Schisms within the church have led to more and more denominations over the millennia. Source: https://www.livescience.com/christianity-denominations.html
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Anthony Levandowski Closes His Church of AI
The first church of artificial intelligence has shut its conceptual doors. From a report: Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer who avoided an 18-month prison sentence after receiving a presidential pardon last month, has closed the church he created to understand and accept a godhead based on artificial intelligence. The Way of the Future church, which Levandowski formed in 2015, was…
Happy birthday to Galileo, born February 15
One of our greatest astronomers, Galileo Galilei, was born February 15, 1564. His discoveries with the improved telescopes he made changed the way we view the universe – and got him in trouble with the church. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/galileos-birthday-feb-15-1564…
Ruins of ancient fort, church and temple discovered in Egypt
Archaeologists have found the ancient ruins of a Roman fort, early Coptic church and Ptolemaic temple in Egypt. Source: https://www.livescience.com/fort-church-temple-ancient-egypt.html
1,500-year-old ‘Christ, born of Mary’ inscription discovered in Israel
An excavation revealed a previously unknown church and inscription, possibly dating to Byzantine times. Source: https://www.livescience.com/christ-born-of-mary-church-artifact.html
Tonight is New Year’s Eve in the Julian calendar
Happy Julian New Year! January 13, 2021, marks the last day of the year in the old-style Julian calendar. Why, and what happened when the calendars switched. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/julian-calendar-new-years-eve…
Ritual bath unearthed at site where Judas betrayed Jesus
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient ritual bath church at Gethsemane, a place near Jerusalem where the Bible says that Jesus was betrayed by Judas and arrested. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ritual-bath-gethsemane-judas-betrayed-jesus.html
1,800-year-old altar to pagan god Pan hidden in a Byzantine church
Archaeologists in Israel have found an ancient altar to Pan that was repurposed as a brick in a church wall. Source: https://www.livescience.com/pan-altar-found-in-israel.html
The Curse of the Buried Treasure
Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune — but it became a nightmare. From a report:
Leominster, in the West Midlands area of England, is an ancient market town where the past and the present are jumbled together like coins in a change purse. Shops housed in half-timbered sixteenth-century Tudor buildings face the main square, offering cream…
How Ex-Facebook Data Experts Spent $75 Million On Targeted Anti-Trump Ads
The night before America’s election, Fast Company reported: On the internet, we’re subject to hidden A/B tests all the time, but this one was also part of a political weapon: a multimillion-dollar tool kit built by a team of Facebook vets, data nerds, and computational social scientists determined to defeat Donald Trump. The goal is to use microtargeted ads, follow-up surveys,…