Author: Himanshu Sharma

There’s nothing particularly interesting about bridges, until you – like us – look up the best bridges around the world and realize that you’re actually really into bridges. These works of art and engineering have taken bridge-building from its mere utility of connecting two elevated points to something far greater. 10. Magdeburg Water Bridge (Germany)…

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Most scientific myths are just that: widely held science beliefs that have little to no basis in actual science. Some of them, however, have simply been brushed off as myths because of how ridiculous they sound, even if later research proves that they’re pretty much entirely accurate.  10. Garlic Can Help With A Toothache Garlic…

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The dramatic rise of Fascism in the wake of the First World War was one of the most far-reaching and consequential events of the century, and perhaps all of history. While it first showed up with the rise of Benito Mussolini in Italy, the ideology and its various implementations by other regimes in the decades…

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Before we set out to explore the cosmos, we’d first have to know everything there is about our own neighborhood. And yet, other than the general position of things and a few specific details here and there, we know surprisingly little about what’s going on in our own solar system – especially in its most…

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As we develop tools to explore other worlds for signs of life, there’s still so much we don’t know about life right here on Earth. The mysteries of the living world are as diverse and fascinating as all the various organisms that call this planet home, including our own species. They also raise some fundamental…

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Anyone who has traveled around could tell you that Earth is full of geological oddities. The sheer variety of terrains and ecosystems found across the planet lend to some pretty bizarre and fascinating natural formations. Some of them are so weird that they may as well exist on an alien planet with completely different conditions…

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With the global supply chain crisis currently affecting every major country around the world, it’d come as a surprise to no one that we’re running out of certain things. However, it’d be a mistake to only see it as a post-Covid problem. Many of these shortages had started showing up in countries around the world…

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Human history – or at least the parts we know about – is full of stories of great civilizations and their achievements. Far less common, though, are accounts of some of its darkest periods outside the context of those achievements. From global wars to plagues to natural calamities straight out of the Bible, we see…

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Whenever we think of pioneering achievements in mathematics, we think of early modern works by mathematicians like Einstein, Newton or Galileo. None of them, however, would have been possible without the groundwork laid by ancient mathematicians.  Some of the greatest ancient mathematical works come from early civilizations like Greece, India and Egypt, providing a base…

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Picking the worst years throughout human history is no easy task, as most of it has been undocumented and full of spectacularly bad years. We’ve come a long way from our famine and almost consistently war-ravaged early past, having somehow managed to build a working civilization despite everything nature has thrown at us over the…

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As a field of study, chemistry has existed for as long as we can remember. In the early days, alchemists used to study the chemical composition of materials to understand their properties, which could then be used for various applications in the real world. That’s essentially what lab chemists do today, only with modern tools…

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The human brain is one of the most complex organs in the human body, as well as the most poorly-understood. While we’ve come a long way in decoding its largely mysterious workings in the past few years – thanks to unprecedented advances in fields like neuroscience – there’s a lot we still don’t know about…

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We’ve been trying to predict the end of the world – or at least the end of human civilization – for as long as we can remember. Our fascination with doomsday theories is way older than any conspiracy website, even if we’ve never been right about any of them. However, with science and technology progressing…

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Anyone who has traveled around could tell you that Earth is full of geological oddities. The sheer variety of terrains and ecosystems found across the planet lend to some pretty bizarre and fascinating natural formations. Some of them are so weird that they may as well exist on an alien planet with completely different conditions…

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We can all relate to stories of notable rebels from history. Somewhere deep down, standing up to tyranny appeals to each one of us, even if most people wouldn’t go as far as these people did. That’s why many of them are still remembered as heroes in their own countries, regardless of whether they succeeded…

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In the past few decades, warfare has changed in more ways than we can count. Gone are the days of vast organized armies facing off in a series of battles until one of them is decisively defeated, settling the matter once and for all. Modern war is asymmetric and unending, waged by nameless, stateless actors…

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While it’s true that war itself never changes, the ways we fight it are constantly evolving with time. The introduction of gunpowder, for one example, transformed the battlefield in more ways than we can count, giving rise to the organized, industrial style of warfare seen in major wars throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.    In…

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