"Here's a website discussion reported by James Robert Brown in Who Rules in Science? (2001, p. 83):

A. A pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, but it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon.

B. What? A pen would fall if you dropped it on the Moon, just more slowly ( Read more... )

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. -- Konrad Adenauer (5 January 1876 - 19 April 1967), Chancellor of Germany 1949-1963

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From Michael Gruber's Tropic of Night, pp. 80-83: part of a lecture given to a college audience by anthropologist Marcel Vierchau ( Read more... )

Obama drops 'Creator' from Declaration quote

I realize that WorldNetDaily tends to wax hysterical over anything it can, and writes everything at SCREAM!!!!! level. And if it was just this one time, well, even Jove nods, and anyone can make a mistake. But Obama has a deeply entrenched habit of doing this sort of thing over and over and over, and ( Read more... )

For the past many days, I've been working away at uploading my files from the notes I wrote to my Qaballah and Tarot course to Scribd.com and revising said files and uploading the revised versions thereunto. Suddenly, things start happening:

Yesterday I watched Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, about a son of Poseidon and his ( Read more... )

We human beings live at the bottom of a thin puddle of oxygen-nitrogen vapor adhering to the surface of a medium-sized rocky planet that orbits a not terribly remarkable star in a cosmos which is one of many. We are not alone. There are other beings in other universes, other cosmologies, that think, and travel, and explore. And there are aliens ( Read more... )

There's a book I've been recommending to everyone who cares about what's happening to our country and to Western civilization in general. It's M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil -- quotes from it are available here: Malignant Narcissism: Quotations from M. Scott Peck's People of the LieThe book describes a certain ( Read more... )

Maligant Narcissism: Quotations from M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie

Know anyone like this? They are the subject of M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, and, as Dr. Peck and numerous others have tried to make clear to the rest of us, they are extremely destructive in their effects on everyone around them, and ( Read more... )

When I work with experimental digital gadgets, like new variations on virtual reality, in a lab environment, I am always reminded how small changes in the details of a digital design can have profound unforeseen consequences on the experiences of the humans who are playing with it. The slightest change in something as seemingly trivial as the ease ( Read more... )