The Dead Sea Scrolls (also Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Scholarly consensus dates these scrolls from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. The texts have great historical, religious, and linguistic […]
Beautiful and elegant in cheongsam China has cast a magic spell on me, I’m enchanted with the middle kingdom, it’s wonderful people, past and present. My mind is attracted to all things related to the far east. Lately I’ve been admiring cheongsam worn by the stunning beautiful women of China. Men can dress to match, […]
Cannabis Education at the University of British Columbia, almost oxymoron if it weren’t for the degree of science and the seriousness of the pursuit of the magic bi-product that the cannabis plant can render; money! We’re witness to an amazing spectacle, the industrialization, commercialization and stock market exploitation of weed. Vancouver has regained her crown […]
With David Frum, Sue Gardner,and Christopher Wylie This event will be live webcast. Visit our YouTube channel to set a reminder. SFU Public Square and Vancity are proud to co-present Confronting the Disinformation Age, featuring Canadians David Frum, Senior Editor at The Atlantic; Sue Gardner, Executive Director of The Markup and former Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation; and Christopher Wylie, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, in […]
Indra’s Net created using Blender 3D (blender.org) Bodhisattva is a level of enlightenment to understand fractal patterns in the vibration of the universe as well as Indra’s Net and the very nature of the source but not the source itself, which is impossible, like seeing your own eyes with your eyes, it theoretically can’t be […]
Simulated data modeled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here, following a collision of two protons, a Higgs boson is produced which decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. The lines represent the possible paths of particles produced by the proton-proton collision in the detector while […]
I will never forget the first time I saw digital money, it was in about 1978 in West Vancouver at Park Royal Shopping center. Being old enough to drive, I remember taking my cousin’s girlfriend to her bank. I pulled up to the curb near the bank front door, beside which was the first ATM […]
At the risk of sounding redundant, as I know I’ve said this somewhere before but because it’s worth repeating, I’ll say again; the first things I read online every morning and the last thing I look at online every night, in the same order is Drudge Report, Zero Hedge and Youtube and here’s why you […]
On February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, is published in London by a group of German-born revolutionary socialists known as the Communist League. The political pamphlet–arguably the most influential in history–proclaimed that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” […]
Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival (simplified Chinese: 春节; traditional Chinese: 春節; pinyin: Chūn Jié) in modern China, and one of the Lunar New Years in Asia, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Celebrations traditionally run from the evening preceding the first day, […]
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