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Issues with science versus region are mostly with Evangelical conservative republicans who have political influence.

Bringing it over from a philosophy thread. I used geometric optics which treats light like rays, common knowledge. But that is an approximation. Geometric optics. https://physics.info/reflection/summary.shtml Physical optics solves Maxwell;s Equations. Not practical without computers. CED...

Musk on camera says he wants to move millions to Mars. In our culture some people are called crazy. A wealthy crazy guy is called eccentric. Another Messiah Complex...

The technological arms race began with the earliest civilizations. I recently watched a show on the evolution of chariot technology and tactics. It focused on major battles between Egypt and Assyria. Layered body armor that could withstand an arrow goes far back in history. Ancient Chinese...

Nazism was covered in a political science class. That we have a madman in the WH goes without saying. Like Trump Hitler was expert at pushing deep cultural buttons. The Nazi propaganda film Triumph Of The Will was kept classified until the 70s, I saw it when it made the rounds of college...

MYT puzzles are popular. The crossword puzzel is legendary. Wordle and the crossword puzzle. https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords

https://math.dartmouth.edu/news-resources/electronic/puzzlebook/book/book.pdf https://www.pcsb.org/cms/lib/FL01903687/Centricity/Domain/4248/math%20puzzles.pdf 1958 Sci American puzzles https://bobson.ludost.net/copycrime/mgardner/gardner02.pdf

Jumping over from a post by DBT. A wide subject of which I have only an overview. DBT: Not to mention Paul's plagiarism of Greek philosophy. Aquinas was another major influence on Christianity. Read a book The Dumb Ox. The Golden Rule in various forms predates Christianity in most or all...

Jumping over from religion with a response to pood. What dies spirit mean? May the Force be with you ..... Obi -Wan and Yoda are watching you from a higher plane. Spirit like much of philosophy and mystical traditions are contextual. Indian traditions have pranja or life force/energy. At...

For a recent report. In the hacker community it is now commercialized. You can go online and pay for a bot of any kind in dollars per site or persons reached. Capitalism at its finest. Probably not breaking news, but I have not followed hackingother than general reporting. . On private...

Greek and Eroman units of measure Greeks and Romans probably had their equiv ants of our NIST. Fraud in business and trade was undoubtedly an issue as it can be today. The needs for cionnerce and trade crteated a demnd for standards, and scienceis based on units of measure. Development of...

Sidereal and solar time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synodic_day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit

Pretty simple. Words to live by? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins

In the news Alberta separatists see Trump as an ally, 'make Alberta great again'. Trouble in paradise? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_separatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units In SI units heat, work, and energy have the same units, the Joule. It is not arbitrary, it reflects experiments in the 19th century like Joule’s paddle wheel experiment that demonstrated the equivalence. In everyday work the...

The issue o illegals goes back at least to the 30s. I watched an old 1940s movie about American and Mexican police working to bing down a human trafficking origination providing labor to American businesses. The Mexican slur I grew up was wetbacks, swimming the Rio Grande. When I was in...

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Came to mind on a region thread. From my 70s astronomy class at the tie there was a question of the misting mass of the universe. Depending on them mass assigned the universe could be oscillatory, steady state, or an expansion followed by a collapse IOW one cycle. Or so9ethng like that...

Leaerner says an ancient inscription(aka graffiti) rrefered to Jesus as god therefore implying Jesus is god. 1960s graffiti proclaimed Eric Clapton was god. Proof positive that Clapton is god. Some worshiped hm and his guitar as a god. In an interview Clapton said he did not know why people...

Leaned a new word today. Not a new topic historically . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism All critters and plants and microbial life can and do at ti9es exploit other forms of life. If it is untactful to exploit other species for our benefit, exactly where is that ethics written? I...