History

“The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man” — “Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?… Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible whole…” — David Hilbert David Hilbert (1862–1943) was a German mathematician who possessed such diversified knowledge that spaned so many branches of mathematics. Such as, the…

Are religion and science reconcilable? — A lot of debates have been going on for ages about the irreconcilability of science and religion. One of the most common arguments that most theists bring up while having debates on this topic is the fact that most scientists are religious too despite the existence of many incompatibilities between…

The baseball star fell on hard times after his playing career ended — Slugger Jimmie Foxx remains one of the greatest players in baseball history. His ability with the bat remains unmatched by all but a select few, and he remains a consensus all-time great. …

Thoughts on digesting my first graphic novel — It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now. — Marcus Aurelius Recently, I had the joy of getting an advance copy of Donald J. Robertson’s latest venture with illustrator Zé Nuno Fraga. A tale…

In the absence of experts, parents found a way — If you haven’t heard of the baby formula shortage, you either haven’t listened to the news or you don’t have a baby. According to news reports, the shortage is so severe some parents are driving hours at a time in search of it. This wouldn’t have affected me when my…

The chilling story of Dr. Cline and the aftermath of his actions. — My girlfriend and I got into a debate over who is worse, Dr. Cline or Dr. Larry Nassar. It’s that bad. Ranking evil helped us get a grip on the amorality of a situation. We decided that Dr. Cline “won” because his actions had so many orders of impact. There…

It’s good thing, too! Collective intelligence FTW — Back in 2010, the game designer Matt Wood was working on a sequel to the hit title Portal, when he ran into a really interesting problem: The awesome power of two brains working as one. And that, as it turns out, may be related to the mystery of why our…

White Women Aren’t Having Enough Babies — This story has four parts; an uproar on the campus of Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA; the French origins of the theory; how it infiltrated the Trump White administration and American foreign policy, and finally, a mass shooter in Buffalo, NY targeting Black people because of what he read…

The delightful tale of ‘The Night Revels of Han Xizai’ — One of the best stories in Chinese art involves an emperor in the mid-10th century and one of his employees who wasn’t acting up to snuff. As Shanghai Daily explains it, Li Yu (AD 937–978) of the Tang Dynasty was dissatisfied with Han Xizai, a top official. Han started slacking…