Fair’s fair. Your name implies your belief. There is only One G-d. He is the G-d who created the Universe, who created Adam and Eve, and who took the Jews out of Egypt to be His People. All other “powers” are not G-d’s. They are manifestations of His divinity in our world.

It’s so rare to see idolatry in practice.

This is a very interesting idea. I remember in 12th grade English Literature discussing Old English as a class topic. I don’t know about other languages, but most kids growing up who read Hebrew can read ancient Hebrew texts as though it was written yesterday. The letters and sentence structure are the same. Many of…

I knew that was going to be a rewarding 18 minutes of my day! Thank you very much!

Thank you for this article. It’s very spot on. We are orthodox Jews living in Israel. There is a vast divide of the sexes from an outside perspective. We have separate schools (not just classrooms) and dress codes from a young age. We have different tasks as well, and each gender learns slightly different things as…

I’ve never really appreciated him as an authority on science. I’ve always seen him as more of a charleton.

Just about throwing up now. In ancient Jewish culture, we called these practices by various names of idolatry as they’re still seen today by modern halacha. That said, if it’s discovered that they work, we’re actually allowed to use them in the absence of another permitted practice.

It was the Orwelian themes that I was looking for words for - nicely put.

I used to think nothing of the idea of having an abortion. Today with 3 kids and one on the way, I cannot imagine aborting the birth of any of them.

While I like the quote, according to this: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:List… the actual quote is:

You should probably include a caveat that if you have an ongoing discussion in Gmail or respond to a year-old email now, deleting the older email will probably take newer responses along with it. If you want to delete your old Gmail, you should consider backing it up by making an email archive and downloading it, or…

He is always a pleasure to listen to - speaks beautiful crisp British English and knows what he’s talking about as well! Thanks for posting this.

I completely disagree. I really like using Picasa and also find web albums to be far easier to navigate than Google Photos. I see this as regression on Google’s behalf.

“For example, after well over a thousand generations in the dark, the fruit flies still had circadian rhythms, and still responded to (and moved towards) the light.”

Did you really just respond to a post from 4 years ago?!

As a computer technician, I can say that for my important data, I wouldn’t use these drives even if they were giving them away for free. They use proprietary hardware - if the PCB or other electronics die, the drive is in the trash. I’ve seen too many of these drives come in for data restoration only to disappoint the…

As a computer technician, I can say that for my important data, I wouldn’t use these drives even if they were giving…

It's pretty clear that whoever made the Facebook entry wasn't from America. In American English a billion is a thousand million, but in many other countries a billion is a million million. If we redo the math, however, 1.3B divided by 300 million still isn't 4.3 million, but rather $4,333.33.

Matt, I hear you. I do. But I want to philosophize this. In reality, they’re rolling boards that don’t hover. To call them hoverboards is indicative of a deeper societal problem, which is a pervading desire to call items by a wrong name in order to be “creative”; describe a situation completely inaccurately for any of…

I’m bilingual, and my address book is too. The digital assistants don’t do very well with bilingual address books. Not to mention that Cortana isn’t available in my country on a Windows 10 computer. It would be fantastic if I could say okay Google and then give it a command to use one of the addresses that’s in…

I think you have a typo in your title. Should say