Dimensions in Testimony is a revolutionary project which allows a person to have a Q&A with a Holocaust survivor via projection technology. Created by the USC Shoah Foundation in partnership with the Genesis Philanthropy Group. The projections hav…
View More This interactive installation gives you the ability to converse with Holocaust survivors – Mashable OriginalsCategory: History
Hyperrealistic bust of Roman emperor Nero looks like a real neckbeard
Hello, m’Romans [tips hat].
Spanish artist Césares de Roma has created a hyperrealistic silicone sculpture of the famous Roman emperor Nero. Based on pre-existing busts and classical literary sources, the historical accuracy cannot swa…
Super Bowl LIII will feature male cheerleaders for the very first time
At 2019’s Super Bowl, Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies will make history.
On Sunday, Peron and Jinnies will become the first male cheerleaders to ever perform at a Super Bowl. They’ve been busy preparing since the Rams, their team, advanced to the annual championship game back in January.
Aye Napoleon, you think Atlanta is ready for us? … NAHHHHHH 😜😜😜… WE’RE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL! 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/oWFAElcw61
— Quinton Peron (@Qperon) January 21, 2019
This will technically be their second time making history in the sport. In March 2018, the two men — both professional dancers from California — became the first ever male cheerleaders in NFL history when they joined the Rams squad and made their regular season debut. Read more…
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View More Super Bowl LIII will feature male cheerleaders for the very first timeThousands of photographs of the bygone Ottoman Empire digitized and viewable online
The Getty Research Institute has digitized over 3,000 photos from 19th century Turkey. The moments captured were primarily in Ottoman Turkey and tell a story of Turkeys culture and tradition. Read more…More about Photography, History, Mashabl…
View More Thousands of photographs of the bygone Ottoman Empire digitized and viewable online50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart’s ‘Mother of All Demos’ changed personal technology forever
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Imagine someone demonstrating a jet plane 15 years before Kitty Hawk. Imagine someone demonstrating a smartphone 15 years before the first cellular networks were even launched. Imagine someone demonstrating a controlled nuclear chain reaction 15 years before Einstein formulated e=mc2.
On a crisp, overcast, and breezy Monday afternoon in San Francisco on December 9, 1968, before an SRO audience of more than 2,000 slack-jawed computer engineers, a soft-spoken engineer named Douglas Engelbart held the first public demonstration of word processing, point-and-clicking, dragging-and-dropping, hypermedia and hyperlinking, cross-file editing, idea/outline processing, collaborative groupware, text messaging, onscreen real-time video teleconferencing, and a weird little device dubbed a “mouse” — the essentials of a graphical user interface (GUI) 15 years before the first personal computers went on sale. Read more…
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View More 50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart’s ‘Mother of All Demos’ changed personal technology forever‘Outlander’ Season 4 ventures into a brave new world of American history
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Another season of Outlander — another leap into relocation to new political upheaval.
After four years of this pattern, you’d think the gimmick would get old. But the time-traveling period drama might’ve actually found its most fascinating and fertile ground yet in the new frontier of Season 4’s colonial America.
The reunited Frasers landed on American shores after last season’s almost-fatal trek around the world. And as the couple now seeks to make a home in the Land of the Free, they come to discover that its citizen are a lot more backwards than the beautiful but dangerous woods they’re trying to tame. Read more…
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The problem with ‘Sabrina’s intersectional feminist witchcraft
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This post contains spoilers for Season 1 of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina desperately wants you to know how woke it is.
From Sabrina founding the WICCA (Women’s Intersectional Cultural and Creative Association) club to help her black best friend Ros, to protecting her gender nonconforming friend Susie from bullies, she’s painted as a model of the white feminist ally.
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And here’s where things immediately get iffy about the show’s supposed wokeness. Read more…
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View More The problem with ‘Sabrina’s intersectional feminist witchcraftThe decline and fall of Lindsey Graham, as told by his tweets
The bruising battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination may be finished, but the political scars will last a lifetime. That is true for no one more than Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Formerly a believer that a judge must be removed if he com…
How aerial lidar illuminated a Mayan megalopolis
Archaeology may not be the most likely place to find the latest in technology — AI and robots are of dubious utility in the painstaking fieldwork involved — but lidar has proven transformative. The latest accomplishment using laser-based imaging maps thousands of square kilometers of an ancient Mayan city once millions strong, but the researchers make it clear that there’s no technological substitute for experience and a good eye.
View More How aerial lidar illuminated a Mayan megalopolisThe first long-distance car ride took place 130 years ago. Here’s the story.
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Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny team up for love and murder in unsettling ‘Lizzie’ trailer
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Starring Chloë Sevigny as the titular suspected murderess, Lizzie – directed by Craig William Macneill – takes a closer look at her relationship with Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart), the maid who testified at Borden’s trial before she was deemed not guilty.
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While the film will inevitably build to the brutal axe-murder of Bordens, the trailer spends as much time on building up Borden and Sullivan through tender moments, longing looks, and the clear implication of an affair (Borden was rumored to be a lesbian while less is known about Sullivan). Read more…
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View More Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny team up for love and murder in unsettling ‘Lizzie’ trailerTweetstorm defends millennials by comparing them to the raucous students of the 1700s
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Millennials are blamed for ruining almost everything these days. They’re held responsible for messing with the diamond industry, department stores, and even the U.Seconomy, according to various media outlets. Now they’ve been accused of coming for the classroom.
A recent article from the Times Higher Education written by an anonymous assistant professor accuses millennials of being unwilling “take responsibility” for their education.
From the Times Higher Education:
The lamest generation: I can’t teach millennials – they refuse to take any responsibility for their learning, says an assistant professor https://t.co/hOAWqTXpf3
— TimesHigherEducation (@timeshighered) July 19, 2018 Read more…
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