Friday, July 1, 2022

World War II and French antisemitism


Per:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/legend-innocence-france

"The [Vichy] regime also implemented measures that would aid the Germans in the business of extermination, such as organizing a census of Jews in the southern half of the country and compelling French Jews to receive special stamps on their documents."

Friday, June 17, 2022

Jan would have found this amusing

 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-unique-genetic-variants-linked-ability.html

Saturday, March 19, 2022

A difference between religion and the Work

 

  The difference between religion and the Work includes the fact that religion is like a crossword puzzle, but the Work is like a crossword without clues


Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Old old old and new

 



The following is from Sam Hammill’s translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching written some 2,500 years ago:

Beauty and ugliness have one origin.
Name beauty, and ugliness is.
Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.

Monday, February 28, 2022

Only they weren't green

 

quote from Roswell interviewee, and the title of my new blog

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Published today : February 2, 2022

 



https://theconversation.com/happy-twosday-why-numbers-like-2-22-22-have-been-too-fascinating-for-over-2-000-years-176093


chatty story---- nothing about WHY though




King Tut Had a Dagger Made From a Meteorite

 



https://gizmodo.com/king-tuts-meteorite-dagger-has-a-mystery-origin-story-1848562565

King Tut's Meteorite Dagger Has a Mystery Origin Story

Based on the dagger's chemistry and a 3,400-year-old tablet, scientists don’t think it’s from Egypt.

[And there are pictures at the link]