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A Plague of Rats in Paris | ARTE.tv Documentary
There are an estimated 6 million rats in Paris, more than twice the human population. Since the covid lockdowns, they are becoming ever bolder and have started to invade the streets of the city. How can the city manage the … Continue reading
Ancient Ice-Making Machines Found In Persian Desert, The Yakhchāl
Ancient Desert “FREEZER” Invented Around 400 bc In Persia, The Yakhchāl […]
‘Temples of Books’ Is an Ode to the Grandeur and Democratic Ideals of Public Libraries | Colossal
MAY 30, 2023 GRACE EBERT Seinäjoki Library, Seinäjoki, Finland. All images courtesy of Gestalten A new book returns to the fundamental beauty and communal nature of libraries, traveling the globe to visit some of the most alluring places. In the … Continue reading
The 1970s librarians who revolutionised the challenge of search | Aeon Essays
Syracuse University’s SUPARS system was developed by Pauline Atherton as an early antecedent of what we might today call ‘search’. Photo courtesy Syracuse University Libraries Special Collections A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge … Continue reading
After 3 Years of Hiatus, LIGO Is Finally Back! New Era For Gravitational Waves
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about newly begun search for gravitational waves with LIGO and several other observatories Links: https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/… https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03606 https://theconversation.com/gravitati… https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/li… https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/33813 https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158… https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10… #ligo #gravitationalwaves #universe […]
How We Made the Internet
On March 9, 1999, U.S. Vice President Al Gore, made a statement during a campaign interview that, unbeknownst to him, would soon become the subject of somewhat humorous controversy. What followed were a bunch of newspaper articles, comic strips, and … Continue reading
Why Texas is Becoming America’s Most Powerful State
[…] Select video clips courtesy of Getty Images Select video clips courtesy of the AP Archive Special thanks to MapTiler / OpenStreetMap Contributors and GEOlayers 3
Diseases gave us the rise of Christianity, the end of the Aztecs and public sanitation. How might future plagues change human history? | The Conversation
Elena Mozhvilo/Unsplash, CC BY “Every once in a while a book lands on your desk that changes the way you perceive the world you live in, a book that fundamentally challenges your understanding of human history.” So began the blurb … Continue reading
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