Art Museums, A Legacy to Humankind

Through the ages, art has shaped the very fabric of our society. The buildings that house these works are shrines to human thought and experience. Art museums are monuments to what man has achieved and what he aspires to achieve. They are a testimony to man’s desire to be more than himself. – Mark Bouton […]

Giovanni da San Giovanni, The Painter of Creative Fantasy

Giovanni da San Giovanni (Giovanni Mannozzi), Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the most distinguished of the artists working in fresco in 17th-century Florence. An eccentric personality, he was attracted by the charm and informality of northern art and by a satirical approach to classical themes. Born in San Giovanni Valdarno, Giovanni da San Giovanni […]

Hair Loss is Enough to Worry Over; It might be a Sign

Hair loss can be challenging for women as many worry about how it impacts their looks. However, hair loss has more consequences than its effects on beauty, and it can signify health problems that may need urgent attention. Dr. Valerie Callender, an American dermatologist, said that hair loss could indicate other medical conditions like diabetes, […]

The Garden of Perfect Brightness, part 1

The 3 Great Qing Emperors The Qing emperors (1644 to 1911) formed the last of the successive dynasties of China. As “alien” rulers, the Manchus inherited and adopted the cultural norms and political institutions of the previous Han Chinese Ming dynasty (1368 to 1644), at the same time maintaining their own Northeast Asian military organization, […]

Ming: 50 Years That Changed China

Curator Jessica Harrison-Hall introduces the British Museum’s collection which tells the history of the world for the world, with particular focus on ceramic works and the current BP exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China at the British Museum 18 September 2014 – 5 January 2015 Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial […]

Spring in the Leogang Mountains

The Leogang Mountains (German: Leoganger Steinberge, lit. “Leogang Rock Mountains”) are a mountain range in Austria in the state of Salzburg and form part of the Northern Limestone Alps within the Eastern Alps. In the Leogang Mountains there are only two mountain huts. They belong to the DAV – Deutscher Alpenverein – German Alpine Club […]

Astronomers Find Missing Link for Water in the Solar System

“We can now trace the origins of water in our Solar System to before the formation of the Sun,” says John J. Tobin, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA and lead author of the study published today in Nature. This discovery was made by studying the composition of water in V883 Orionis, […]

UBS Rescues Credit Suisse in a Swiss Government-Brokered Deal

In one of the biggest bank mergers, The Union Bank of Switzerland, better known as UBS, has taken over the 167-year-old Credit Suisse on March 19 for $3.25 billion. The Switzerland government-backed deal came after a weekend consisting of emergency dialogues between the two banks and the country’s financial regulators. The government-brokered deal was aimed […]

Silicon Valley Falls: Cracks Spread Across the United States’ Economy

The ripple effects of the tech bank’s failure is rapidly spreading across America’s industries. The fall of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a classic example of falling from grace to grass as the banking giant experienced a failure on Friday, March 10, 2023. It was the demise of an institution that had supported several […]

Hubble’s Messier Catalog

Even the great observer Charles Messier had trouble seeing this globular cluster when building his Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters. It was originally spotted in 1752 by a French astronomer in what is now South Africa, but it took until 1778 for Messier to catalog it. This is because, while Messier 55 is large […]