Philosophy
If your knowledge of history comes from movies and popular culture, chances are that your historical understanding is probably more of a misunderstanding.
Admit it: you think of Vikings wearing horned helmets, you can't not picture Lady Godiva riding naked through Coventry, you pity Napoleon's shrimp-like height and assume his quest for conquest was just compensation for being short, etc. And let's not get into the Roman vomitorium or Christopher Columbus... As it turns out, we have poets and artists to blame for a lot of this crap :)
You know what would have been awesome?
If Lady Godiva had ridden naked wearing a horned helmet :)
- From The "irony Can Be So Ironic" File
Hat tip to YKW on this one: NY motorcyclist in helmet protest hits head, dies (AP) ? 2 days ago ONONDAGA, N.Y. (AP) ? A man riding bareheaded on one of about 550 motorcycles in an anti-helmet law rally lost control of his cycle, went over his handlebars,...
- The Value Of Ethnic Studies
As if Arizona had not done enough with it's anti-immigrant law has now passed another law making it illegal to teach ethnic studies. African American Studies and especially Latino/a Studies are impermissible because giving attention to the lived experiences...
- A Geological Timescale For Young-earth Creationists
So how would the geological record look like if we assumed that young Earth creationism were true? Just click the picture below to get a better look: Well, as the picture itself mentions, since Jesus lived in the Pre-Cambrian, he could not have ridden...
- A Naked Haunted House?
Almost Halloween and this is something novel. "A Haunted House You Walk Through Naked? Hard Pass" by Meredith Woerner September 23rd, 2013 io9 We're all for terrifying haunted houses that border on crazy. But going through a haunted naked? No thanks,...
- "tychê"...lisa I. Hau's Take
I will have to reread several times for many years I held a different understanding of "tychê"...for me meaning a realization of personal status and accepting same. Encyclopedia of World Biography on Polybios... The Greek historian Polybios (ca. 203-120...
Philosophy
Five Historical Misconceptions Busted
Admit it: you think of Vikings wearing horned helmets, you can't not picture Lady Godiva riding naked through Coventry, you pity Napoleon's shrimp-like height and assume his quest for conquest was just compensation for being short, etc. And let's not get into the Roman vomitorium or Christopher Columbus... As it turns out, we have poets and artists to blame for a lot of this crap :)
You know what would have been awesome?
If Lady Godiva had ridden naked wearing a horned helmet :)
- From The "irony Can Be So Ironic" File
Hat tip to YKW on this one: NY motorcyclist in helmet protest hits head, dies (AP) ? 2 days ago ONONDAGA, N.Y. (AP) ? A man riding bareheaded on one of about 550 motorcycles in an anti-helmet law rally lost control of his cycle, went over his handlebars,...
- The Value Of Ethnic Studies
As if Arizona had not done enough with it's anti-immigrant law has now passed another law making it illegal to teach ethnic studies. African American Studies and especially Latino/a Studies are impermissible because giving attention to the lived experiences...
- A Geological Timescale For Young-earth Creationists
So how would the geological record look like if we assumed that young Earth creationism were true? Just click the picture below to get a better look: Well, as the picture itself mentions, since Jesus lived in the Pre-Cambrian, he could not have ridden...
- A Naked Haunted House?
Almost Halloween and this is something novel. "A Haunted House You Walk Through Naked? Hard Pass" by Meredith Woerner September 23rd, 2013 io9 We're all for terrifying haunted houses that border on crazy. But going through a haunted naked? No thanks,...
- "tychê"...lisa I. Hau's Take
I will have to reread several times for many years I held a different understanding of "tychê"...for me meaning a realization of personal status and accepting same. Encyclopedia of World Biography on Polybios... The Greek historian Polybios (ca. 203-120...