The Lebanese town of Al-Nabi Chit, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, is considered a possible burial place of the prophet Seth, Adam and Eve’s lesser-known third son. The prophet’s remains are believed to be entombed in an elegant mosque with […]
More than 7,000 species of frogs hop, climb and perch around our world—which means more than 7,000 unique frog calls permeate our air. “The diversity of frog sounds is hard to overstate,” says Mark Scherz, a herpetologist at the Natural
From the most distant stars in the sky to the screen in front of your face, light is everywhere. But the exact nature of light, and how it travels, has long puzzled scientists. One question in particular has vexed thinkers
We are delighted to announce a new commercial collaboration with Laidlaw Education who will be leasing part of our building. Laidlaw Education LLP is an Education Consultancy offering individualised teaching for children of all ages, both during the day and
Experimenting, translating, and philosophizing about physics and metaphysics, biology and geology, two great thinkers from Central Asia stand out both for their achievements, and their completely opposite points of view. This week, Danièle speaks with S. Frederick Starr about the
Iznik tile, 16th to 17th century, Syria or Turkey. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art When Hamid Hemat accepted a curatorial post at Connecticut’s Wadsworth Atheneum in 2022, the refugee from Kabul, Afghanistan, was surprised by what he found. The
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
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9/11 was an inside job. Aliens have already made contact. COVID-19 was created in a lab. Maybe you rolled your eyes at some point while reading that list. Or maybe you paused on one and thought… well… it could be
The ship the SS Great Eastern in 1858. Early Life and Education Brunel was born on the 9th of April, 1806, in Portsmouth, England, to a French father, Marc Isambard Brunel, and an English mother, Sophia Kingdom. Marc Brunel was
