Scholars have long debated whether Leonardo's landscapes are imaginary or real. A hidden clue in da Vinci's Mona Lisa identifies the exact location of the landscape which provides the background to the world's best known painting. It is now believed that a three-arched bridge which appears over the left shoulder of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is a reference to Bobbio, a village which lies in rugged hill country south of Piacenza, in northern Italy. Meer verstrooiing bij The Presurfer.
Sargasso heeft privacy hoog in het vaandel staan. Nu we allemaal meer dingen online doen is een goede VPN-service belangrijk om je privacy te beschermen. Volgens techsite CNET is NordVPN de meest betrouwbare en veilige VPN-service. De app is makkelijk in gebruik en je kunt tot zes verbindingen tegelijk tot stand brengen. NordVPN kwam bij een speedtest als pijlsnel uit de bus en is dus ook geschikt als je wil gamen, Netflixen of downloaden.
It has long been believed that modern humans emerged from the continent of Africa 200,000 years ago. Now Tel Aviv University archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Homo sapiens roamed the land now called Israel as early as 400,000 years ago – the earliest evidence for the existence of modern humans anywhere in the world.
The findings were discovered in the Qesem Cave, a pre-historic site located near Rosh Ha’ayin that was first excavated in 2000. Scientists performed a morphological analysis on eight human teeth found in the Qesem Cave. According to researchers, the discoveries made in the Qesem Cave may overturn the theory that modern humans originated on the continent of Africa.
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The Atlantic Ocean can be an unforgiving place at the best of times. During the Second World War, combatants on both sides were at peril both from the ocean and the enemy. On 12 September 1942, the British ship RMS Laconia, which was armed, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat 156.
Yet that was not the end of the story. What unfolded was a tale of heroism and events both remarkable and ultimately truly unfortunate for many of those involved. The U-boat surfaced, its commander hoping to capture the senior crew of the ship. The horrified crew instead saw over 2000 people in the water. Then, the U-Boat commander Werner Hartenstein made an extraordinary decision that went beyond all protocol.
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De wereld vóór God – Filosofie van de oudheid, geschreven door Kees Alders, op Sargasso beter bekend als Klokwerk, biedt een levendig en compleet overzicht van de filosofie van de oudheid, de filosofen van vóór het christendom. Geschikt voor de reeds gevorderde filosoof, maar ook zeker voor de ‘absolute beginner’.
In deze levendige en buitengewoon toegankelijke introductie in de filosofie ligt de nadruk op Griekse en Romeinse denkers. Bekende filosofen als Plato en Cicero passeren de revue, maar ook meer onbekende namen als Aristippos en Carneades komen uitgebreid aan bod.
In the late 1960s Lawrence Luckham worked for Bell Labs managing a data center and developing an ultra high speed information retrieval system. It was the days of beehive hair on the women and big mainframe computers. One day he took a camera to work and shot some pictures.
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Unusual Locomotion is a site about unusual off-road vehicles. Often, these vehicles will remain at the prototype stage because they are too eccentric, too expensive compared to the improvements, or too far ahead of their time.
Unusual Locomotion aims to summarize and share some more knowledge on the evolution of these vehicles and their techniques. It still includes documentation of classic 4×4, ‘unusual’ construction machinery and reports of visits of ‘old iron’ museums.
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De redactie van Sargasso bestaat uit een club vrijwilligers. Naast zelf artikelen schrijven struinen we het internet af om interessante artikelen en nieuwswaardige inhoud met lezers te delen. We onderhouden zelf de site en houden als moderator een oogje op de discussies. Je kunt op Sargasso terecht voor artikelen over privacy, klimaat, biodiversiteit, duurzaamheid, politiek, buitenland, religie, economie, wetenschap en het leven van alle dag.
Om Sargasso in stand te houden hebben we wel wat geld nodig. Zodat we de site in de lucht kunnen houden, we af en toe kunnen vergaderen (en borrelen) en om nieuwe dingen te kunnen proberen.
Creators of products sometimes add pretty unintentionally hilarious warning labels. Printed on everything from hairdryers to cheese, these common-sense precautions may help some folks avoid trouble, but for the rest of us, they’re just good entertainment.
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Women Laughing Alone With Salad is a collection of pictures of women. Alone. Eating salad. And laughing.
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Pictures of a person from baby to the age of 100. Not the same person, though. Photo journalists Sofia Wraber and Nanna Kreutzmann created this project at the Danish School of Journalism. There’s a follow-up in the works starring 101 women.
Want to improve your body? Go to the Bionic Body Shop where you can buy a bionic eye ($30,000) to partially cure blindness, a cochlear implant ($95,000) to partially cure, a powered exoskeleton ($15,000), or a ventricular assist device($150,000).
Of course, there is no such thing as a Bionic Body Shop. Yet! This was made by IEEE, the technology magazine, and they show what a bionic body shop of the future would look like.
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Dat kan! Sargasso is een collectief van bloggers en we verwelkomen graag nieuw blogtalent. We plaatsen ook regelmatig gastbijdragen. Lees hier meer over bloggen voor Sargasso of over het inzenden van een gastbijdrage.