Not only was beer safer than the water of ancient Egypt, the high caloric content also worked as a substitute for food, since they often had very small food rations.
Not only was beer safer than the water of ancient Egypt, the high caloric content also worked as a substitute for food, since they often had very small food rations.
Diet Coke was invented in 1982.
The Americano (espresso and hot water) was born after American soldiers in WWII found espresso to be too strong or bitter.
The most important thing to keep in mind here is the big picture. People have died to control the spread of a plant. Not just a couple, a lot. Many people have died, to make sure that policies are upheld. That’s pretty messed up.
I think this is the only technology that seems more like black magic the older it is. I understand how magnets, radio triangulation and GPS work, but other than smoke signals, I would be totally screwed navigating if I went back in time.
When you think about it, there are really only two options. Either a Palestinian state is created or we go to war again. It’s going to keep happening that way over and over again until each side has its own government and nation.
In case no one else has yet, let me damage your childhood. The song “Ring Around the Rosy” was about the Bubonic Plague.
French caves are known for their prehistoric rock art, but did you know that surrounding those paintings are 26 symbols that appeared over and over again at French sites over a period of 25,000 years? These symbols didn’t just start cropping up in France, however. They are found all over the world - in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia - suggesting that some sort of symbolic language arose with the early humans of prehistory and that perhaps certain civilizations made contact far earlier than originally believed. Put that in your linguistic pipe and smoke it.
Film arcs - literally. It can be hard enough to keep track of real-world history, but move into the realm of movies and, well, film fiction has overlapping and paradoxical futures and pasts that make reality pale by comparison. “Been there, done that - a scientifically fictional timeline of films that transcend the space-time continuum.”
(Source: aliceyi.com)
Apple Tree - 25 years of growth, branches, splits and new devices … it looks so clear in retrospect, but the shape reminds us that many branches could have grown further or been clipped along the way as well.
Want to stand out from the crowd? Try showing your skills in more ways than one by using a resume itself to showcase creativity coupled with useful information. Resume infographic (by Bart Claeys)
Mapping the Republic of Letters is a fascinating project by a team of students and professors at Stanford, visualizing the famous intellectual correspondence of the Enlightenment, how they traveled, and how the network evolved over time — an inspired cross-pollination of humanitarian scholarship and computer science.
