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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...see what places look like, and who has visited them today. Consider the impact of using digital maps such as those developed by the Hestia project on the results of your enquiry, research and understanding. The project team is interested in finding out how they may be improved to enhance study further. Send us a comment via the links below or contact us directly by email....
Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15
Digital & Computing

Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15

...studying Wikipedia I’ve learned that we are witnessing a largely silent coup, in which traditional sources of authority have been usurped. Rather than discovering what the capital of Israel is by consulting paper copies of Encyclopedia Britannica or geographical reference books, we source our information online. Instead of learning about thermonuclear warfare from...
Foreign interference?
Digital & Computing

Foreign interference?

...study of the security of Android mobile phones did show that both companies are amongst the worst at fixing critical security problems in their devices - perhaps that should be the real worry about Huawei and ZTE, and it’s something we can all fix – if your phone company won’t patch your phone, don’t buy another one from the same company.
The secrets of the brain
Science, Maths & Technology

The secrets of the brain

...study them and figure out which function (or functions) their brain could not do, and from that they assumed that that specific region was in charge of those roles. For example, on 1848, a railroad constructor named Phineas Gage had an accident while working: an iron pole passed through his head, destroying an area known as the left frontal lobe. Phineas survived this...
How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’
History & The Arts

How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’

...Author’s note: I am most grateful to Chris Bennett for directing my attention to the “The Praise of Hemp-seed” by John Taylor (1620). [The Conversation] Francis Thackeray, Phillip Tobias Chair in Palaeoanthropology, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Exploring comets: A short introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring comets: A short introduction

...studied Halley’s comet in 1986. ESA’s mission, Giotto, was the best equipped. It got to within nearly 600km, and sent back the first close-up pictures of a comet’s nucleus. The most spectacular mission before Rosetta was NASA’s Deep Impact, which in 2005 dropped an impactor into the nucleus of comet Tempel 1, while the mother-ship watched. The impact excavated...
Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity

...studies, I would not have arrived at the solution,’ Einstein wrote. In 1905, Albert Einstein based a new theory on two principles. First, the laws of physics appear the same to all observers. Second, he calculated that the speed of light – 186,000 miles per second (299,338 kilometers per second) – is unchanging. Prior to Einstein, scientists believe that space was...
How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...studying its output, it is worth remembering that by default Voyant excludes “stopwords”, the most common words in the English language, such as articles, pronouns and prepositions. This simple wordlist can act as a springboard for our analysis of the novel. We can, for example, compare the high frequency of man (137 occurrences) and father (134) with the only 24...