June 19, 1623 —Blaise Pascal was born in France on this date (which worked out extremely well for him, as he wanted to grow up to be French). At the age of 17, he wrote a paper entitled Essay on Conic Sections, which quickly became the best-selling paper on conic sections in European history andContinue reading “You might as well believe”
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Per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum
Happy Easter, everybody! We’ve spoken about Ishtar before: there is an ancient story about Tammuz (also known as Attis, Osiris, Dionysus, Adonis, Orpheus, or Jesus—you get the idea), who was born of a virgin, died, and was reborn. He was the lover of Ishtar. The festival associated with Tammuz began as a day of bloodContinue reading “Per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum”
Try not to eat all the candy at once
Happy Easter everybody! We’ve spoken about Ishtar before: there is an ancient story about Tammuz (also known as Attis, Osiris, Dionysus, Adonis, Orpheus or Jesus – you’ll get the idea) who was born of a virgin, died, was reborn. He was the lover of Ishtar. The festival associated with Tammuz began as a day ofContinue reading “Try not to eat all the candy at once”
The Haus of Dcaligari 