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Ghost Dance & Massacre at Wounded Knee
To learn more about the Native American Ghost Dance movement and the conflagration at Wounded Knee in 1890, over the weekend I read Rex Alan Smith’s Moon of the Popping Trees: The Tragedy at Wounded...
View ArticleThe End is Always Near: Jesus to Return by 2050
A recent article in the UK’s Telegraph notes that forty one percent — yes, 41% — of Americans believe that Jesus will return by the year 2050. With wry understatement, the Brits observe that American...
View ArticleSlouching Toward Berlin
Watching Germany grapple with its rough beast is sort of like cultural voyeurism — outsiders are weirdly fascinated even as Germans seem unsure of how to proceed. Two recent articles in Spiegel offer...
View ArticleAntimatter & The Antichrist
The recent creation and capture of antimatter by scientists at the CERN Hadron Collider may not have any immediate practical implications, but it is the coolest thing in physics in quite some time. And...
View ArticleApocalypse Delayed
While in Africa the past month I heard only two bits of news. The first was that Osama bin Laden had been killed. Good riddance. The second was that Harold Camping and his followers were preparing for...
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Deep Time & Deep Place
In this Aeon piece by philosopher John Schellenberg, he contemplates the nature of deep time. He correctly observes that deep time is almost always backwards looking and this prevents us from...
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