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G.K. Chesterton: Some Great
Quotes I've read a little G.K.
Chesterton (1874-1936) and he has a lot of good things to say
about theology, religion and philosophy. He would often
intertwine a lot of his ideas into his novels, many of them
mysteries. Here are some pretty good quotes from him, some
that you may have heard before:
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning
the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope
means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to
unlearn things.”
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has
come to see.”
“Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than
standing in your garage makes you a car.”
Many, many more, of course. Here's
a page that has a lot of different Chesterton quotes.
I also recommend Orthodoxy as a good nonfiction read
and The Man Who Was Thursday for some fiction (there's
lots of
free Kindle digital editions on amazon.com).
Derren Brown, Mentalist Have you seen the
show The Mentalist on CBS? Well, this guy from the UK is the real
deal.
Check Out The Amazing Fact Generator Go
here
to find out facts like this on: In a 2008 survey, 58% of British
teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought
Winston Churchill was not.
Cool Demonstration of
the Law of Inertia Newton's Law of Inertia:
Every object continues in a state of rest or of uniform speed in
a straight line unless acted on by a nonzero net force.
Batteries Made From
Paper and Nanomaterials
This is pretty amazing stuff: Using nanomaterials
painted onto regular copier paper, a scientist at Stanford has
created a new type of battery/capacitor. Watch the video
below, and go
here to read about it.
ALGEBRA ONLINE HELP:
Be sure to check out some of the websites on my
"Web Links" page, which can be
accessed by clicking the link in the menu on the left.
I've added a few new websites that have some great algebra help.
GUESS WHAT THIS IS:
Click on the picture above to find the answer.
Explain the Physics Behind This!
How was Stonehenge Made?
Watch this fellow Michigander to find out
how it might have happened.
