AvatarBethany FrasierAvatarAvatar4 days agoThe New Civil War Movie Is Eerily Right About How the Country Could Split Apartverified_publisherPOLITICO - By Joanna WeissThe political violence in Alex Garland’s dystopian thriller is chaotic and random — which is exactly what makes it so scary. The real Civil War was a lot like that, too. When the trailers for the movie Civil War dropped a few months ago, the internet assumed it knew what was coming. The promos, after …
AvatarBethany FrasierAvatarAvatar5 days agoOpinion: What ‘Civil War’ reveals about this troubling Hollywood traditionverified_publisherCNN - Opinion by Noah BerlatskyCNN — “Much of the American artistic and cultural work about the Vietnam War, even as it engages in anti-American criticism, places Americans firmly and crudely at the story’s center,” Viet Thanh Nguyen writes in his 2016 study, “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War.” You could expand …
AvatarBethany FrasierFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo5 days ago130 Unusual And Fascinating Maps That Might Teach You Something New About Our Worldboredpanda.com - Miglė Miliūtė, Kotryna BrCreated by the mastermind behind ‘Very Useful Maps’, these images are not your regular markers of geographic areas.
AvatarBethany FrasierFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo6 days agoLeonardo Da Vinci understood concept of gravity 400 years before Einstein, new study revealsupworthy.com - Vidhya M.Centuries before Einstein formulated the 'Equivalence Principle' Da Vinci seemed to have a good grasp of the concept. Leonardo Da Vinci, often …
AvatarBethany FrasierFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo5 days agoNew Solution To The Fermi Paradox Suggests The Great Filter Is Nearly Upon Usiflscience.comAn astronomer has suggested a new solution to the Fermi Paradox, which implies that the "great filter" may still lie in our near future.First, a …
AvatarBethany FrasierAvatarAvatar5 days agoLargest 3D map of our universe could 'turn cosmology upside down'Live Science - By Sharmila KuthunurScientists using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument have unveiled the largest 3D map of the universe ever. The results suggest that dark …
AvatarBethany FrasierAvatarAvatar5 days agoAncient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA revealsLive Science - By Kristina KillgroveA new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people …
AvatarBethany FrasierFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo5 days agoWhat Is A Henge, And Why Were They Built?iflscience.comIf we ask you to imagine a henge, we'd bet your mind instantly goes to the now-iconic Stonehenge in Wiltshire, UK. This prehistoric megalithic …
AvatarBethany FrasierFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe Fascinating Story Of Quetzalcoatl, The Feathered Serpent Deity Worshiped By The Aztecsallthatsinteresting.com - Genevieve CarltonOne of the most important gods in the Aztec pantheon, Quetzalcoatl was associated with wind, wisdom, and agriculture and was believed to have …
AvatarBethany FrasierAvatarAvatarAI Could Explain Why We're Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposesverified_publisherScienceAlert - Evan GoughArtificial Intelligence is making its presence felt in thousands of different ways. It helps scientists make sense of vast troves of data; it helps …
AvatarBethany FrasierAvatarAvatarLanguage doesn’t perfectly describe consciousness. Can math?verified_publisherVox - Oshan JarowEven the most poetic words can’t capture the full richness of our minds. So scientists are turning to numbers. The idea that language is a clumsy, imperfect tool for capturing the depth and richness of our experiences is ancient. For centuries, a steady stream of poets, philosophers, and spiritual …
AvatarBethany FrasierAvatarAvatarThe Moon Turned Inside Out Billions of Years Ago, Scientists Revealverified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle StarrThe Moon is a great whackin' oddball in the sky, and scientists may have just figured out part of the reason why. Its surface is chemically …