Scott M

The War That Wasn’t: Christianity, Science, and the Making of the Western World This article examines the historical relationship between Christianity and Western Science and Civilization, examining the popular narrative that Christianity and the Catholic Church were repressive i...

The War That Wasn’t: Christianity, Science, and the Making of the Western World open.substack.com/pub/whithert...

@heterodoxacademy.bsky.social #christianity #science #history #historyofscience #catholicism

I did! I just don't remember any of these characters from Scotland. The story has been on the other side of the Atlantic for years now.

a man wearing glasses says " i don 't know what 's going on " ALT: a man wearing glasses says " i don 't know what 's going on "

Me watching the episode having not watched any of the Scotland seasons since the Obama administration:

a man wearing glasses says " i don 't know what 's going on " ALT: a man wearing glasses says " i don 't know what 's going on "

Watching the new episode of #Outlander having not watched any of the Scotland seasons since the Obama administration:

#sassenach

or, that he’s detecting swing state weakness that other people aren’t yet

This aged well

If you're a manufacturer of children's puzzles or games and you make me have to perfectly reassemble the thing in order to get the box closed, you are the devil.

#children #kids #parenting #parent

Ah, it has moved significantly since I last checked it, I retract my statement.

I don't think the racism and sexism are what is going to surprise us this time around; I'm worried about the just plain ignorance and shortsightedness of the average American, the tendency to just say "things more expensive than when Blue team man won, so I will vote for Red team man"

And yet he's not more bullish on Trump than the betting markets. Why are you and so many commenters so sure that there is bias or that it's not biased in the opposite direction?

I strongly favor a Harris win but the comments here all seem biased in a pro-Harris way that I think is unhealthy. I feel like we're recreating the conditions of 2016 all over again.

Oh, thank you very much for the correction!

I think countries just aren't trying big enough incentives. An average person's net lifetime contribution to an advanced economy's GDP is in the millions of $, why don't we see countries offering incentives in the 10s of thousands, or more?

One of my favorite sets of insect photos I've ever taken: dragonfly (presumably Orthetrum) in the #Yangtze Delta, East #China.
#nature #photography #naturephotography #entomology #dragonfly #closeup

A banded yellow-and-black spider suspended in its web.

Beautiful "banana" or "zigzag" spider, spotted in Dordogne, France. Scientific name Argiope Aurantia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope... #spider #naturephotography #nature #france #photography

To meet it seems an obvious attempt to cultivate a perception of folksiness, no?

Was it to convey that the conversation was informal, or that the candidates are folksy?