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The Warm One [Author s private collection]
The Reader is introduced to the arcana of that most rare of intersections, The Festival of the Passover with the twenty-eight year cycle of The Blessing of the Sun, the frame upon which doth hang the tale of this Tome. As told through one of the author’s encounters with an obscure religious sect at the celebration of The Feast of the Messiah led by the seventh generation ancestor of the future High Priest of the Redemption. A glimpse of light.
The next Starts With A Bang podcast is live for Patreon supporters and goes live for everyone else later this week on SoundCloud; the big Forbes news is that they no longer have autoplay videos, which is fantastic for all of us (including me); and the articles if you don t want ads at all are all available on a one-week delay over on Medium. And with all that said, let s get into our comments of the week! A device designed to simulate a working cold fusion reaction, but that was in fact a deliberate deception. Image credit: Juan-Louis Naudin, 2003.
Almost exactly twenty years ago I started writing a short article about the problems with string theory. I had been thinking about doing this for quite a while, and the timing of entering the twenty-first century seemed appropriate for evaluating something that had long been advertised as “a piece of 21st-century physics that had fallen by accident into the 20th”. The piece was done in a week or two, after which I sent it around to a group of physicists to ask for comments. The reaction was mostly positive, although at least one well-known theorist told me that publicly challenging string theorists in this way would be counter-productive.
The Secret Science of Santa
ZME Science delves into a timely Yuletide investigation of the science that enables Santa to deliver Christmas to millions of children across the globe. If you thought it was magic, think again.
It’s the time of year when our minds are supposed to turn to presents, mince pies, turkey dinner, and eggnog and occasionally goodwill to all mankind. But for some of us, Christmas is a time of torment and sleepless nights. The thoughts that trouble our minds pushing out images of dancing sugar plum-fairies are of the science that allows a single man to deliver presents to every child in the World.
They share occupational traits, like late hours, unsteady incomes and a dependency on people pursuing nighttime fun.
Musicians and restaurant employees are kindred spirits whose incomes have suffered amid the coronavirus pandemic and state-ordered shutdowns.
A bunch of Beaver County-Pittsburgh area musicians will do what they love singing songs to help their restaurant friends.
These musicians will stream their socially distanced performances of holiday favorites at 8 p.m. Sunday on the Give a Little Bit Facebook page. Pittsburgh, we need your help, concert organizer Clyde Callicott of the acoustic-rock trio Right TurnClyde, said. They ve been there for us, let s be there for them.