I Love Color
By Ron Pickett The dawn sun reflects from windows across the valley. It makes me warm with excitement. I love color; I always have. I love the yellow-green of newly erupted leaves in the sun. I love the red straws of the bottle brush I love neutral greys, taupes, and tans – Not so much […]
Tracing the Growth of Galaxies
Like documenting a child’s development in a scrapbook, astronomers use Hubble to capture the appearance of many developing galaxies throughout cosmic time. This is possible because of the mathematical relationship between cosmic distance and time: the deeper Hubble peers into space, the farther back it looks in time. This occurs because light travels at a […]
Rediscovered Caravaggio Masterpiece “Ecce Homo” Debuts at Prado Museum
Caravaggio, a towering figure of the Italian Baroque, is renowned for his revolutionary use of chiaroscuro—an interplay of light and shadow that imbues his subjects with a visceral realism. Born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571 or 1573, Caravaggio led a tumultuous life marked by brawls, imprisonment, and even murder, culminating in his mysterious death at the […]
The Dancing Monkeys
By adapted from Aesop ONCE upon a time a prince had some monkeys. They were very bright, funny little monkeys and so he taught them to dance. Heel-toe, forward and back! Soon they were able to dance for all the world like men and women. So the prince gave the monkeys fine clothes and he […]
China’s High-Tech War Steals U.S. Innovation Advantage
By Larry Bell Beijing’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders figured out a long time ago that it’s a lot easier, faster, and cheaper to steal strategic military, commercial and scientific innovations from other countries — America in particular — than to develop them internally. Key among these currently sought after breakthrough cutting-edge Intellectual Property (IP) […]
These Six big Moon Mysteries Remain Unsolved (Video)
By Neel V. Patel July 20, 1969 marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the first time in history that humans set foot on an extraterrestrial world. But half a century later, Earth’s only natural satellite remains an unknown place to us, and its history and geology remain puzzling, largely because we […]
Andrea Mantegna, One of the Great Renovators of Western Art
Born in or around 1431 in the small town of Isola di Carturo, near Padua, Mantegna is known for the linear sharpness and rigorous attention to detail of his art. Mantegna also stands out among Italian Renaissance painters for his complete dedication to classical antiquity. At an early age the artist was apprenticed to the […]
Baby Boomers, Millennials, Gen Z: Who Names Generations?
By Dora Mekouar All About America explores American culture, politics, trends, history, ideals and places of interest. What’s in a name? People born approximately between 1946 to 1964 have been dubbed Baby Boomers because of the sharp increase in birth rates after World War II. Millennials, now between the ages of 28 and 43, got […]
China Accelerates Forced Relocation of Rural Tibetans to Urban Areas, Report Says
By William Yang TAIPEI, TAIWAN —In a newly released report, Human Rights Watch says China has been accelerating the forced relocation of Tibetan villagers and herders in the name of “poverty alleviation” and environmental protection since 2016. While Chinese authorities describe the relocations as voluntary, the New York-based international rights organization’s report cites more than […]
AI, Deepfakes, Social Media influencers – India’s mammoth Election Sees it All
By Anjana Pasricha NEW DELHI —From deep fake videos created by artificial intelligence (AI) to social media influencers who hold sway with young people, political parties in India are using all the tools of the digital age to expand their outreach to voters as the country holds its mammoth general election. AI-generated images, audio and […]