The Oracle of Arithmetic
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Quanta ^
| 28 Jun, 2016 | Erica Klarreich
At 28, Peter Scholze is uncovering deep connections between number theory and geometry. In
2010, a startling rumor filtered through the number theory community and reached Jared Weinstein. Apparently, some graduate student at the University of Bonn in Germany had written a paper that redid “Harris-Taylor” — a 288-page book dedicated to a single impenetrable proof in number theory — in only 37 pages. The 22-year-old student, Peter Scholze, had found a way to sidestep one of the most complicated parts of the proof, which deals with a sweeping connection between number theory and geometry. “It was just so stunning...
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The Oracle in Stone
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You Tube ^
| Daniel Sweek
Prophesy in the Pyramid at Giza.
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The Oracle of Delphi -- Was She Really Stoned?
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BAR / Archaeology Odyssey ^
| March 20, 2020 / November/December 2002 | Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and John R. Hale
Numerous classical authors report that natural phenomena played an essential part in one of their most sacred religious rituals: the oracle at Delphi. According to the geographer Strabo (c. 64
B.C.–25 A.D.), for example, "the seat of the oracle is a cavern hollowed down in the depths … from which arises pneuma [breath, vapor, gas] that inspires a divine state of possession" (Geography 9.3.5). Over the past five years, a team of researchers -- a geologist, an archaeologist, a chemist and a toxicologist -- has put that claim to the test, making it much more likely that we will actually...
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The Oracle of Delphi—Was She Really Stoned?
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https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org ^
| July 18, 2023 | Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and John R. Hale
Archaeologists are good at recovering things left behind by the past, such as buildings, incense altars, tools and relief carvings. What
they are not so good at recovering are the ideas, feelings and emotions—the innerness—of sentient ancient beings. It’s one thing to examine a temple’s holy of holies; it’s another thing to understand what went on there and what people experienced. Sometimes, however, there’s an exception to the rule.
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1213: Peter of Pontefract, oracle
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ExecutedToday.com ^
| May 28, 2014 | Headsman
On this date in 1213, the hermit Peter of Pontefract (or Peter of Wakefield) was hanged by King John. Reluctant Magna Carta signer and ridiculous Robin Hood villain, John has never been the most highly regarded sovereign. (A
recent BBC poll saluted him as the 13th century’s very worst Briton.) The papacy ranked among John’s many irritants. A 1205 dispute with Pope Innocent III over the successor to the late Archbishop of Canterbury — John wanted control of ecclesiastical appointments in his own realm, a little preview of coming attractions in English history — extended so far as Innocent’s excommunicating...
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Larry Ellison to Step Aside as Oracle CEO
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Wall Street Journal ^
| September 18, 2014 | Shira Ovide
Larry Ellison, a college dropout who built Oracle Corp. ORCL +1.00% into one of America's largest companies, is stepping down as chief executive, in one of the momentous corporate handovers in the history of Silicon Valley. Mr. Ellison, aged 70, has been the only CEO in the history of Oracle, which he
founded in 1977 and turned into a dominant seller of database software with a market value of $182 billion. Oracle shares fell 2% in after-hours trading following the CEO news and the company's disappointing quarterly results. Mark Hurd, 57, and Safra Catz, 52, two of Mr. Ellison's deputies,...
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Oracle is moving OpenWorld out of San Francisco [to LV] [ed]
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SF Business News ^
| December 10, 2019 | Katie Burke
Oracle Corp. is pulling the plug on its annual San Francisco technology convention, relocating the event to Las Vegas in a major blow to the city's hospitality industry. The
Redwood Shores company has signed a three-year agreement to bring its OpenWorld convention to the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, citing rising hotel rates throughout the Bay Area as well as poor street conditions in San Francisco. An Oracle spokesperson confirmed the deal, first reported by CNBC.
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The Media and the Experts - Modernity's Oracle of Delphi
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Medium ^
| April 7, 2020 | Joel Northrup
Situated on mount Parnassus in central Greece lies the city of Delphi. While the city now is mostly ruins, for over a thousand years the ancient world referred to it as the Center of the World. Millions from around the ancient world would flock to the city to inquire of the Oracle.
To a select few, the Oracle would sit in the temple of Apollo and give prophecies or answer questions of business, trade, and war. Alexander the Great was said to have visited the Oracle to inquire as to whether he would conquer the world. While modernity can scoff...
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The Media and the Experts - Modernity's Oracle of Delphi
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Medium ^
| April 8, 2020 | Joel Northrup
Situated on mount Parnassus in central Greece lies the city of Delphi. While the city now is mostly ruins, for over a thousand years the ancient world referred to it as the Center of the World. Millions from around the ancient world would flock to the city to inquire of the Oracle.
To a select few, the Oracle would sit in the temple of Apollo and give prophecies or answer questions of business, trade, and war. Alexander the Great was said to have visited the Oracle to inquire as to whether he would conquer the world. While modernity can scoff...
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Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville
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slashdot ^
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter. CNBC
reports: In a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Frist, a former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Ellison said Oracle is moving a "huge campus" to Nashville, "which will ultimately be our world headquarters." He said Nashville is an established health center and a "fabulous place to live," one that Oracle employees are excited about. "It's the center of the industry we're most concerned about, which is the health-care industry," Ellison said. The announcement was seemingly spur-of-the-moment....
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Oracle's new Austin campus to house 10,000 employees
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kxan ^
| March 23, 2018 | Calily Bien
Along the south shore of Lady Bird Lake east of Interstate 35, Oracle has built a new campus that will eventually house 10,000 employees. At
the end of 2015, one of the world's largest software companies announced it was expanding in Austin with the construction of a 565,000-square-foot campus located on South Lakeshore Boulevard just west of South Pleasant Valley Road, that sits on 40 acres of waterfront property. "We wanted to be in downtown Austin on the river and specifically I wanted to be in downtown Austin on the river because I thought it would be great to take...
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Jennifer Lawrence: Oracle of Climate Science
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Rush Limbaugh.com ^
| September 11, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh
RUSH: Now, the ultimate aim of all this is to shut people up. See,
the reaction they want me to have is, “Oh, my God, oh, my God, I better stop talking. Look what they’re doing. They’re making up what I’m saying, it’s really bad, it’s hurting my reputation.” The idea is suppression of speech. That’s the objective of these people in the groupthink and people on the left or what have you. Want to hear some fun sound bites? I mean, here we have another oracle of climate science, the actress Jennifer Lawrence. Last Wednesday in the U.K. on...
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Gruden a Scoundrel and Villain, Kaepernick an Oracle and Hero—says the NFL
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Townhall.com ^
| October 16, 2021 | Humberto Fontova
“The email from Jon Gruden denigrating DeMaurice Smith is appalling, abhorrent and wholly contrary to the NFL’s values,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said. “We
condemn the statement and regret any harm that its publication may inflict on Mr. Smith or anyone else.” “NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that he wishes 'we had listened earlier' to what Colin Kaepernick was trying to bring attention to when he began kneeling for the national anthem in 2016. In an interview with Mike Greenberg for ESPN's The Return of Sports special in June, Goodell said he supports and encourages teams to sign Kaepernick," reported...
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‘First In The South’ Democratic Presidential Primary: The Oracle Speaks
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FITSNews ^
| February 28, 2020 | Staff
We refer, of course, to Atlanta, Georgia-based strategist Robert Cahaly – who landed on the national radar in 2016 after he was one of the only pollsters to correctly predict U.S. president Donald Trump’s upset victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Cahaly has continued to hit the nail on the head ever
since (especially in South Carolina), constantly refining his methodology as he generates incisively accurate results year after year, election after election. We have been bombarded in recent days with readers asking us if we had “seen any Cahaly polling” for the Democratic primary. Or whether any “Cahaly numbers”...
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Fauci is Not the Problem. It's the People Elevating Him to Oracle Status.
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Townhall.com ^
| May 14, 2020 | Mark Daviis
This just in: Anthony Fauci is just one man. A
very consequential man, a very influential man, a historically important man at the moment. But one man, nonetheless. This is worth remembering as he is lofted to the status of Health Policy King in some quarters and condemned as a sinister operative in others. Hypersensitivity is to be expected all around with the stakes so high. There is passion to open America, and countervailing passion to prolong restrictive policies. There is a swell of optimism, met on the daily battlefield by the cold waters of gloom. Amid competing agendas, the...
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Giants Ban Children From Attending Games at Oracle Park
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MSN ^
| 4/1 | Bryan Murphy
In yet another move that feels designed to tick off long time fans while boosting the returns for short term investors, the San Francisco Giants announced this morning that effective this season, fans ages 17 and under will no longer be permitted to attend games at Oracle Park. Yes, the move is
surprising, because Baseball is a kids’ game and the sport has always been a draw for families, but some stark market realities have influenced the decision. On the condition of anonymity, I exchanged some texts with an unnamed exec in the Giants front office, who had this to...
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ISRAEL’S ORACLE’ DELIVERS BIG MESSAGE FROM GOD: “MESSIAH IS HERE!” [Deception]
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Breaking Israel News ^
| 07/09/2020 | Dr. Rivkah Adler
A new message, begging Jews who live in the diaspora to get to Israel, has been released from an unusual source. Daniel,
a Jewish man living in Israel, is known by his first name alone. Daniel was born with autism and does not have the ability to communicate verbally. As a result of his autism, he and others like him are able to tap into a higher level of spiritual truth than most. He explains his situation like this: “I am autistic and I see the world much differently than most other human beings. I see the Adam that is...
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Microsoft rejected, Oracle wins bid for TikTok’s US operations
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New York Post ^
| 13 September, 2020 | Kenneth Garger
Microsoft’s bid to purchase TikTok’s US operations was rejected, the company announced Sunday, with Oracle reportedly winning the bid to help run the popular social media app in the states. The
deal between Tiktok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance and Oracle is not believed to be structured as an outright sale, a source told The Wall Street Journal. Instead, the software giant is set to be the app’s “trusted tech partner,” in the US, the report said.
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Oracle Hiring 5,000 for Cloud Business in Race With Salesforce
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Bloomberg Technology ^
| August 28, 2017 | Gerrit De Vynck
Oracle Corp. is hiring another 5,000 employees for its cloud software business as it fights Salesforce.com Inc. for market share in the fast-growing industry. The
hiring surge aims to beef up what’s already Oracle’s fastest-growing business, increasing revenue by 58 percent in the quarter it reported June 21 compared with a year earlier. The move is the latest in a back-and-forth between Oracle and its main rival that last week saw Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff bragging he was on track to generate $10 billion in cloud revenue this year, a goal Oracle was trying to hit first. It...
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Google Wins Java Copyright Case Against Oracle
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Wall Street Journal ^
| May 26, 2016 | JACK NICAS
Federal jury finds Google’s use of Java software was “fair use” A federal jury found Google’s use of Oracle Corp.’s Java software in its mobile products didn’t violate copyright law, a verdict cheered by many in Silicon Valley who believe it will protect how they write and use software. Thursday’s
decision, which Oracle said it would appeal, marked the latest chapter in a six-year legal battle in which Oracle sought as much as $9 billion from Google for using 11,000 lines of Java software code in its Android software. Oracle sued Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., in 2010 for...
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