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7 times a total solar eclipse revolutionized science
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 months agoClouds can block out and ruin the total solar eclipse.Laurie Ambrose/Getty Images Humans have been studying total solar eclipses for millennia to better...
People Are Sharing The Common Historical Myths That “Make Their Hackles Rise,” And I Am Definitely...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 6 months agoRecently, people over on Twitter were prompted by user @sewistwrites to share their (least) favorite...
Think the solar eclipse is thrilling? To our ancestors, it was terrifying
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThink about it — at 3:25 p.m. April 8, the sun is going to go out. Think about it, not as a jaded...
Did’ja hear the one about Pi=3?
WHTM via Yahoo News· 3 months ago(WHTM) — It’s one of those urban legends that pops up again and again, that somewhere, sometime, in some governing body in the United States (usually a...
Why are we haunted by the Moon?
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIf people on the Moon weigh only one-sixth as much as they do on Earth, why did so many Apollo astronauts fall flat on their faces the moment they got...
Fear of new ideas is nothing new
Kitsap Sun via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMr. Driscoll’s recent letter about the conservatives’ anti-everything philosophy reminds me of Goethe’s epic poem “Faust”, in which Mephistopheles proclaims: “I am the spirit that constantly ...
