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  • Could We Use Volcanoes To Make Electricity?

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 19th 2024 11:52pm EDT

    Lava spatters from a vent at Kilauea in Hawaii during an eruption in September 2023. M. Patrick, USGS, via NPS, CC BY-ND David Kitchen, University of Richmond Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Could we use […]

  • Coloring

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 16th 2024 12:05am EDT

    Image Source July 3, 1943 Ideas are colored by what they are dipped in. There was a young Chinaman the other day, nearly accusin’ me of havin’ invented Confucius. He had been UNeducated by contact with half-baked occidental ideas. Lost his own cultural heritage, didn’t think Confucius was so modern, that was because he hadn’t […]

  • Coloring

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 16th 2024 12:05am EDT

    Image Source July 3, 1943 Ideas are colored by what they are dipped in. There was a young Chinaman the other day, nearly accusin’ me of havin’ invented Confucius. He had been UNeducated by contact with half-baked occidental ideas. Lost his own cultural heritage, didn’t think Confucius was so modern, that was because he hadn’t […]

  • Coloring

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 16th 2024 12:05am EDT

    Image Source July 3, 1943 Ideas are colored by what they are dipped in. There was a young Chinaman the other day, nearly accusin’ me of havin’ invented Confucius. He had been UNeducated by contact with half-baked occidental ideas. Lost his own cultural heritage, didn’t think Confucius was so modern, that was because he hadn’t […]

  • The City Of God

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 15th 2024 11:52pm EDT

    On the City of God Against the Pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. The book was in response to allegations that Christianity brought about the decline of Rome and is considered one of Augustine’s most important works, standing alongside The Confessions, The Enchiridion, On […]

  • Metaphysical Depravity

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 15th 2024 2:27am EDT

    Image Source These philosophers are fanatics; independent of any interest, which if it operated alone would make them much more tractable, they are carried with such a headlong rage towards every desperate trial, that they would sacrifice the whole human race to the slightest of their experiments. I am better able to enter into the […]

  • Anti-Americanism in L.A.

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 15th 2024 1:51am EDT

    March 5, 1998 For American sports, February [of 1998] was the best of months and the worst of months. In Nagano, 15-year-old Tara Lipinski skated into immortality by taking an Olympic gold medal away from America’s Queen of the Ice Michelle Kwan. Tiny Tara became the youngest ever to win the gold, besting by two […]

  • SpaceX’s Elon Musk Endorsed Donald Trump For President – What This Could Mean For US Space Policy

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 14th 2024 3:38am EDT

    Elon Musk’s ties with Donald Trump could affect how the former president would approach U.S. space policy. Saul Martinez via Getty Images Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Johns Hopkins University Elon Musk officially endorsed Donald Trump for president of the United States on July 13, 2024, shortly after Trump survived an assassination attempt. Musk, a billionaire technology entrepreneur, […]

  • Rare and Stunning Old Photos of Athens (and Greece) in the 19th Century

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 14th 2024 3:35am EDT

    In this article, we invite you to travel back in time to Athens of the 19th century, a city of stark contrasts and rapid development. Through a rare collection of amazing photographs, we’ll explore the old neighborhoods, the Parthenon, and the many other iconic landmarks that have defined Athens for generations. In 1832, Otto, Prince […]

  • A History of Mathematics

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 14th 2024 3:34am EDT

    The post A History of Mathematics appeared first on Mind’s Eye Mag.

  • A Treatise On Probability

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 14th 2024 2:43am EDT

    Image Source A Treatise on Probability ,[1] published by John Maynard Keynes in 1921, provides a much more general logic of uncertainty than the more familiar and straightforward ‘classical’ theories of probability. [notes 1][3][notes 2] This has since become known as a “logical-relationist” approach,[5][notes 3] and become regarded as the seminal and still classic account of the logical interpretation of probability (or probabilistic logic), a view of probability […]

  • The Making Of The Atomic Bomb

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 14th 2024 2:42am EDT

    Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly — or have been so […]

  • An Open Letter To Donald Trump’s Current 2024 Campaign

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 11th 2024 5:44am EDT

    INTRODUCTION We are compelled by a deep love and admiration for Donald Trump, the American nation, and the American people to deliver the following message to his campaign, and the American voters. In 2016, Donald Trump expressed a revolutionary vision for our country. He outlined an America First platform that brought millions of Americans hope […]

  • The Judeo-American Liberal Order Reaps Chaos: Lessons from Britain and Iran

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 10th 2024 5:54am EDT

    A Contradiction in Principle? We are now accustomed to holding to principled yet highly marginalized and repressed views. Such is our lot in life, and we accept it without fuss. But it is worth making explicit in writing what many of us instinctually feel with regard to the root common cause of the out-of-control chaos […]

  • Brain Implants to Restore Sight, Like Neuralink’s Blindsight, Face a Fundamental Problem − More Pixels Don’t Ensure Better Vision

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 6th 2024 4:03pm EDT

    Image Source Human vision can’t be fully reproduced with ones and zeros. seamartini/iStock via Getty Images Plus Ione Fine, University of Washington and Geoffrey Boynton, University of Washington Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo […]

  • Intellectual Terrorism

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 6th 2024 3:29pm EDT

    Image Source April 10, 2003 The modern thought police is hard to spot, as it often seeks cover under soothing words such as “democracy” and “human rights.” While each member state of the European Union likes to show off the beauties of its constitutional paragraph, seldom does it attempt to talk about the ambiguities of […]

  • Mission Creep

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 6th 2024 2:47pm EDT

    Image Source Sensation — media nourishment — is situated on a border. It tells the inside something about the outside, and is shaped from both sides. The outside is what it is, which might not be perceptible, or acceptable. The inside wants relevant information, selected and formatted to its purposes. Sensation is therefore where subject […]

  • The Passing Of The Great Race

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 4th 2024 1:31am EDT

    The Passing of the Great Race, (Or, The Racial Basis of European History) by American eugenicist, lawyer, and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant, was originally published in 1916. The work looks at the racial history of the world, drawing on scientific theories of genetics and Darwinian evolution, including the works of prior eugenicists and racialist authors, […]

  • Was Hiroshima Necessary?

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 4th 2024 12:02am EDT

    Mark Weber Why the Atomic Bombings Could Have Been Avoided On August 6, 1945, the world dramatically entered the atomic age: without either warning or precedent, an American plane dropped a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion utterly destroyed more than four square miles of the city center. About 90,000 […]

  • Fascist Civilization: The Civilization of the Spirit

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 8:35pm EDT

    For us Mystics Fascism is Mussolini and only Mussolini. This, even though we know and remember exactly what he said in 1921 when asked, “How then was Fascism born; amid what conflicting passions, sympathy, hatred, and lack of understanding? It was not only born from my mind or my heart, it was not born only […]

  • Supreme Court Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back.

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 2:40am EDT

    Ron Paul We can all probably agree that this has been one of the strangest Julys in memory. From the attempt on Trump’s Life to the Republican National Convention to the bizarre “coup” against Biden in the Democratic Party. With all this, it’s easy to forget some truly momentous events that happened this month. For […]

  • On Scripture

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 2:32am EDT

    The Encyclical “Spiritus Paraclitus” Given by His Holiness Pope Benedict XV 15 September 1920 Since the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, had bestowed the Scriptures on the human race for their instruction in Divine things, He also raised up in successive ages saintly and learned men whose task it should be to develop that treasure and […]

  • State Of The War

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 1:51am EDT

    Wars happen because some people expect one outcome, and others expect a different outcome. So prediction is hard, for if it was easy, the war would likely have been avoided, though as the war goes on, and on, and on, becomes easier. Due to fog of war, hard to know what is happening now, or […]

  • The Straussian Moment

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 30th 2024 1:34am EDT

    Image Source Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir, author of the essay “The Straussian Moment,” describes how the ancients believed in the power of the intellect and the weakness of the will, but how today we believe the opposite. We want machines to do the thinking, because we don’t trust rationality. 2007 Thiel The […]

  • I Am The Constituent Power

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Jul 28th 2024 3:27pm EDT

    May 15, 1804 It is not as a general that I rule, but because the nation believes I have the civilian qualifications for governing. My system is quite simple. It has seemed to me that under the circumstances the thing to do was to centralize power and increase the authority of the Government, so as […]