reader comments 12 Only the most dedicated “Carmen” fans—or North Dakotan educators of a certain age—are likely to have this one in their collections. Kyle Orland / VGHF These “pretty cool stickers” came from a “Carmen Day” kit the producer Broderbund sent to school to encourage themed edutainment activities that went beyond the screen. Kyle ..
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Enlarge / Oil painting by Victor Eustaphieff of Charles Darwin in his study at Down House. One of the many bookcases that made up his extensive personal library is reflected in the mirror. State Darwin Museum, Moscow reader comments 7 Famed naturalist Charles Darwin amassed an impressive personal library over the course of his life, ..
reader comments 75 There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: Pirates! Specifically, ..
reader comments 87 with How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin within a few centuries of European history in which the features of modern science—experiments, models ..
Enlarge / A Roman bad girl: Tullia was the younger daughter of a Roman king, Servius Tullius. She plotted the king’s overthrow and murder—callously running over his body in the street—so her husband Lucius Tarquinius could become king. Public domain reader comments 18 with Around 186 BCE, a former slave turned courtesan named Hispala Faecenia ..
Enlarge / Khachatur Manukyan and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame used cutting-edge spectroscopic and imaging instruments to get a closer look at the inks, paper, and fibers that made Benjamin Franklin’s bills distinctive and hard to replicate. University of Notre Dame reader comments 33 with A papermaker in Massachusetts named Zenas Marshall Crane ..
Enlarge / Scholar: The 15th century “Heege manuscript” could be a rare written record of a live minstrel performance. YouTube/University of Cambridge reader comments 49 with One of many standout scenes in the 1975 classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail features King Arthur and his knights facing down the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, a seemingly ..
Enlarge / Fecal samples in sediment collected from beneath this stone toilet seat at Armon Hanatziv, circa mid-7th century BCE, showed evidence of a dysentery-causing parasite (Giardia II). So did samples from a near-identical stone toilet at House of Ahiel. Ya’akov Billig reader comments 22 with Last year, we reported on an analysis of soil ..
Enlarge / Researchers examined folio 843 of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus to determine the cause of mysterious black stains. Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan reader comments 12 with Researchers at the Politecnico di Milan in Italy examined mysterious black stains on a folio of Leonardo da Vinci‘s Codex Atlanticus and confirmed the presence of starch and ..
Enlarge / An artist’s conception of Ptolemy using an instrument to observe the night sky. reader comments 54 with Share this story It was only natural for Alexander Jones to feel thrilled when he saw a sixth century palimpsest at the Ambrosiana library in Milan for the first time. It happened in 1984 when Jones ..