2022年11月29日 · This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a 16th century rendering that preserved lines used for navigation while hideously distorting the true sizes of continents and oceans further from the equator.

2023年1月4日 · According to medieval legend, the town of Klagenfurt in Austria was founded on a marsh that was home to a Lindwurm, or wingless dragon.Those wanting to settle in the area had to first deal with the dragon before founding Klagenfurt. As is traditional with dragons, this one gobbled up anyone who tried to cross the marsh.

2023年10月19日 · Einstein's watershed year of 1905 marked the publication of his most important papers, addressing topics such as Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and special relativity.His work in special relativity introduced the idea that space and time are interwoven, laying the foundation for modern astronomy.

2023年6月21日 · The dawn of dinosaurs began with the Permian mass extinction, also known as the Great Dying.This event, around 252 million years ago, killed more than 90 percent of life on Earth at the time. Scientists are unclear on what actually caused this mass die-off (warming temperatures and volcanic activity likely played a role) but it is widely recognized as the worst extinction ever to have occurred.

2024年5月7日 · Ozempic is an injectable treatment administered once a week. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) approved a smaller dose of the drug for treating diabetes in 2017, as well as a larger dose of the drug for treating obesity in 2021, branded under the name Wegovy.As GLP-1 agonists, their active ingredient is semaglutide, which mimics a naturally occurring hormone called glucagon-like ...

2024年1月4日 · The Bermuda Triangle got its name from a 1964 article in the pulp magazine Argosy, which linked together a few disappearances in the region. “ The Deadly Bermuda Triangle ” didn’t offer up any explanations for the occurrences, though it did heavily emphasize the mysterious nature of the area. The article features the disappearance of the U.S.S Cyclops, a Navy supply ship, in 1918, and ...

2023年11月29日 · Some measurements in the Mariana Trench have charted depths exceeding 6.5 miles (or 36,000 feet) in the deepest spot, dubbed Challenger Deep. The average depth of the world’s oceans comes in around 12,000 feet, or 2.3 miles, according to a comprehensive research effort with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2010.. But this encompasses a seafloor that, similar to dry land ...

2025年1月2日 · Mount Tambora is a stratovolcano on the Sumbawa island in Indonesia. The volcano resides along the Sunda Arc — a chain of volcanic islands. Though it has experienced several eruptions throughout history, Mount Tambora is famous for its eruption in 1815.

2023年6月14日 · Simply put, swearing is taboo language: particular words that certain people deem unacceptable in specific settings within a given culture. “The words that come to fill that role come from certain places in the human experience,” says Benjamin Bergen, a linguist and cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego, and author of What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our ...

2023年12月25日 · Nostradamus was a French astrologer, physician, and reputed seer. Countless books interpreting his predictions have been produced, as well as documentaries and even TV shows like The Nostradamus Effect, which developed a cult following of its own by constantly promoting the man’s doomsday prophecies.. But Nostradamus himself rejected the idea that he was any kind of prophet.