Thursday, May 25, 2017

masterpiece academy day 5/ period 4

Sometimes the most powerful questions are about things that we see every day and take for granted.  Trevor asked us: Why do we operate on a seven-day week?



He traced the development of the calendar back through the ages, from cultural traditions to spiritual texts.  He shared a chart with the names of each weekday and the names of corresponding ancient Gods.  And he showed us this video:


For more, please visit Trevor's blog.

Adan took the stage next and talked about why we believe (or don't) in the existence of extraterrestrial life.  Check out his presentation here.



Adan also showed us a video.  At first I thought it was a joke.  Then I realized that there are really, truly stupid* (*literally, intentionally resistant to new or dissonant information) people who live in the world. I can't bear to embed it here.  You'll have to ask Adan.  It's a near-perfect example of painfully unbelievable ethos mixed with misdirected pathos and totally flawed logos.  Yuck.

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