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Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein | Ars Technica

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Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein by Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)

Caltech engineers even re-created his experiment with a modern apparatus.

Caltech engineer Mory Gharib was poring over the digitized notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci one day, looking for sketches of flow visualization to share with his graduate students for inspiration. That’s when he noticed several small sketches of triangles, whose geometry seemed to be determined by grains of sand poured out from a jar. Further…

Whanganui River Māori offer support in Colorado River crisis talks | RNZ News

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Te Pou Tupua, the human face and voice of the Whanganui River, Turama Hawira Photo: LDR / Supplied
Whanganui River Māori offer support in Colorado River crisis talks by RNZ News (RNZ)

A delegation of Whanganui River Māori is travelling to the United States to support North American Indigenous leaders and tribes of the under-threat Colorado River.

A delegation of Whanganui River Māori is travelling to the United States to support North American Indigenous leaders and tribes of the under threat Colorado River. The delegation to crisis talks in Arizona is representing Te Awa Tupua, the Whanganui River. It includes the two people appointed by the river tribes as Te Pou Tupua,…

CrimethInc. : Punk—Dangerous Utopia : Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism

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Punk—Dangerous Utopia (crimethinc.com)

Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism
How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the resurgence of anarchism around the world at the end of the 20th century? How did it prefigure the participatory media of the digital age? And what can its legacy teach us today?

Let’s imagine the ideal cultural vehicle for anarchism.It has to be defiant, obviously. It should accommodate both gleeful irony and stark courage. But let’s make it affirmative, too, even if we have to go the long way round through suffering and catharsis to get there. We don’t want the kind of nihilism that makes it…

Cryptic lost Canaanite language decoded on ‘Rosetta Stone’-like tablets | Live Science

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Cryptic lost Canaanite language decoded on ‘Rosetta Stone’-like tablets (Live Science)

Two ancient clay tablets discovered in Iraq and covered from top to bottom in cuneiform writing contain details of a “lost” Canaanite language that has remarkable similarities with ancient Hebrew.The tablets, thought to be nearly 4,000 years old, record phrases in the almost unknown language of the Amorite people, who were originally from Canaan —…

Black History Month at The Wright | The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

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Wright Museum Black History Month 2023 (thewright.org)

Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans, in recognition of their central role in U.S. history.

This observance event grew out of “Negro History Week,” established by historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans in 1926.Across the nation and around the world, Black History Month serves as a reminder of the resilience of generations of African Americans of all backgrounds who have fought for freedom and justice. The Wright…

Indigenous People Have Been Here Forever. Why Won’t Archeologists Believe It? | The Tyee

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Indigenous People Have Been Here Forever. Why Won’t Archeologists Believe It? | The Tyee (The Tyee)

An Indigenous archeologist on how her discipline has shaped the view of the ground beneath our feet.

Well into The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere, Paulette Steeves wearily observes: “Disagreements between archeologists over the peopling of the Americas have been so fierce that the field has been described as a battleground and an archeological badlands.” A battlefield might be a strange place to find Steeves: she is a Tier II Canada…

Tomb of Hun warrior and his horse unearthed in Romania – Now Archaeology

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Tomb of Hun warrior and his horse unearthed in Romania by Ahmet MengüçAhmet Mengüç (nowarchaeology.com)

When it became clear that workers on a new highway in Romania were digging straight through the tomb walls of a “princely Hun warrior,” they were forced to call archaeologists. The tomb, which dates to the fifth century CE, contained more than 100 relics, including many weapons, items wrapped in…

When it became clear that workers on a new highway in Romania were digging straight through the tomb walls of a “princely Hun warrior,” they were forced to call archaeologists. The tomb, which dates to the fifth century CE, contained more than 100 relics, including many weapons, items wrapped in gold, and gold jewelry with…

Naming nature in Anishinaabemowin | The Peterborough Examiner e-edition

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https://thepeterboroughexaminer.pressreader.com/article/281741273553958 (thepeterboroughexaminer.pressreader.com)

The Peterborough Examiner27 Jan 2023DREW MONKMAN DREW MONKMAN IS A RETIRED PETERBOROUGH TEACHER AND COAUTHOR OF THE BIG BOOK OF NATURE ACTIVITIES. REACH HIM AT DMONKMAN1@COGECO.CA. TO SEE PAST COLUMNS, RECENT NATURE SIGHTINGS AND HIS OTHER BOOKS, GO TO DREWMONKMAN.COM.

Joe Pitawanakwat is on a rescue mission: to catalogue the names of birds in Anishinaabemowin, the Ojibwe language, before knowledge of these names — and what they mean in English — disappears forever.He and his collaborators, Andrés Jiménez Monge and Junaid Shahzad Khan, have already gathered about 170 names but hope to find many more…

Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old tavern — including food remains — in Iraq – CNN Style

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Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old tavern — including food remains — in Iraq by Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN)

Eating out seems to have been as popular 5,000 years ago as it is today, with archaeologists in Iraq uncovering an ancient tavern dating back to 2,700 BCE.

Eating out seems to have been as popular 5,000 years ago as it is today, with archaeologists in Iraq uncovering an ancient tavern dating back to 2,700 BCE.Researchers working in the ancient city of Lagash discovered that the pub, hidden just 19 inches below the surface, was split into an open-air dining area and a…

Ukraine war: Funeral held for battleground body collector – BBC News

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Ukraine war: Funeral held for battleground body collector (BBC News Article by Andrew Harding in Slovyansk, Ukraine)

Against a backdrop of muffled booms from the frontlines to the south and east, people sank to their knees and threw roses in front of the van as it inched past them.

Denys Sosnenko – a 21-year-old former Ukrainian national kickboxing champion – volunteered last year to work as a body collector for a charitable organisation known as Black Tulip, who scour the frontlines for the abandoned corpses of soldiers, both Ukrainian and Russian.”Denys – there are many angels on your shoulders today – the angels of…

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