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Cats Migrated to Europe 7,000 Years Earlier Than Once Thought
The animals were imperfect, long-tailed, unfortunate in their heads. Little by little they put themselves together,…
The Most Popular Song from Each Month Since January 1980: 40+ Years of Changing Musical Tastes in 50 Minutes
As Helen Reddy sang in the 70s: You live your life in the songs you hear…
Carl Sagan Explains How the Ancient Greeks, Using Reason & Math, Discovered That the Earth Isn’t Flat Over 2,000 Years Ago
The denial of science suffuses American society, and no matter what the data says, some conservative…
Hear the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago
In the early 1950s, archaeologists unearthed several clay tablets from the 14th century BCE. Found, WFMU…
How One Man Keeps Showing Films in a Japanese Cinema That Closed 58 Years Ago: A Moving, Short Documentary
Since at least the nineteen-fifties, when television ownership began spreading rapidly across the developed world, movie…
Humans First Started Wearing Clothes At Least 300,000 Years Ago, New Research Finds
Images courtesy of University of Tuebingen That people wore clothes back in the Stone Age will…
Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 3)
More than 50 years after Don Rawitsch introduced Oregon Trail in his eighth grade class, the…
Miley Cyrus & David Byrne Perform David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” on New Year’s Eve
Last night, Miley Cyrus and David Byrne performed David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” on the NBC holiday…
A Nonprofit Spent Five Years Counting a Million Credentials. What Does It All Add Up To?
For the past five years, researchers have been carefully counting all the degrees, certificates and badges…