WEIRD FACTS
Are these people interacting in some virtual world? Lucrezia Carnelos/Unsplash – By Rabindra Ratan, Associate Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University – And Lei, Yi-Ming, Doctoral student in Media and Information, Michigan State University – 2021 Aug 12 – The metaverse …
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images – By Elizabeth Yuko 2021 Aug 22 – Felines served a useful purpose in ancient Egyptian households and were eventually associated with deities. Along with hieroglyphics, obelisks and geometric patterns, cats feature prominently in ancient Egyptian art, reflecting …
There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock. – Inside a gallery on the Rock of Gibraltar, engraved by Joseph Constantine Stadler by Rev. Cooper Willyams – Entrance to the Prince’s …
Ashura in Syria. Tasnim News Agency, CC BY-SA – By Noorzehra Zaidi, Assistant Professor of HIstory, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Originally posted 2019 Sep 06 – Thousands of Shiite Muslims from around the world will visit Iraq this month to see the …
A woman holds a phone in front of the office of NSO Group, which makes a tool that can see and hear everything a phone is used for. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images – By Bhanukiran Gurijala, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & …
Beer, wine and hard liquor are causing nearly 100,000 U.S. deaths a year. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer – By Margie Skeer, Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine; Weiner Hailey Family Professor, Tufts University 2021 Aug 09 – Curious Kids is a series …
Some who stop eating meat continue eating fish in the belief that it’s good for them and that fishing is less cruel and destructive than farming – nothing could be further from the truth. While fish continues to be labelled a health food …
Forced from their homes by fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces, thousands of families seek refuge in a Kabul park. Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images – By Abdulkader Sinno, Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University …
Taliban militants and Afghan civilians celebrate the signing of a peace deal with the United States on March 2. Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images) – By Hanif Sufizada, Education and Outreach Program Coordinator, University of Nebraska Omaha –This article was originally published on …
On the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest, people from Mexico’s smallest state Tlaxcala say their ancestors were liberators – Dancers celebrate the anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlán, the Mexica capital, on 26 July. Photograph: Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock – David Agren …
