Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Monday, January 27, 2020
Can you find Ukraine on a map?
In a 2014 survey, about 16 percent of Americans could correctly locate Ukraine. About 60 percent of visitors to this page found it on the first try.
Can you find Ukraine on a map
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Boys Can Be Princesses Too project
Boys Can Be Princesses Too 'was born in April 2019, and since then photos of children, dressed as princesses, have been published.
The author of this initiative and professional photographer, Kitty Wolf,
The author of this initiative and professional photographer, Kitty Wolf,
Friday, January 24, 2020
The 'Apocalypse Clock' has 100 seconds left:
The end of the world is closer than ever, as determined by the scientists of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Each year they warn of how many minutes are left for midnight, for the end of the world. They do it in the symbolic 'Apocalypse Clock', which this year, for the first time, no longer counts in minutes but in seconds. We have 100 seconds left, but the question that arises is how much those 100 seconds correspond. Can these scientists really determine when the end of the world will be?
via Wikipedia.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The Mysterious “Order of the Odd Fellows
It’s a name that had me instantly transfixed, like something Wes Anderson had dreamt up for his next film. The Independent Order of the Odd Fellows – a secret society for … odd people? Why had I never heard of it? Never one to resist the pull of a promising rabbit hole, I would soon discover that the international fraternity I’d accidentally stumbled upon had existed for centuries, possibly longer, and at one point during America’s “Golden Age of Fraternalism”, grew larger than the Freemasons
read the full story here The Mysterious “Order of the Odd Fellows."
That Time Salvador Dali Met Sigmund Freud.
Century Eggs
Century eggs don’t look anything like the eggs you might be used to. Cut
one open, and you’ll find an albumen that’s brown jelly and a yolk
that’s shades of black and brownish green. They are considered a
delicacy in China, dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Qianggeng Wu and
Aishu Sun, a married couple who live in China’s Changlong Village, show
us how they use traditional preserving techniques to transform ordinary
duck, quail and chicken eggs into tasty century eggs.
Monday, January 20, 2020
All the World’s Wealth in One Image
Top 10 Countries with the Most Wealth in the World
1. United States: $105.99T2. China: $63.83T
3. Japan: $24.99T
4. Germany: $14.66T
5. United Kingdom: $14.34T
6. France: $13.73T
7. India: $12.61T
8. Italy: $11.36T
9. Canada: $8.57T
10. Spain: $7.77T
Sunday, January 19, 2020
What the Color ‘Haint Blue’ Means to the Descendants of Enslaved Africans.
What the Color ‘Haint Blue’ Means to the Descendants of Enslaved Africans.
In the Lowcountry, the unique shade is both protective talisman and source of unspeakable suffering.
But while the color blue dominates Lowcountry skies and waters, for
centuries it was nearly impossible for human hands to reproduce.
An Oral History of Rickrolling
From the pages of 4chan to the White House, the story behind the meme that’s never going to give you up read the full story here
A blast from the past (2007): Who Flew Before the Wright Brothers?
read the full story at mental floss
18th-Century Naturalist Believed He’d Discovered an Eyewitness to the Biblical Flood.
18th-Century Naturalist Believed He’d Discovered an Eyewitness to the Biblical Flood. Only after his death was it successfully identified.
A year of reporting—an exclusive partnership between Cosmo and Type Investigations—reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abus
A year of reporting—an exclusive partnership between Cosmo and Type Investigations—reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abus
The story of a mother who discovered that the two children she has adopted are biological brothers
Katie Page, a 36-year-old mother from Colorado, adopted in April 2017 a child who is now two and a half years old. A month later he received a call that told him that Hannah, a girl now a year and a half, needed a foster home.
He did not hesitate and took the girl home. It was there that he began to notice that the two children looked a lot physically, and decided to start investigating.
The children were registered in the adoption agency with different last names, so they had no record of their kinship. But despite the disbelief of family and friends, the mother had an intuition and did not give up on the search
After doing several investigations, and confirming it with a DNA test, it was learned that the boy and the girl were children of the same biological mother who had given them up for adoption. The news facilitated that he could finally officially adopt Hannah in December 2018.
Katie divorced a few years ago before becoming a foster mother and after going through infertility problems, she always had the idea of adopting in mind.
He took care of four adopted children before meeting Grayson, who was abandoned in the hospital and immediately fell in love with him. Now, in addition to the Grayson and Hannah brothers, the mother has Jackson, a five-month-old baby who she hopes is part of the family this year.
He did not hesitate and took the girl home. It was there that he began to notice that the two children looked a lot physically, and decided to start investigating.
The children were registered in the adoption agency with different last names, so they had no record of their kinship. But despite the disbelief of family and friends, the mother had an intuition and did not give up on the search
After doing several investigations, and confirming it with a DNA test, it was learned that the boy and the girl were children of the same biological mother who had given them up for adoption. The news facilitated that he could finally officially adopt Hannah in December 2018.
Katie divorced a few years ago before becoming a foster mother and after going through infertility problems, she always had the idea of adopting in mind.
He took care of four adopted children before meeting Grayson, who was abandoned in the hospital and immediately fell in love with him. Now, in addition to the Grayson and Hannah brothers, the mother has Jackson, a five-month-old baby who she hopes is part of the family this year.
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Mathematics and computer science students earn more money than other students
Mathematics and computer science students significantly outperform their peers who specialize in humanities or liberal arts in regards to their financial compensation
At least that is what has been found in American university students. However, maybe things are not so simple
To get a good salary you have to try to get two advantages. The first, to be admitted to a good university. Second, that the field of study be labor-intensive, that is, better computing or economics than English or history.
Although having a university degree is increasingly undervalued, it still remains one of the most important factors in having a job.
However, studying costs more and more money
Several universities are converting in this direction, as in the United Kingdom or China
Many technology companies also require more and more humanities specialists ... it could soon be a rising value. Social skills are also increasingly required by employers.
Salaries are not that simple either. Yes, in the United Kingdom, those who study medicine or dentistry, economics or mathematics get the best income; in the United States, engineering, physical sciences or business. Some of the most popular humanities, such as history or English, are in the lower half of the group. But even for some jobs, it seems that it is actually better to start with a broader degree, rather than a professional one.
For example, a college student who takes the seemingly more direct route to becoming a lawyer, judge or magistrate, specializing in law studies or legal studies, can expect to earn an average of $ 94,000 a year in the United States
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Matching Pajamas for the Whole Family in the 1970s
Nothing says family togetherness more than matching pajamas for mom, dad, and the kids.This fashion statement was popular into the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Sunday, January 5, 2020
Monday, December 30, 2019
There is nothing more Canadian than this free stock photography gallery
Cira, the organization that manages the ".ca" domains, has created a library of free stock photographs, in which we can find many scenes or situations that represent some of the best-known Canadian clichés.
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