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Alexandr Radayev
Books · Society
Clive Staples Lewis on the impossibility of making people good by law
You cannot make people good by law, and without good people there can be no good society. That is why we must think about the second thing: morality within the individual. Clive Staples Lewis
Books · Mores · Society
Eugene O’Neill’s play “All God’s Chillun Got Wings” and the harassment of its author over the staging
Eugene O'Neill has a play, "All God's Chillun Got Wings", about the friendship of a Black boy and a white girl who share their dreams with one another. Ella says she wants to be black, like Jim, while Jim secretly eats chalk, dreaming of
NB! · Humour
Stand Back, You
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Romain Gary, one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, in the uniform of the Free French Air Force at the funeral of General de Gaulle, the founder of that formation, in November 1970
Art · Observations
The Witch, John Collier, 1893
And why a witch, exactly? Because the woman is asleep and awake at once, having taken the form of a black cat.
Geography · Observations · Science
The Sharpest Photograph of Uranus Yet
A reminder: Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, the third largest by diameter and the fourth by mass in our system. Please look upon this beauty as you did on the starry sky in childhood, and forget all that is transient and vain; leave your sorrows, fears and
Books
Deep roots are not reached by the frost
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Faith · Art
Heinrich Aldegrever depicted Adam and Eve at labour in an engraving of 1540
Adam and Eve at work. He grubs up trees; she feeds the baby. The German artist Heinrich Aldegrever, “The Story of Adam and Eve”, 1540
Cinema · Mores · People · Nature
Recollection of 17 cats in the family during the war and a love of cats
Judi Dench recalls that during the war there were 17 cats in their house:. “I definitely love cats. During the war nobody could feed their animals, so we had 17 cats; that is how I was brought up, and I have always had a cat ever since.”
NB! · Faith · Society · Rome
Pope Francis Gives Formal Permission to Bless Same-Sex Unions
Science · Society · Humour
Conclusions of a memorandum on astrology and its recommendations to astrologers
The Commission for Combating Pseudoscience of the Expert Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences has issued an 11-page memorandum on the pseudoscientific nature of astrology. The memorandum concludes: - Astrology does not meet the methodological requirements imposed on a scientific discipline. - Experimental tests of astrologers' claims yield negative