Ancient Greek
An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek By Mary Norris January 2, 2020 - - - In “La Lingua Geniale,” Andrea Marcolongo writes about classical Greek while young and freshly enamored of the beauty, economy, and subtlety of the language. Photograph by Dimitris K. / Alamy When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I flashed it at a meeting with some highly accomplished multilingual women. “You read Italian?” one ... mais »
WW III ?
Qasem Soleimani: Why kill him now and what happens next? By Jonathan MarcusDefence and diplomatic correspondent - 3 January 2020 - Share this with Facebook - Share this with Messenger - Share this with Twitter - Share this with Email - Share Media captionChief international correspondent Lyse Doucet explains the significance of the attack The killing of Gen Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds force, represents a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran and one whose consequences could be consi... mais »
Atherosclerosis in 16th-Century
Atherosclerosis in 16th-Century Greenlandic Inuit Mummies L. Samuel Wann, MD1; Jagat Narula, MD, PhD2; Ron Blankstein, MD3; et alRandall C. Thompson, MD4; Bruno Frohlich, PhD5; Caleb E. Finch, PhD6; Gregory S. Thomas, MD, MPH7 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(12):e1918270. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.18270 Introduction Atherosclerosis is often thought of as unique to modern *Homo sapiens*, the product of our contemporary diet, lifestyle, and environment superimposed on primordial susceptibility. However, the HORUS Study Group has found that atheroscle... mais »
Thomas Stearns Eliot,
[image: Eliot, T.S.] 1965: American-English author T.S. Eliot, a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry in such works as *The Waste Land* (1922), died in London. *[ Test your knowledge of poetry .]*
Isaac Newton
[image: Newton, Sir Isaac] FEATURED BIOGRAPHY 1643 Isaac Newton READ MOR
Pollution Ranking
In New Study Naming Pollution the 'Largest Environmental Threat to Health,' US Ranks Among Top 10 Nations for Premature Deaths
Local Burden od Diseases
Local Burden of Disease – Education With this interactive map visualization, explore local patterns in educational attainment across all low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017. Learn more
Poetry: M. S. Merian, 1670
Poetry: Maria Sibylla Merian, January 1670 By Diane Ackerman | cientific American January 2020 Issue Download PDF [image: Poetry: Maria Sibylla Merian, January 1670] Caiman defends her young against a false coral snake in this engraving by German-born illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian, published in 1719. Credit: Getty Images *Edited by Dava Sobel* There was a way of beholding nature that was like a form of prayer. When she painted a caterpillar, she limned the whole bracing saga of its life from birth, instars, and metamorphosis to the plants it gorged on and the predators who stalk... mais »
Write a poem
Feeling stuck? Write a poem “If you find yourself stuck on a particular problem, leave your experiment, close your laptop, stop taking your field measurements — and try writing a poem about it instead,” urges science communicator *Sam Illingworth*. He offers *five beginner’s tips for using poetry* to communicate and celebrate your science. Nature | 3 min read (from September)
Frontotemporal Dementia
I*nternational view on genetic frontotemporal dementia* *Published: Tuesday, December 3, 2019* Frontotemporal dementia is a subtype of neurodegenerative dementia, characterised by progressive changes in behaviour and personality or language difficulties. Frontotemporal dementia has a strong genetic component,1 and microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT), progranulin (GRN), and chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) are the most common mutated genes. Patients with this condition show heterogeneity in clinical presentation and a wide variability in age at symptom onset, age at d... mais »
Reconquista
[image: Alhambra: Fuente de los Leones] FEATURED EVENT 1492 Granada reclaimed by Spain READ MORE *Reconquista*, English *Reconquest*, in medieval Spain and Portugal, a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims (Moors), who had occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century. [image: The Alhambra, a palace and fortress in Granada built between 1238 and 1358 at the end of Muslim rule in Spain.] The Alhambra, a palace and fortress in Granada built between 1238 and 1358 at the end of Muslim rule in Spain.Though the beginning of the Re... mais »
Isaac Asimov
[image: Asimov, Isaac]FEATURED BIOGRAPHY1920Isaac Asimov READ MORE
Fossil Roots
Mid-Devonian *Archaeopteris* Roots Signal Revolutionary Change in Earliest Fossil Forests - William E. Stein 6, 7 - Christopher M. Berry 6 - Jennifer L. Morris 6 - - Charles H. Wellman - David J. Beerling - Jonathan R. Leake - Show all authors - Show footnotes Published:December 19, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.067 Highlights - • The earliest fossil forest to date is recovered from the Devonian of New York - • Three types of trees are identified from fossil soil evidence in plan view - • Early lignophyte relat... mais »
Fropm: Brain Pickings by Maria Popova
FROM THE ARCHIVE | Elevating Resolutions for the New Year Inspired by Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds [image: treebrain.jpg?zoom=2&fit=199%2C261] What if we could augment the bucket-list of typical New Year’s resolutions, dominated by bodily habits and pragmatic daily practices, with higher-order aspirations — habits of mind and spiritual orientations borrowed from some of humanity’s most timelessly rewarding thinkers? After last year’s selection of worthy resolutions inspired by such luminaries as Seneca, Maya Angelou, Bruce Lee, and Virginia Woolf, here is another set for the new ... mais »
History of New Year's
The Grim History of New Year's and American Slavery'Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year's Day the worst of any,' one 1842 acco
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