Discoveries
¿Cómo se llama la pintura más famosa de Dalí?
Gradiva es una figura literaria —procedente de una novela de Wilhelm Jensen publicada en 1903, que después atrajo el interés de Sigmund…
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Short science and general-knowledge explainers — space missions, biology, climate and the odd discovery worth knowing about in a page. The reading-for-curiosity end of the site.
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How to draw 10 things: flower and more
Boredom or a blank sketchbook page A blank page and ten spare minutes is the most common reason anyone searches for something…
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Timeline jumps when trimming clips in Adobe Premiere
Create a project file A Premiere Pro edit starts with a project, not with footage. The project file is a .prproj container…
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What nail art trends are you painting this season?
Reader sees a trending design (e.g. floral or French tip) A saved photo of a hand-painted floral set or a soft French…
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50 things to draw when you’re stuck for ideas
Boredom or a blank sketchbook page Boredom and a blank page have the same fix: stop waiting for an idea and pick…
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50 easy things to draw: doodles that take one minute
Boredom or a blank sketchbook page A blank page and no idea what to put on it is the entire problem, and…
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The Dead Sea Scrolls in the collection of the Museum of the Bible are forgeries
The Washington Museum of the Bible, which opened last year, boasted a collection of fragments in the manuscript from Qumran. However, all…
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A prehistoric relative of the piranha was found
Fossilized remains of piranha relatives found at the Ettling quarry in the Solnhofen region of southern Germany in 2016. In the same…
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Climate change will affect beer prices
Rising temperatures and longer dry spells caused by global warming will threaten barley crops, scientists warn. This in turn will affect the…
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Surprising research on Leonardo da Vinci. The master had strabismus and it helped him create masterpieces
Researchers, after careful analysis of several works by Leonardo da Vinci, have concluded that the artist most likely had divergent strabismus. The…