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Thirty Tyrants

The Thirty Tyrants (Ancient Greek: οἱ τριάκοντα τύραννοι, hoi triákonta týrannoi) were a pro-Spartan oligarchy installed in Athens after its defeat in the...

07 November, 2019

The New Golden Age Of Space Exploration (MICHIO KAKU)

All these exciting discoveries of exoplanets, along with the novel ideas brought about by a fresh new generation of visionaries, are rekindling the...

06 November, 2019

“I’m flying”

Zorba leaped up on the railing that encircled the bell tower. Below, automobiles were crawling along like insects with glittering eyes. The human took...

30 October, 2019

Marx – Engels (ROBERT L. HEILBRONER) | Part B’

He was married now—in 1843 he had married Jenny von Westphalen, who had lived next door to him as a child. Jenny was...

29 October, 2019

Marx – Engels (ROBERT L. HEILBRONER) | Part A’

The men were very much opposites in appearance. Marx looked like a revolutionary. His children called him “The Moor,” for his skin was dark and...

28 October, 2019

Our life is more wretched owing to Fortune or through our own fault. (PLUTARCH) | Part B’

WHETHER THE DISORDERS OF MIND OR BODY ARE WORSE.   PART B   And so doctors wish a man not to be ill, or if he is...

21 October, 2019

Our life is more wretched owing to Fortune or through our own fault. (PLUTARCH) | Part A’

WHETHER THE DISORDERS OF MIND OR BODY ARE WORSE.   Homer, looking at the mortality of all living creatures, and comparing them with one another...

20 October, 2019

‘Quantum tunnelling’ (JIM AL-KHALILI & JOHNJOE MCFADDEN)

Take a straw poll today among scientists asking them what they think is the most successful, far-reaching and important theory in the whole...

19 October, 2019

If you look for the use, then the whole of life is useless. (OSHO)

Gurdjieff used to tell his disciples to do foolish, absurd work – and to be responsible. For example, he would tell a disciple...

02 October, 2019

I did my high level mathematics in the school of the sea. (ODYSSEAS ELYTIS)

It took me a long time to understand what humility means, and it's the fault of those who taught me to place it...

29 September, 2019