@dennyhenke Currently #Gnome, but anything goes as I've been using Linux as my only OS since 1998. I used for a while #KDE but I just can't bring myself to like it, #WindowMaker, #IceWM, #Enlightenment @macthemes

This is neat-o!

“We’re back with the #books, in silent rooms, where the world is made of words, like so many before us — and I can’t stop wondering why,” writes Mia Rose Kohn, a #cartoonist, #journalist and junior studying at #Yale University.

In this first installment of a #graphic column for the #Forward, she draws from the great works of the #Jewish #Enlightenment to theorists of the modern era, as she asks herself — and us — “If #education is a Jewish value, what does Jewish thought have to say about why we’re here?”

https://forward.com/opinion/797457/a-yale-student-returns-to-class-with-a-jewish-question-and-answer-about-why-shes-there/

This is neat-o!

“We’re back with the #books, in silent rooms, where the world is made of words, like so many before us — and I can’t stop wondering why,” writes Mia Rose Kohn, a #cartoonist, #journalist and junior studying at #Yale University.

In this first installment of a #graphic column for the #Forward, she draws from the great works of the #Jewish #Enlightenment to theorists of the modern era, as she asks herself — and us — “If #education is a Jewish value, what does Jewish thought have to say about why we’re here?”

https://forward.com/opinion/797457/a-yale-student-returns-to-class-with-a-jewish-question-and-answer-about-why-shes-there/

Darwin the Man of His Times

https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-man-of-his-times

#HackerNews #Darwin #Evolution #History #Science #Enlightenment

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun…

James Hutton met Robert Burns in 1787. Later that year, Burns chose to visit some of the sites discussed in Hutton’s THEORY OF THE EARTH. Is there an echo of Hutton’s “deep time”—oceans evaporating, rocks melting—to be heard in Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” (pub. 1794)?

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https://sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #Enlightenment #18thcentury #geology #science #DeepTime

James Hutton (1726–1797), father of modern geology, was born #OTD, 14 June (NS; 3 June OS). One of the first European proponents of “deep time”, the conclusion of his 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth” has been called one of the most lyrical sentences in all of science:

The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.

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https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2808

#Scottish #literature #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology