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There are many ways to make a flat map of the world – each of them a unique distortion | Aeon Videos
There are many ways to make a flat map of the world – each of them a unique distortion As almost everyone learns in primary school, it’s impossible to represent a round object on a flat surface without imposing some … Continue reading
All the Details from Inside Mei & Satsuki’s Country Home | Spoon & Tamago
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 / JOHNNY all images courtesy Studio Ghibli In the classic animated film My Neighbor Totoro, the Kusakabe family relocates to a home in the countryside to be closer to their mother, who is hospitalized nearby. Although old … Continue reading
How The James Webb Space Telescope Works – Smarter Every Day 262
[…] I greatly appreciate Dr. John Mather’s time and patience with me. He did a fantastic job of breaking down the design of the telescope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C…. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ NASA’s Explore Light and … Continue reading
The End of Oil, Explained | FULL EPISODE | Vox + Netflix
Oil led to huge advancements — and vast inequities. […]
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Did Brazil Find the Solution to Poverty?
In the 2000s, Brazil’s leftist leader Lula da Silva implemented an audacious program of poverty reduction. It was called Bolsa Família, “the family stipend,” and offered a guaranteed income to all poor families in Brazil. The program went totally contrary … Continue reading
Hindenburg WAS NOT the DЕАDLIEST airship accident: Forgotten British Giant R.101
The crash of the British airship R101 is not as well known as the famous Zeppelin Hindenburg Disaster. Nonetheless, the R.101 disaster still remains the biggest tragedy in history among commercial airships. On October 4th, 1930, the giant airship R-101 … Continue reading
Hear the World’s Oldest Piano at The Met Museum
When Bartolomeo Cristofori constructed his “gravicembalo col piano e forte” (harpsichord with soft and loud) in the early 1700s, he wasn’t trying to create a new instrument — he was actually trying to build a harpsichord with a little more … Continue reading
Songs that use the Phrygian mode
Get 86% off your subscription of Atlas VPN with this link: http://atlasv.pn/DavidBennettPiano 💻 Phrygian has a sound much like the minor scale but with a darker edge. A common choice in metal, prog and hip-hop, Phrygian introduces an exotic, unnerving … Continue reading
Indigenous people in Brazil at risk of losing their right to land…
King’s Academic warns how the state decision could set a precedent for many other cases unless overruled by the Supreme Court Land reserves occupied by indigenous groups in Brazil are at risk of being lost because of a constitutional decision … Continue reading
To see Germany’s future, look at its cars | The Economist
s the election approaches, Germany’s carmakers will face the same challenges as its new leaders: a need to innovate, tackle climate change and reassess its trade relationship with China. How this world-renowned motor industry navigates the road ahead could tell … Continue reading
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