Library section change…
In these times, when mad men like Putin and Trump can become presidents of powerful nations, is should be no surprise to read the following note in your Public Library:
Categorie: Texts in English/Engels
Some texts are in English, others in Dutch / Op deze site zijn er berichten in het Engels en in het Nederlands
On a difficult day…
“Today was a Difficult Day,” said Pooh. There was a pause. “Do you want to talk about it?” asked Piglet.
Ukraine 2022
A mural featuring the colours of the Ukraine flag and its capital Kyiv has appeared on a street in Cardiff.
For the love of books…
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Who Was Mary Magdalene? 3/3
Maria Magdalene appears in some apocryphal texts. There is even a Gospel of Maria.
Who Was Mary Magdalene? 2/3
Maria Magdalene appears in several places. I discuss here some of them. as well as modern interpretations of her historical role.
What’s new in our universe?
Leonard Susskind, the discoverer of string theory, is the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University. His contributions to physics include the discovery of string theory, the string theory of black hole entropy, the principle of “black hole complementarity”, the holographic principle, the matrix description of M-theory, the introduction of holographic entropy bounds in cosmology, the idea of an anthropic string theory “landscape”.
Wabi Sabi (侘寂)
Somewhere I heard about the Japanese spirit of wabi sabi, and had no idea, until I found the explanation of Nobuo Suzuki in introduction of his book: Wabi Sabi – The Wisdom in Imperfection.
Time Traveller?
On April 23, 2006, in Kiev, Ukraine, a man aged about 30 years, Sergey Ponomarenko, was arrested by the local police because
The Top Unsolved Questions in Mathematics Remain Mostly Mysterious
Somewhere else on this site I already mentioned the top millenium problems of m athematics. More on this subject here: Just one