10/10/2025 Friday
5 Top paintings in China, handscrolls（手卷）:
晋朝 （266-420）为了说服 贾南风（晋惠帝之妻）行德：女史箴圖 - 顧愷之
唐朝 （618-907）about cows or metaphor of the artist's servitude: 五牛圖 - 韓滉
宋朝 （960-1279）千里江山圖 (rare minerals for rare colors - Malachite & Azurite) - 王希孟
宋朝 Recovered decades after 宣統帝 (last emperor 1906-1967) took it with him: 清明上河圖 （rich details, 800 people, 12 century China life) - 張擇端
大清 Qing Dynasty (1636-1912) 百駿圖 - 郎世寧 （Giuseppe Castiglione) painted on silk
10/9/2025 Thursday
Now Wifi signals can monitor heart rate.
Shayne Coplan becomes the youngest billionaire (age 27) because of his Polymarket: cryto-based betting site. This is despite many countries (Swiss, Singapore, Poland, France) blocking the site due to its gambling nature.
Histotripsy is a cancer treatment in which ultrasound waves are concentrated onto a small area of a tumor to destroy it.
One thing Governor Gavin Newsom did well: To forbid making commercials louder in California. The ban should take effect (in CA) in June 2026.
This Youtube Channel (Nahre Sol) cares about teaching piano:
10/8/2025 Wednesday
The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum’s 3D models in propaganda videos: While the West went the wrong direction with "Thou Shalt Not Steal" by applying it to copyright as Intellectual Property, Israel would justify herself for copying materials from others without citation. One doesn't understand stealing, the other doesn't understand lying.
10/7/2025 Tuesday
Drawing warmups - 10 tips
10/6/2025 Monday
Interesting conversation between Cenk Uygur and Pastor Doug Wilson on Christian Nationalism:
I would say this is by far the most intellectual discussion on Christian Nationalism I've heard so far. Had to be done by an atheist. The ones I've heard from Presbycast and other Christian medias aren't as thought provocative as it should. Although, this is just the tip of the iceberg, perhaps because Cenk was trying to rush through 1.5 hours of a big subject.
@41:00 Wilson argued for a Christian only office in the government. It's interesting to learn from Google that Denmark, UK and Norway all have requirements for their monarchs to be Christians (Evangelical Lutherans for Denmark & Norway). Of course, I don't think this would work, not even down 500 years in the future as Wilson hoped. Due to theology, and examples for those other countries that had done so. Cenk should have confirmed that Wilson would not vote for non-Christians or would he, or if Wilson approve of mosque establishments in the States.
@47:10 Christian denominations mentioned. I don't believe it's feasible as you'll no doubt have to debate about Mormons and such.
@1:20:20 Wilson's book was quoted: "A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants; while a woman receives, surrenders, accepts." ~ from his 1999 book Fidelity: What it Means to be a One-Woman Man ~google AI. I think this is just a play of words, which is unnecessary. It's more American/Western culture than a biblical one.