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Feeding the Meter

It seems like Americans really hate the metric system. Metric really makes more sense in a lot of ways, being based on decimal measurements. On the other hand, it is true that we get a general sense of what feet, … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, History, Language, Mathematics, Science | Tagged agriculture, anders celsius, british imperial system, chains, dante gabriel fahrenheit, edmund gunter, feet, furlongs, grams, hogsheads, jean-pierre christin, kelvins, liters, measurement, meters, metric system, miles, oxen, paces, pounds, queen elizabeth i, rods, temperature, william thomson |

Half-Civilized

When Dorothy first comes to Oz, the Good Witch of the North tells her, “In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left; nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. But, you see, the Land of Oz has never … Continue reading →

Posted in Environmentalism, Fairy Tales, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Science, Technology | Tagged agriculture, aunt em, china country, cities, civilization, dorothy gale, electricity, emerald city, fairies, garden of eden, good witch of the north, gump, munchkins, ozma, phonograph, pollution, professor wogglebug, sapphire city, science fiction, shaggy man, telegraph, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the marvelous land of oz, the master key, the patchwork girl of oz, the road to oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, victor columbia edison, who's afraid, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winkies, witches, wizard of oz |

The Simple Life

Something I’ve been looking into recently is the idea that the book of Genesis has, at least in parts, a bias against civilization. I don’t mean so much in the sense of polite behavior, but as in the more historical … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Ethnicity, Food, Gender, History, Judaism, Middle East, Mythology, Religion, Semitic | Tagged abraham, adam and eve, agricultural revolution, agriculture, babylon, bible, cain and abel, cities, civilization, garden of eden, genesis, herding, how to read the bible, hunter-gatherers, isaac, israel, jacob, james l. kugel, judah, kenites, neolithic era, nomads, tower of babel |

I’m Feeling Fine in the Modern Age

The concept of dividing history into several different ages is a common one, which shows up in multiple societies, but perhaps most famously in the work of the Greek poet Hesiod. In Works and Days, he splits history into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, Mythology, Religion | Tagged ages of man, agriculture, bible, bronze age, golden age, heroic age, hesiod, iron age, kronos, silver age, works and days, yugas, zeus |

Tammuz Talk

Since summer has officially begun, the deity to whom we turn today is one closely associated with the summer, the Babylonian Tammuz. The god was originally known as Dumuzi in Sumeria, but is much better known by his Semitic name, … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Christianity, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Mythology, Religion | Tagged adonis, agriculture, asimov's guide to the bible, attis, dumuzi, ereshkigal, inanna, isaac asmiov, ishtar, jephthah, jerusalem, jesus, jewish calendar, life cycle, osiris, persephone, resurrection, sumeria, summer, tammuz, underworld |