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Why the Moon Sometimes Appears Orange
The Moon’s True Color Before diving into atmospheric effects, it’s important to understand the Moon’s actual color. The surface of the Moon is primarily gray, composed of rock and dust called regolith. It reflects sunlight rather than producing its own light.
By shahkar jalal28 days ago in Education
How False Claims About Bill Gates and COVID-19 Spread Online
The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most disruptive global events in recent memory. With fear, uncertainty, and rapidly changing science driving public discourse, misinformation spread almost as quickly as the virus itself. Among the many unfounded claims that circulated, one of the most persistent involved Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates — wrongly accused of using the pandemic for personal gain, control, or even population manipulation. But why did such false narratives take hold, and how did Bill Gates become a focal point of COVID-related conspiracy theories?
By Irshad Abbasi 28 days ago in Education
The Class that Kicked my Ass
The most difficult undergraduate course I took was Linguistics, and the most difficult graduate school course for me was History and Theory of Rhetoric. The language of language was difficult to learn; it’s dense, it has its own symbols. Diagramming and scansion are only the tip of the iceberg. Gaining a basic understanding of inflection and the difference between inflected and uninflected language was an easy threshold, as were consonance and asonance (we’ll go in-depth with those very soon). When we got down to phonemes and their meanings, I was out of my depth. I’m returning to the text now, hoping to gain passage through thresholds previously impenetrable.
By Harper Lewis28 days ago in Education
