People & culture
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A Visualization of the History of Technology: 1,889 Innovati…
[ad_1] “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So holds the third and most famous of the “three laws” originally articulated by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. Even when it was first published in the late nineteen-sixties, Clarke’s third law would have felt true to any resident of the developed world, surrounded by…
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Games, Souls, and the Problem of Arbitrary Social Relations …
[ad_1] Note: This article contains potential spoilers for The Snow Girl. Miren: I’m not a very good journalist, you know. Nacho: [Laughs]…No? Miren: No… The rules, the… technique… I’m not the best at that. But I know how much you suffer when [expletive] your life. Victims don’t have to be perfect. We shouldn’t ask that…
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The forgotten story behind the most famous side-eye in Holly…
[ad_1] Alamy One of show business’s most glamorous – and notorious – images, there’s more to this 1957 snapshot of Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield than might first appear. On the night of Sophia Loren’s “Welcome to Hollywood” dinner party in April 1957, Jayne Mansfield walked into the exclusive Romanoff’s restaurant in Beverly Hills with…
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Serbia’s present future | Eurozine
[ad_1] The student protests in Serbia have persisted for seven months, yielding widespread and diverse effects. All state universities are still blocked and primary and secondary school teachers ceased work from January to April 2025. Lawyers went on strike throughout the whole of February, while farmers and university professors have also voiced their support. Roads…
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How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigment, …
[ad_1] Photo courtesy of Washington State University. It’s become fashionable, in recent years, to observe that we live in an increasingly beige-and-gray world from which all color is being drained. Whether or not that’s really the case, all of us still enjoy easy access to a range of colors that nobody in the ancient world…
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The story of the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970
[ad_1] Alamy Almost 55 years ago, Michael Eavis hosted the first of his legendary music festivals. In 1970, the BBC visited his Somerset dairy farm to find out what made it so unique. “I think this is the quickest way of clearing my overdraft,” said Michael Eavis on 18 September 1970 when he was asked…
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No longer a victim | Eurozine
[ad_1] Bundesheer poster, Vienna, 30 November 2024. Image by Sarah Waring The poster needed a double take: three action-ready figures dressed in fatigues could have easily been advertising a film rather than the Armed Forces. Having never seen military propaganda on the streets of neutral Austria, I took a quick reference photo. That was over…
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Chip Theory’s Magnetic Micro Kids Games Are Perfect Road Tri…
[ad_1] While best known for their high production value, heavier weight strategy titles, Chip Theory’s Kids Games set out to bring high quality educational games for kids. These games include concentration, logic, geometry, and more. In the independent play series, the 4 games come in tins to be more sturdy and for use of magnetic…
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Are We FREE? Or Is It FAKE?
By Relentless Aaron We love to shout about freedom.Post about it.March for it.Celebrate it.But if we’re being honest — most of us are still stuck. Not in literal chains.But bound by old mindsets.By outdated systems.By invisible cages we’ve normalized. ✊🏾 Freedom ain’t real if… We’re calling ourselves free while living out scripts someone else wrote…