A highly accessible overview of Western philosophy, from the Greeks to present day, can be found in Frederick Copleston's 9-volume "A History of Philosophy" series. Vol 1, as sold on Amazon:…
This fact surprises many, but Hubble was actually quite critical of using red-shift as an indicator of cosmological distance. In 1953 (the year before his death) he even convinced Robert Millikan, 1923 recipient of the…
Being rich is an enticing prospect. When I consider it, I often imagine it as "the freedom to do/buy/go what/where you want, without delay". But then the following warning comes to mind and I'm reminded to carefully…
I like OmniFocus for iPhone, and find it to be the perfect companion to OmniFocus running on my laptop: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus_for_iphone/
I think he's referring to the Catholics. I'm a Catholic and noted too that we're not in the list :-D I found it a little strange given the premises of the "God blocking" folks; maybe it was an oversight, who knows...
Communism is one of atheism's terrible and natural fruits, and many of the communist revolutionaries held as a first-rank goal the suppression, if not elimination of, religions and religious institutions.…
“Love toward men, but love without belief in God, very naturally leads to the greatest coercion over men, and turns their lives completely into hell on earth.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
I mention that library specifically as it's a pubsub implementation for http/javascript too.
I'm wondering if the author or other readers have looked at this node.js library: http://github.com/jcoglan/faye Coglan has put together code for ruby and eventmachine too, if you prefer those tools over javascript and…
A highly accessible overview of Western philosophy, from the Greeks to present day, can be found in Frederick Copleston's 9-volume "A History of Philosophy" series. Vol 1, as sold on Amazon:…
This fact surprises many, but Hubble was actually quite critical of using red-shift as an indicator of cosmological distance. In 1953 (the year before his death) he even convinced Robert Millikan, 1923 recipient of the…
Being rich is an enticing prospect. When I consider it, I often imagine it as "the freedom to do/buy/go what/where you want, without delay". But then the following warning comes to mind and I'm reminded to carefully…
I like OmniFocus for iPhone, and find it to be the perfect companion to OmniFocus running on my laptop: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus_for_iphone/
I think he's referring to the Catholics. I'm a Catholic and noted too that we're not in the list :-D I found it a little strange given the premises of the "God blocking" folks; maybe it was an oversight, who knows...
Communism is one of atheism's terrible and natural fruits, and many of the communist revolutionaries held as a first-rank goal the suppression, if not elimination of, religions and religious institutions.…
“Love toward men, but love without belief in God, very naturally leads to the greatest coercion over men, and turns their lives completely into hell on earth.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
I mention that library specifically as it's a pubsub implementation for http/javascript too.
I'm wondering if the author or other readers have looked at this node.js library: http://github.com/jcoglan/faye Coglan has put together code for ruby and eventmachine too, if you prefer those tools over javascript and…