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Artist Uses AI To Reconstruct Realistic Portraits of Historical Figures | My Modern Met

By Margherita Cole on August 25, 2021 Nefertiti Ever wonder what Nefertiti and Michelangelo’s David looked like in real life? Have you ever wondered what famous historical figures like Nefertiti and Cleopatra looked like in real life? Well, Bas Uterwijk … Continue reading

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A shocking story that shows how closed-minded people can be

To save 60% on your first 3 months of Audible visit http://audible.com/tibees or text tibees to 500-500. This video was based on ideas from the book Figuring by Maria Popova. Various other sources: Original manuscript: https://www.loc.gov/item/39010144/ Translation by Falardeau: https://dspace2.creighton.edu/xmlui/h… … Continue reading

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Someone Unearthed A 1997 Wired Article Predicting ’10 Things That Could Go Wrong In The 21st Century’ — And Nearly All Of Them Came True – Digg

James Crugnale  Nov 23, 2021 @15:48 PM. Updated: Nov 28, 2021 @15:58 PM As they say, it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future — but it appears a duo of futurologists made some extraordinary prognostications about the world that, … Continue reading

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BÄR

“Bär” is a personal story about my grandfathers past in World War 2. The film is my graduation project from the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. It was finished in … Continue reading

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NYT and Latin American Coups: In Hybrid War “Nuance” Is A Rhetorical Weapon | Brasil Wire

From Chile to Venezuela to Brazil to Bolivia, the “Paper of record” has a long history of using blurred language to provide cover for US-backed coups in Latin America Jair Bolsonaro and his sons Eduardo, Flavio and Carlos at Council … Continue reading

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How animal uses of fire help to illuminate human pyrocognition | Aeon Essays

Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition Japanese macaques surround a bonfire on a cold winter’s day. Photo courtesy Raquel Costa   Ivo Jacobs is a … Continue reading

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The Messed Up Origins™ of Mary Poppins | Disney Explained – Jon Solo

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Why we humans look so different across the world?

Skin color is an adaptation to environment. As humans started migrating north from Africa , their skin turned paler. As the migrational path extended south again, the skin turned darker once more. Eye and hair color are random mutations that … Continue reading

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Why is it so hard to cure cancer? – Kyuson Yun

Download a free audiobook and support TED-Ed’s nonprofit mission: http://adbl.co/2gauxND Check out Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “The Emperor of All Maladies”: https://shop.ed.ted.com/collections/t… View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-it-… We’ve harnessed electricity, sequenced the human genome, and eradicated smallpox. But after billions of dollars in … Continue reading

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