Ancient Spookiness 👻

Ancient Spookiness 👻

In Greece, near Athens, there was an old house that always seemed emp­ty. The renters would always move out ear­ly, claim­ing it was haunt­ed. This house was infa­mous for its dark past; neigh­bors even claimed it was spooky. They said they could hear the clank­ing of chains echo­ing through the halls at night. Even brave young influ­encers would vis­it and

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The History of Tribology

The History of Tribology

In 1966, one fas­ci­nat­ing word was pre­sent­ed in a paper in Europe, chang­ing the study of fric­tion and engi­neer­ing. Ah, 1966! What a won­der­ful year! It was the year of the ATM patent, the first year of Med­ic­aid, the year I was born, The Bea­t­les album “Rub­ber Soul” was num­ber one for six weeks, NASA’s Luna 9 became the first

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Climate Scientist and Suffragette Eunice Foote

Climate Scientist and Suffragette Eunice Foote

Foote was nev­er acknowl­edged as a legit­i­mate cli­mate sci­en­tist. That is, until 2011, when His­to­ri­an Ray Soren­son real­ized Foote was the first cli­mate sci­en­tist to con­duct this ground­break­ing study, lead­ing us to under­stand cli­mate change and the steps we must take to save Moth­er Earth.

Hypatia The Sum of Her Life is now on sale!

The sto­ry of her life is an intrigu­ing one! She was a math­e­mati­cian, an astronomer, a philoso­pher, and a polit­i­cal advi­sor, yet she was bru­tal­ly mur­dered by church monks. For thou­sands of years, her death over­shad­owed her accom­plish­ments. But, even­tu­al­ly, the truth of her life final­ly sur­faced in the his­to­ry books.  Dam­as­cius wrote that Theon raised Hypa­tia with dikaeosyne (jus­tice) and

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