Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- A little physics humor.

- I'm an awful person for laughing at this.

- Question that could keep you up nights.

- This one definitely could.

Find Something Beautiful Today

The moon over the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. (Via) Headline stolen borrowed from Execupindit.

Find Something Beautiful Today

The Acropolis of Lindos, on Rhodes Island, Greece. (Photo via) Headline stolen borrowed from Execupundit.

Find Something Beautiful Today

Temple of Zeus in Athens (photo via). Headline stolen borrowed from Execupundit.

THE Olympics

Very interesting look at the original Olympics. Some great nuggets in there. Sophocles was a great handball fan. Plato was a great wrestling fan. The Olympics even spawned the first sports bars (though technically I guess they were wine bars).

The ancient games did not run a marathon - that was Victorian addition. And the Olympic torch? That was something Hitler thought would be cool.

We should have been gearing up for the Summer Olympics right about now but I guess this will have to do instead,

The Ancient Greeks and the Atom

"By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color, but in reality atoms and void." - Democritis

The idea that everything is made up of matter too small to be seen comes from the Ancient Greeks from around 440 BC and is usually credited to Leucippus of Miletus. The Greeks called these tiny building-blocks "atoms" - from the Greek word "atomos" meaning "uncuttable".

The Ancient Greeks were able to theorize about atoms despite not having any of the technology available these past 500 years or so. Quite an astounding feat of logic when you think of it.

Only until the past 75-years has man been able to "split" the "uncuttable" atom. And less than 120-years since science first theorized about the atom itself being made up of smaller parts and then those parts being made up of even smaller parts.

But in a sense it is all still just atoms and void.