Random Stuff

Random links I’ve run across in the past couple months:

• Want to know what ancient music sounded like?  (Warning: website plays samples automatically)

• A possible birthday present for geeky kids: chemistry crayon labels.  (Warning: assembly required)

• Artificial life links.  Computer programs simulating lifeforms, not attempts to throw enzymes together in a test tube.  See also Jeffrey Ventrella’s website.

• Math and physics notes by Bob Geroch, about Gödel’s theorem, topology, quantum field theory and other things.

• I strongly agree with this post: Why average Christians take the theologians with a grain of salt by St. Anne of Weekend Fisher.  The “new Perspective on St. Paul” (oops the Reformation was a big misunderstanding!) was never convincing to me, primarily because I’ve also read Romans and it seems to directly contradict what they say at numerous points.

•  An homage to Catalan independence.  When I was in Barcelona I saw the Sagrada Familia cathedral designed by St. Gaudí, which they’ve been constructing since 1882.  They plan to finish around 2028.   I also saw some of his weird apartment buildings.

• Theodore Dalrymple, a writer for the New English Review, who reminds me of St. Chesterton, albeit with only about a tenth the wit and widsom.  I mean this as an outrageous compliment, you should seriously read his essays.