Did you know that Santa Claus is based on a real person from Turkey? Saint Nicholas of Myra was a Greek Christian bishop of Myra (now known as Turkey.) Around 500 AD, Nicholas became known for his saintly acts. One story has him giving gifts to those in need. A poor family did not have […]
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Santa Claus Is Real
Posted in Christmas, History, International, Religion
Tagged Christmas Story, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus
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3D Printer Makes Wrench in Space
OUTER SPACE — What happens if you are on the Space Station and you need a wrench? Just have NASA e-mail it up and print it on the 3D printer. It is the first time that hardware was e-mailed to space. Mike Chen, founder of Made In Space (the company behind the 3-D printer) said, […]
Posted in International, robotics, Science, Space
Tagged 3D printer, International Space Station, manufactured in space, NASA, wrench
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U.S. Ends Bailout Program with $15.3 Billion Profit
The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) ended when the Treasury sold its remaining shares of Ally Financial (the last remaining major bank.) The bailout program was originally $426 billion. The Treasury Department reports, “Treasury invested approximately $245 billion across five distinct bank programs. Each of these programs was established to accomplish different goals as part […]
Posted in Business, Finance, Government
Tagged bailout, banks, profit, TARP, taxpayers, too big to fail, Troubled Asset Relief Program, US
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Knowledge
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see […]
Posted in Education, Philosophy
Tagged evil, King Arthur, knowledge, learning, Merlin\, sad
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Torture = Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
The United States’ Senate Intelligence Committee released a 6,000 page report detailing how the CIA tortured prisoners at Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib. A 480 page summary gives a troubling overview. The BBC reports: Were the interrogation methods – torture if you like – more extensive and more brutal than previously admitted? It looks […]
Posted in freedom, Government, International, Law, liberty, Politics, War And Peace
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Bagram, CIA, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Guantanamo Bay, Senate Intelligence Committee, sexual torture, torture, United State, USA, waterboarding
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Life
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. — Albert Camus
Arrests for 90-Year-Old Man Who Feeds Homeless Myth
By Daniel Brouse There have been many false posts about the arrests of a “90-Year-Old Man Who Feeds Homeless” in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For the most part, everything in the posts is not true. 1. The man has not been arrested 2. It is not against the law to feed the homeless in Fort Lauderdale […]
Posted in freedom, health and wellness, Law
Tagged Arrests for 90-Year-Old Man Who Feeds Homeless Myth, eat, feeding, Fort Lauderdale, homeless, how to feed the homeless, Occupy Philadelphia, Occupy Philly
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Landing On A Comet
The European Space Agency has successfully landed a spaceship on a comet. The Rosetta mission started 10 years ago when Philae was launched into space. An ESA spokesman said, “We are the first to have done that, and that will stay forever.”
Posted in Education, History, Science, Space
Tagged comet, European Space Agency, Rosetta Mission
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Jesus Married With Kids
According to a press release in The Sunday Times of the United Kingdom, Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children: ‘Married’ Jesus found in British Library — A new book claims Jesus married Mary Magdalene, a theory that is also touched upon in the film The Last Temptation of Christ IT SOUNDS like The Da […]
Chaos Theory And Music
A creator wrote to the KingArthur.com research team: For my senior project, I wanted to see if one could use the Chaos Game to compose music, using the coordinates of notes on a 12-tone Matrix as it’s vertices, and then finding other ways of determining it’s magnification/compression factor, etc. Your ideas about the connection between […]