltas?