{"query": "Pheromones — the molecule is the message", "count": 18, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0a41c0e3298d", "title": "Pheromones — the molecule is the message", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pheromone is chemistry acting as language: a molecule IS a signal. Sealed: a\n20-component blend encodes 2^20 = 1,048,576 distinguishable messages (~4.3 bits per component),\nand an ant's trail evapor"}, {"id": "card_c_3649172e2c2f", "title": "A pheromone is chemistry acting as a message", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A molecule carrying information — chemistry crossing into language."}, {"id": "card_n_0bafdf976ecb", "title": "Easton: Elijah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whose God is Jehovah. (1.) “The Tishbite,” the “Elias” of the New Testament, is suddenly introduced to our notice in 1 Kings 17:1 as delivering a message from the Lord to Ahab. There is mention made o"}, {"id": "card_n_0ea6a1edcda4", "title": "Easton: Call", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) To cry for help, hence to pray (Gen. 4:26). Thus men are said to “call upon the name of the Lord” (Acts 2:21; 7:59; 9:14; Rom. 10:12; 1 Cor. 1:2). (2.) God calls with respect to men when he desig"}, {"id": "card_c_aba992724479", "title": "Pheromones diffuse — the continuity equation, in scent", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A scent gradient is a probability fluid flowing; the ant reads the density."}, {"id": "card_n_b026825cd2d9", "title": "Easton: Miracle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God, operating without the use of means capable of being discerned by the senses, and designed to authent"}, {"id": "card_n_ced4babf8538", "title": "Easton: Gospel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word of Anglo-Saxon origin, and meaning “God’s spell”, i.e., word of God, or rather, according to others, “good spell”, i.e., good news. It is the rendering of the Greek evangelion, i.e., “good mess"}, {"id": "card_n_e45e7e2430ff", "title": "Easton: Saviour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who saves from any form or degree of evil. In its highest sense the word indicates the relation sustained by our Lord to his redeemed ones, he is their Saviour. The great message of the gospel is "}, {"id": "card_n_f49b9f5522d8", "title": "Easton: Goshen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A district in Egypt where Jacob and his family settled, and in which they remained till the Exodus (Gen. 45:10; 46:28, 29, 31, etc.). It is called “the land of Goshen” (47:27), and also simply “G"}, {"id": "card_n_e58898b8fc38", "title": "The genetic code — a language written in a molecule", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Life stores itself as text: a four-letter alphabet (A, C, G, T), three-letter words, and a\nredundant dictionary. Sealed: 4^3 = 64 codons, 64 - 3 stop = 61 sense codons mapping to just 20\namino acids —"}, {"id": "card_n_424c02ce5520", "title": "1 John 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life\n2. (and the life was reveal"}, {"id": "card_n_14fc23eaa994", "title": "Easton: Prophet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. nabi, from a root meaning “to bubble forth, as from a fountain,” hence “to utter”, comp. Ps. 45:1). This Hebrew word is the first and the most generally used for a prophet. In the time of Samuel"}, {"id": "card_n_06aa0f5f9391", "title": "Easton: Stephen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the seven deacons, who became a preacher of the gospel. He was the first Christian martyr. His personal character and history are recorded in Acts 6. “He fell asleep” with a prayer for his pers"}, {"id": "card_n_f2203af4d294", "title": "Easton: Parlour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(from the Fr. parler, “to speak”) denotes an “audience chamber,” but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. It corresponds to what the Turks call a kiosk, as in Judg. 3:20 (the “summer"}, {"id": "card_n_87533691fea2", "title": "1 Clement XVI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For Christ is of those who are humble-minded, and not of those who exalt themselves over His flock. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Sceptre of the majesty of God, did not come in the pomp of pride or arrog"}, {"id": "card_n_898a0c5c4bf7", "title": "Easton: Jailer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(of Philippi), Acts 16:23. The conversion of the Roman jailer, a man belonging to a class “insensible as a rule and hardened by habit, and also disposed to despise the Jews, who were the bearers of th"}, {"id": "card_n_0515a8f681bf", "title": "Easton: Cornelius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A centurion whose history is narrated in Acts 10. He was a “devout man,” and like the centurion of Capernaum, believed in the God of Israel. His residence at Caesrea probably brought him into contact "}, {"id": "card_n_af4fd92a3554", "title": "Isaiah 53", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD’s arm been revealed?\n2. For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see"}]}