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That is the most positive construction we can apply to suppression. We hope that suppression of thought will rebound to inventive free thought! Alas, ...
Emperor Augusta's wife, Livia, gives pep talk to the gladiators. Pretty sure you've seen this bit from I Claudius by Robert Graves, based on Suetonius...
"infinitely" scalable, it said. That seems like a stretch -- an infinitely scaled emoji? What does that even mean? I have no idea how to do that. http...
@"T Clark" If it's tl, then shorten it. If it's dr, then don't post it. tldr is redundant. ; doesn't help. Off with their heads. Next. (No emoji for t...
I might be mistaken, but my understanding is that there was no competition for the pig heart. After all, fresh pigs can be conveniently provided -- pi...
The risk the xenotransplant patient is taking is that his immune system will react the pig heart. True enough, he was going to die fairly soon without...
In one article, the New York Times reported on the risky transplant procedure (xenotransplant). The patient was not eligible for a heart transplant, w...
A big Botticelli bash is coming to the Minneapolis Institute of Art this fall. I will definitely attend expensive tickets or not, https://cdn.minnesot...
So it seemed. Who was it that said, "There is nothing so stupid that a philosopher hasn't said it."? Probably one of the pre-socratics who anticipated...
Indeed. I have no idea, really, of how to end poverty in the world. The main difficulty is not the poor; it's the rich. So much of the world's wealth ...
Things in Krakatoa are always a blast. I've had my most successful thread in years -- maybe a decade: "Can this Art Work Even be Defaced?" It started ...
Order of experience, setting, context -- all important, In my youth, ending in let's say, 1968 at 22. I had not seen much in the way of serious films ...
'Too many notes, dear Mozart, too many notes' is what Emperor Joseph II supposedly said after the first performance of the Entfuhrung aus dem Serail E...
Yes, I agree that "classical music" appealed to many more people than the elite who could hire a composer to produce work for them. Bach wrote music t...
As previously said, excellence in posting. Competitive, body contact sport (football, boxing, wrestling, etc.) operates under an overlay of "character...
I don't believe it. Especially in Russia where the cows' fodder consists of bales of pre-collapse Pravda and lengthy texts on dialectics. Oh, your com...
Sadly, they haven't starting canning oatmeal. They can cooked rice; cooked noodles; bread (B & M Brown Bread). Why not canned porridge? Cream of wheat...
Porrige issues: The midwest's Malt'o Meal company makes a variety of 'cream of wheat' that has malt in it. It tastes better than Cream of Wheat. Cream...
If you are using the same coffee, and the same coffee machine, then the difference could be the water. Water does vary from place to place. It doesn't...
No need to apologize. My taste in jokes runs towards the crude and inappropriate. Why is the stock market like a hooker's drawers? Up down up down. Ha...
The primary reason is that a large percentage of younger people (under 50) have not had much exposure to music for orchestras and/or string/wind/brass...
I don't know whether to buy it, either; maybe I'll just rent it for. a while. When did novels get sick enough to say they were dying? Maybe... by 1975...
@"Tom Storm" @"T Clark" @"pile of bricks" This work is clearly MUCH better than Pile of Bricks. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nadia-Nazarbaeva/...
Yes. That's all, folks! According to The Church Without Christ, the dead stay dead, the lame don't walk, and the the blind don't see. So... make the m...
It's past your bedtime. Go to sleep. Shakespeare said, "To sleep, perchance to dream." I'm old; I don't fear dying while I'm asleep. Seems like that w...
Art is. Some people like to make art things so they make art things. Some people like to look at art things, so they look at art things. The art thing...
In addition to thinking of God as 1 person (no trinity), Unitarians also believe in universal salvation. I'm not quite sure how that works out, but it...
An uninformed person might think that. Christianity came together out of a melange of wildly varying beliefs. There were periodic efforts to rationali...
Unitarians believe there is 1 god, 1 person, period. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Michael Servetus, b. 1509, was an early proponent of unitarianism. ...
I'm in favor of the examined life. What is difficult about it is doing it in time for it to make a difference. I have examined my life, and yes, it ma...
I find dog behavior interesting. Dogs share a repertoire of behaviors. For instance, most dogs will signal you to keep scratching them if you stop. "M...
Personal opinion and public acclaim do not make any art at all, any more than a stadium full of cheering fans make plays on the field. The artist puts...
My view that, "The quality of porn is easy to measure", was more of a joke than a major plank in art theory. It either does it or it doesn't. From wha...
Really? Not at all? Some important 'decisions' are made socially, collectively. For instance, how does a worker in a plant know he is working "hard en...
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