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The Sun could Wipe Out Your Internet This Month via Coronal Mass Ejection

We have a new climate threat that’s as old as the planet: geomagnetic storms caused by the Sun A geomagnetic storm caused by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun [...]

When Michelangelo and Leonardo DaVinci Competed for The Same Job

In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the Hall of Five Hundred in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, was adorned with frescoes by Renaissance artists. In 1504, a [...]

A Bizarre Instance Surrounding Genetics is the Story of Henrietta Lacks

One of the most bizarre instances surrounding the study of genetics and genomics is the story of Henrietta Lacks. In 1951, Lacks, a 31-year-old African American woman, was [...]

“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” – Isaac Newton

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The Cure for Female Hysteria by a Victorian Era Doctor

The history of ‘female hysteria’: Unpacking the controversy For ages, women were often diagnosed with “hysteria” by medical practitioners, a supposed [...]

Are Humans Still Briefly Conscious After Decapitation by Guillotine?

On 19 May 1536, Anne was beheaded on Tower Green. She protested her innocence until the last, but her final reported words were uncontroversial, “I am come hither to die, [...]

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