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The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire
In the 1960s, America was running “Operation Plowshare”: the idea that perhaps nuclear bombs could be used for peace, not war. At least some British scientists had similar ambitions, and it involved setting off a nuclear bomb under Wheeldale, in … Continue reading
The Ghostly Yokai Illustrations of Katsushika Hokusai | Laughing Squid
LORI DORN FEBRUARY 10, 2022 Hochelaga looks at the ghostly Yokai illustrations created by renowned Japanese artist Hokusai, creator of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. Tommie Trelawny of the obscure art channel Hochelaga takes a look at the ghostly Yokai … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: The USA is a mafia | with Fatima Bhutto
Part 3: https://youtu.be/I0m_7pqq7rg The war in Afghanistan and the mafia-like global order; Modhi and the collapse of Indian democracy; the “China Threat” and the “pivot to Asia; Joe Manchin and climate change. The world seems like a dark place, and … Continue reading
Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out | BBC News
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa. Neanderthals were a separate species of human that populated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years until they went extinct 40,000 … Continue reading
Obscure Phenomena That Einstein Turned Into Major Discoveries
Can a “grain of pollen” change the world? One might think it’s too tiny for an object that can bring any changes whatsoever. But that’s exactly what happened: a grain of pollen managed to change the world as it was … Continue reading
BBC Radio 3 – Sunday Feature, Hidden Women and Silenced Scores
Leah Broad uncovers the sometimes shocking stories of three marginalised female composers. Source: BBC Radio 3 – Sunday Feature, Hidden Women and Silenced Scores
The History Of Beer
There’s nothing quite like a refreshing pint of beer, but did you know there is 10,000 years of history in this glass? Beer has been poured since prehistory. Slurped by Hunter- Gatherers & Pyramid Builders, Pharaohs, Vikings, the Inca and … Continue reading
This Is Not What an Atom Looks Like
What does an atom look like? Throughout history scientists and philosophers have attempted to answer this question. As a result, they’ve come up with some useful models for understanding the building blocks of our universe. Learn more about quantum physics: … Continue reading
The Microscope That Uses Quantum Physics to Trace Atoms
In the late 1970s, two physicists in Switzerland set out to invent a new type of microscope using quantum physics that would allow them to do something no one had ever done before: see the individual atoms in a sheet … Continue reading
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