by Amy Ione Lars Becker-Larsen’s production of The Moving Earth offers a splendid chronicle of the scientific shift brought about through studies of planetary motion during the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. The name of the film refers to the work establishing that Earth is a moving planet and the broadly based content tells [...]
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Article: Stanford scanner penetrates mummy’s secrets
A minor priest from ancient Egypt gave his body to a high-tech scanner at Stanford Medical Center on Thursday. The priest is a mummy, dead for some 2,500 years, and getting him under a scanner may shed new light on the religion, the art and the history of a time before the Persians conquered the [...]
