Tag: Revolution’s

01 JUL

Gravitational waves and the slow pace of scientific revolutions

Enlarge / For years, people weren’t sure if gravitational wave were a necessary product of relativity. (credit: Fermilab) LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves came almost exactly a century after Einstein had formulated his general theory of relativity and an ensuing paper mathematically describing the possibility of gravitational waves. Or at least that’s the story as […]

10 NOV

New study links natural disaster with revolutions

Enlarge / This Nilometer at Cairo is an ancient device that Egyptians used to measure Nile flooding, to predict the harvest and set tax levels. Scientists used historical data from Nileometers to see how volcanic eruptions affected Nile floods (and by extension, the health of the harvest). (credit: Berthold Werner / Wikimedia Commons) From 305-30 […]

22 MAY

Last night's TV reviewed: The road to revolutions

BBC The story of America’s music is explored in Arena: American Epic The first European pilgrims to land on North America’s shores compared themselves to the ancient Israelites, who had their own journey to make out of Egypt. Generations on, the people in the wagon trains that settled America’s Western wilderness also sang hymns about […]