In a homily included among his Lives of Saints, Ælfric describes for us what Ash Wednesday looked like in England at the end of the tenth century

https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/03/u-eart-dust-and-to-duste-gewendst-lfric.html

The speed of Japanese bullet trains

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"David Hume, as you know, wrote on miracles. He didn’t like them. Which is to say, he didn’t believe them. But then Hume didn’t believe we could know any cause. It was he who is greatly responsible for foisting inductive skepticism upon us, a poorly state from which we are only now recovering. He said things like, “We have no reason to believe any proposition about the unobserved even after experience!” His italics, his exclamation mark. That kind of thing did enormous wreckage to science, though science is only now coming to see it."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-158367788#:~:text=David%20Hume%2C%20as,to%20see%20it.

Updated the channel photo to align with the branding for my new venture, The Society for Post-Quantum Research, LLC. Website is here, although I haven't fleshed it out, much: https://thespqr.com

JUST IN - IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/nn850jwkdq/

@disclosetv

Good thing it's not an engineering class or he might have earned an H-.

“Vacation-Style” Beaches on Mars?
Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars, revealing evidence of “vacation-style” beaches with sand and waves. Using data from the Zhurong Mars rover, scientists identified hidden layers of rock under the planet’s surface, suggesting the presence of an ancient northern ocean. This finding offers the clearest evidence yet that Mars once had a significant body of water and a more habitable environment for life.
“We’re finding places on Mars that used to look like ancient beaches and ancient river deltas,” said Benjamin Cardenas, assistant professor of geology at Penn State. “We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand — a proper, vacation-style beach.”
The Zhurong rover’s ground-penetrating radar allowed scientists to explore the Martian subsurface, revealing formations similar to those found on Earth’s beaches. This discovery paints a picture of ancient habitable environments capable of supporting microbial life.
Read more about this fascinating discovery here: Penn State University Article

The criminal file of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili called "Joseph Stalin" following his arrest in Baku, Azerbaijan (1910).

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com. (2017). Young Stalin in pictures, 1894-1919 - Rare Historical Photos. [online] Available at: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/young-stalin-1894-1919/ [Accessed 8 Feb. 2022].

"Tolkien, a devout Catholic and a veteran of World War I, understood what it meant to forge bonds in hardship. Frodo and Sam’s relationship is not about romance—it is about loyalty, self-sacrifice, and duty. Sam is Frodo’s steadfast companion, his rock in the darkest of times. This is not a love story in the modern, romantic sense, but a tale of unyielding devotion and duty.

"Yet, modern writers and their audiences, particularly those steeped in progressive ideologies, seem unable to accept this. Instead, they push a narrative that assumes such loyalty must have a sexual undercurrent. This obsession with redefining male friendships exposes more about their own worldview than it does about the works they attempt to reinterpret."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-157473830#:~:text=Tolkien%2C%20a%20devout,attempt%20to%20reinterpret.

"Very few people actually dig into the data, they simply accept the UN IPPC reports. Yet many highly respectable and distinguished scientists have done exactly that and found that the UN-promoted manmade climate change theory is seriously flawed. Are you aware that almost 2,000 of the world’s leading climate scientists and professionals in over 30 countries have signed a declaration that there is no climate emergency and have refuted the United Nations claims in relation to man-made climate change?"
https://substack.com/home/post/p-158382779#:~:text=Very%20few%20people,made%20climate%20change%3F

USAID has operated in many countries around the world, including Hungary, sowing chaos and division with insane gender ideology, immigration, censorship, and more.

Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, sits down with Tucker to discuss USAID, NATO, the Russian/Ukraine war, and more.

Watch it here: https://youtu.be/OijHhAF3x_o?feature=shared

"It is this author’s conclusion, that the recent upsurge in Flat Earth mania, beginning with the first Flat Earth Conference in 2015, is directly attributable to an orchestrated CIA-sponsored psychological operation. And furthermore, the targeted audience is the alternative community. The big spike of interest in Flat Earth has levelled off since 2015, but what has emerged is a much more militant cult of believers:"
https://substack.com/home/post/p-157745864#:~:text=It%20is%20this,cult%20of%20believers%3A

US Planes Carrying Arms To Ukraine Were Turned Around Midflight

https://modernity.news/2025/03/06/us-planes-carrying-arms-to-ukraine-were-turned-around-midflight/

1914 Europe map

🇺🇸👉🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ The stock of missiles for the Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems may run out in a few weeks without new supplies from Washington, CNN reports.

As the TV channel points out, the Kyiv authorities currently have no alternative that could replace the Patriot systems.

Sir John Soane's Museum, London, England, United Kingdom

"For perfectly understandable reasons, conservatives these days are overwhelmed with all the good news. It is almost too much. We can’t believe our good fortune. And one side effect of all this relentless blessing has made us nervous as sheep before a shearing. We keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. At the first sign of stormy weather, some of us are far too quick to start pointing the bony finger of blame and forecasting falling skies.

"It happened again yesterday, after a minor Supreme Court setback stirred the conservative-sphere into furious anger. Corporate media piled on, of course, and inflated the tiny scrap of good news (for them) into one of those wavy-armed marketing balloon men. But as I have counseled many times, we must learn to ignore the hot takes and await calmer waters before engaging our emotions."

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/little-red-hens-thursday-march-6#:~:text=For%20perfectly%20understandable,engaging%20our%20emotions.

BREAKING:

🇺🇲 Trump launches massive purge at CIA

CIA has started dismissing recently hired officers, following government-wide reductions ordered by the Trump administration, The New York Times reports

Many of these employees, hired within the past two years, were summoned to an off-site location and asked to surrender their credentials.

@Megatron_ron