Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, China’s propaganda machine has been actively promoting an alternative reality that pushes pro-Russia and pro-Putin messages. On heavily censored social media platforms in China, Internet users share their support for Russian President Vladimir Putin. As documented by The New York Times, while the world overwhelmingly condemns the ...
Endurance, one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, was discovered off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after it sank. Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been astonishingly intact in the Weddell Sea at a depth of 3,008 meters (9,869 feet), 6 kilometers (4 miles) from where it was wrecked by pack ice in ...
Except for China, most nations of the world have relaxed pandemic restrictions; however, the landscape of a post-pandemic world is still far from perfect. The disparity between the pre-pandemic and post-pandemic worlds is significant because the painful narratives and what they had left behind will likely take a lifetime before being forgotten. While older people ...
Europe is grappling with a record-breaking rise in energy prices that threatens to impede the post-pandemic economic recovery, strain household earnings, and even mar Europe’s green transition. Moreover, the increase in energy prices has caused a re-examination of EU climate policy. Non-renewable energy prices are skyrocketing The EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS), the world’s largest ...
One of Michelangelo’s greatest works, The Creation of Adam, is a fresco that forms a part of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling illustrating the Biblical story of creation from the Book of Genesis where God breathes life into the first man, Adam. While it might only be a small part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, something ...
The Venus de Milo, one of art history’s most important sculptures, continues to fascinate audiences today. The marble masterwork, housed in the Louvre in Paris, is praised for its Hellenistic artistry, recognized for its beauty and controversial design. The story of the statue, like many other prized antiquities, remains a mystery from the time it ...
Isabella Aiona Abbott (June 20, 1919 – October 28, 2010) was an educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist from Hawai’i. She was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a Ph.D. in science and was recognized as a world expert on Pacific marine algae. Isabella Abbott’s seaweed education started early Isabella Abbott, born to a Hawaiian mother ...
Rocky, the German shepherd, was comfortably sleeping inside his doghouse on April 23, 2019, when a fragment from a 59-pound space rock shattered his rusted tin roof. The 10-ounce meteorite just missed Roky, leaving a vast seven-inch hole in its path and ruining the doghouse’s old hardwood floor. Professional meteorite hunters visited the scene almost ...
Advancements in human technology have already pushed into the endless frontiers of the Earth and those beyond it. Almost all fields and human disciplines benefit from technology, and it would be safe to assert that human beings are hugely technology-dependent. But we are also hugely vulnerable to disruptive forces like a Carrington event, which is caused ...
French beauties are well-known for their thin and attractive figures and elegance. Their well-toned bodies seem to be something they inherited genetically because they are always effortlessly slim. For years, people have wondered how French ladies maintain their slim figures. In our minds’ eyes, when we think of a quintessential French woman, we envision someone ...
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