We’re so used to it, we hardly notice that men are bigger than women. But the other night Sam and Emily came over with their baby Willa. Emily was holding Willa for a while, and then passed her over to Sam. Willa shrank 20%!
[20 September 2026]
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(Theaetetus)
Socrates: Here are six dice. Put four beside them, and they are more, we say, than the four, that is, half as many again; but put twelve beside them, and we say they are less, that is, half the number. … Is it possible, Theatetus, for any thing to become bigger or more in number in any other way than by being increased? …
Socrates: I (a full-grown man) without having been either increased or diminished, am now bigger than you (who are only a boy) and, later on, [I will be] smaller — though I have lost nothing and it is only that you have grown. For this means that I am, at a later stage, what I was not before, and that, too, without having [changed].