auspicious chinese symbols, bats, cats, crackling fire, fire, magpies, spiders
There are countless legends and stories about good omens and auspicious Chinese symbols. Some are lovely, and some seem rather odd. Before the 1970s and 1980s, when people in the countryside held weddings, they would place patterns of beautiful flowers and birds that were believed to be auspicious on various items, like quilts, dresses, and ...
Mastery of fire has given humans dominion over the natural world. A Yale-led study provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans significantly altering entire ecosystems using fire. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, combines archaeological evidence — dense clusters of stone artifacts dating as far back as 92,000 years ago — ...
Living on the east side of an outer Melbourne suburb, in the first week of January 2020 clouds of smoky haze drifted past my nose many times. The smoke came from the massive Australian bushfires burning in the country areas of both New South Wales and Victoria. To date, the haze is still visible over ...
Fire starting is a skill that many modern humans struggle with in the absence of a lighter or matches. The earliest humans likely harvested fire from natural sources, yet when our ancestors learned the skills to set them at will, they had newfound protection, a means of cooking, light to work by, and warmth at ...
Lithium-ion batteries are the heart of any smartphone, without which the devices would not even boot up. However, the batteries have been known to be quite risky. From smartphones manufactured by Samsung to NASA’s experimental robots, lithium-ion batteries have exploded and caught fire on several occasions. Explosions and fires from lithium-ion batteries In 2016, a ...