Latest bookmarks (page 82 of 143)

2016: "Seven months after its historic encounter with Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission is still dazzling us with discoveries: ancient frozen canyons, chains of icebergs floating in rivers of exotic slush, signs of paleo-oceans, and more. "

"Beginning in 2002, the Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute began to plumb graves in a tomb complex located in northwestern China’s Taklamakan Desert. The site, which the Swedish archaeologist Folke Bergman started excavating in the 1930s, had been forgotten about for decades."

During early Covid lockdowns

"Our Ethicist in Residence concludes a year-long series with an interview of current bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo"

"New images of Anak Krakatau, which erupted last month and caused a deadly tsunami, are revealed."

"It’s easy enough to write the protesters off as silly purveyors of nonsense, but after reading a post by my friend Wil, I remembered something I witnessed this year and San Diego Comic-Con that just destroyed any and all cynicism I had been feeling about the show, and got me REALLY upset about the message of the protesters outside."

On calling out sexist harrassment

2018: UK heat wave reveals the outlines of ancient Roman and older sites under crop fields as plants grow differently within the remnants of ancient walls and moats. The article doesn’t make it clear why this is unique to heat waves, though.