Thomas Jefferson made pasta popular in the U.S.
Of the numerous extraordinary contributions Thomas Jefferson made to the United States of America, one that is often overlooked is his legacy of gourmet cuisine and sustainable horticulture.
2014
Despite the methodological limitations, the finding that 50 of the 64 reviewed studies revealed an association between diet and AD incidence offers promising implications for diet as a modifiable risk factor for AD.
but most studies show diet is promising for Alzheimer's
2016
Determinism.
Is a philosophical view according to which evrything has a reason. More precisely, Determinism is commited to two propositions, as phrased by Peter Van Inwagen:
1. For any moment in time, we can write a list of facts that describe precisely that moment and only it.
2. If A is a proposition that describes one moment in time, and L is the propostion that describes the laws of nature, A and L together entail all other descriptions of points in time.
#1 tells us that each moment in time is different and can be described. #2 tells us that if we know everything about one point in time and all the laws of nature, we can deduce what happened before and after that point.
1975
President Harry Truman appointed Georgia Neese Clark as the first female Treasurer in 1949.
Since then, every subsequent Treasurer has been a woman
2020
Valentina Tereshkova.
Her humble origins as a textile worker, her enthusiasm for parachuting and the fact that she was the first woman to go into space
2020
There are 88 recognized star constellations in our night sky.
These 88 constellations cover the Earthβs night sky and can be observed from the southern and northern hemispheres.
2012
if adjusted for inflation,The Birth of a Nation(1915) is the first ever film to gross a over a billion dollars.
at 1.8 billion dollars it is the forth highest grossing film ever
2020
The Sputnik virophage is a parasite of a parasite of a parasite.
It's a parasite of Mamavirus, which infects Acanthamoeba, which can infect humans.
2020
The name for Hewlett-Packard (A.K.A HP) was decided in a coin toss.
in order to decide between Packard-Hewlett and Hewlett-Packard, they flipped a coin.
2020
John Stuart Mill.
advocated strongly for the preserving of individual rights and called for limitations to the power and authority of the state over the indiv
2016
in 1979, it snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes.
Even Chileβs Atacama Desert(the worlds driest) experienced significant snowfall when a cold front from Antarctica made a rare trip over the Andes
2016
Virginia Woolf.
Writing Mrs Dalloway, where she skewered the role of βthe perfect housewifeβ and sowed the seeds for the feminist movement of the 1970s
2020
Released in 2010, The Social Network is a film that chronicles the creation of and drama surrounding Facebook in its early days.
Actor Jesse Eisenberg plays the role of Mark Zuckerberg in the film
2010
