Good News in History, August 10
179 years ago today, one of the absolute most important forerunners of the modern Kazakh nation-state was born. Abai Qunanbaiuly, known around Eurasia simply as Abai, was a poet, translator, and Islamic theologian philosopher who contributed to a revolution of thought that underpins much of Kazakhstan’s national identity today. READ some of what he did throughout […]
Abai on a Russian stamp dated to 2020
footprint on sandy beach-pubdomain Jeremy Bishop
Scientists Identify 7 Stars That Could be Hosting a ‘Dyson Sphere’–the Sci-Fi Concept Turned Realistic Hypothesis
nnAstrophysicists recently put one of the great hallmarks of science fiction culture to the test, and used it to identify 7 stars that may harbor an alien civilization.nnThe 7 stars are glowing with infrared radiation in a way that cannot be explained by naturally occurring phenomena yet known to science.nnThe theoretical superstructure known as the […]
Visitors of Scotland Can Play ‘Real’ Tennis’ on the World’s Oldest Court Dating Back 500 Years
nnTwenty miles from the birthplace of golf sits a different kind of sporting pilgrimage site—the oldest tennis court in the world.nnBut this is no Wimbledon. The Falkland Palace Royal Tennis Club’s 50 active members play a form of the sport boasted of as “real” tennis based on the fact that it predates lawn tennis by […]
Falkland Palace Royal Tennis Court – credit, SWNS.
A complex series of markers denote where points are scored – credit, SWNS.
Falkland Palace Royal Tennis Court, with the town of Falkland in the background – credit, SWNS.
The UK’s Royal Mint is Now Extracting Gold From Electronic Waste
nnIn 2022, GNN reported that Britain’s Royal Mint began using a patented new chemical reaction to recover and reuse the gold, and other metals, within old circuit boards.nnNow, a large processing plant for recovering this gold is fully operational and boasts the capacity to break down 4,000 metric tons of circuit boards every year, amounting […]