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copernicus: going rogue on relative motion
A little errant goes a long orbit. Displacing man from the center of the universe. What began as some computational sleights of hand to help the Church with calendar problems soon assumed a life of its own. The earth was … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Einstein, Andreas Osiander, Copernican revolution, Galileo Galilei, Geocentrism, Hans Reichenbach, Heocentrism, Isaac Newton, jan brueghel the elder, John Milton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Luther, Nicholas Copernicus, Pierre Gassendi, Sir Fred Hoyle, Solomon Hart paintings
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flowers in the dirt poor
Economic bubbles are nothing new. It seems that any unchecked enthusiasm in life in whatever sphere eventually gets pulled down by gravity. The bubble, almost universally seems to be maintained by ignoring our own private information and being guided by … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Madoff, Dutch Tulip Bubble, Frans Hals, hendrik gerritsz, hendrik gerritsz pot, jan bruegel, jan brueghel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Matt Taibbi, michael lewis vanity fair, sub-prime mortgage crisis
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the living clocks: navigation by the sun
Does the season go off inside of us, like a ringing in the blood? People have always associated the burgeoning of spring with the coming of warmer weather; the spring warmth, we feel, has roused the earth from dormancy. But … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Diego Velazquez, Edmund Spenser, gustav kramer, harry allard, James Thurber, Jan Brueghel, jan brueghel the elder, philip Stubbs, Sandro Botticelli, wightman garner
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design principles: produced by blind law?
At heart, those who do not believe in evolution are heretics. That is, they are ignorant, stupid or insane, according to Richard Dawkins. Its the non-existence of god, where even the absence of belief is a from of ideology assuming … Continue reading