To get started for free, visit https://brilliant.org/Aperture/ and the first 1,000 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/what-if-the-earth-were-flat Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch Throughout history, groups of people have been resurfacing pushing the notion that the Earth, our tiny blue planet floating in space, is in […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/agriculture-humanity-s-best-worst-invention Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch For nearly 300,000 years, we went where we pleased, whenever we pleased. We explored a world mostly untouched by human hands. We ate a wide variety of rich, healthy, fresh-picked food. And without work to tie us down, we spent almost all our time […]
If you grew up in the United States, you probably learned the United States Customary System (USCS) for weights and measures. USCS terms like inches, feet, pounds, and miles are derived from the British Imperial System, steeped in a long history of application and use. Any introduction to the metric […]
Throughout the 13th century, the group of nomadic tribes known as the Mongols unified under a single ruler and proceeded to carve out the largest empire the world had ever seen. From the Danube River in Europe to all the way across Asia up to the Pacific Ocean, the highly […]
The Holodomor was a Soviet state-induced famine in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933. For nearly two years, Joseph Stalin starved Ukraine in the name of feeding the Soviet Union. Literal tons of food went to waste, and millions of Ukrainians died as a result. The Holodomor, or “death by hunger,” […]
