Answer to Camus: To Be, or Not to Be, Is Not the Lo Lus Nug*
“The only truly serious philosophical problem is suicide,” Camus began. Whether life is worth living, whether one should kill oneself. To put it more clearly: in the face of the world’s silence, the human search for meaning goes unanswered, and this is where the absurd begins. And for someone who finds life meaningless, there is only one important question: Should they kill themselves because they find their own life worthless? The...
In Boston, on January 15, 1919, the explosion of a faulty, structurally weak molasses tank killed 11 people and injured 50 others. Two million gallons of molasses spilled into the streets, creating an 8-meter-high tsunami. Eleven municipal employees were killed in the city hall building immediately next to the tank. The explosion was reported to have occurred as a result of the compression of gases produced by the fermenting molasses.
The Montgomery Advertiser January 16, 1919
Halley first appeared as a tiny dot on photographic plates taken with a telescope by German astronomer Max Wolf on the night of September 11–12, 1909, during its passage in the early 20th century. This was confirmed by naked-eye observation with the Yerkes Observatory’s 40-inch telescope on September 15, and then things got a little confusing. In January 1910, while everyone was sitting—it’s a proven fact—waiting for Halley’s Comet, a much brighter celestial object visible even in sunlight...