WEIRD HISTORY
Shutterstock – By Matt King, Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania and by Christopher Watson, Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania – University of Tasmania provides funding as a …
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, photographed in New York circa 1874. Universal Images Group via Getty Images – By Marina Alexandrova, Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin – Published: 2023 May 05 – Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White …
Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take note. An AI humanoid from the 2014 film Ex Machina. The technology has long featured in Hollywood films but is increasingly becoming part of real life. …
An artist’s reconstruction of the newly discovered rhynchosaur, Beesiiwo cooowuse, named in the language of the First Nations people indigenous to the area in which it was found. Gabriel Ugueto – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 27 – Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
Willie Nelson’s face is as iconic as his voice, his songs and his beat-up old guitar. Gary Miller/Getty Images – By Jason Mellard, Director of the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University Published: 2023 Apr 25 – Willie Nelson’s unofficial theme …
Researchers identified this fossil as a chile pepper due to its unique ‘hat’. The discovery has caused scientists to rethink the plant’s evolutionary timeline. Rocío Deanna/University of Colorado Boulder – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 23 – Fossilized plants can provide much information about …
Eugene Debs, center, imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Prison, was notified of his nomination for the presidency on the socialist ticket by a delegation of leading socialists who came from New York to Atlanta. George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images – By Thomas Doherty, …
In rousing new historical drama Chevalier, the story of Joseph Bologne, often crudely referred to as ‘Black Mozart’, is finally given the spotlight it deserves. ‘The Black contribution to classical music has always been very robust and very diverse’ … portrait of Joseph …
Some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets were posted to a small online gaming community. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu – By Brianna Dym, Lecture of Computer Science, University of Maine – Published: 2022 Mar 15, Updated: 2023 Apr 15 – The Justice Department …
New Mexico’s ancient water systems nurtured its rural farmlands through climate change. But after last year’s wildfires, there’s little time left to save them. Mayordomos Carlos Arellano and Jimmy Sánchez walk through a recently cleared acequia in Holman, New Mexico, where government funding …
