"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
— George Orwell
Japan’s Olympic athletes will wear outfits designed to block infrared — and the reason is disturbing ZME Science
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“Want to know why giant ships can float, how your earbuds make music, what graphene is, or how windows can clean themselves? You’ve come to the right place! Here you’ll find simple explanations you can really understand—hurrah! Hard stuff… made simple! Explain that Stuff is an online book written by science writer Chris Woodford (author of many popular science books for adults and children). It includes over 400 easy-to-understand articles, richly illustrated with over 4000 photos, artworks, and animations, covering how things work, cutting-edge science, cool gadgets, and computers. We take the “pain” from explain and the “tough” out of stuff! There’s more information on this website than in your average expensive science book, it’s continually updated, and it’s completely free to use! Explain that Stuff also helps to support curriculum learning (conventional STEM education and home-schooling).” There are five simple ways to find what you want:
- A-Z index: Browse articles by name.
- Timeline: Find inventions by date.
- Random: Discover something new.
- Search: Use the search engine (at the top of each page).
- Teaching guide: Browse study topics.
Comic Book + / Total 42,888: “Welcome to the main page of our massive public domain comic book archive. True gems to download or read online. So many, it is impossible to read them all! The majority of our books belong to what has been termed the Golden Age of Comics. This began primarily with newspaper reprints and then “went up, up and away” with the introduction of Superman. Styles changed, new genres superseded old and then a new era dawned, the Silver Age of Comics, of which we also have many examples. For what was once a massive industry, the publishers and their successors often took little care of their work.
Many of the comics were either not copyrighted correctly, or the copyright was not renewed. Through this oversight thousands of comic books lapsed into what is called the “Public Domain”, which means that there is now no legal owner. That is why we can bring you all of these FREE and LEGALLY! So take our word for it, if you browse around you are certain to spend a great many happy hours here!..”
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Poetry Atlas – Mapping Poetry in the World
“All poetry begins with geography”, said the great American poet, Robert Frost. We agree, but the importance of location in poetry has often been underrated.
We are restoring the importance of place to poetry and demonstrating the importance of poems to our appreciation of place. Poetry surrounds us. Poetry is all around us. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a poem can be worth a thousand snaps on flickr. The poetic layer to our world has never been mapped before, but it is there. Over the millenia, towns, schools, streets, bridges, mountains, seas, have all been described in poetry. New York, London, Paris, Munich, they&039;ve all been sung by the greatest poets of all tiime.
“Minnehaha” will always be laughing water, Oxford will have its “dreaming spires”, the Grantchester clock will be stuck at ten to three, and the Shropshire hills will always be “blue remember&039;d”. Poetry Atlas springs from a profound passion for verse and travel. The vision and mission of Poetry Atlas is to map every poem ever written about anywhere…”