Category Archives: Curiousities

Skyscrapers of Babel: How Ancient Mesopotamia Shaped the Modern City

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to imagine futuristic skylines—melding ziggurats with modernism in a visionary blend of the past and the possible.

Satyajit Das: On Cinema – Francis Ford Coppola’s Operas & Chamber Pieces

A break from our regular programming in the form of revisiting some of Francis Ford Coppola’s classics.

Coffee Break: Ancient Food Facts, Cancer Therapy, the Conscious Brain, and Biohacking with Biotech…Plus Thomas Jefferson

On this Independence Day in one country in North America a few notes on life outside current politics, scientific and otherwise. Part the First: The Archaeology of Food Is Fascinating. Having read about Roman eating habits over the years I have wondered about two things, fish sauce and the dormouse. Now we know which fish […]

Holiday Special: Dimash Sings Edith Piaf’s Hymne à l’Amour

mash, who has credibly (and often) been called the world’s best singer, does it again.

At Antarctica’s Midwinter, a Look Back at the Frozen Continent’s Long History of Dark Behavior

Sunlight is beginning to return to Antarctica, but are there warnings for us from the “Madhouse at the End of the Earth”?

Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans

A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists are helping to define the Anthropocene as a new stage in the geological record.