Mysterious 3,800-Year-Old Canaanite Arch and Stairway Unearthed in Israel

Click Here to Read: Mysterious 3,800-Year-Old Canaanite Arch and Stairway Unearthed in Israel Researchers don’t know the purpose of the brick arch, which leads to a set of stairs descending deeper underground by Christopher Parker on the Smithsonian website on September 18, 2023.

Tel Shimron – Archaeological excavation June 2017.  Image: Hanay Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

‘Spooky’ object that unleashes periodic bursts of energy detected in Milky Way

Click Here to Read: ‘Spooky’ object that unleashes periodic bursts of energy detected in Milky Way The observation is what’s known as a radio transient, which refers to an object that periodically releases brief flashes of radio signals, as if it’s switching on and off in space by By Denise Chow on the NBC News website on Jan. 26, 2022,

Metaphysics at the Helix Center

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Metaphysics Saturday 2:30 PM EST 30 April 2022

Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges to this position.

The epistemic turn laid down by the quantum theory’s Copenhagen interpretation places our knowledge about Nature, in the sense of what we can know about it, above what it is “in itself.” Nearly contemporaneously, the famous “linguistic turn” heralded by the works of Wittgenstein and the ordinary language philosophers, urged “remaining quiet” about Nature beyond the acknowledged limits of what can be said about it. And more recently, on the heels of what has been referred to as the cognitive turn in psychology, philosophers like Richard Rorty focus on the modes of Continue reading Metaphysics at the Helix Center

Scientists find fossil of dinosaur ‘killed on day of asteroid strike’

Click Here top Read:  Scientists find fossil of dinosaur ‘killed on day of asteroid strike’ Remains of thescelosaurus in North Dakota believed to date back to extinction of species 66m years ago by Kevin Rawlinson on the Guardian website on Thursday April 7, 2022.

Thescelosaurus neglectus, an hypsilophodont from North America, version with scutes and rib plates, pencil drawing.  Image: Nobu Tamura.  Public Domain.

May 1st performance of Hebrew Prayer in B minor

Dear Friends and Colleagues,  
My Hebrew version of Bach’s Mass in B minor will be performed on Sunday, May 1st, at 4:00 PM, by CONCORA (Connecticut Choral Artists).   
The concert will take place in the Silverman Auditorium of The Emanuel Synagogue at 160 Mohegan Drive in West Hartford, Connecticut.  
Proof of Covid-19 vaccination and ID will be required upon entry, and masking will be required in the performance venue.  
Below is the link to the CONCORA page containing a description of the event.  
I hope some of you will be able to attend!  
Eric Weitzner
 
http://www.concora.org