The First Woman In Space Turns 80, And You Probably Never Heard Of Her

The fact that we tell students “The formula for finding the area of a circle from its diameter is A=¼*pi*D^2″ instead of telling them “Just divide the diameter by 2 and use pi*R^2″ is homophobic

Kościół w Górznie - Górzno Church

Reading the abstract of a scientific paper: ok I got this

Starts reading the introduction: ok I don't got this

AFGL 490

Cluster of Newborn Stars In Cocoon Of Dust And Gas In The Constellation Camelopardalis

“Patristic literature associates the timing of the Circumcision on the eighth day with the Resurrection. Here the argument rests on the kind of mystical numerology which we no longer take seriously, but it did formerly engage so great minds. The reasoning runs somewhat as follows. Seven is the number of completion and fullness, for the world was created in seven days, and is due to pass through seven ages. But if seven is perfect, then seven-plus-one is pluperfect. Eight, therefore, stands for renewal, regeneration - whence the architectural tradition of eight-sided baptistries. And Christ rose from the dead on the day superseding the Sabbath, on the eight day; just as the world’s seven ages will be followed in the eighth age by the General Resurrection. These notions attach themselves almost from the beginning to all theological meditation on Christ’s circumcision. From St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century to St. Thomas Aquinas, it is the sense of the mystery that the Circumcision on the eighth day prefigures Christ’s Resurrection, and thereby, implicitly, the resurrection of all.”

— Leo Steinberg (The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, page 52). On the next page he quotes Bede, “[It is] our true and complete circumcision, when, on the day of judgment, all souls having put off the corruption of the flesh … we will enter the forecourt of the heavenly kingdom to behold forever the face of the Creator. This is prefigured by the circumcision of the little ones in the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.”

Andromeda over Nashville, if it were bright enough to see with the naked eye [OC]

there is something about Sunday that makes people obnoxious

Even the Wikipedia page on the Catholic relationship with abortion notes that most pro-choice Catholics are those who barely/never attend Mass, while most pro-life Catholics are the ones who regularly show up.

The upper half of a skeleton without the skull. Pen and ink drawing.