Tomorrow, the Great American Eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions will experience total darkness.
It's an eerie and mysterious experience even though at this point, we know exactly what's happening: the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow over earth.
But imagine you lived in the ancient world, with no warning that an eclipse was about to happen, as the sun's disk suddenly disappeared and the day fell dark and cool. Unsurprisingly, eclipses were often seen as bad omens.
That was true in Mesopotamia, the region that today includes Iraq, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey. But even then, ancient Mesopotamian astronomers were looking for other explanations.
Watching an eclipse is one of humanity's oldest rituals, and it's been inspiration to scientists since the beginning of time.
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Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses
Tomorrow, the Great American Eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions will experience total darkness.
It's an eerie and mysterious experience even though at this point, we know exactly what's happening: the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow over earth.
But imagine you lived in the ancient world, with no warning that an eclipse was about to happen, as the sun's disk suddenly disappeared and the day fell dark and cool. Unsurprisingly, eclipses were often seen as bad omens.
That was true in Mesopotamia, the region that today includes Iraq, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey. But even then, ancient Mesopotamian astronomers were looking for other explanations.
Watching an eclipse is one of humanity's oldest rituals, and it's been inspiration to scientists since the beginning of time.
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It's an eerie and mysterious experience even though at this point, we know exactly what's happening: the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow over earth.
But imagine you lived in the ancient world, with no warning that an eclipse was about to happen, as the sun's disk suddenly disappeared and the day fell dark and cool. Unsurprisingly, eclipses were often seen as bad omens.
That was true in Mesopotamia, the region that today includes Iraq, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey. But even then, ancient Mesopotamian astronomers were looking for other explanations.
Watching an eclipse is one of humanity's oldest rituals, and it's been inspiration to scientists since the beginning of time.
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Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses
Tomorrow, the Great American Eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions will experience total darkness.
It's an eerie and mysterious experience even though at this point, we know exactly what's happening: the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow over earth.
But imagine you lived in the ancient world, with no warning that an eclipse was about to happen, as the sun's disk suddenly disappeared and the day fell dark and cool. Unsurprisingly, eclipses were often seen as bad omens.
That was true in Mesopotamia, the region that today includes Iraq, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey. But even then, ancient Mesopotamian astronomers were looking for other explanations.
Watching an eclipse is one of humanity's oldest rituals, and it's been inspiration to scientists since the beginning of time.
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It's an eerie and mysterious experience even though at this point, we know exactly what's happening: the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow over earth.
But imagine you lived in the ancient world, with no warning that an eclipse was about to happen, as the sun's disk suddenly disappeared and the day fell dark and cool. Unsurprisingly, eclipses were often seen as bad omens.
That was true in Mesopotamia, the region that today includes Iraq, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey. But even then, ancient Mesopotamian astronomers were looking for other explanations.
Watching an eclipse is one of humanity's oldest rituals, and it's been inspiration to scientists since the beginning of time.
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Motley Fool Money - Grindr Goes Beyond Dating
How do you grow a business where a customer’s success often means they leave your product?
George Arison is the CEO of Grindr, a dating app and social media offering for LGBTQ+ individuals. Dylan Lewis caught up with Arison for a conversation about:
- Grindr’s growth story.
- Looking beyond dating for platform engagement.
- What companies can lose in a remote-only environment.
Companies discussed: GRND, MTCH, BMBL, NFLX, SPOT, UBER
Host: Dylan Lewis
Guest: George Arison
Producers: Mary Long, Ricky Mulvey
Engineer: Tim Sparks
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Audio Poem of the Day - To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street
By Franny Choi
CoinDesk Podcast Network - FIRST MOVER: Some Diversity Initiatives in Crypto Are ‘Optics’: Atlanta Blockchain Center Founder
Atlanta Blockchain Center founder Marlon Williams joins Shown Live founder Shayna Stewart to discuss the significance of diversity and inclusion in crypto.
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Marlon Williams, the mastermind behind the Immutable Founders incubator at Atlanta Blockchain Center, joins Shown Live founder Shayna Stewart on "First Mover" to discuss the initiatives that support women and minority founders in the crypto space. Plus, the significance of advocating for diversity and inclusion in the industry.
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NBN Book of the Day - Jonathan W. Hackett, “Theory of Irregular War” (McFarland, 2024)
From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue operations doomed to fail. And yet, no useful theory exists to explain this common tragedy. All over the world, people and states clash violently outside their established political systems, as unfulfilled demands of control and productivity bend the modern state to a breaking point.
Jonathan W. Hackett's Theory of Irregular War (McFarland, 2023) lays out how dysfunctional governments disrupt social orders, make territory insecure, and interfere with political-economic institutions. These give rise to a form of organized violence against the state known as irregular war. Research reveals why this frequent phenomenon is so poorly understood among conventional forces in those conflicts and the states who send their children to die in them.
Jonathan W. Hackett is a U.S. Marine with two decades of experience. He has held positions at the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Marine Forces Special Operations Command, and the Marine Corps operating forces prior to teaching full spectrum human intelligence operations and security cooperation in Dam Neck, Virginia.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Kidnapping of Charley Ross (Encore)
Most children growing up are admonished not to take candy from strangers.
It is good advice, but it isn’t advice that comes from nowhere. It comes from a particular incident 150 years ago that shocked the world and changed how we view children’s safety.
It was an event, the echos of which can be seen today in efforts to find abducted children.
Learn more about the kidnapping of Charley Ross on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Up First from NPR - The Sunday Story: Notes from an Eclipse Chaser
David Baron says seeing a total solar eclipse is "like you've left the solar system and are looking back from some other world."
Today on The Sunday Story, we're sharing an episode from NPR's Life Kit. Baron talks to NPR's scientist-in-residence and astrophysicist Dr. Regina Barber about what to expect when viewing the total solar eclipse on April 8, including the sensations you may feel and the strange lighting effects in the sky.
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Today on The Sunday Story, we're sharing an episode from NPR's Life Kit. Baron talks to NPR's scientist-in-residence and astrophysicist Dr. Regina Barber about what to expect when viewing the total solar eclipse on April 8, including the sensations you may feel and the strange lighting effects in the sky.
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Slate Books - Working: How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator
This week, host Ronald Young Jr. talks to Linda Holmes, host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast and author of two novels: Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo. In the interview, Linda explains how she started her career practicing law in Minnesota before she pivoted to TV criticism. She also talks about how NPR came to take pop culture seriously, how her work as a critic informs her writing (and vice versa), and how she has gotten much better at coming up with titles for her novels.
After the interview, Ronald and co-host Isaac Butler talk about how they handle criticism of their work.
In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Linda discusses her favorite TV show and one of her main philosophies when it comes to pop culture criticism.
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