A major loss in the for the philosopher community occurred last week.
The Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco passed away, and left a significant void in the intellectual elite of our times.
One of his most known novels was Foucault’s Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault).
Foucault’s pendulum is not just a great ...
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In the last few posts we saw what our predecessors were thinking about earthquakes. From buried Titans shaking the earth while moving, to excessive drought that made ground to rupture. In other theories, air was blamed for earthquakes as long as animals.
Apart from these ancient and slightly funny theories, people believed that that ruptures ...
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In the last three posts we are talking about earthquakes. We started from Ancient Greek mythological interpretations, and then we spoke about early theories. Thales’ theory was next and then the Anaximenes and Democritus duo. In the latest post, Aristotle was the man of the hour and his “Air” theory.
Today we jump more than ...
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In our last two posts we mentioned some Ancient-Greek theories about earthquake generation. Thales’ was first and then Democritus’ and Anaximenes’.
A few years later, Aristotle after studying these earthquake theories, disagreed and made his own.
We could sum up his theory in this sentence: “When a very large amount of wind gets built up ...
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In our last post, we described P Waves, their formula, and Thale’s of Miletus theory of earthquake generation.
Today we are going to discuss the theories of two other famous “ancient” fellas. Anaximenes and Democritus.
Anaximenes, was an Ancient Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher active in the latter half of the 6th century BC. One of ...
In June we discussed the theories in Earthquake prediction. Last week we wrote about Lame’s first parameter and Enceladus, the Mythical guy that causes earthquakes when moving underground.
Despite the fact that ancient Greeks were blaming Enceladus for any earth tremors in their stories, the great minds of that era were speculating a lot ...
Greek Mythology! Great stories, with great twists and many awkward and hardcore stuff that make Game of Thrones look like a Family sitcom.
One of the great stories is the one with the Gigantomachy. Long story-short, some Giants gathered and thought that it would be a great idea, to fight the Greek Gods and take ...
Last week was Half-Life week! We talked about the first 1998’s Half-Life game and the Half-Life equation. Then we discussed the sequels and expansions of its as long as the Exponential Decay formula.
The latest news about the game are not coming from Valve, the company that created Half-Life at the first place. It ...
