1. What was the longest year in history ? It sounds like a silly question, but it’s not. There is a correct answer: It was 46 BC. Julius Caesar stretched that year […]
How Julius Caesar Created The Longest Year In History, Defining January 1
The Science Behind The New Year’s Resolution
Facts: 88 % of all New Year’s resolutions fail in the end Number of Americans who make New Year’s resolutions: 40 % 77 % of people manage to stick to their New […]
Child Psychiatry Team Finds That Musical Training Might Help Kids Focus Attention, Control Emotions And Diminish Anxiety.
Children who play the violin or study piano could be learning more than just Mozart. A University of Vermont College of Medicine child psychiatry team has found that musical training might also […]
Egg And Sperm Race: Scientists Create Precursors To Human Egg And Sperm
Scientists at the University of Cambridge working with the Weizmann Institute have created primordial germ cells – cells that will go on to become egg and sperm – using human embryonic stem […]
25 December: The Arbitrary Date Of Christmas
The early Christians were not initially concerned with the Nativity of Christ, and even in the fourth century C.E. it was not a universally fixed observance among Christians. The choice of 25 […]
19/1/2015: History Of Art Slade Lecture Series
History of art slade lecture series 2014-2015 – Prof Mary Miller – Cambridge University Mon 19 January 2015 – Mon 9 March 2015 Mill Lane Lecture Rooms From figurines to ceramic vessels […]
What is the Future of Print?
What could arguably be deemed the strongest of the printing industry trade associations is now surveying its members, asking them to describe whether the future of “print” is grim or bright. They […]
19/12/2014: Carols from Queen’s College (Oxford University)*
Topic: Carols from Queen’s Performers: Choir of the Queen’s College Event date: 19 Dec 2014 Event time: 19:30 – 21:30 Venue: The Queen’s College High Street Oxford OX1 4AW United Kingdom Venue […]
7 Female UK Entrepreneurs Looking Back On Their 2014
The December issue of GRIT features 7 UK entrepreneurs, all women, looking back at their 2014. GRIT is the digital magazine of “WE” (Women Empowered), a platform for women informing each other how […]
Certainty In Our Choices Often A Matter Of Time, Study Finds
When faced with making choices, but lack sufficient evidence to guarantee success, our brain uses elapsed time as a proxy for task difficulty to calculate how confident we should be, a […]
NASA Rover Finds Active, Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
Possible Methane Sources and Sinks Source: NASA This illustration portrays possible ways that methane might be added to Mars’ atmosphere (sources) and removed from the atmosphere (sinks). NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has […]
Earth’s Most Abundant Mineral Finally Has A Name: Bridgmanite!
An ancient meteorite and high-energy X-rays have helped scientists conclude a half century of effort to find, identify and characterize a mineral that makes up 38 percent of the Earth. And in […]
Researchers Detect Possible Signal From Dark Matter
Could there finally be tangible evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe? After sifting through reams of X-ray data, scientists in EPFL’s Laboratory of Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC) […]
The Battle Over Alfred Nobel’s Testament
On 2 January 1897, the will of Alfred Nobel, the deceased Swedish dynamite millionaire was widely published. The bulk of his great fortune was left to form a fund, from the annual […]
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