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THE CICADAS RETURN AFTER 17 YEARS: STUNNING FOOTAGE OF THE Sing, fly, mate, die. The periodical cicadas in Brood X are emerging from underground, where they have spent the last 17 years as nymphs. They are making the final climb of their lives, intent on escaping their carapaces in order to make more cicadas. And as always they are doing it en masse. Open Culture, openculture.com THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY GETS DIGITIZED: VIEW THE MEDIEVAL “A simple interface was created to access the digital version, which allows users to zoom in and explore it in great detail with access to Latin translations in French and English.”Made of 2.6 billion pixels (which brings it to eight gigabytes in size), the online Bayeux Tapestry lets us zoom in so far as to examine its individual threads — the same level at which WHO INVENTED HEAVY METAL MUSIC?: A SEARCH FOR ORIGINS The Beatles weren’t steeped in the blues, but so many other British bands were, and here’s where blues picked up the gauntlet thrown down by these heavy, droning, bass-laden sounds. While the British Invasion bands wore their Englishness on their (record) sleeves, trad- and psych-blues bands like Cream and Led Zeppelin wanted to soundAmerican.
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WHO BUILT THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS & HOW DID THEY DO IT?: NEW Experimental archeologists ( scientist against myths , youtube)in Russia have drilled holes in granite with a wooden drill equipped with a copper bit and sand to the same results found in Egypt , they have also cut granite using a copper saw and sand ,according to them , the cut and holes are achieved through abrasion and movement of the copper implement while drilling CAB CALLOWAY’S "HEPSTER DICTIONARY," A 1939 GLOSSARY OF Lead us, Cab Calloway! The charismatic bandleader not only had a way with words, his love of them led him to compile a “Hepster’s Dictionary” of Harlem musician slang circa 1938. It featured 200 expressions used by the “hep cats” when they talk their “jive” in the clubs on Lenox Avenue. A SEARCH ENGINE FOR FINDING FREE, PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES Most of the art available through Museo comes, as public-domain material tends to, from times long past. But that, in its own way, encourages their creative use: many of the images returned for “entertainment,” “food,” “sports,” and even “technology” fairly demand surprising 21st-century recontextualization. As its network of collections expands, do make apoint of visiting
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Founded by computer scientist and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun, Udacity partners with leading tech companies and offers an array of courses (and Nanodegree programs) in data science, cyber security, machine learning THE CICADAS RETURN AFTER 17 YEARS: STUNNING FOOTAGE OF THE Sing, fly, mate, die. The periodical cicadas in Brood X are emerging from underground, where they have spent the last 17 years as nymphs. They are making the final climb of their lives, intent on escaping their carapaces in order to make more cicadas. And as always they are doing it en masse. 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In the Big Think video above, Marxist theorist, cultural critic, and professional provocateur Slavoj Žižek approaches the term as a kind of enforced niceness that obscures oppressive power relationships. He begins with an example, of a so-called “postmodern, non-authoritarian father,” who uses a subtle form of emotional coercion, playing on feelingsFREE MATH TEXTBOOKS
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