DicKtionary – M is for Mathematics – Newton and Hooke
TimeGhost History Published 19 Nov 2021 Today we turn away from killers and sociopathic rulers and look at two men from the world of science. Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke were certainly very...
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QotD: Fermi’s Paradox and the Great Filter(s)
Though what he really said is open to doubt, the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi gave his name to a short and possibly final argument against the existence of intelligent life on other planets. There...
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Coming of the Sea Peoples: Part 2 – The Old and New Chronology of the Bronze Age
seangabb Published 2 May 2021 The Late Bronze Age is a story of collapse. From New Kingdom Egypt to Hittite Anatolia, from the Assyrian Empire to Babylonia and Mycenaean Greece, the coming of the Sea...
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The largest telescope that will ever be built*
Tom Scott Published 2 Oct 2023 The asterisk is important. ■ More on the ELT: @ESOobservatory https://eso.org The Extremely Large Telescope, in Paranal, Chile, is probably going to be the largest...
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“The Earth goes around the Sun, or so they would have you believe …”
Colby Cosh on a recent “grand theory” from Andrea Matranga, an Italian economist who outlined his thoughts in a paper accepted by the Quarterly Journal of Economics, summarized in the sub-hed...
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