The UN’s Copenhagen summit on climate change is about to get underway, but rather than rationally discuss the prospects for achieving a meaningful agreement on sustainable development, we’ve decided to take a more playful tack…
Entries Tagged as ‘Esoterics’
November 16, 2009
Why Jews are Good at Math
It’s commonly accepted that Jews do well in math and science because there’s such a strong emphasis on learning within their tradition, as well as among Jewish families in general. But can good study habits and parental prompting account for the incredibly disproportionate share of awards (Nobel and others) that have been garnered by Jewish mathematicians and scientists?
To delve a little deeper into why this might be [...]
November 12, 2009
The Tetragrammaton
The tetragrammaton is a series of four
Hebrew letters, read from right to left.
It is a sacred name of G-d and appears
many thousands of times in the Bible. [...]
October 26, 2009
LHC: The Beam is Back
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is frosty and beaming, once again, after more than a year of repairs and testing that followed the eruptive escape of liquid helium into the tunnel that houses the massive supercollider…
October 21, 2009
ABRACADABRA
[...] “Now,” says the man in the tuxedo with tails, “we must say the magic word.”
And that word is already on the lips of nearly every member of the crowd.
“Abracadabra,” they intone.
But what does that mean, exactly? [...]
June 1, 2009
Ronnie Said So
Excerpt of Ronald Reagan’s “alien threat” speech to the United Nations. Read the original October, 2002, article as published in Graphic Exchange magazine. A strange combo of astronomy and the X-Files…
