A regular Indian man who has multiple broken bones in his body will typically choose to rest comfortably at home, avoiding any risk of worsening his condition. But Moin Junnedi from India, with hundreds of broken bones, is not regular. His passion for swimming has made him quite an international star and an inspirational figure ...
Excavations at two quarries in Wales, known to be the source of the Stonehenge bluestones, provide new evidence of megalith quarrying 5,000 years ago, according to a new UCL-led study. Geologists have long known that 42 of Stonehenge’s smaller stones, known as “bluestones,” came from the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, West Wales. Now, a new ...
Anthropologists at the University of Oxford have discovered what they believe to be seven universal moral rules. The rules — help your family, help your group, return favors, be brave, defer to superiors, divide resources fairly, and respect others’ property — were found in a survey of 60 cultures from all around the world. Previous studies ...
For most of the last century, the human brain was considered by psychologists to be unchangeable. However, their position underwent a radical change over the past few decades after conducting several experiments on Buddhist monks. Scanning the brains of these monks, scientists began to realize that the human brain is not “fixed,” but meditation can ...
Battle reenactments have been quite a niche activity in China for a long time. However, there has been a strong upsurge in the activity among many Chinese of late. In fact, interest groups are fast forming in Chinese cities, with members spending quite a good deal of money to create unique armor that they can ...
In the remote village of Liqian in China, you will come across people with long noses, fair hair, and green or blue eyes. They allegedly descended from an ancient group of Roman soldiers, a claim that has been hotly contested among academics. Chinese Romans of Liqian Homer Dubs, a professor of Chinese history at Oxford ...
Though there are several royal families across the world, only a few actually have obnoxious amounts of wealth. People born into such families enjoy privileges only a few can ever attain. Interestingly, the top five richest families in the world do not belong to Europe. Wealthiest 5 royal families in the world 1. Thai royal ...
The Samurai, ancient Japan’s warrior class, have been one of the most celebrated groups of people in modern pop culture. Numerous movies, TV shows, and video games have been made, picturing them in a mythical, mysterious, and noble manner. However, Japan also has the Ainu people, a community that has been discriminated against throughout the ...
Sanskrit holds a special place in the hearts of linguists. This Indian language, which is thousands of years old, is often considered one of the most perfect languages. Hindus consider Sanskrit to be a language of the gods. Many chant Sanskrit mantras regularly and claim that it has a beneficial effect. And surprisingly, a recent ...
Scientists have sequenced 15 ancient DNA genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia and were able to track the movements of the first humans as they spread across the Americas at “astonishing” speed during the last Ice Age, and also how these Ice Age tribes interacted with each other in the following millennia. The results have ...
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