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Akiane Kramarik

An American poet and painter who started drawing at the age of four.

Livy

A Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Con...

Karl Popper

Austrian-British philosopher of science known for his rejection of the classical inductivist view...

Vitruvius

A Roman author, architect, and civil and military engineer during the 1st century BC, known for h...

Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn T. Seaborg

An American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transu...

Karl Marx

A German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socia...

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Christopher M. Langan Interview

Christopher M. Langan Interview

superscholar.org

Christopher Michael Langan lays legitimate claim to having the highest IQ of anyone in the United States. He is a scholar in the original sense of the word. Scholar in its Greek root refers to leisure for reflection, and Langan has devoted his spare time to intellectual pursuits. That said, Langan is an unconventional scholar. Most scholars are associated with universities or think-tanks; they are paid to think. Langan’s day jobs, by contrast, have tended to be in the blue collar world — most colorfully as a bouncer. And yet he continues to read, research, and write. In addition, through hi...

Dissipative structures and irreversibility in nature

Dissipative structures and irreversibility in nature

aip.scitation.org

Friends and colleagues who knew Ilya Prigogine well called him “A poet of thermodynamics.” It is an apt description. When Prigogine talked about thermodynamics and irreversible processes, one had the sense he understood or knew more than what his words conveyed. Natural processes all around us are irreversible; it is a fact. Their consequence is not merely to increase the entropy of the universe and destroy order. They can also do the opposite: create highly ordered complex structures with extraordinary properties and create life itself. Prigogine saw this as a profound aspect of nature tha...

Winckelmann’s Depreciation of Colour in Light of the Querelle du coloris and Recent Critique

Winckelmann’s Depreciation of Colour in Light of the Querelle du coloris and Recent Critique

tandfonline.com

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) has traditionally been praised as a pioneering Hellenist whose important studies on ancient Greek and Roman sculpture influenced generations of students in various academic fields, ranging from classical philology to archaeology and the history of art. From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Winckelmann’s important books on ancient art were generally assessed positively. Since the interwar period, however, opinions have been more divided. A new tendency arose in the 1930s, when some critics pointed to Germany’s over...

William Whewell, Galileo, and reconceptualizing the history of science and religion

William Whewell, Galileo, and reconceptualizing the history of science and religion

royalsocietypublishing.org

This paper advocates a reconceptualization of the history of science and religion. It is an approach to the subject that would aid research by historians of science as well as their message to others, both academic and non-academic. The approach is perfectly illustrated by the life and ideas of William Whewell and Galileo.The relation between science and religion remains a contentious issue, in various ways. As with other areas of history, accurate histories of religion and science help to clarify our understanding of the present, in this case of current relations between science and...

Christopher M. Langan Interview

Dissipative structures and irreversibility in nature

Winckelmann’s Depreciation of Colour in Light of the Querelle du coloris and Recent Critique

William Whewell, Galileo, and reconceptualizing the history of science and religion

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6-year-old piano prodigy from Milton featured on NBC’s Little Big Shots

Music

6-year-old piano prodigy from Milton featured on NBC’s Little Big Shots

ATLANTA — A 6-year-old boy from Milton, Georgia got the opportunity of a lifetime, appearing on NBC’s “Little Big Shots” twice during this current season.The show tells us that William Zhang, 6, was just a baby when he started showing an interest in music. His parents had an i...

Hero and Villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

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Hero and Villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

Robert Clive, a general of the East India Company, was despised by his contemporaries – so why was a statue of him erected outside the foreign office by the Edwardians years later?In 2020, there were petitions to remove Clive of India’s statue from outside the Foreign Office in London...

Roger Bacon and the beginnings of experimental science in Britain

Science

Roger Bacon and the beginnings of experimental science in Britain

Roger Bacon is something of an enigma. He has been called many things – ‘Britain’s first scientist’, ‘wonderful doctor’, ‘conjurer’ and ‘magician’. Many of the details of his life are uncertain and they have been discussed and argued about by scholars for centuries. He is generally thought to hav...