Forging a New Worldview: From Cosmic Rhythms to Human Meaning Many of us feel adrift. We live in a world that can feel like a collection of isolated fragments, without structure or coherence. Our personal, everyday lives seem disconnected from the grander scales of society, history, and the cosmos. We’ve built an immense “house” for …
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We know that people all share a common skill at detecting patterns. We notice those patterns on a more or less material level most of the time because we live primarily and most visibly in the material world on a visual, auditory, and spatial level. But there are also the personal subjective patterns and cycles. …
Carved in Bone, Aligned by Stars: How We Built the Modern Calendar Have you ever stopped to think about the calendar hanging on your wall or the app on your phone? It feels so permanent, so absolute. A week has seven days. A year has twelve months. But that tidy grid is the result of …
SYNOPSIS: The book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas S. Kuhn is a landmark in intellectual history that challenges the traditional view of the history of science. Kuhn critiques the dominant “logical empiricist approach” and argues that scientific advances cannot be viewed as isolated events, but as movements within what he defines as a …
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