Air-Conditioning Invented In 3100 BCE?

Posted on July 1, 2026 by agogo22

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Could a 5100 year old invention be keeping us cool in modern times?

The answer to that is, most likely, yes, ancient technology could play a huge role in our modern lives if the Researchers, Engineers and Architects figure out a way to make this doable in all locations.
Of course we have to take microclimatic conditions into account and it does rely on local weather, but it could possibly be that Wind Catchers may be the air conditioning of the future.

The ancient Wind catchers of Yazd, a city in Iran with some unique Persian Architecture.
The nickname of the city of Yazd is “the City of Wind Catchers”, but it’s also well known for its underground channels transporting water called Qanats, it’s ice houses known as Yakhchãls and its traditional reservoirs storing water known as ab anbars.
These are features that made the inhabitants of this city survive the hot desert climate, on a yearly basis there are only 23 days of precipitation with a total of 49 millimetres making this the driest major city in the entirety of Iran.
In 2017 UNESCO put the historical city of Yazd on the world heritage site list, and quite a large part of that decision was because of the wind catchers, this city might have the largest number of wind catchers in the world.

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Sea wolves using tools?

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China just switched on the world’s biggest superconducting magnet for nuclear fusion project

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Peace comes from peace. #historyshorts #usa #trump #middleeast #history

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The EU is turning into an Empire

Posted on June 30, 2026 by agogo22

30 Jun 2026
Into Europe: the European Union is becoming more powerful, will it turn into an Empire?
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Attempt to save the Swift telescope from falling back to earth #space #nasa #science

Posted on June 30, 2026 by agogo22
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Masculinity Has Always Been “In Crisis”

Posted on June 30, 2026 by agogo22

24 Jun 2026
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Opening quotes:
“Essay on Modern Love”, in The Drogheda Journal, 7th April 1832, pg 4
France, Miranda, “I, Fay”, in Scotland on Sunday, 18th January 1998, pg 6
“Modern Men Too Soft”, in The Evening Telegraph, 17th March 1924, pg 2
“Silver Weddings”, in The Magnet, 19th March 1888, pg 2
“Too Soft”, in the Lancashire Daily Post, 8th July 1909, pg 4

Anon, “Modern Refinement: A Satire”, 1777, pg 18-19, https://archive.org/details/bim_eight…
Brown, “An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times”, (Henry and Robert Joy, 1758), pg 20, https://archive.org/details/bim_eight…
Grosley, M., “A Tour To London”, 1772, pg 94, https://archive.org/details/bim_eight…
Knowyourmeme.com, “Hard Times Create Strong Men”, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hard-t…
Lyttleton, Thomas, “The Vauxhall Affray; or, Macaronies Defeated”, 1773, pg 59, https://archive.org/details/bim_eight…
McNeil, Peter, “Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World” (Yale University Press, 2018)
Miller, M. L. 2009. “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.”

00:00 Introduction
02:27 What Is A Macaroni?
09:45 Why Macaronis Are Heralds of the End Times
12:43 Is It A Gay Thing?
23:39 Outro

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@twistopherrobin.bsky.social | StreetArt,  Marseille

Posted on June 29, 2026 by agogo22

#Art #StreetArt #Marseille

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USA (@usamailbox.bsky.social) | by Heavy Mentall Lina Besedina artist originally from Siberia

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Watch LIVE – Andy Burnham’s first major speech of leadership bid

Posted on June 29, 2026 by agogo22

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Labour leadership frontrunner Andy Burnham will use a major speech to confirm plans for a “No 10” in the North, as he sets out his vision for devolution and economic reform.

Speaking in Manchester on Monday, the newly elected Makerfield MP is expected to pledge a “circuit-breaker” for Britain and promise “good growth in every postcode”, with allies billing it as the biggest shift of power from Whitehall in modern times.

The former metro mayor will call for decision-making to be pushed back into local communities as part of his vision to “lift Britain back up”.

Burnham, who served as a minister and on the Opposition frontbench before becoming a regional mayor in 2017, will argue his generation of politicians must take responsibility for declining public trust.

He is expected to commit to reforming public procurement, which will centre on “buying British” to revive industry and secure more “social value” through work placements and apprenticeships.

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Your ancestors aren’t who you think they are | David Reich: Full Interview

Posted on June 29, 2026 by agogo22

21 Apr 2026
What if one of our oldest ideas about ancestry is simply wrong? David Reich argues that ancient DNA has exposed the myth of purity and uncovered a far messier history of who we are and where we came from.

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Over the last 15 years, data on ancient DNA has upended the old story of human history. In this full-length interview, geneticist David Reich explains how new findings have challenged the family tree model of ancestry and revealed a past shaped by migration, interbreeding, disappearance, and constant change.

From Neanderthals and Denisovans to the myths of purity that still shape modern identity, Reich shows how the last decade of research has rewritten what we thought we knew about human origins. The result is a much stranger, more dynamic picture of the human story, one that forces us to rethink ancestry, evolution, and the deep history of who we are.

0:00 Part 1: How ancient DNA re-explains the world
6:24 A new scientific instrument
16:04 Part 2: Human history is not a family tree
24:37 The pattern that wouldn’t go away
28:44 Part 3: Rethinking human evolution models
33:54 The genome in motion
36:55 Part 4: What genetics does and doesn’t say about difference
45:15 How is this useful?

Read the full video transcript: https://bigthink.com/videos/your-ance…

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Donovan Schaefer (@feelingtheory.bsky.social) | Trastevere, Rome

Posted on June 29, 2026 by agogo22

A journalist portrayed as an angel

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