Ok, this is incredible. A new classical Catholic high school just opened in Fairfax County (St. Jerome Institute) — this is what a serious education looks like: – Phones collected at the door – Every class is a seminar discussion – 15-20 students seated facing one another – Art and music are required, NOT elective – Math class teaches "the intrinsic beauty of math" – Entire curriculum is integrated: philosophical and theological questioning in every class And here's the literature section of the reading list: 9th grade (Exodus & Odyssey): – Homer, Odyssey – Genesis – Plato, Euthyphro and Apology – Virgil, Aeneid – Exodus – Beowulf – Song of Roland – Gospel of Luke – Plato, Phaedo and Crito – Acts of the Apostles – Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea – Wilder, Our Town 10th grade (God & Nature): – Creation myths – Plato, Timaeus and Symposium – Aristotle, De Anima – Plotinus – Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Bonaventure, Aquinas – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Descartes, Meditations – Bacon, Newton, Darwin – Berry, Wilder, Tolkien – Tocqueville – Benedict XVI – Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop – Faulkner, The Bear 11th grade (God & the Human Person): – Sophocles, Oedipus Rex – Plato, Symposium – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics – Augustine, Confessions – Shakespeare, Twelfth Night and King Lear – Hobbes, Leviathan – Swift, A Modest Proposal – Austen, Pride and Prejudice – Shelley, Frankenstein – Hopkins – O’Connor – Martin Luther King Jr. – Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment – John Paul II 12th grade (God & Society): – Plato, Republic – Dante, The Divine Comedy – Aristotle, Politics – Augustine, City of God – Aquinas, De Regno – Natural and human law – Machiavelli, Hobbes – Locke, Rousseau – Marx and Engels – Dignitatis Humanae, Evangelium Vitae, Centesimus Annus – John Courtney Murray – Leviticus – Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov – The Declaration of Independence – The Constitution – The Federalist Papers "They gain an in-depth knowledge of Western civilization from Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem through England and the founding of our own country."

Nope not scared at all 🤯

Classical education and liberal arts education needed

Gotta try this

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In Canada 🇨🇦 over the past 10 years “MAiD” has destroyed our national treasure of Hospice and Palliative Care. Palliative Care was granted no rights or protections under the law and no institutional conscience rights - so lone defenders were picked-off and eliminated. We stand to protect and restore this 50+ year medical discipline that does not intentionally kill our patients. We fight to restore this gift to humanity and will not abandon the people who need us.

This is spot on lol 😅

As temperature decreases, the kinetic energy of molecules decreases. This is a visualization of the transformation of water into ice, seen at molecular level. [🎞️ CSIRO’s Data61]

This made me smile

Solid advice

Prayer, gratitude, and purpose activate the same brain networks that therapy and cognitive training target: the dorsal anterior cingulate and prefrontal areas that calm emotion and drive adaptive behavior. Faith doesn’t replace science; it fuels it. #selfbrainsurgery #thedrleewarrenpodcast

Look closer. This is what “change” looks like inside your brain: 1. Stop rehearsing disaster.

Wild

the motor protein that transports substances inside cells, is so cute.

So cool

These anti-capitalist “capitalism breeds innovation” memes that display a bunch of slight variations on the same product actually highlight the miraculous material abundance that capitalism has made possible.

This is wild

If true, Mamdani is going to force several locally owned grocery stores in NY out of business. They already operate at 1-3% margins. I support food banks that do the job of providing subsidized products but taxpayer funded grocery is a horrible idea.

Canadian photographer Steve Biro captured a remarkable photo of a bald eagle flying with a perfectly symmetrical reflection in the water.

Given that @elonmusk has said they hope to attempt a Starship tower catch on the next flight this will shift the launch time to earlier in the day so that they’ll have sunlight for the catch.