These ancient world maps might be inaccurate, but they were once thought to be exemplars of cartography. The oldest known world map was made in Babylon in the 6th century BC. The map shows Babylon in the center of a world that extends no further than the edges of Mesopotamia. Around the world is a round "bitter river." The seven points beyond the river are islands that cannot, they believed, be reached. Read More...
See what life in Hiroshima was like just before the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945 and in the devastating aftermath, when the city was virtually flattened.Air-raid sirens were a familiar sound for the approximately 280,000 residents of Hiroshima that still remained in the city in August 1945. At the time, American B-29 bombers regularly soared over the nearby coast en route to Lake Biwa, a strategic rendezvous point about 220 miles northeast of the city. Read More...
Einstein Didn’t Invent E=mc2 Left: Albert Einstein. Right: TIME Magazine paces Einstein and his famous formula on its cover. Image Sources: Wikimedia Commons (left), Wikimedia Commons (right).
Why He Got Credit For anyone who’s not a physicist, the biggest blip that physics makes on your radar is when you take it in high school, then forget it. So it’s actually quite strange that everyone knows E=mc2 (and can probably tell you what those letters stand for). Read More...
