Grim ripening
According to
Der Spiegel the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg will lose his power of veto in an attempt to stop a law legalising euthanasia.
The Luxembourg prime minister, Jean-Claude Junker will propose an amendment to the constitution in order to prevent the Catholic Duke from exercising his powers.
Quoting:
"I understand the Grand Duke's problems of conscience," said Juncker, "but I believe that if the parliament votes in a law, it must be brought into force."
Also in the
Times.
Labels: How on earth...
Modular Solar Energy
From
Scientific American. Oerlikon's industrial technology (brand name: micromorph) allows the construction of modular solar panels (1.4sqm, 25Kg) that are more efficient (9% of energy is converted in electricity, up to 95Watt of power) and don't contain toxic or rare elements.
Quoting:
"We're taking … an Intel-inside type of approach," says Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon's marketing chief in North America. "We're able to sell customers a turnkey [assembly] line with guaranteed module performance and throughput at a fixed price."
Labels: Technology, Thank God.
... And of course
Sancte Michael Arcangele
defende nos in proelio
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli
esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur:
tuque, princeps militiae caelestis,
satanam aliosque spiritus malignos,
qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo,
Divina Virtute in infernum detrude.
Labels: Ora
Suggestion...
...to my occasional readers.
I have found a very interesting blog written by
Fr. Tiziano Repetto Sj.
If you would like your prayers to be effective against the devil, well you
have to read "
Un esorcista risponde".
The original is in Italian, I have provided the link to the google translation engine that is on the blog itself.
Unmissable, dear readers.
Labels: Fr. Tiziano Repetto, Thank God.
Ideas for the present...
This is from
Scientific American: Where are we going, I would say...
Labels: How on earth...
Crashed
According to
BBC Europeana crashed for lack of resources within hours from the launch.
Admittedly 6 servers are not enough to provide a service on a global base
Back in December, then.
Labels: Poor means
From the Pope's message to American president Barak Obama from
Radio Vaticana, in the translation of
Zenit:
Believers pray so that God enlightens him and helps him in his most weighty responsibility.
Labels: Let's pray, The Pope
eVolution
From the
daily bulletin of the Holy See. The Holy Father addresses the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
To state that the foundation of the cosmos and its developments is the provident wisdom of the Creator is not to say that creation has only to do with the beginning of the history of the world and of life. It implies, rather, that the Creator founds these developments and supports them, underpins them and sustains them continuously. Thomas Aquinas taught that the notion of creation must transcend the horizontal origin of the unfolding of events, which is history, and consequently all our purely naturalistic ways of thinking and speaking about the evolution of the world. Thomas observed that creation is neither a movement nor a mutation. It is instead the foundational and continuing relationship that links the creature to the Creator, for he is the cause of every being and all becoming (cf. Summa Theologiae, I, q.45, a. 3).
So God is cause of the transformation of being from an intelligible form to a different intelligible form. Written down.
Labels: Thank God., The Pope
Found...
...Something, maybe. It's called
Handbuch der babylonischen Astronomie by Ernst Friedrich Weidner.
Does it contain a map of the babylonian sky or just a description of its subdivision?
Labels: Astronomy, Scripture study support.
