Mickey Mouse and Mao Feature in Dadaist Animation ‘The Great History of Western Philosophy’
With echoes of Monty Python, the first feature from public domain fan and Mexican creative Aria Covamonas world premieres at Rotterdam: "There was no script for this movie but a method." ...
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New Herculaneum Scroll Unwrapped, Revealing Ancient Greek Philosophy
A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean philosophy text.
Death of the Aga Khan: What is Ismailism, the esoteric branch of Shia Islam?
Hussaini, also known as the Aga Khan, died on Tuesday, February 4, aged 88. A colossally wealthy philanthropist, he was also ...
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Caspar David Friedrich: The shape of things to come
Apocalypse Then Did Caspar David Friedrich really see into the future? A speculative inquiry, by On the heels of major ...
Missing link in Indo-European languages' history found
Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...
Rutgers University10h
New Book Tells the Story of the Most Influential Black Woman You’ve Never Heard Of
Burroughs, the daughter of former slaves, established her own school in Washington, D.C. in 1909, helping to forge new career ...
The butterfly effect: this obscure mathematical concept has become an everyday idea, but do we have it all wrong?
The image of the tiny flapping butterfly has come to stand for the outsized impact of small actions, or even the inherent unpredictability of life itself. But what was Lorenz – who is now remembered ...
Ancient engravings shed light on early human symbolic thought and complexity in Levantine Middle Paleolithic
A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...