Tag: geschiedenis
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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 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 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 11 tot 15 oktober 2024
The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter | Aeon Essays In the late 20th century, Japan was known for its minimalism: its Zen arts, its tidy and ordered cities, its refined foods and fashions. But Tsuzuki peeled away this façade to reveal a more complicated side to his nation. And Tokyo was the perfect setting for…
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Links van 4 tot 8 oktober 2024
US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting | Montana | The Guardian An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive…
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Links van 30 september tot 4 oktober 2024
Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds | History Today If you’ve never encountered this aspect of Anglo-Saxon England before, there is a ready explanation. To the founding fathers of academic history – the scholars of late Victorian and early 20th-century England – the Anglo-Saxons were ‘us’, and it was from them that we derived much…