Otto Kretschmer

I've just started reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson after finishing The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin. I plan to read the entire Mars Trilogy.

One can see that Max wasn't amazed by this dish...

Today I learned that Protestant Christianity has split into over 45,000 denominations since the 1500s. That's a lot of splitting - the number of Trotskyist parties looks tiny by comparison.

Wow, I did not expect that my thread will generate a heated debate. Honestly, I expected a handful of replies at most.

Purr. 😺

Ugh. This is going to pour fuel into already prevalent anti-science/anti-intellectual sentiment in the US. ☹️ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00388-0

I think mostly to the left. Here in Poland we move between different classrooms throughout the school day as a group. In Poland you don't take classes like in the US, you are IN a class, the same group of 18-25 people, you have the same lessons with the same people.

Who was he? The name does ring some bells but nothing specific.

Today I learned that I didn't learn anything new today.

Today I learned that the No True Scotsman fallacy is just 51 years old (it was coined in 1975 by a philosophist Antony Flew). That Scotsman could still be alive today if he was a real person!

Today I learned that when the descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt held a family reunion in 1973, there wasn't a single millionaire among the 120 people present there.

I have been looking for the 2011 version but YT only has one with a handful of episodes translated into English. And I am just starting to learn Chinese. There is the 1998 version though:

Classic Chinese TV series from 1994 about the Three Kingdoms. IMO it's better than the newer 2010 version. Eng sub available: