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The story of Herakles at the Crossroads, recounted by Xenophon and studied by Erwin Panofsky and his student, Emma Edelstein. A trivial coincidence? Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point . We asked His protection and care with complete abandon. Here are the steps we took, w...

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"79 AD ... that's like Dinosaur Time, right?"

Right.

Today’s Evangelicals reject the label fundamentalist because of its connotations of aggressiveness and stupidity ; but they are fundamentalists. ... Neither militancy nor hostility to evolution nor “literalism” nor a method of non-rational propagation is distinctive of modern Protestant “fundamenta...

Maybe it's 'looting.' Personally, I don't like that term; it doesn't feel right for abandoned 'stuff' (philosophically, dead 'people' aren't (viz., corpses are not 'people'); 'they' cannot own 'property') -- rival claims should default to actual heir designees & living finders, not lineage chain...

The Dead Speak!

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https://news.stanford.edu/2019/02/28/ancient-myths-reveal-early-fantasies-artificial-life/ "Jason and the Argonauts" [1963]. https://www.historytoday.com/sites/default/files/talos_crete.jpg Q&A w/ Boston Dynamics CEO on its new "humanoid." Today's peek: 29ECwExc-_M We're gett...

pp.16- 3.COLUMNS WITH THE SONG OF THE SEA The textual layouts within the columns that include the text of the Song of the Sea (Exod 15:1–19) were discussed extensively in my previous article,46 with the exception of the arrangement in the codex HP. Plate 2 at the end of that article displays AS’s da...

Ötzi the Iceman has never been mentioned here before? What I find telling, the initial Bad Theory of expert scientists was overwritten by artisan-craftspeople who actually knew what they were talking about: yep, living tattoo artists. Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/5-ish-things-on-ai-go-talk-to-claude-famed-apple-designer-eyes-wearables-and-more/ Anthropic's Claude chatbot 'isn't sentient, but it certainly feels sentient' The most popular generative AI chatbots, based on user engagement with the tools, are OpenAI's ChatGPT, ...