In Oct 2025, India & Mongolia released joint postal stamps celebrating their folk dance traditions to mark 70 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries. The commemorative stamp depicted the Mongolian folk dance form known as Biyelgee बियल्गे.1/n
These monks supposedly moved the Ark of the Covenant to Antarctica. This then caused a giant earthquake in New Zealand, and probably other disasters. Look at those guys. Lovecraftian cultists for sure.
Robert Grosseteste correctly predicting what a proper understanding of optics would lead to, hundreds of years before the inventions of microscopes and telescopes:
What causes did medieval people care about? Charitable bequests in Genoese wills provide an answer.
44% went to the poor and the sick. 20% went to ransom captives captured in war and piracy, and perhaps most interestingly, 8.6% went to the Crusades, indicating widespread popular support among ordinary people for these endeavors.
Another indicator of people's religious fervour at the time was that 22.9% of the value in charitable bequests went to various religious orders.
Smell is the primordial sense. What if every movie theatre showing a certain kind of movie, redneck bar, sporting event, biker gathering smelled awful but always in the same way. And somewhere a small group of smell terrorists were partying
The Association of Autonomous Astronauts held Intergalactic Conferences in Vienna 1996, Bologna 1998 and London 1999. Here's the posters. More here, plus details of next week's AAA event @maydayrooms https://t.co/4dtj8FDt1E
It's not often that classical music is background music, but Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato for two pianos and two marimbas creates a truly unique atmosphere that works beautifully. Give it a listen:
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