Categorie: Links
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Links van 4 tot 15 april 2025
Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning Musk’s impotent attempts to get his giant shiny phallus to work are the perfect metaphor for the man. Indeed, Starship seemed promising at first if you didn’t ask too many questions. But, after back-to-back failures and having never come close to completing its design brief (including actually landing Starship…
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Links van 23 maart tot 4 april 2025
Роман Федорцов (@rfedortsov_official_account) • Instagram photos and videos Rare beesten uit de zee! beesten, biologie, fotografie Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank Herbert’s Dune – Reactor Although Lawrence’s narrative was certainly an inspiration for key aspects of Dune, there are also critical contrasts in the portrayals of Lawrence and Paul, the…
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Links van 20 februari tot 1 maart 2025
Hittite Monuments A list of monuments from Hittite civilization with images and brief information. Hittieten, archeologie, geschiedenis (6105) The Discovery of a New Bronze and Iron Age Kingdom in Turkey: The Site of Türkmen-Karahöyük – YouTube Türkmen-Karahöyük is een recent ontdekte archeologische site in Centraal-Anatolië die een onbekend Bronstijd- en IJzertijd-koninkrijk onthult. Uit een inscriptie,…
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Links van 27 januari tot 6 februari 2025
The leading AI models are now very good historians The headaches that LLMs have caused in the classroom are (I believe) more than counterbalanced by what they can offer as tools for research and self-directed learning. For this reason, I’m now even more optimistic about the long-term impact and utility of AI tools for historical…
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Links van 13 tot 27 januari 2025
The 46 Best Pens for 2025: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens | JetPens Elk jaar opnieuw wil ik dan twintig van die dingen kopen. We draw on years of testing to crown the best beginner fountain pen, best gel pen, best pen for note-taking, and more. Each recommendation includes links to related guides so…
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Links van 24 december 2024 tot 7 januari 2025
Tokyo in 3D model | Tokyo Metropolitan Government Digital Twin Realization Project Heel Tokyo in 3D, en helemaal gratis. Tokyo, 3D Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city | Hub What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders…
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Links van 13 tot 24 december 2024
Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn | The Scientist Magazine® We recently joined a number of other scientists in calling for a certain line of research to not be pursued: work that could result in the creation of “mirror bacteria.” These are bacteria made of all components that natural cells possess,…
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Links van 30 november tot 13 december 2024
Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years | Live Science Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it’s the 1980s, but researchers still aren’t sure why they do it. orca, beesten Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One…
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Links van 21 tot 28 november 2024
The meme-ification of the “Demon Core” The strange transformation of a criticality accident into dark Internet humor meme, ongeluk, plutonium How animals learned to hibernate and why we can’t do it (yet) | Aeon Essays The conventional view is that humans and other creatures around us live between periods of waking and sleeping. But it…
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Links van 15 tot 20 november 2024
There’s a ‘climate bomb’ ticking beneath the Arctic ice. How can we prepare? | Aeon Videos Dramatic images of massive ice shelves breaking off into the ocean and the emaciated bodies of starving polar bears are often used to illustrate the impact of climate change on Arctic landscapes. However, as this short film explores, perhaps…
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Links van 6 tot 13 november 2024
Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’ On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and communicator. wetenschap, Carl Sagan Solving the Siberian Crater Mystery In the northern reaches of Russia, enigmatic craters have begun appearing in broad expanses of windswept…
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Links van 30 oktober tot 3 november 2024
How the U.S. military lost a $250 million war game in minutes – The Washington Post As a U.S. Navy carrier battle group entered the Persian Gulf, it came under surprise attack by adversaries launching missiles from commercial ships and radio-silent aircraft that quickly overwhelmed its missile defense systems. Nineteen U.S. ships, including the aircraft…
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Links van 27 tot 30 oktober 2024
Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude Why aren’t ghosts naked? This was a key philosophical question for Cruikshank and many others in Victorian Britain. Indeed, stories of naked or clothesless ghosts, especially outside folklore, are exceedingly rare. Sceptics and ghost-seers alike have delighted in thinking about how exactly…
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Links van 21 tot 25 oktober 2024
Journal of Digital History (wel geen RSS-feed, grr) As an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal, the Journal of Digital History (JDH) will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles. geschiedenis Tog’s paradox Tog’s Paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s Complexity Paradox) is an observation that…
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Links van 15 tot 20 oktober 2024
Trapped in a Company Town Why is it so hard for mass media, corporations, and millions of Americans to address the threat of Trumpism? Traditionally, the interviewer strikes the “reasonable person” pose and treats the interviewee as similarly reasonable—just two reasonable people having a discussion, in which the interviewer tries to get the interviewee to…