21 Myths About Cats That Just Aren't True Join us as we unravel the myths surrounding these enchanting creatures and celebrate the truth about our beloved cats. While cats have a remarkable ability to twist their bodies in mid-air to land on ... 05/3/2024 - 11:49 am | View Link
Top 4 myths about wolves, busted by experts The world’s largest canine draws both reverence and ire. Here are some of the most common misunderstandings, according to scientists. 05/3/2024 - 7:33 am | View Link
Debunking 1904 St. Louis World's Fair food invention myths The Missouri History Museum's new exhibit breaks down the false food myths that are still prevalent 120 years after the fair. 05/3/2024 - 1:45 am | View Link
Inside the Junk Drawer: Childhood myths Kaylee Chan explores memory and nostalgia by riffling through the ‘junk’ drawer with items that defined her childhood. 05/2/2024 - 5:58 pm | View Link
Small Ocean, Big Hype: Arctic Myths and Realities It has been fueling legends and ambitions for centuries, and continues to fuel new geopolitical myths today. The following is an effort to disassemble the leading myths about the Arctic Ocean and to ... 05/2/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Myth Myths of origin; Myths of eschatology and destruction; Messianic and millenarian myths; Myths of culture heroes and soteriological myths; Myths of time and eternity; Myths of providence and destiny; Myths of rebirth and renewal; Myths of memory and forgetting; Myths of high beings and celestial gods; Myths concerning founders of religions and ... 05/3/2024 - 1:01 am | View Website
Myth Myth is a genre of folklore or theology consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. For folklorists, historians, philosophers or theologians this is very different from the use of "myth" simply indicating that something is not true. 05/3/2024 - 12:11 am | View Website
Mythopedia – Encyclopedia of Mythology Mythopedia is the ultimate online resource for exploring ancient mythology; from the Greeks and Romans, to Celtic, Norse, Egyptian and more. 05/2/2024 - 10:24 pm | View Website
Mythology Myths tell the stories of ancestors and the origin of humans and the world, the gods, supernatural beings (satyrs, nymphs, mermaids) and heroes with super-human, usually god-given, powers (as in the case of the Greek myth of Heracles or Perseus). 05/2/2024 - 7:25 pm | View Website
Greek Mythology: Gods, Goddesses & Legends | HISTORY Getty Images. Ancient Greek mythology is a vast group of legends about gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, warriors and fools, that were an important part of everyday life in the ancient... 05/2/2024 - 1:27 pm | View Website
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.