Month: March 2017

  • Month 5 – Word of the Day 22

    Secularization Thesis means A historical process in which religion is losing a presumed central place in society, perhaps as an unavoidable consequence of modernization, through institutional differentiation, changing patterns of legitimation and authority, rationalization, privatization, and individuation. It implies a unilinear historical development positing an inevitable decline of religion and /or religiosity.

  • Un-ladylike Ladybirds!

    In the late 1880’s, the citrus orchids which produced California’s world-famous oranges were devastated by a plague of aphids and scale insects. The biggest natural enemy of the aphid is the ladybird beetle. The California fruit growers introduced ladybirds in the orchards. Within a few weeks, the number of aphids decreased dramatically. Since then, the farmers…