Inventions and discoveries of Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei’s most notable innovations, discoveries and observations in the field of astronomy, physics and other disciplines on the noted Italian physicist, [...]
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On Being Conscious to Yourself
Most philosophers who have studied consciousness know that the word derives from Latin, and that the modern usage can be traced to John Locke. But there is an interesting [...]
Charlie Chaplin and The Great Dictator Speech
On April 16, 1889, future Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin is born Charles Spencer Chaplin in London, England. Chaplin, one of the most financially successful stars of [...]
Diophantus: the Ancient Mathematician and his Riddle
Diophantes was a Hellenistic Greek mathematician who lived around 200 AD. His claim to fame comes from substituting symbols for numbers and operations in equations, thus [...]
Ancient Swamp Creature Named After Mick Jagger
The Jaggermeryx: an ancient hippo-like swamp creature with big lips. Naming the fossil of an extinct pig-like swamp creature after Mick Jagger might not sound like much of [...]
The Oracle of Delphi
Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. In myths dating to the [...]