Monthly Archive: August 2020
Breaking down a geographical technicality. Semisopochnoi Island, top right, is the easternmost point of the United States. Photo from Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon (NASA Earth Observatory) using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey, via Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain. …
Painting depicting transfiguration of Jesus, a story in the New Testament when Jesus becomes radiant upon a mountain. Artist Raphael /Collections Hallwyl Museum, CC BY-SA – Author Anna Swartwood House, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina 2020 Jul 17 …
How a Wasteland Shrub Is Becoming the Next Big Thing in Fashion, Vegan wool, Fashion entrepreneur Gowri Shankar
The “Fat Man” is moved from Assembly Building #2, Tinian – By Don Farrell 2020 Aug 16 – High School textbooks teach that the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were flown to Japan by B-29 Superfortresses based on Tinian in the …
The concept of racial profiling dates back decades, and it’s prevalent throughout U.S. history. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post) – SOURCE: Washington Post 2020 Aug 27 – The Florida Klansmen had armed themselves with ax handles. It was Aug. 27, 1960 — a year …
The fable of the blind men and the elephant is one that speaks to historians’ sense of humility in the face of complexity and need to consider other points of view. It is unclear if Donald Trump grasps this lesson. – by Walter …
New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. Scientists have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6,000-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today. …
Dr Qian Wang and her fellow scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a “photosheet” capable of turning carbon dioxide into fuels using sunlight and water. University of Cambridge – By Nick Lavars 2020 Aug 24 – A device that effectively mimics the …
This is what the school day currently looks like in many parts of the U.S. AP Photo/Jessica Hill – Authors Eric M. Anderman, Professor of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement, The Ohio State University Kui Xie, Cyphert Distinguished Professor of …
Two time crystals interacting will repeatedly pass particles back and forth. OlegTroino/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2020 Aug 17 – We’re quickly learning more about time crystals, strange phases of matter that appear to break time-translation symmetry – something that was thought impossible until …
