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January 17, 2022 at 20:28
That is the most positive construction we can apply to suppression. We hope that suppression of thought will rebound to inventive free thought! Alas, ...
January 17, 2022 at 19:24
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...
January 17, 2022 at 18:59
not a clue...
January 17, 2022 at 08:15
"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...
January 17, 2022 at 07:35
@"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...
January 17, 2022 at 05:42
People should make a bigger fuss over us geriatric prodigies.
January 16, 2022 at 07:45
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...
January 16, 2022 at 03:13
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...
January 16, 2022 at 03:07
In one article, the New York Times reported on the risky transplant procedure (xenotransplant). The patient was not eligible for a heart transplant, w...
January 16, 2022 at 03:02
So, there is such a thing as lousy art, after all!
January 16, 2022 at 02:05
The nerve! Unhand that centaur's locks, you Etruscan wench goddess.
January 15, 2022 at 22:20
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...
January 15, 2022 at 22:04
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...
January 15, 2022 at 21:51
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 ...
January 15, 2022 at 06:38
If it's so easy to end poverty, then why is it more complex than money?
January 15, 2022 at 05:57
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 ...
January 15, 2022 at 05:37
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 ...
January 14, 2022 at 23:06
Pretty much the case.
January 14, 2022 at 21:49
'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...
January 14, 2022 at 21:40
The gods of art criticism are just!
January 14, 2022 at 21:28
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...
January 14, 2022 at 21:26
As previously said, excellence in posting. Competitive, body contact sport (football, boxing, wrestling, etc.) operates under an overlay of "character...
January 14, 2022 at 20:29
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...
January 14, 2022 at 19:41
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...
January 14, 2022 at 09:02
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...
January 14, 2022 at 08:59
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...
January 14, 2022 at 08:39
That's a very sick pun.
January 14, 2022 at 07:09
My apologies. How about a wellbeing wallow in warm cocoa?
January 14, 2022 at 05:36
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...
January 14, 2022 at 03:35
@"Shawn" Oh, no! https://64.media.tumblr.com/b9084ca8644a155ff31d4c983adbd64f/8883a773aa78db78-2c/s1280x1920/34fd680379acd619afe00bfdc1428b0e6437d56d....
January 14, 2022 at 02:22
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...
January 13, 2022 at 04:01
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...
January 12, 2022 at 17:45
Yes, but I didn't know whether it was a helox or a shelox.
January 12, 2022 at 08:55
@"Tom Storm" @"T Clark" @"pile of bricks" This work is clearly MUCH better than Pile of Bricks. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nadia-Nazarbaeva/...
January 12, 2022 at 08:52
Sorry to hear it was sick.
January 12, 2022 at 08:35
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...
January 12, 2022 at 00:56
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...
January 12, 2022 at 00:51
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...
January 12, 2022 at 00:42
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...
January 11, 2022 at 21:03
An uninformed person might think that. Christianity came together out of a melange of wildly varying beliefs. There were periodic efforts to rationali...
January 11, 2022 at 19:56
Unitarians believe there is 1 god, 1 person, period. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Michael Servetus, b. 1509, was an early proponent of unitarianism. ...
January 11, 2022 at 19:08
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...
January 11, 2022 at 08:58
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...
January 11, 2022 at 08:03
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January 11, 2022 at 05:44
Why should we do that? Is that really our job, or is that just one option among several others?
January 11, 2022 at 04:05
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...
January 11, 2022 at 03:27
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...
January 11, 2022 at 02:25
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...
January 11, 2022 at 02:17
What on earth would make you think that?
January 11, 2022 at 00:32