Jacob Riis, Sacheen Littlefinger, and the Power of Optics

Why people (including me) should not confuse silence with the idea that nothing is happening

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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob A. Riis

Late last night, news …