As an industrial scientist I have learned quite a few problem solving tricks over the years. One of the simplest, at least in principle, is just to tabulate the data into a meaningful form. Many impossible issues that fox everyone involved suddenly become obvious if you just look at the information in a way that makes
I am afraid I know almost nothing about this, but as this is the Internet I am not going to let that stop me. Sorry this video has been removed. I hear a production is in progress in Illinois, so hopefully some trailer will make it onto YouTube at some point. I have just come
The Goddess Cybele praised by Julian the Apostate (thanks to Wikipedia for the image) The author of the Hymn to Cybele, Roman emperor Julian the Apostate is a one off in history. He was the nephew of Constantine, the man that introduced Christianity to the empire. But he spent most of his adult life trying
Orwell easily opposed the Nazis as a socialist modernist, using his writing for propaganda and later warning against totalitarianism. But Tolkien and Lewis faced a dilemma: both medievalists interested in paganism and mythology—the same sources the Nazis were exploiting. This forced them to retreat into coded fantasy worlds, possibly harboring syncretist beliefs they couldn’t openly express.