If you thought that social security and welfare are modern inventions, then you were wrong. The idea of willingly letting any of their subjects starve was absolutely unthinkable for the rulers in Antiquity. After the invention of money, the differences in wealth between different social classes became more obvious, but the temples still continued to […]

Articles on the ELSAELSA blog get re-blogged often. A short while ago for example an article from 2017 about natal chart factors, which would reveal psychic abilities. As the oldest astrology blog on the World Wide Web, the ELSAELSA blog has incredibly many readers and hence also many commentators. So the reason for the re-blogging […]

This technically wasn’t a high kick because it would have aimed low against a standing opponent, but another kick hit my temple. During my turn in the roda at the end of a capoeira training session, my opponent performed a rabo de arraia (“stingray’s tail”, also known as meia-lua de compasso or in combat sports, […]

In my article on the Five Virtues of Mencius, I made two attempts to assign them to the Five Phases and their corresponding planets. I’m somehow still not satisfied with these attempts. So here is an attempt to improve the assignment. Father and son = qīn (親) = Venus although this looks strange between men, […]

Next to a shopping mall, I found a building, which seems to have the inexpressive name China Hong Kong City Building. I could enter the building, but not figure out what is its purpose. So I instead took some pictures to document the looks from the building, into the building, and in the vicinity of […]

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile did in last December discover the asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a diameter between forty meters and ninety meters and came close enough to Earth for getting discovered. Close enough means a distance of ten percent of the distance Earth to Mars, yet […]

I somewhere did read that the development of artificial intelligence would advance fast. So I searched a website for asking questions to an artificial intelligence for the sake of testing the above claim. I asked the AI to summarize phoibe.home.blog and had to find that most websites didn’t permit the artificial intelligence to access external […]

Critics of astrology often blame astrologers for not doing statistics.  The ancient astrologers didn’t even know this concept, so could only tell anecdotes. So empirical research on astrology is impossible. Well, if people in Antiquity had no idea on how to do statistics, then thy can’t be blamed for not doing statistics. Critics of astrology […]

When a function or a subroutine or a whole computer program launches another instance of itself, then this is called a recursion. To build this possibility into a computer program commonly is deemed bad practice and programmers avoid it because recursions can result in an already running computer programming suddenly demand much larger resources. Different […]

On the second day of the first complete week (Sunday counted as the first day here) in March in each year is the Fun Facts About Names Day. As proven by many articles on funny Japanese names, I love fun facts about names. So I appreciate this fancy holiday and want to celebrate it. By […]