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Discussing "Hercules at the Crossroad" by Albrecht Dürer c.1498 and aspects of this Myth as recounted by Xenophon and studied by Erwin Panofsky and further developed his student, Emma (Renata) Edelstein. A trivial coincidence? (On Herakles' helmet, note the Khnum/ Ammon horns and Hermes wi...

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"AD 79 ... 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, ...