I stopped when a recently divorced co-worker, shaking his nicotine-stained fist in fury, loudly declared he was going to stab the Levi-writing bandit in the eye with a spoon if he happened to meet them. Levi doesn’t want us to forget. Frankl implores us to find some meaning. Frankl ...
Alexander the Great's sudden demise dictated the course of the next 300 years of the Hellenic world, while the fall of Constantinople had a huge impact on Moscow. This collection looks at what really went down right after these major powers fell. ...
The same happened during Covid. The CEOs, bankers, and Wall Street gave people $1,200 per month but their motivation isn’t to help people. They are giving government money to people so people can give that government money to the companies. The 1929 Crash didn’t happen only in the US...
The problem is that there is all this anger. If the button gets pushed, the anger is going to feed into the whole thing. Which means chances of its being restricted, or even hitting the legitimate targets then turning off are zero. Or less than that. This won’t be “We get rid ...
It happened to me. I created a true crypt container just to try it out but then forgot to delete it and also forgot the key I used. Or in other words, not everything that is encrypted is actually important. It might be that unimportant that you even forget the key. Without the key...
(non-human) animals are capable of fear and other negative emotions, but not of concepts that require self-reflection. I don’t think he has any concept of death, so he can’t be afraid of it. I’m not saying that if something happened to me he wouldn’t be very upset, but that...
After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the country not only managed to eliminate illiteracy in the shortest possible time, but also to take leading positions in world science. Archive photo In 1918-1919 alone, more than 30 research institutes were established and, by the time the USSR collapsed, ...
Today, planetary scientists have a broadly accepted model of what happened — note that I say it's broadly accepted, not universally accepted — and that uncertainty is largely the topic of this episode. But we'll get to that in a moment, because there are also a lot of other nominations...
I come home toEkaterinburgand see new buildings popping up, girls wearing sneakers (what happened to high heels even when you are taking trash out?), and take-away coffee cups —none of that existed when I left. When someone asks me how things are in Russia and what people think, I re...
After a shutdown, the PC booted and came up as if nothing had happened. I’m happy that it’s working again, but it’s still a mystery how the error occurred. Something must have got corrupted, but I can’t believe that the entire contents of the startup partition got erased and re...