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Bertrand Russell

A British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, polit...

Igor Stravinsky

A Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important com...

George Wald

An American scientist who studied pigments in the retina. His findings helped to determine how ge...

Richard G. Rosner

Richard G. Rosner

Is a writer and a TV personality from the US with an IQ of 192

Sigmund Freud

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and...

James Croll

A Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate variability based on changes in the Earth'...

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The Story Behind Banksy

The Story Behind Banksy

smithsonianmag.com

When Time magazine selected the British artist Banksy—graffiti master, painter, activist, filmmaker and all-purpose provocateur—for its list of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2010, he found himself in the company of Barack Obama, Steve Jobs and Lady Gaga. He supplied a picture of himself with a paper bag (recyclable, naturally) over his head. Most of his fans don’t really want to know who he is (and have loudly protested Fleet Street attempts to unmask him). But they do want to follow his upward trajectory from the outlaw spraying—or, as the argot has it, “bombing”—walls in Bristol, England, during the 1990s to the artist whose work commands hundreds of thousands of dollars in the auction houses of Britain and America. Today, he has bombed cities from Vienna to San Francisco, Barcelona to Paris and Detroit. And he has moved from graffiti on gritty urban walls to paint on canvas, conceptual sculpture and even film, with the guileful documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, which was nominated for an Academy Award....

Teaching and Learning About Martin Luther King Jr. With The New York Times

Teaching and Learning About Martin Luther King Jr. With The New York Times

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an annual federal holiday since 1986, celebrates the national civil rights leader who was instrumental in challenging the racial caste system that delineated how millions of Americans lived their lives.All 50 states celebrate the public holiday on the third Monday in January, but not all states, cities and towns dedicate it solely to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some package it as a broader celebration of both Dr. King and Confederate leaders, according to this 2017 piece, “Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Still Faces Pushback.”Teaching ...

The impact of Robert G. Ingersoll in Macomb

The impact of Robert G. Ingersoll in Macomb

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The most controversial figure ever to speak in Macomb was Robert G. Ingersoll, the famous freethinker, who lectured at the Opera House in the spring of 1896. A brilliant orator, he had criticized orthodox religion in lectures across the country, drawing huge crowds but also igniting the opposition of Christian leaders.An admired Civil War colonel and a talented lawyer, who was also the Illinois attorney general after the war, Ingersoll began criticizing religious orthodoxy in 1872 with a lecture titled “The Gods.” Controversial from the start, he asserted that all gods, in all cultur...

This 19-Year-Old College Student Built an Artificial Brain That Detects Breast Cancer

This 19-Year-Old College Student Built an Artificial Brain That Detects Breast Cancer

Brittany Wenger is one seriously smart cookie. In 2012, the then-17-year-old submitted her "artificial brain" technology—which assesses tissue samples for breast cancer—to the Google Science Fair and walked away with the grand prize. It was no wonder: Her invention, which uses a type of computer program called neural networks, can identify complex data patterns and make breast cancer detection calls with 99% accuracy. But she's not stopping there: Brittany hopes to help wipe out cancer completely.Since she took home the gold two years ago, she's been named one of Time's 30 Under 30, ...

The Story Behind Banksy

Teaching and Learning About Martin Luther King Jr. With The New York Times

The impact of Robert G. Ingersoll in Macomb

This 19-Year-Old College Student Built an Artificial Brain That Detects Breast Cancer

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John Hunter: learning from natural experiments, ‘placebos’, and the state of mind of a patient in the 18th century

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John Hunter: learning from natural experiments, ‘placebos’, and the state of mind of a patient in the 18th century

In March 1761, aged 33, John Hunter set sail from Portsmouth as part of an undercover expedition to capture the island of Belle-Île, off the coast of Brittany, in a reckless effort to determine the outcome of the Seven Years War. After the troops succeeded in conquering the island, Hunter and his...

A 17-Year-Old Inventor Builds A Land Mine Detector Inspired By A Piano

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A 17-Year-Old Inventor Builds A Land Mine Detector Inspired By A Piano

17-year-old Marian Bechtel might live in Pennsylvania, where land mines are not a common occurrence, but she has still managed to invent the prototype for a brand-new minesweeper.The device, which cost far lower than current technology, uses sound waves to figure out where the deadly devic...

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban: Father of the Fortress

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Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban: Father of the Fortress

Vauban, France’s master engineer of the 17th Century, designed nearly 100 fortress for Louis XIV—and defined the form for the ages.Sébastien Le Prestre, who would earn renown as seigneur de Vauban and a marshal of France, was born in 1633 in a small village in Burgundy. Vauban (as he is ge...