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Celebrating the Year of the Tiger (English) | Insider Insights
Explore the exhibition Celebrating the Year of the Tiger with Jason Sun, Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art, discover depictions of tigers in The Met collection, and learn about their significance. Please note: This program is prerecorded. Watch this … Continue reading
United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
Honour the victims of the Holocaust and take a stand against Holocaust denial and distortion. On 27 January, International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, join the @unitednations @UNHOP in an virtual ceremony. Watch it … Continue reading
Holocaust memorial day: ‘The Nazis experimented on me at Auschwitz’ – BBC News
A woman in her nineties who has been diagnosed with dementia has shared her story of how she escaped the Nazis with her son for the first time. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Alina Peretti was sent to a … Continue reading
An unflinching speech encouraged Germany to face the Nazi past | Aeon Essays
Helmut Walser Smith is the Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History and professor of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His books include The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Antisemitism in a German Town(2002), The Continuities of German History: Nation, … Continue reading
A brief history of banned numbers – Alessandra King
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-brief-hi… They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and authorities have often agreed. From outlawed religious tracts and revolutionary manifestos to censored and burned books, we know the potential power of words to overturn the … Continue reading
How the Web went global after arriving in Silicon Valley from CERN – Physics World
In this podcast we talk about how physicists and entrepreneurs changed the world 20 Jan 2022 Hamish Johnston Everyone knows that the World Wide Web was invented at CERN in Switzerland, but the technology really began to take off when … Continue reading
This Ice-Man Knew About the Hoof Fungus – Do You?
The story of Otzi the iceman is super cool because he had two different types of fungi with him. If you don’t already know the hoof fungus / tinder fungus / false tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius), then I encourage you … Continue reading
We attended the trial of the Colston four: here’s why their acquittal should be celebrated | The Conversation
Sage Willoughby, Jake Skuse, Milo Ponsford and Rhian Graham were cleared of criminal damage. Alamy/PA The acquittal of the Colston Four is an important moment in upholding the right to protest, precisely because the jury’s verdict was based on … Continue reading
What on Earth Happened to the Siberians
What happened to the natives of Siberia? Arguably, the world’s most inhospitable, dangerous and desolate region of human habitation. This is what it looks like when an entire region is demographically transformed in only a matter of generations. Today we … Continue reading
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