Ancient Earth, the tool behind this millennia-spanning visualization, is the brainchild of Ian Webster, curator of the world’s largest digital dinosaur database [an old friend of (Roughly) Daily]… Visualize the changes between the Cryogenian Period and the present: “This Map Lets You Plug ...
Some ideas about how the world works feel so obvious as to be beyond question. They have taken on a sense of appearing to be part of the natural order of things. Hierarchy—an arrangement, ranking or classification of people or things on the basis of their importance or value—is one suc...
Ever since Earth formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago, its climate has gone through a number ofincredible changes.All you have to do is look at images of the Jurassic Period (侏罗纪时期) to know that at one time,much of our planet was covered in extremely hot and humid jungle. Skip ahea...
A.Kepler's primary goal was to make sure that the Earth is a common planet.B.Kepler helped Gaia to calculate the planets.C.Gaia is only 20 light-years away from the solar system.D.Kepler monitors stars across the Milky Way.4.What does paragraph 5 mainly talk about?A.The importance of...
Ever since Earth formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago,its climate has gone through a number of incredible changes. All you have to do is look at images of the Jurassic Period(侏罗纪时期)to know that at one time,much of our planet was covered in extremely hot and humid jungle.Skip ahead ...
The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) understand that “to the emperor, the people is heaven; to the people, food is heaven,” as the traditional saying goes, and they have prioritized food security as a prerequisite to maintaining power, especially after the calamitous famines of...
The amazing thing is that, given the amount of space junk that falls to Earth on a regular basis, there have been no other reports of someone being hit. Despite the veritable junkyard raining down on our planet — over a 40-year period roughly 5,400 tons of debris are thought to have...
Earth is 4.5 billion years old – which is approximately the same amount of time it took us to create this video. We’ve scaled the complete timeline of our Earth’s life into our first animated movie!… Hop on a musical train ride and experience how long a billion years really is. It...
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters”*… FromÁlvaro García Linera, a provocative essay on the times in which we live, which he begins with a quote from the World Bank (March, 2023): ...
But reinforced concrete is really only 140 years old – the blink of an eye, as far as the infrastructure of old is concerned. The Pantheon was built around 125 CE, by which time the Romans had been experimenting with concrete construction for well over 300 years. When we see the Pantheon...