A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg neuston PRONUNCIATION: (NOO-ston, NYOO-) MEANING: noun: The aggregate of minute aquatic organisms that inhabit the surface of a body of water. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek neuston (swimming), from nein to (swim). USAGE: In the 1970s, when [Jacques Cousteau] joined Soviet scientists studying neuston, minute organisms in the upper layers of the ocean, the researchers could not get clean samples. Marlise Simons; Jacques Cousteaus Righteous Crusade; The New York Times; Feb 13, 1994. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:00:00 +0000
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