A woman walks up to a librarian and asks, âDo you have the book on Pavlovâs dogs and Schrödingerâs cat?â
The librarian replies, âIt rings a bell, but I donât know if itâs here or not.â
They're not in denial. They're trying to protect the investments of the very, very rich, which is currently incompatible with doing anything about global warming.
What's the origin of 'soul'?
No living soul knows.
The Germanic ancestor of the word 'soul' can be reconstructed, but attempts to reconstruct its further origin or find cognates in the other Indo-European languages have only been speculative.
My new graphic sums up these theories and shows the cognates of 'soul' in the sister languages: