Today, TOF presents for your delight a Quote of the Day, a Science! Marches On!, and a Statistical Puzzle for you to solve, among the usual sundry miscellany.

The Feast of All Saints

My semi-regular post for the Eve of All Saints and the Feast of All Saints

How Long Does It Take

to fix a highway?

Depends on how big the earthquake is, right?( Read more... )

The Translation of Thomas Aquinas

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The Meaning of Thanksgiving

in Greek is εὐχαριστία (eukharistia) or Eucharist.

There is a school of thought in the US, often called "rugged individualism" in which the individual (envisioned as "rugged", usually male and adult) claims that he stands in a grand and solitary isolation, owing no-but nothing to no one.  He is under no obligation to ( Read more... )

Feast of All Saints

Okay, I missed it.  But better late than never.

Everyone thinks this is the Irish Feis Samhain, which began at sunset on 31 Oct and that the Church co-opted the date.  However, Pope Gregory III (d. 741) moved the  feast "in honor of all the saints in heaven" from 13 May to 1 Nov to correspond to the dedication day of All Saints ( Read more... )