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These Are the 100 Greatest Films of All Time, According to 1,600 ...
Dec 6, 2022 · According to a group of film critics, the greatest movie ever made is Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.The 1975 film tops the 2022 results of British magazine Sight and Sound ...
How Mistletoe Became a Christmas Kissing Tradition
The thorny origins of the yuletide canoodling ritual. How Mistletoe Became a Christmas Kissing Tradition. The thorny origins of the yuletide canoodling ritual
An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens | Smithsonian
Feb 2, 2021 · These five skulls, which range from an approximately 2.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus on the left to an approximately 4,800-year-old Homo sapiens on the right, show changes in the ...
DNA Suggests Modern Humans Emerged From Several Groups in …
May 25, 2023 · Past studies of human genetics have proposed the theory that modern humans originated from a single population in Africa. But a new paper, published last week in the journal Nature, put this idea ...
The Psychology Behind Generational Conflict | Smithsonian
Complaining about the young is a longstanding prerogative of the old; just as baby boomers and Gen X’ers today lament the shortcomings of millennials and Gen Z, parents in the 1920s looked ...
Scientists Are Investigating a Puzzling Underground 'Anomaly' …
May 14, 2024 · Scientists Are Investigating a Puzzling Underground ‘Anomaly’ Near the Giza Pyramids. Using remote-sensing technologies, researchers have discovered two connected structures in a previously ...
How Ben Franklin Invented the Library as We Know It
Founding father Benjamin Franklin knew better than most the benefits of self-education. In 1727, he established the Philadelphia-based discussion group known as the Junto, which sought “mutual ...
Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? | Smithsonian
In 1866, Christopher Latham Sholes, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher and former state senator, co-invented an automated machine to number coupons and tickets—a task previously done by hand.
Whistleblower Alleges U.S. Government Is Covering Up Alien Life …
Jul 27, 2023 · The idea of extraterrestrial life has been receiving a lot of hype recently, reports Marina Koren for the Atlantic.A Gallup poll from 2019 found that 68 percent of Americans believe the U.S ...