How our universities became disenchanted: Secularisation, bureaucracy and the erosion of value abc.net.au/religion/peter…

Eric Lu (USA) takes the 1st Prize. More at chopincompetition.pl/en #Chopin #Chopin19 #Chopin2025

German, physician & chemist Georg Ernst Stahl, who developed the phlogiston theory, was born 21 October 1660 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/the…

Written before I got ill but never posted: Three more books on the history of medieval Islamicate culture #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/thr…

The Fantagonist Catháin ☧ Kyrios Jesus 🐈‍⬛ I stnd wth 🇮🇱 Metatron If the verbal threat of torture is torture... is the verbal threat of a verbal threat of torture also torture?

Amazing, a supposed news service that blocks people when they correct it.

A learned, entertaining and ultimately devastating review of a book that seems it might almost have been written to aggravate Tim O'Neill…historyforatheists.com/2025/10/review…

Here we have it, someone who actually tried to claim that Galileo was executed is now claiming I lied when I corrected him. And now he presents a new, vaguely better, but still erroneous story, no doubt slightly improved with LLM usage.

Hindu Nationalists DO proselytise. I would be blissfully unaware of this if they weren't the biggest group to spread myths on the Galileo affair and History of Science. The irony is they don't even need to lie about the subject. They can be proud of a long history of scientific

Robert Hooke showed an advanced copy of his Micrographia to the Royal Society on 3 Nov 1664 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/mak…

🇵🇱🇱🇹 trivia time. Władysław IV of Swedish Vasa royal house (but with Jagiellonian blood through his mother), was in a direct correspondence with Galileo Galilei, and the contents of these letters survived.

Starting this Monday on The Rest Is History - a four part special on THE YOUNG ELIZABETH!

Among his many achievements Edmond Halley, who was born 8 November 1656, was the first to map the magnetic variation in the Atlantic #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/06/26/mag…

Saint Lars Iggy Justin Bass Ricky Gervais Oh right, if you discredit all the people who were the richest (the monarchies), and if we pretend that we forgot about the Medici & other families, and all the city states which had far more financial fluidity, and ... err... the rest of the entire world, we will of course

In medieval Geocentrism, humans were NOT at the center of things. Hell was. And being at the centre wasn't a good thing.

With discounts like this, *anyone* can afford a page or two!

Actually, JP II was not the Hulk.

“I welcome scrutiny,” says Kim Leadbeater. 20 reasons to doubt this claim:

Tucker Carlson implies that the UK shouldn’t have declared war on Germany after the German attack on the UK’s ally Poland. He seems to argue that Germany wasn’t a threat to the UK and that Hitler was focused on fighting communism. He completely ignores that Germany

A.G. Bell - The Mechanism of speech