These and other surprising examples made it clear that mathematicians needed to prove that dimension is a real notion and that, for instance, n- and m-dimension Euclidean spaces are different in some fundamental way when n ≠ m. This objective became known as the “invariance of dimension” problem. Finally, in 1912, almost half a century after Cantor’s… Continue reading The Journey to Define Dimension
India’s Brittle Confidence in America
Democracies are supposed to get along, but that has not always been the case for the United States and India. Indeed, the relationship, though perhaps at an historical high point today, still suffers from New Delhi’s lingering distrust of Washington derived from raw Cold War geopolitics and India’s longstanding foreign policy of nonalignment. The most… Continue reading India’s Brittle Confidence in America
Music Can Teach Us About Heavenly Beauty
When we speak about Heaven there is a tendency to dismiss our speculation as “just imagining things.” But Our Dear Lord, knowing that we need examples that are a little more concrete, gives us ever-so-tiny hints of Heaven — lights and ideas and experiences that are going to be very similar, only greatly enhanced in… Continue reading Music Can Teach Us About Heavenly Beauty
Escobar: Why The Taliban Still Can’t Form A Government
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Internal Taliban divisions come to the fore as squabbling hinders the formation of Afghanistan’s new Islamic Emirate… It looked like everything was set for the Taliban to announce the new government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after this Friday’s afternoon prayers. But then internal dissent prevailed.… Continue reading Escobar: Why The Taliban Still Can’t Form A Government
Alien Moon Bases & Remote Viewing (Ingo Swann’s Penetration)
Podcast: Download MYS118: In his 1998 book, gov’t psychic Ingo Swann claimed he’d been hired in 1975 to remote view certain sites on the Moon where he perceived alien bases. In part 2 of their discussion, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss whether Ingo was telling the truth and whether there really could be aliens… Continue reading Alien Moon Bases & Remote Viewing (Ingo Swann’s Penetration)
Update to the Pattern Day Trader (PDT) Rule Makes Life Tough For Retail Traders
FINRA just made updates to their pattern day trader (PDT) rule that punishes violators much more harshly. Here’s a quick rundown on what that means: The Pattern Day Trader (PDT) rule allows for no more than three (3) day trades within a rolling five day period, if the account has less than $25,000. Before… Continue reading Update to the Pattern Day Trader (PDT) Rule Makes Life Tough For Retail Traders
Electric Vehicle Orders Are Zooming at Ford
Ford Motor Co. nearly tripled its electric vehicle sales last month, according to a company report. The auto giant increased its EV and hybrid sales this May by 184% compared to May 2020, marking a record number of 10,364 EVs sold in a given month, the sales report found. The significant increase is due in part to… Continue reading Electric Vehicle Orders Are Zooming at Ford
Why Kansas for Russia’s Sputnik Radio?
In case you missed it, last Friday, February 14, 2020, the NY Times ran an article “On the Air in Kansas City: Russian Propaganda” which is a photo source and which you can see at: https://nyti.ms/38L2Elt The article profiles how Russia’s media organization, Rossiya Segodnya. You can find some background on it from the Center… Continue reading Why Kansas for Russia’s Sputnik Radio?
How can I Know the Will of God in my Life (Part I of II)
*Editor’s note: This post was first published here on June 20, 2011. Dear Father John, How can I know what the will of God is in my life? I have been suffering physically for almost a year. I have been praying for healing and others have been praying for me. How do I know if… Continue reading How can I Know the Will of God in my Life (Part I of II)
Robocop Is Here: Singapore Deploys Robots To Detect “Undesirable Behavior” Including Groups Of “More Than Five People”
Slowly but surely, the world is transforming into a 1984-Robocop-Terminator-Minority Report–Judge Dredd fusion dystopia. And while we wait for Elon Musk’s dancing humanoid robot (wonder how much the deposit on that particular pipe dream will be), Singapore is wasting no time, and according to Mothership the small Asian nation is deploying ground robots on trial… Continue reading Robocop Is Here: Singapore Deploys Robots To Detect “Undesirable Behavior” Including Groups Of “More Than Five People”