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John Plumbe, The White House Washington DC, 1846
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Advent Calendar 12
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Monthly Self-Portrait, December
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Ignacio Álvarez Thomas (Peruvian), ca.1840-60
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Ten Things: December
This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on science and scientists.
Where a group is described as “great” or “important” this is not intended to imply these necessarily the greatest or most important, but only that they are up there amongst the top flight.
Things Science Can’t Fully Explain
- Why we sleep
- Why we dream
- Why cats purr
- Placebo effect
- How paracetamol works
- Gravity
- Why it takes more genes to make a tomato than a human
- Why we yawn
- Dark Matter
- Big Bang & Inflation
On this Day in 1923
Our monthly look at what happened 100 years ago.
On this day, 10 December 1923 …
Advent Calendar 10
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Fredrik Rehnström, Fenckell Paper Mills, Finland, 1847
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Advent Calendar 9
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Acropolis, 1842
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Advent Calendar 8
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Franziska Möllinger, Thun Castle, ca.1844
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Quote of the Month
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
[Søren Kierkegaard]
Advent Calendar 7
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey,
Earliest Known Photograph of a Living Animal, 1842
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