From sounds that literally damage your vocal cords to a language that’s entirely whistled, these are 5 of the strangest, quirkiest languages in the world. The Piraha Language – Brazil This one is controversial because the theory is the language doesn’t have recursion...
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Since the famed Solvay Conference of 1927, the accepted explanation of quantum physics has revolved around the Copenhagen interpretation, which states that quantum particles exist in probability states until they are measured. But there is another interpretation of the experimental...
In 1961, two amateur Italian radio engineers recorded what many believe to be the voice of a female cosmonaut burning up on re-entry. If real, this would have been the first woman in space. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia were two highly regarded radio engineers from Italy who...
The promise of the internet was that if we connect the world and give everyone a voice, we could move forward as one. It didn’t turn out that way. The way we consume information has changed drastically over the years. For the majority of modern history, newspapers were the arbiter...
In 1957, the United States began testing nuclear weapons underground in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada as part of Operation Plumbbob. One underground test, Pascal B, may have put the first manmade object into space. Robert R. Brownlee engineered the Pascal A underground test to...