Quote of the day by Giorgia Meloni (AP photo) Being dismissed by other people rarely feels like an advantage in the moment. Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first woman prime minister, argued that it can genuinely become one. “To the women of this nation I want to say that being underestimated is a great advantage, because often…
Europe’s shrinking Donbe river has hit power supply, transport and businesses Europe’s major rivers are shrinking as extreme heat and drought continue across the continent, creating several issues. Falling water levels are reducing electricity production, disrupting the transport of goods and affecting businesses that depend on rivers.From the Rhine in western Europe to the Danube…
The Deep Time team, deep inside the Lombrives Cave in the French Pyrenees. Image Credits: @HumanAdaptation via X On March 14, 2021, fifteen volunteers, seven women and eight men aged between 27 and 50, entered the Lombrives cave in the French Pyrenees to begin a 40-day experiment with no clocks, no phones, no natural light…
Halfway along the Afsluitdijk, the 20-mile dam that has separated the salty Wadden Sea from the freshwater IJsselmeer since 1932, sits a small blue building that most drivers passing over the dam never notice. Since November 26, 2014, when King Willem-Alexander switched it on, this building has housed the world’s first reverse electrodialysis power plant,…
German proverb of the day (AI-generated image) Some proverbs make their point in a single line. Others need a moment of thought before the meaning actually lands. This old German saying belongs firmly in the second group. On first hearing, it sounds almost like a strange bit of arithmetic involving fences, dogs, horses and people,…
Quote of the day by Pablo Picasso (Image: Wikipedia) Quote of the day by Pablo Picasso: “When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to…” – a profound lesson on creativity, simplicity and rediscovering the fearless artist withinChildren draw without hesitation, painting…
Quote of the day by Joan of Arc (Image source: Wikipedia) Some people find the courage to face impossible odds through a conviction that feels bigger than themselves. Joan of Arc, the French peasant girl who led troops during the Hundred Years’ War as a teenager with no military training, is one of history’s most…
Visitors to a hillside near Vicenza in northern Italy spent nearly a decade believing they were exploring the remains of a forgotten Roman amphitheatre. Guided by dramatic tales of ancient emperors, gladiators and even visits by Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, they willingly paid €40 for tours of what appeared to be an extraordinary archaeological discovery….
Arthur Schopenhauer (Image source: Wikipedia) Modern life rewards constant connection, endless notifications, endless networking, endless visibility. Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher, pointed toward something almost opposite. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude,” he wrote. An eagle does not build its nest in the middle of a crowded valley….
New fossil discoveries at Gran Dolina cave in northern Spain show that cannibalism practised by an ancient human relative called Homo antecessor was not limited to children, as earlier evidence had suggested. Researchers recovered two dozen bones and teeth belonging to this now extinct species, which lived in Europe between roughly 1.2 million and 770,000…