Film
Despite its star-studded cast, Taps is a relatively unknown film today, but it made quite an impression on me when I first saw it as a 10 year old. The movie tells the story of a group of cadets at a military academy who take over the school when they
Motion
The concept of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarckism, was first proposed by French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in the early 19th century. Lamarck believed that organisms could pass on traits or characteristics that they acquired during their lifetime to their offspring. Lamarck argued that an organism'
Thinking
Robert Stern, University of Sheffield There has been much excitement at the discovery of a treasure trove of notes from the lectures of the great German idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. The several thousand pages date from Hegel’s time at the University of Heidelberg (1816-18), when he returned
Culture
From March 1940, a fascinating look at the development of Hitler's reputation in Germany and the UK, and the way that his publishers were forced to change the way they marketed his book.
Thinking
The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius ruled from 161 to 180 A.D. and maintained the reputation for being the ideal wise leader whom Plato called the "philosopher king."
Film
Captain's log, Stardate 45047.2. The Enterprise is en route to the El-Adrel system. Its location is near the territory occupied by an enigmatic race known as The Children of Tama.
Health
Tuesday’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, 10 days after a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, has once again brought American exceptionalism on gun violence into stark relief.
Health
You eat a credit card’s worth of plastic every week. Plastic is omnipresent. Plastic is cheap and easy to make and mold. We use this miracle polymer to store and transport food, make our clothes and cosmetics, cars and boats, detergents and fertilizers, transfuse our blood and floss our teeth.
Motion
Scientists are using a new method to study black holes that could unlock the secrets of quantum gravity. The method uses a two-dimensional matrix to describe the three-dimensional surface of a black hole. This could help scientists understand the event horizon and unlock secrets about our universe.
Motion
Our world would be impossible without quantum mechanics — but we still don’t have a narrative of how it works.
Motion
Today, more than three years after the release of the first-ever image of a black hole, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) shared an image of Sagittarius A* — the supermassive specimen sitting at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.
Film
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.