Daily Content Archive
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 ReikiReiki is an alternative healing practice in which the practitioner is believed to channel energy into the patient in order to encourage healing. Named for a Japanese term meaning "universal life force," it was developed in the 19th century by Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese scholar of religion who was intrigued by accounts of Christ's ability to heal people by touching them. Reiki practitioners use simple hands-on, no-touch, and visualization techniques during sessions in which what happens? More... | |
| This Day in History | |
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 Wilhelm Röntgen Discovers X-Rays (1895)In 1895, Röntgen, a German physicist, discovered rays that did not exhibit properties such as reflection or refraction. Because of their mysterious nature, he called them X-rays. His discovery, which gave medicine a critical view inside the body and allowed bones to be photographed, remains a valuable diagnostic tool. Röntgen's breakthrough earned him the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. One of the first X-ray photographs he took was of his wife's hand. What did she say when she saw it? More... | |
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 Hermann Rorschach (1884)Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist, devised his eponymous inkblot test to gauge the perceptions, intelligence, and emotional traits of his patients and used it to gather data for his 1921 book Psychodiagnostics. Based on the idea that people project their unconscious thoughts onto stimuli, the controversial test requires an individual to look at a series of inkblots one at a time and report what he or she sees in each of them. What was Rorschach's surprisingly prescient childhood nickname? More... | |
| Quotation of the Day | |
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 By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) | |
| Idiom of the Day | |
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a bit beyond (one's) ken— Advanced beyond one's ability to understand or make sense of the subject matter or task at hand. More... | |
| Today's Holiday | |
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 Saints and Martyrs Day (2022)Since the Reformation the Church of England has not added saints to its calendar. Although there have certainly been many candidates for sainthood over the past 450 years, and many martyrs who have given their lives as foreign missionaries, the Church of England has not canonized them, although a few are commemorated on special days. Instead, since 1928 it has set aside November 8, exactly one week after All Saints' Day, to commemorate "the unnamed saints of the nation." More... | |