What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[arewethereyet]

earthquake bed

My claustrophobia would make sleeping in this an impossibility.

[polymath257]

This is probably stretching the concept of "knowing a thing" too far, but I've lately been down the rabbit hole on math YouTube, trying to grasp the ideas around ordinals and countable vs. uncountable infinities. (So far, it's largely breaking my brain into infinitely many bits.)

Fun stuff!

[Anomalocaris]

earthquake bed

Hmmmmm

Sleeping in a coffin?

Reminds me of what the Romans did to vestal virgins - young woman who swore to serve the goddess vesta.    The Romans regard the persons of the vestal virgins as sacrosanct,  so it is impermissible to harm one even if she had committed a capital crime.   So if a vestal virgin is found guilty of having committed a capital crime, the romans would seal her inside an underground chamber, bury her alive in effect, but provide her with a small stash of food and water so they can pretend they didn’t harm her.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

earthquake bed

Hmmmmm

Sleeping in a coffin?

Reminds me of what the Romans did to vestal virgins - young woman who swore to serve the goddess vesta.    The Romans regard the persons of the vestal virgins as sacrosanct,  so it is impermissible to harm one even if she had committed a capital crime.   So if a vestal virgin is found guilty of having committed a capital crime, the romans would seal her inside an underground chamber, bury her alive in effect, but provide her with a small stash of food and water so they can pretend they didn’t harm her.

That’s only partially true. Vestal virgins could be whipped for failing in their duties (negligently damage a sacred object, or letting Vesta’s fire go out). Being buried alive was a punishment reserved for loss of chastity.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

The World Record for the most people partaking in the Ice Bucket Challenge is held by the passengers of the Titanic.

[Fake Messiah]

Astronaut Mae Carol Jemison traveled into space and was on Star Trek.



She was the first "real" astronaut to ever appear on Star Trek. She was followed by E. Michael Fincke and Terry Virts, who appeared in Star Trek: Enterprise.

[Rev. Rye]

Yahweh, the God of Christianity and Judaism, was originally a Canaanite god of, of all things, metallurgy.

[The Valkyrie]

Yahweh, the God of Christianity and Judaism, was originally a Canaanite god of, of all things, metallurgy.

They grow up so fast!

[Anomalocaris]

Yahweh, the God of Christianity and Judaism, was originally a Canaanite god of, of all things, metallurgy.

Yahweh showed such promise in his youth as a deity with a useful skill.   Who would have thunk he would turn out so badly!

[Rev. Rye]

Two bizarre facts about Jordan Peterson:

1) He's written an entire book of poems about child abuse that he probably intended as a sort of update to Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, but is a bit more fucked up than that:




2) Since that video's probably got you thinking Jordy-boy has some serious mental issues, I decided to google it. He cops to having had to deal with depression from the age of 13, but, at one point, he was also diagnosed with schizophrenia, though the Peterson camp insists that was just a misdiagnosis of benzodiazepine withdrawal. Still, depression doesn't seem to come close to explaining how strangely his mind works. Maybe bipolar disorder or some Cluster B personality disorders, but it's not like I can diagnose him.