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Quodlibeta
Personal blog · bedejournal.blogspot.comsciencephilosophyhistory
Quodlibeta is a personal blog at bedejournal.blogspot.com about science, philosophy and history. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on the size and value of things, the Galileo affair, and a story about dragon hunting. Commenters use them as summaries or as background for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Science, religion, history, politics and writing about all of these
What Hacker News says?
https://bedejournal.blogspot.com/2009/08/size-doesnt-matter-... TLDR: Importance does not equate to size, just as space does not equate to mass nor mass to value (value being the particular distribution of elements within a mass).
Comment linking /2009/08/size-doesnt-matter-part-3.html
on “100k Stars”https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/resources/galileo/histori... You are one of today's lucky 10K! That's the short version. The LONG version is https://bedejournal.blogspot.com/2009/03/galileo-affair-1-pr...
Comment linking /2009/03/galileo-affair-1-problem-with.html
on “If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?”Here’s a cool story about dragon hunting: https://bedejournal.blogspot.com/2009/08/dragons-of-swiss-al...
Comment linking /2009/08/dragons-of-swiss-alps.html
on “An Instinct for Dragons”