This post was first posted on the Scisnack website on December 2023 as The Scisnack Ultimate Book List to Understand the World. We asked Scisnackers to tell us which book they would read in order to understand the world. Here is what they told us. 1. A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking Suggested […]
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This snack was first posted on the Scisnack website on December 2020. An abandoned surgical mask on a Dublin pavement during my casual afternoon walk last summer sparked a series of questions about the tangible traces of the 2020 pandemic or, in other words, the material culture of Covid-19. As an archaeologist fascinated by past
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This snack was first posted on the Scisnack website on February 2021. As the scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian goes, the Romans have given us the aqueduct, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine and, of course, the wine. But is that all? Far from it, as they also gave us a new alloy by combining
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This snack was first posted on the Scisnack website on March 2023. Every retelling of the past consists of a story, a narrator, and an audience, and it needs a time and a place. Even if the intention is to pass on an old, known story, the narrator and the audience are bound to exist
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