Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Brain Pickings 2019

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The Best of Brain Pickings 2019 Love, poetry, friendship, solitude, and lots of trees. BY MARIA POPOVA In this annual review, follow...

Quantum 2019

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The 12 Most Important and Stunning Quantum Experiments of 2019 More

Universe

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‘This Is Clearly Coming From Outside the Solar System’ The second known visitor to our cosmic neighborhood from another star is maki...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Jeremiah Stamler

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Jerry Stamler At age 100, the father of preventive medicine is still going strong — as living proof that he was right all along By CINDY...

Decade...

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One Decade, a Lot of Writing Ten years, measured in words on astrobiology, exoplanets and the cosmos in general By  Caleb A. Scharf  on...

Titus Vespasianus Augustus

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Titus ROMAN EMPEROR WRITTEN BY:  The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica LAST UPDATED:  Dec 26, 2019   See Article History A...

USSR

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FEATURED EVENT 1922 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established READ MORE  

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling , in full  Joseph Rudyard Kipling , (born December 30, 1865,  Bombay  [now Mumbai], India—died January 18, 1936,  London , E...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Time's Photojournalism 2019

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See TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2019

28 Women

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These 28 Women Broke Major Barriers to Become ‘Firsts’ in 2019 In a year marked by division, women everywhere pushed the wor...

"The House of God"

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Watch Now The Making of  The House of God July 10, 2019      26 min 54 sec

Johannes Kepler

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How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe ...

“The Art of the Deal,”

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Editing Donald Trump What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and...