Why do people say that a murderer, a robber, a terrorist was a “good” person? Is it because we don’t know what good means anymore? (Note, after looking for the murderer=good thing I remembered reading, I found an article on murder in Victorian Ireland. He was a good man, his neighbors said, was a common [...]
Read the whole entryA 2100+ year old Greek astronomy machine worked, according to Live Science. It could predict solar and lunar eclipses. It mechanically replicated the irregular motions of the moon. Previous reconstructions suggested the Antikythera Mechanism was about the size of a shoebox, with dials on the outside and a complex assembly of bronze gear wheels within. [...]
Read the whole entryI was reading my dissertation yesterday for the first time in years. I didn’t remember having so many tables in it! I didn’t remember having any at all and there were one hundred or so. I was looking for an introduction to genre, which I know was in there, but I didn’t see it before [...]
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