Ancient Spookiness 👻

Ancient Spookiness 👻

In Greece, near Athens, there was an old house that always seemed emp­ty. The renters would always move out ear­ly, claim­ing it was haunt­ed. This house was infa­mous for its dark past; neigh­bors even claimed it was spooky. They said they could hear the clank­ing of chains echo­ing through the halls at night. Even brave young influ­encers would vis­it and

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What do Aristotle and St. Aquinas have to do with the Galileo Affair? Parts 1 and 2

What do Aristotle and St. Aquinas have to do with the Galileo Affair? Parts 1 and 2

The Greek philoso­pher Aris­to­tle was born in 384 BCE. The Ital­ian philoso­pher St. Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225. Galileo Galilei was born on Feb­ru­ary 15, 1564. Between the three of them, there is a sto­ry that spans almost 2000 years. That sto­ry is known as the Galileo Affair.

The History and Future of Autodidacts and Citizen Scientists

The History and Future of Autodidacts and Citizen Scientists

Some of us go through life with gnaw­ing thoughts of “I always want­ed to be a _________.” If the word “sci­en­tist” ends this sen­tence for you, but you feel that your goal is out of reach, think again. You can still become a sci­en­tist, even with­out a Ph.D. and even with­out a col­lege edu­ca­tion. Many indi­vid­u­als, called auto­di­dacts, are active

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Book Review: Synchronicity by Paul Halpern

Book Review: Synchronicity by Paul Halpern

“Syn­chronic­i­ty is the com­ing togeth­er of inner and out­er events in a way that can­not be explained by cause and effect, and that is mean­ing­ful to the observ­er.” — Carl Jung Skep­ti­cism reigns supreme in sci­ence. When some­thing doesn’t make sense, there is a search for truths. Since the begin­ning of archa­ic humans, our ances­tors have con­tin­u­al­ly pon­dered the con­nec­tions of

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