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Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of eleven books including her latest, "On Becoming Fearless... in Love, Work, and Life".

Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. She is co-host of "Left, Right & Center," public radio's popular political roundtable program, and a frequent guest on television shows such as "Charlie Rose," "Real Time with Bill Maher," "Inside Politics," "Larry King Live," "Hardball," and "Countdown". In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.

Arianna Huffington lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters.

 

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Robert Li· 18/01/07 · 06:10 AM

Arianna, from reading your many fine columns and some of your books, I know you are open-minded. And so, I send your the following article to give you a chuckle.

The Thermodynamics of Hell

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so profound that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or
endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using
Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and
pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the
increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and
pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting Oh my God.

The End



Anthony James Parissi, Jr.· 23/02/07 · 01:38 AM

As we witness our America turn into a police state under the enforcement of a foreign jurisdiction, I.e., Law Merchant/Merchant statute, statute staple, originally restricted to the ten [10] miles square are of Washington, District of Columbia, stealthy extended into the several states of the Union through maritime contracts, under admiralty jurisdiction enforced in vice-admiralty courts, protection of Creator endowed rights abolished, people suffering through unscrupulous IRS agents and our people and children once again being maimed and dieing under the authority of legislative acts, presidential decrees and unspeakable acts of agents at the behest of power crazed politicians owing allegiance to and to the satisfaction and profit of international financiers for acceptance of hard and soft money contributions, rather than adhering to their oath of office and agenda of those they allege to represent from which all authority emanates, isn’t it time for impeachment proceedings or recall to begin at the grass roots level?


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myrna weinstein· 12/08/08 · 09:28 PM

Since McCain is constantly being touted as a hero, why has nobody investigated the possiblity that he was probably the cause of the huge fire on the USS Forrestal in July, 1967 and how he was whisked away immediately. This is another case of a spoiled rich brat who was always rescued from his misadventures. In the incident 134 were killed , planes were destroyed and there were many injured and there was millions of damage to the Forrestal.Some hero !!!!

Anthony James Parissi, Jr.· 14/10/08 · 11:56 AM

With all due respect and as I truly believe this site is for the purpose of Truth to actually find a remedy to remove all this fear, anxiety, suffering and pull back the veil and expose the illusion:

Either, Professor Chinn is not a very educated individual, or, purposely broadcasting erroneous information. It is common knowledge there is no difference between the outcome of voting for a Democrat or a Republican both parties owing allegiance to the contributors of hard and soft money, the corporate socialist system, those that control the fiat money system, and have consistently voted and passed “Bills” to fulfill that agenda, evident in the current headlines today, benefiting the financial institutions on the backs of Americans. That’s why it would be a good idea to recognize such teachers in our education system and remove them to secure the freedom and happiness of future generations. For an alleged professor of law to make a statement such as, “While there’s not doubt Obama was born in the USA (Hawaii) some voters still ask whether he is “really” American”, knowing there is a case filed in the United States District Court, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania contesting that very fact, specifically, and, by Obama’s and the DNC’s own actions, makes it quite dubious that he, in fact, is, takes some pretty big cojones.

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