Have you ever wondered why the same coffee bean can have such a variable flavor depending on the brewer? It’s all physics and chemistry, says Christopher H. Hendon, Assistant Professor of Computational Materials Chemistry at the University of Oregon. In… Continue Reading
Yesterday at the age of 91, Hugh Hefner passed from this mortal coil. As founder of Playboy and longtime advocate for free speech, civil rights, and sexual freedom, Hefner may be considered to have embodied some Thelemic ideals. He was always… Continue Reading
Eighty-one years ago today, Donald Cortez “Don” Cornelius was born in Chicago. While he filled a number of roles in his lifetime, including 18 months as a US Marine in Korea, he is best known for launching Soul Train. The… Continue Reading
Fourteen years ago today in the Warwick Hotel, off the Champs Elysees in Paris, musician Robert Palmer died of a heart attack. Though he’s probably best known for his “Addicted to Love” music video in 1986, Palmer began his discography… Continue Reading
Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty! There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! A feast for the three days of… Continue Reading
Today in 1793, 224 years ago, US President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Washington became a Freemason at age 20, when he became an Entered Apprentice in the Fredericksburg Lodge. Other notable masons of… Continue Reading
“A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture!”- AL II:42 Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a Paris automobile accident. She was born Diana Spencer 1 July… Continue Reading
One hundred seventeen years ago today, Gnostic Saint, German philologist, philosopher and critic Friedrich Nietzsche died after an extended illness including at least two strokes. He was “Famed for development of the idea of the ‘Superman,’ the individual who exceeds… Continue Reading
“A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture!” —AL II:42 Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, you probably know that there’s a full solar eclipse visible today in parts of the United States. The… Continue Reading
Today is the anniversary of the 480 BC death of Spartan King Leonidas I at the Battle of Thermopylae. The battle is probably best known in popular culture through “300,” the 2006 movie and the 1998 comic series of the… Continue Reading