Romulus Gives Laws to the Roman People, pen and wash, by Bernard van Orley, 1524 / Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich International History Blog / 09.01.2017 First of all, let’s get the fine print out of the way; every moment in time itself is unique and forever lost. You never obtain the exact same conditions (unless you[…]
Photo by Ahron de Leeuw/Flickr By Dr. Justin E.H. Smith / 06.01.2016 Professor of History and Philosophy of Science Université Paris Diderot A poet, somewhere in Siberia, or the Balkans, or West Africa, some time in the past 60,000 years, recites thousands of memorised lines in the course of an evening. The lines are packed with[…]
Maddox and his brother in their apartment in Lowell, Massachusetts. / Photo by Heidi Shin By Heidi Shin / 11.14.2017 When the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975, the regime carried out a genocide that killed over 1.5 million people and specifically targeted nearly all of the country’s artists and musicians. Very few survived. After[…]
Detail from the Bocage map of 1784 depicting Ancient Athens / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Massimo Pigliucci / 11.03.2017 Professor of Philosophy City University of New York One of the axioms of modern morality is that there is an inevitable tension between altruism and selfishness. The more you focus your attention, energy and resources toward your own[…]
War diaries, scrapbooks, letters and photographs belonging to Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most influential scientists of the modern era, will today be placed in the care of the Churchill Archives Centre. 09.22.2017 Sir John Cockcroft was one of the most important and influential scientists of the modern era. He[…]
In a galaxy far away, two dead stars begin a final spiral into a massive collision. The resulting explosion unleashes a huge burst of energy, sending ripples across the very fabric of space. In the nuclear cauldron of the collision, atoms are ripped apart to form entirely new elements and scattered outward across the Universe.[…]