Nietzsche’s Love Affair with Turin Frederich Nietzsche, the 19th century German philosopher, was in love with Turin. He raved about the city’s gelato, its music and its quiet. Originally Answered: Why did Friedrich Nietzsche go crazy in the end? It is widely speculated that he contracted Syphilis at a younger…
Nietzsche’s writing spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2019). Unpublished Fragments (Spring 1885-Spring 1886). The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations, The…
Although Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup, they participated again in the 2013 edition of the tournament. Planning was thrown into disarray however in August when key members of the team was determined by MRI scanning to be overage and excluded from the team. Nigeria…
(See Gen. 11:5–9.) Early Jewish and Christian traditions reported that Nimrod built the tower of Babel, referred to as a pagan temple, in an attempt to contact heaven. Who constructed the Tower of Babel? The Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94 CE), recounted history…
If you’re a fan of ninjas, you’ll be pleased to know that ninjas were indeed real. However, the real ninjas of the past were probably nothing like today’s version. In fact, they weren’t even called ninjas! The ninjas of ancient Japan were called shinobis. They really did exist. They came…
Nintendo will shut down the Wii Shop channel on January 30th, 2019, marking the end of an era for the service that first came online for Wii consoles in December 2006. This bit of satirical news appears to be poking fun at Nintendo for shutting down services for old consoles.…
If you’ve ever studied calculus, you know it was created independently by Newton and Leibniz. Few of us appreciate the full fury of the priority dispute behind that. Now Hal Hellman retells the story. Newton was born in 1642, Leibniz four years later. The earliest use of differentials in Leibniz’s…
Neanderthals – more robustly built than Homo sapiens and with larger brows – inhabited Eurasia from the Atlantic coast to the Ural Mountains from about 400,000 years ago until a bit after 40,000 years ago, disappearing after our species established itself in the region. “Shanidar IV: a Neanderthal flower burial…
“For decades, one of the central questions in human evolutionary studies has been whether the human form of communication, spoken language, was also present in any other species of human ancestor, especially the Neanderthals,” said Prof Juan Luis Arsuaga at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, one of the co-authors of…
However, in 612 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II broke the power of the Assyrians. He re-established Babylonia before going on to conquer Jerusalem, destroying the Jewish Temple and taking thousands of Jewish armed men, workers, and the King of Judah back to captivity in Babylon. It was in his capital city that…