Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar; Muslims worldwide observe this as a month of fasting. Ramadan is a time of deep reflection for Muslims worldwide. “While fasting from dawn until sunset, Muslims refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking, and engaging in sexual relations; in some interpretations Muslims also refrain from other […]
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Colorado Water Rights
Colorado is one of the states with the most restrictive water rights. Similar to how mineral rights can be sold separately then the other property rights, water rights in Colorado are often owned by someone other than the property owner. This means it is illegal to even capture rain water. Colorado has it’s own government […]
Rational
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. — Bertrand Russell
Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on June 28, 1914. Franz Ferdinand was the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination started the chain of events that led to World War I. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia. This caused the Central Powers (including Germany and Austria-Hungary) and […]
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Dolphin Intelligence
Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far […]
Philosophy: Murpys Law and Thomas Pynchon
Murphy’s Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel’s Theorem. — Thomas Pynchon, “Gravity’s Rainbow” Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that establish inherent limitations of all but the most trivial axiomatic systems capable of doing arithmetic. The theorems, proven by Kurt Gödel in 1931, are important both in mathematical logic and in […]
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Tagged Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Godel's Theorem, Murphy's Law, Thomas Pynchonm
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European Extremely Large Telescope
Astronomers are building a new telescope called the “European Extremely Large Telescope”. Construction has started in Chile where they have blown the top off of the Cerro Armazones mountain. The telescope will be the largest in the world and consisting of 789 hexagonal mirrors.
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The Philly Music Scene
More Information: Lenni-Lenape Indians The American Revolution Chester County, PA
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Tagged Brandywine Battlefield, Chester County, Jr., Lenape Indians, Lenni-Lenape Indians, music, PA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philly Music Scene, Rob Perna
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Backward Existentialism
Q: “What is the burning question on the mind of every dyslexic existentialist?” A: “Is there a dog?” — Linux Slackware Quote
Swimming In Ice Cubes
Air temperatures in the states and provinces around the Great Lakes suggest that meteorological summer has arrived. But the icy grip of winter is lingering in cool water temperatures and drifting chunks of ice. For nearly seven months, ice has been afloat somewhere on the Great Lakes, an ice season longer than anything in the […]