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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – the forgotten immunisation pioneer | The Conversation
Tom Solomon Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool Wortley Montagu popularised the Turkish practice of ‘variolation’, kickstarting the … Continue reading
How Do You Trace a Meteorite Back To Its Home?
[…] It’s virtually impossible to tell where a meteorite comes from, but in 2018, scientists were able to pull a feat of forensic astronomy and do just that. Host: Reid Reimers […]
The Day Dinosaurs Died – 2nd Asteroid Impact Provides More Clues
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the most famous extinction event and new discoveries about the impacts that caused the demise of dinosaurs Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/conte… […]
Best.Named.Dog.Ever
Don’t let their fluffy hair and judging eyes fool you, Pekingese dogs are hiding a secret. Their history encompasses torture, hubris, war, and some very long sleeves. Most importantly these dogs — well, one in particular — may hold the … Continue reading
African Countries NOT IN Africa
How much African ancestry does one have to have in order to be considered black and what percentage has to meet this criteria in order to be considered a black nation? Millions of Africans have been emigrating to Europe and … Continue reading
Does Traditional Tequila Have a Worm in it? | Food Unwrapped
Matt heads to Mexico to find out if Tequila really does have a worm in it, or was that just a internationally shared hallucination? Food Unwrapped Season 6 Episode 12
‘Fantastic Landscapes’ Surveys the Vivid Use of Color in Hokusai and Hiroshige’s Woodblock Prints
Utagawa Hiroshige, “Yamashiro Province: The Togetsu Bridge in Mount Arashi (Yamashiro, Arashiyama Togetsukyo),” from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue), 1853 An exhibition opening this weekend at the Art Institute of Chicago plunges into the … Continue reading
Bookmark Illustrated by Van Gogh Found in a Novel After 135 Years | My Modern Met
By Claudicet Pena on July 15, 2021 Researchers recently uncovered a few early drawings slipped inside one of Van Gogh’s books. If you are a fan of marginal notes, doodles, and finding little surprises tucked in books, then you will … Continue reading
Know the Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
In his prolific years as a painter, illustrator, and printmaker, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (b. France, 1864-1901) wielded an immensely impactful style as colorful as his life, spent vigorously documenting the glamor and debauchery of Belle Époque Paris after dark. This … Continue reading
The Plate Tectonics Revolution: Crash Course Geography #19
Today we’re going to tell the story of a quiet revolution in the 1960s that shifted our entire understanding of how the Earth works. We currently believe that the Earth’s broken outer shell rises from the mantle and folds back … Continue reading
The Mysterious London Attacker Who May Have Inspired Batman | Answers With Joe
[…] How did a crazed serial attacker in 1830s London become an urban legend, then a fictional anti-hero, then the inspiration for Batman? It’s a fascinating mystery that has never been solved. So let’s talk about Spring-Heeled Jack, the first … Continue reading
