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The Largest Continent Is Also the Most Populated
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIf you are looking at a traditional world map, you won't get an accurate idea of the size of the seven continents; depicting a sphere onto a flat surface means that something will end up distorted ...
Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science's biggest controversies
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMarie Tharp at her drafting table in Lamont Hall, circa 1961.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and...
15 Flat Earthers Who Had Absolutely Wild Interactions With People
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 6 months agoRecently, I asked members of the BuzzFeed Community about their experiences with (or even as) flat...
Plane Earth claim falls flat: Radar technology accounts for Earth’s curve | Fact check
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe claim: Radar technology wouldn’t work if the Earth was a globe An April 20 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) features an image of a world map on a radar screen. "You think radar ...
Fact check: Oceans have topographic features and are held to Earth by gravity
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe claim: Earth's oceans have no 'elevation features' and are in a 'container' A Facebook post...
Silverman: International perspectives on the Newark Earthworks as a World Heritage Site
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMore than half of 1,154 “properties” currently on UNESCO’s World Heritage List are “cultural sites”,...
Corset blazers, feather boas and rat gowns: Everything we saw on day three of London Fashion Week
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s at this point during London Fashion Week that things start to fall by the wayside. Platform...
Why artist William Kentridge is embracing shadows in his new Broad show
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoArtist William Kentridge, photographed at the the Broad museum on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 in Los...
Cryptocurrency News And Price Weekly Wrap-Up For Sept. 30
Investor's Business Daily· 2 years agoCryptocurrency prices were largely flat over the past week as the top tokens posted marginal gains...
How 'Barbie' crossed a line in Vietnam's dispute with China and ended up banned
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe upcoming movie "Barbie" has been banned in Vietnam. Now, the Philippines is considering its own ban on the Warner Bros. film. And it has nothing to do with the film's excessive use of pink ...