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  • Agartha: Exploring the Legends of a Hidden Subterranean World

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 31st 2024 12:31am EDT

    Robbie Mitchell For some reason, we’ve long been obsessed with the idea of lost cities and advanced hidden civilizations. A classic example of this is the ongoing hunt for Agartha, a legendary city supposedly hidden beneath the Earth’s surface. Often linked with the Hollow Earth theory, Agartha is described as a hidden realm inhabited by […]

  • The Myth of Athena

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 29th 2024 3:20am EDT

    September 1890 I PAUSANIAS, in whose description of Greece we find the popular legends unsophisticated as yet by the philosopher and the grammanan, after relating how Rhea gave to her cannibal mate, Kronos, a foal to eat instead of the little Poseidon, and afterwards in lieu of Zeus, a stone wrapt up in swaddling clothes, […]

  • A Third Of The World’s Population Lacks Internet Connectivity − Airborne Communications Stations Could Change That

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 29th 2024 2:54am EDT

    An experimental aircraft like this solar-powered airship could someday play a role in providing internet access to rural areas or disaster zones. Thales Alenia Space via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Mariette DiChristina, Boston University About one-third of the global population, around 3 billion people, don’t […]

  • The Great Divorce

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 29th 2024 2:46am EDT

    C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis’ The […]

  • Homeland Security Still Dreams of Face Recognition at the Border

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 29th 2024 2:22am EDT

    Sam Biddle The Department of Homeland Security is soliciting help from the U.S. private sector to run face recognition scans against drivers and passengers approaching the southern border, according to an agency document reviewed by The Intercept. Despite the mixed track record and ongoing deficiencies of face recognition technology, DHS is hoping to devise a means of capturing the likenesses of travelers while […]

  • The Argument

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 27th 2024 10:19pm EDT

    from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep. Once meek, and in a perilous path, The just man kept his course along The vale of death. Roses are planted where thorns grow, And on the barren heath Sing the honey […]

  • Anarchy

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 25th 2024 9:51am EDT

    1891 1 The word Anarchy comes from the Greek and its literal meaning is without government: the condition of a people who live without a constituted authority, without government. Before such an organisation had begun to be considered both possible and desirable by a whole school of thinkers and accepted as the objective of a party, […]

  • Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 25th 2024 12:30am EDT

    Chris Menahan Pavel Durov, founder of the free speech-focused app Telegram, was arrested in France on Saturday allegedly as part of an investigation into his platform for not having enough “moderation.” POV: It’s 2030 in Europe and you’re being executed for liking a meme https://t.co/OkZ6YS3u2P — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2024 From Reuters, “Telegram messaging app CEO […]

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  • Donald Trump Does Not Know the ‘Correct’ Interest Rate

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 20th 2024 1:37am EDT

    Ron Paul Former President and current Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump recently renewed his criticisms of the Federal Reserve. He suggested that, if he returns to the White House next year, he will push Congress to pass legislation giving the president at least a say in the Fed’s decisions regarding interest rates. President Trump thinks […]

  • Inventing Political Victory

    Mind's Eye (Ramona Leone) - Aug 19th 2024 11:54pm EDT

    John Lawson “The cowards never started and the weak died along the way.” That quote is an oft-repeated mantra of Phil Knight, founder and chairman of Nike. It expresses an attitude found only sparingly in a Western world that has grown utterly safe, like a padded cell. Gone is adventure. Young men, who in generations […]

  • 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

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  • 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 […]