In the Appendixes to The Lord of the Rings, we learn that the Rohanians came from the north at a critical point to assist Gondor in one of its wars. Out of gratitude, Gondor gave them a stretch of its territory […]
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The Anthropocene is 50,000 Year Old
Here is a story about how there is supposedly a new bio-geological age now replacing the so called Holocene. But if ‘Anthropocene‘ means a period when human activity has drastically altered nature, it began 50,000 years ago, when the first humans […]
Science Under Attack, and Not From the Christians and Muslims Either
Alex R. Berezow informs us that not the American ‘red states’, but Italy, have become a troubled land for science. Some scientists were sent to prison for six years for failing to predict an earthquake; and I thought some of […]
Sorry Wrong Number: A Basis In Reality
One of the less cheery films that we as a family like – because it reminds us of some of our relatives – is Sorry, Wrong Number, a 1948 noir film with Barbara Stanwyck. As a young girl, the Stanwyck […]