Topic: Nostradamus

What does the new year hold?

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wondered what...

Get the handbasket ready

As we all know from the world of politics, if you say something enough times, it becomes true.. . As we all know from the world of self-help gurus...
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The GQ Guide To Christmas Dinner

You don't need to be Nostradamus to know that Christmas is coming. You've got presents to buy, Christmas parties to disgrace yourself at and...

5 Artists Who Predicted The Future On Wax

There is something spooky about someone being able to predict the future. . . Whether it be something as simple as predicting the time the mailman...
Rightly Understood Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . I have to admit I've been warming up a bit to the out-there techno-optimism of Ray Kurzweil...

Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future

What's New at Big Think Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . On Friday, February 25, Big Think will be interviewing Ray Kurzweil, the futurist visionary...

Nostradamus

Nostradamus, the Latin name of Michel de Notredame (1503-1566), a French astrologer and physician. His predictions of events were widely believed during his lifetime and continued to arouse much interest many years after his death. In 1547 Nostradamus began to make his ...

16Th Century

Was between the years 1501-1600 1533 -1603 : Mary I of Scotland was crowned Queen of the Scots at Stirling Castle , Scotland July 18 , 1536 : The authority of the pope was declared void in England .
Prophets, seers, visionaries; specifically, those individuals who claim to or are said to have had visions or revelations concerning possible future events, are often criticized or dismissed as having made predictions which then failed to " Nature itself seems to operate with a ...