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Seeing with Sound: A Short Film Follows the Man Teaching Echolocation to Blind People | Colossal
Daniel Kish has taught thousands of students worldwide an essential skill: to see with sound. A lifelong advocate for the blind, Kish is a pioneer in echolocation, the ability to perceive one’s surroundings by making clicking noises or tapping a … Continue reading
Tracing English as far back as possible
[…] In this episode, we’ll trace English back to its oldest known ancestor: an ancestor it shares with almost all of Europe’s languages, as well as some Asian languages. That ancestor is called Proto-Indo-European. I also talk about the controversial … Continue reading
Explore the Oldest Existing World Map, Carved in Clay 2,600 Years Ago | My Modern Met
By Madeleine Muzdakis on July 13, 2024 Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers have been able to decode the text and the meaning of the map’s symbols, which are accompanied by text. How a … Continue reading
Google Doodle honors César Lattes, Brazilian physicist who discovered a long-sought particle hidden in cosmic rays | Livescience
By Ben Turner The physicist César Lattes, who is honored today (July 11) in a Google Doodle, is famous across Latin America for his discovery of the pion — a subatomic particle produced by shockwaves from exploding stars. The … Continue reading
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