Surprising fact of the day from the History Channel
Vikings had wings:
This probably explains a lot of their raiding success.
This probably explains a lot of their raiding success.
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
Not good in a longboat. How do you row with those things?
ReplyDeleteValkyries had wings, right?
ReplyDeleteDo you think that is a pregnant valkyrie? Perhaps...
DeleteI have never read anything with a pregnant valkyrie. Aren't they in limited supply, a one time production run, not a tribe or race?
DeleteCould this be Mary in a an episode about chritianization?
What, no space aliens?
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