“HOSPITALITY is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. It is not to lead our neighbor into a corner where there are no alternatives left, but to [...]
Living in the Future: Warp Drive, Green Bean Galaxies, and Nighttime Solar-Planes
Harold White, a physicist with NASA, has announced that he and his team have begun work on a warp drive. Anyone who has seen Star Trek has heard of this device, but how can this science-fiction staple become a reality? Well, the theory has been in place for years as to a device that can [...]
Daily Quote: Oren Arnold
“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.” -Oren Arnold
Daily Quote: Jean Vanier
“We must pray that God will teach us to love those we do not like and then to like those God is teaching us to love. ” -Jean Vanier
Daily Quote: St. John of the Cross
“God sustains every soul and dwells in it substantially, even [if] it be that of the greatest sinner in the world, and this union is natural. The supernatural union exists when God’s will and the soul’s will are in conformity. Therefore the soul rests transformed in God through love.” – St. John of the Cross, [...]
Daily Quote: Mary Oliver
“Messenger” My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird— equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on [...]
Daily Quote: Albert Einstein
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling Man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. It is no mere chance that our older universities developed from clerical schools. Both churches and universities — insofar as [...]
Living in the Future: Simulated Brains, Origami Kayaks, self-filling waterbottles
Have you ever wondered if we could build a brain? Chris Eliasmith of the University of Waterloo has built a large-scale model of the human brain, using a computer to simulate the nerve clusters. Semantic Pointer Architecture Unifed Network, or SPAUN, has 2.5 million simulated neurons, as well as one simulated eye and one simulated [...]
Daily Quote: Mahatma Gandhi
”Earth provides enough to satisfy every [person's] need, but not every [person's] greed” – Mahatma Gandhi
Daily Quote: Robert Pollok
“Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy; Companions of my young desires; in doubt My oracles; my wings in high pursuit. Oh! I remember, and will ne’er forget Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours; Our burning words, [...]
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