Balance - how much emphasis should society focus on the quality life for the masses or the importance of the individual. The eternal conflict we keep revisiting - Confucianism vs Toaism, socialism vs capitalism, progressive vs conservative.

Something/Someone Old

I've been looking into the history of the bicycle. Jeez, what a tangled web. There were multiple antecedents to the modern bicycle and controversy at several points over who got to claim credit for inventing any one of them.

Hey, g'day fellow C99%'rs. Welcome to the Tuesday edition of "open threads for open minds". While I try to keep this a positive essay, if you don't mind, today is veering off into the hinterlands.

Today's number is 6

6 is
6 is the sum of its proper divisors (1, 2, & 3), which makes it a perfect number. It is the smallest perfect number,

World History this day

1605 -- Guy Fawkes was arrested.
1911 -- Italy annexed Tripoli and Cyrenaica (to help them, no doubt)
2006 -- Saddam Hussein, deposed by a US war of aggression, was sentenced to death

US History this day