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Poisson distribution of person names I enjoy compiling statistics on many things. Naturally, I also do it for this blog. One of the statist...

The sentence against Socrates In connection with his visit to Spain, and in particular his address to the Parliament, Pope Leo XIV has b...

In several previous posts, I have discussed various paradoxes that time travel could cause if it were possible. Travels to the future contr...

It was natural for humans to use their own dimensions as a basis to measure distances. Thus arose the inch , the width of a thumb; the span ...

We are familiar with the Goldilocks zone , considered necessary for the emergence of life in a planetary system. It is the region where the ...

C.S. Lewis In an article published on September 22, 1944, in The Spectator with the same title as this post, later included in the collect...

The publication of Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas has prompted some people to accuse it of being an exercise in Luddism ...