Imagine you went back to 1965, met someone, and then brought them back to 2020. Would they be surprised at the progress of technology? Not as technologically advanced as they might have imagined, or vice versa? Would they be surprised at anything else?
I think I preferred 1965. The world was closer, more community spirit. Not so overcrowded. We are now more estranged from each other. But the modern world does have the net.
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Just reading the following article: 20 years ago, we were all set for a Y2K disaster that wasn’t Article says: Patti Duncan stockpiled ...
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I read this article. * The parents of a boy claims their boy appears to remember being Princess Diana in a former life. It's also cov... -
On the 13th January I discovered a lump on my neck. Eventually had an ultrasound and a fine needle aspiration. The lump was 4.2cms long and ... -
I recently read the following article: What the Buddha Didn't Teach About Reincarnation It says: "This is not to say that “we” ...
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Many philosophers and scientists have some truly bizarre beliefs. The denial of consciousness (as we understand this term) is the most bizar...
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There's 2 possibilities: a) This is the only life there is. When we die we simply cease to exist. Our lives and the Universe are, in a...
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According to this article Greenland is the country with the world's highest suicide rate. From 1900-1930 Greenland had a suicide rate ...
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Someone on twitter/X asked the following question: A mathematician emerges from a cave, hands you the photo below, and asks "Will a c... -
This is a continuation of the post about my cyst. I think it's sufficiently important to warrant a separate post. After asking many que...
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It keeps being claimed (eg David Papineau, Sean Carroll et al ) that if consciousness caused anything in the brain over and above physical c...
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