Tag: rome
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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 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…
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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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Romulus: RUINED!!
Ik kreeg een tip: Romulus, een Italiaanse serie, over het ontstaan van Rome, in het oud-Latijns. Dus geen klassiek Latijn, maar archaïsch Latijn. Yes! Ik ben een grote fan van geschiedenis van dingen waar we niet vele over afweten. Ik begin dus te kijken, en ’t is allemaal doenbaar en alles, tot plots dit: NEEEEEE!!!!!!…
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Links van 1 december 2014 tot 4 december 2014
Stop giving Wikipedia money | Newslines – The Story of EverythingDon’t donate to Wikipedia. It doesn’t need the money, and anything you donate will not go to the people who actually created the pages that you like. It doesn’t even go to the admins who help check the content. It doesn’t go to content creation…
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Gelezen: The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000-264 BC)
Al wat we op school geleerd hebben over het ontstaan van Rome is verkeerd! Ja, natuurlijk dat ze ons gezegd hebben dat Romulus uitgevonden is, maar daarna: dat Rome eigenlijk maar boeren waren, dat ze al hun cultuur van de Etrusken haalden, dat de Etrusken trouwens lang de baas waren in Rome. En hoe zat…