WEIRD HISTORY
A Kerrville, Texas, resident watches the flooded Guadalupe River on 2025 Jul 04. Eric Vryn/Getty Images – By Hatim Sharif, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio Published: 2025 Jul 05 Updated: 2025 Jul 07, 8:28pm EDT …
This is digital reconstruction of the temple revealing a complex about the size of a city block. Called Palaspata after the native name for the area, the site was strategically perched at the crossroads of several ancient trade routes. José Capriles / Penn …
The committee assigned to draft the Declaration of Independence, from left: Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and John Adams. Currier & Ives image, photo by MPI/Getty Images – By Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino Published: …
In Stephenson’s novel ‘The Diamond Age,’ a device called the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer offers emotional, social and intellectual support. Christopher Michel/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA – By Rizwan Virk, Faculty Associate, PhD Candidate in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, Arizona State …
How does Facebook occasionally deliver such disconcertingly timed advertisements? Is it really listening to users through their smartphone microphones? Or is the truth much more unsettling? Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2025 Apr 24 – Perhaps one of the most pervasive longstanding technology conspiracy …
The footprints were first discovered in 2019 and researchers have since debated the accuracy of tools used to trace their age. Courtesy of David Bustos/White Sands National Park – By Jay Kakade 2025 Jun 30 – Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found …
Honey from this species of Australian stingless bee has remarkable antimicrobial properties. Wikimedia Commons/Graham Wise CC BY 2.0 – By Paul McClure 2025 Jun 29 – Honey produced by some species of Australian stingless bees possesses impressive bacteria- and fungi-killing properties, according to new …
AI will resort to blackmail if faced with failure or being switched off. AI generated image made with Microsoft Designer – By David Szondy 2025 Jun 28 – In what seems like HAL 9000 come to malevolent life, a recent study appeared to …
A church in Kiruna, Sweden, designed by architect Gustaf Wickman to resemble a Sámi hut. Apolline Guillerot-Malick/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images – By Thomas A. DuBois, Professor of Scandinavian Studies, Folklore, and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Published: 2025 Jun 27 – In …
Novo Nordisk has not one but three new and distinct weight loss therapeutics. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Jun 23 – Over the weekend, Novo Nordisk dropped a pile of scientific data on three new experimental weight-loss drugs, including an oral one, showing …
