Archive for July, 2009
Faith to move mountains, or just ingenuity?
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009A retired Michigan carpenter named Wally Wallington has figured out how to move rocks weighing 22,000 lbs. using only his own strength, gravity, and extraordinarily simple ancient technology. Pretty amazing! Archaeologists and engineers have been mystified as to how prehistorical people could have erected the huge pillars of Stonehenge (according to Wikipedia, “various authors have […]
Humorous commentary on how we take technology for granted
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy How quickly we become incapable of living without things that so recently were amazing new inventions. Our sense of wonder is replaced by an attitude of entitlement. I agree with comedian Louis CK. Perhaps we should spend some time every now and then going back to the “old ways” of […]