A whippersnapper is a young person who is presumptuous, a young person who is overconfident.  The term whippersnapper is derived from the terms snipper-snapper and whip-snapper.  A whip-snapper was a seventeenth-century term for a young man with nothing better to do than to hang about idly snapping a whip.  Whippersnapper is one of those rare terms that has a somewhat literal origin.  Today, the term is usually used in an archaic sense or as a slightly humorous term.  According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the correct spelling is as one word, whippersnapper, though it is occasionally seen in its hyphenated form, whipper-snapper.   https://grammarist.com/usage/whippersnapper/  Thank you, Muse reader! 

Which is smaller--Delaware or Rhode Island?  Find the answer and see a complete list of the U.S. states, its federal district and its major territories ordered by total area, land area and water area.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area#  The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters.  Glaciers and intermittent bodies of water are counted as land area. 

If you like the smell of chrysanthemum flowers and the taste of tea brewed with the dried flower buds, then consider eating chrysanthemum greens.  You'll find the vegetable in any number of Asian markets—Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian—during the spring to autumn seasons.  (Keep your eyes peeled, as it is sometimes referred to as crown daisy.)  If the greens are young and fresh, you can enjoy both the leaves and stalks raw in salads.  Young greens should have stalks that are no wider than 1/8-inch in diameter—any wider, and the taste is too bitter and strong to be eaten raw. Chichi Wang  https://www.seriouseats.com/seriously-asian-chrysanthemum-greens  Thank you, Muse reader!  

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885) 

“He marks his place in books by folding over the corners of the page.  Burn his letters and send back the ring!  I cannot marry a monster!”  “Overdue books are dealt with swiftly and mercilessly.”  Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld  Thank you, Muse reader!  

February 13, 2024  The traditional diet of northern Portugal and northwestern Spain, known as the Southern European Traditional Atlantic Diet, or Atlantic diet for short, may hold some clues to better heart health and a lower risk of dying early from cancer, heart disease or any cause, according to studies conducted in Europe.  The latest study, published recently in the journal JAMA Network Open, found the diet also modestly reduced the incidence of metabolic syndrome, a combination of higher blood pressure, blood sugars, triglycerides and belly fat that raises the risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and other serious health conditions.  The diet is based on foods grown or found in that part of the Europe, much like its famous cousin the Mediterranean diet.   Sandee LaMotte  https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/health/atlantic-diet-explainer-wellness/index.html  

Alan Kay, the famed computer scientist, says he didn’t really know what the term “computer science” meant in 1966, when he read a lengthy description of a programming language written by a Swiss computer scientist named Niklaus Wirth.  The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2024   Niklaus Emil Wirth (15 February 1934–1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist.  He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering.  In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth  See also https://awards.acm.org/turing  

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