Shane Leschasin1 hour agoA Square, Flat Earth and Round Heaven Meant the World to Ancient Chinaverified_publisherAtlas Obscura - James HannamFor millennia, this cosmological principle guided everything from calendars to urban planning. It was a big job, being emperor of China. He didn’t …
Shane Leschasin8 hours agoWhat Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?thecollector.com - Rosie LessoImagine you’re on a beach. You notice the blue water shimmering in sunlight as waves lap upon your feet, bringing with them the scent of salt water. …
Shane Leschasin5 hours agoViolating the Universal Kasha’s Rule – Scientists Uncover Secrets of a Mysterious Blue Moleculescitechdaily.com - Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague)Scientists from IOCB Prague are the first to describe the causes of the behavior of one of the fundamental aromatic molecules, azulene. This molecule …
Shane Leschasin7 hours agoWhy it pays to read for acrostics in the Classics | Aeon EssaysAeon Media - Julia HejdukTen years ago, one of the most disruptive events in my intellectual life occurred at a dinner party at my house. My friend Richard Thomas, who had …
Shane Leschasin9 hours agoWhen Nietzsche said ‘become who you are’, this is what he meantpsyche.co - Ryan A BushBehind the philosopher’s cryptic phrase is an invocation to sculpt your ideal self out of the hard stone of your psyche - by Ryan A Bush Read at …
Shane Leschasin10 hours agoThe Story of Lorem Ipsum: How Scrambled Text by Cicero Became Used by Typesetters Everywhereopenculture.com - OCIn high school, the language I most fell in love with happened to be a dead one: Latin. Sure, it’s spoken at the Vatican, and when I first began to …
