If you enjoy light reading, particularly for the summer, just to kinda "drift away", I'd recommend "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach (yaya). Really depends what you like, though. I loved Guevara's "Motorcycle Diaries" one Summer, "Lady Chaterly's Lover" the next, know what I mean? ;)
Hmmm... I can raise one eyebrow, gleek, twich my nose, touch my nose with my tongue, do the paralyzed finger trick, the six, and a couple of tongue tricks to boot. Do I get a prize or does that just make me a freak?
I can also flip my ankles. Figured that out while breakdancing in my early teens.
Interesting article, somewhat dull commentary flame war, though. My take is leave it as it is - the title more than clearly states what the article is about. As for the battle over religious texts: those who have read them at least know what they're talking about - those who haven't perchance should read them before claiming to know what the texts are about. And, just like any literature - there will be those who like the books and those who won't. Just like my wife likes Jane Austen while I hate her. I would nonetheless never claim that "Pride and Prejudice" is stupid - it's just not the kind of story I enjoy.
Not to mention medicine. Without an alchemist's medical revision, we might still be eating lead soup to heal a cold. Just in case anyone is wondering: the alchemist's name was Paracelsus.
@Tubag Bohol: Ties to the Catholic church during Newton's time were already severed in England. The Catholic church was against Newton's theories but it didn't matter, seeing as the English Church supported quite a few of them (and the rest was distributed through befriended "courier" scientists and journalists).
I'm kind of stumped at the mention that Newton supposedly said he "discovered" the laws of gravitation by watching an apple fall from a tree, considering it is mainly believed nowadays that he stumbled upon the idea while watching some alchemical experiments on precipitation.
When did Newton say that? He claims Newton having said that?
I can also flip my ankles. Figured that out while breakdancing in my early teens.
My take is leave it as it is - the title more than clearly states what the article is about.
As for the battle over religious texts: those who have read them at least know what they're talking about - those who haven't perchance should read them before claiming to know what the texts are about. And, just like any literature - there will be those who like the books and those who won't. Just like my wife likes Jane Austen while I hate her. I would nonetheless never claim that "Pride and Prejudice" is stupid - it's just not the kind of story I enjoy.
When did Newton say that? He claims Newton having said that?