Tag: Myth

Why the Thanksgiving myth persists, according to science

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Ask someone in the United States to name five events important to the country’s foundation and there’s a good chance they’ll mention the Pilgrims.

That’s what researchers found a few years ago when they put that question to some 2,000 people. The Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of the Americas and the Civil War topped the list. But coming in seventh place were the Pilgrims, the team reported in 2022 in Memory Studies.

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Scientists debunked a long-standing cicada myth by analyzing their guts

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There are at least three certainties in life: death, taxes and the periodic emergence of millions of cicadas. But one big cicada uncertainty has finally been put to rest — the question of whether the adult insects eat.

Periodical cicadas (Magicicada spp.) live in various broods across the eastern United States. Every 13 or 17 years, depending on the brood, adult cicadas emerge from the ground en masse and embark on a four-to-six-week saga of mating and laying eggs

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The Myth of the Effective Dictator

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Last week, at a Fox News town hall (where else?), former President Donald Trump called China’s despot, Xi Jinping, a “brilliant” guy who “runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.” Lest anyone doubt his admiration, Trump added that Xi is “smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy.”

Trump is not alone. Many in the United States and around the globe see the allure of a dictator who gets things done and makes the trains run

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The Convenient Myth of “Humane” Wars

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The Myth of the Alpha Wolf

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In 1958, as part of a research project on wolves, David Mech, a graduate student in wildlife ecology at Purdue, was flying over Isle Royale National Park, on Lake Superior. From above, he saw a wolf pack capture and kill a moose. This was rare. More than nine times out of ten, he had witnessed the wolves’ prey escape. “I wanted to see how old this moose was, and to see if it was ill,” Mech told me recently. He

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The Photographer Undoing the Myth of Appalachia

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If you wanted to understand why flipping through Stacy Kranitz’s recent photography book, As It Was Give(n) to Me, feels like plunging your head into ice water, you could ponder the omission of captions that might have contextualized her images of Appalachia. You could dwell on the dissonant chord struck by mixing beauty pageants, burning cars, and bloody teeth together on the page.

Or you could consider a moment in January 1944, when a lanky Kentucky soldier disembarked from

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The Myth of the Knicks

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The Miami Heat are the hardest-working team in today’s NBA. If you pay attention to the league, you will consistently hear this message. It’s an identity sold by the team, its players, and the media in and outside of Miami. The organization gets the best out of its players because of a militaristic approach to conditioning and a team-first attitude and tireless work

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„Black Myth: Wukong“ bekommt zwei neue Trailer, aber keinen Veröffentlichungstermin

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In den letzten zwei Jahren hat der chinesische Entwickler Game Science Studio jedes Jahr im August neues Gameplay-Material aus seinem kommenden Action-Rollenspiel veröffentlicht Schwarzer Mythos: Wukong. Keiner, der einen Schlag verpasst, hat es dieses Jahr auch getan. Am Freitag teilte das Studio einen neuen achtminütigen Gameplay-Trailer und eine sechsminütige Zwischensequenz im Spiel. Ähnlich wie die letztjährige Enthüllung der Unreal Engine 5 ist Ersteres teilweise ein Schaufenster für NVIDIAs DLSS-KI-gestützte Upscaling-Technologie, und Sie können sehen, welchen Unterschied dies – und ein

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