Category: History

  • Old highways. Long gone...

    Three rivers now interred beneath heaps of sand in the Sahara Desert might have been the superhighways of the Stone Age. Simulations reveal that the rivers, each about as big as the Missouri or Rhine River, meandered across the Sahara 125,000 years ago. Early humans probably followed the lush corridors as migration routes across North…

  • Hitler's children - Lesson to be learned.

    After World War II, many people who survived had relations with renowned Nazis. Despite what they have gone through, they had to keep on going. Each one chose a different path... Bettina Goering (great niece of Adolf Hitler's second in command Goering) lives in Sante Fe, asking from people hate Germans for what they are. (1) Bettina…

  • Forgot Hitler? Repeat! Forgot again? Repeat!

    > Help translate the Harmonia Philosophica book in 6 new languages and get valuable perks in return! Support the Indiegogo project now! A research in Germany some time ago revealed that half of its schoolchildren do not realise Hitler was a dictator, while a third believe he protected human rights. The shocking statistics also revealed…

  • Middle Ages - An era of light!

    Many people refer to the Middle Ages as a "dark" era. But take a look closer. Why do they say that? The main reason is that during these ages research in sciences like mathematics, geometry, astronomy et cetera was not so intense as, e.g., in the era before Christ. But is that really bad? Do…

  • CAS, 了解, translation, 我...

    > Help translate the Harmonia Philosophica book in 6 new languages and get valuable perks in return! Support the Indiegogo project now! A translation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) caused an uproar. [1] Many rushed to think that the mere fact of the translation means that the CAS accepts the views in the papers translated. Despite of how…

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