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Top 10 Nursery Rhyme Dark Origins
Most nursery rhymes that date far back, if not all of them, seem to carry a dark part of history with them.
Gleaning the Meaning
There is no doubt that many Mother Goose nursery rhymes were created for entertainment, perhaps with no greater purpose than to lull children to sleep. However, scholars of folk culture also believe that there are certain rhymes which were meant … Continue reading
Barbara Windsor: you’re more likely to hear a cockney accent in Essex than east London now
Jo Adetunji Managing Editor Barbara Windsor was the Cockney queen of EastEnders but you’re more likely to hear her famous accent in Essex now rather than London. The word “cockney” conjures up a plethora of London-based cultural expectations. Maybe you … Continue reading
A Pair of Vibrant, Color-Blocked Murals by Lakwena Transform Two Basketball Courts in Arkansas
Tucked into the verdant landscape of Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, are two dramatically altered basketball courts primed for play. Commissioned by the women-led curators of Justkids (previously) and OZ Art, the public project was conceived by … Continue reading
Search Before Google
It’s pretty easy to take the search engine Google for granted today, but twenty years ago, there was no such thing. In fact, for well over a decade before Google, search engines were crawling, indexing and searching.
Trillions of Questions, No Easy Answers: A (home) movie about how Google Search works
Like any typical home movie, this one started in a dusty basement with boxes of old footage. Some conversations in 2019, a field trip to a data center, and an unexpected stop at a hardware store later, it came together … Continue reading
Temperaments – What you need to know
For the footnotes and other extra information see the following link: https://www.earlymusicsources.com/you… 0:00:19 – INTRODUCTION 0:00:46 – WHAT IS A TEMPERAMENT and WHAT IS EQUAL TEMPERAMENT 0:04:55 – PYTHAGOREAN TUNING 0:08:52 – MEANTONE TEMPERAMENTS 0:13:56 – IRREGULAR TEMPERAMENTS / “WELL-TEMPERED … Continue reading
Cantor’s Infinity Paradox | Set Theory
[…]If you’d like to consider supporting Up and Atom, head over to my Patreon page 🙂 https://www.patreon.com/upandatom For a one time donation, head over to my PayPal 🙂 https://www.paypal.me/upandatomshows *Music* https://www.epidemicsound.com/ *Sources* The Annotated Turing – Charles Petzold https://universalflowuniversity.com/B… https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turi… … Continue reading
Fossil free steel. Another giant step towards net carbon zero?
Steel has become an essential material in our modern world. But the steel making industry is responsible for 7% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. That has to be reduced by at least 60% by 2050 if we are to … Continue reading
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