Ignoring, Burying Anxieties Never Works
By Dr. Laura Schlessinger Those thoughts just won’t stop coming. they might be about guilt, regret, or fear of something you did or experienced in the past. They might be about worry and anxiety concerning what’s possibly coming your way in the future: What do you do? Alcohol or drugs? Depression and medication? Freezing in […]
Rocca Calascio: The Medieval Castle in the Sky that Survived the Test of Time
By Cedric Rischitelli In recent years, the castle of Rocca Calascio has become one of the most visited locations in the Italian region of Abruzzo, and for good reasons. National Geographic lists Rocca Calascio as one of the 15 most beautiful castles in the world due to its favorable location in the middle of the […]
The Rarer It Is
Supply and demand is the name of the game when we’re talking about economics – the reality that prices are determined by the number of providers and purchasers who want an item, good, or service. There’s no better place to see this at work than collector’s items. No longer in production, collector’s items are limited […]
Fountains of Diamonds Erupt from Earth’s Center as Supercontinents Break Up
By Stephanie Pappas The breakup of supercontinents may trigger explosive eruptions that send fountains of diamonds shooting up to Earth’s surface. Diamonds form deep in Earth’s crust, approximately 93 miles (150 kilometers) down. They are brought up to the surface very quickly in eruptions called kimberlites. These kimberlites travel at between 11 and 83 mph […]
Can We Trust ChatGPT and Our New Machine Overlords?
We’re placing a lot of trust in large language models like Google’s Bard and ChatGPT. They’ve only been with us a short period of time and already they have fundamentally altered the nature of the world market. Investors are pouring untold amounts of cash into building new companies based on the technology. Nearly every major […]
The “Social Dance” of the Han Dynasty with its Strict Etiquette Rules
Although the earliest popular social dance in the world originated in European countries, the one in China also has a prolonged history. As early as in the Han and Tang dynasties, while the scholars were drinking and listening to music in feasts, in addition to impromptu songs and dances, there was a rather ceremonial social […]
Piero del Pollaiolo
Famous for their new treatment of heroic, antique subjects and the depiction of the male nude in action, Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo ran one of the most successful and advanced workshops in fifteenth-century Florence. Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo had a workshop in Florence patronized by Medici. In the Florentine workshop of the Pollauiolo brothers […]
Western Han Dynasty Newspaper, the Earliest Newspaper in the World
Western people tend to believe that the earliest newspaper was The Daily Chronicle, founded by Julius Caesar in 59 B.C. In fact, in terms of age, the Chinese newspaper, Di Bao, predates the Daily Chronicle by about a century. According to the Yangcheng Evening News, Di Bao was also known as Di Chao, Zhaobao (morning […]
Travel to Maisie’s Galaxy
This 3D visualization shows about 5,000 galaxies within a small portion of the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) survey made by the Webb Space Telescope, which collected data from a region known as the Extended Groth Belt. As the camera moves away from our vantage point, each second is equivalent to traveling 200 million […]
Parisian Coffees, Enduring Social Hubs
The Parisian cafés, in addition to the cafeteria, they have a restaurant that offers meals at any time of the day. They serve as meeting places, food and drink hubs, business or personal gathering locations, as it was in the past, as well as places for debates or discussion. They have endured wars, revolutions, social […]