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By 2000, instinct had all but vanished from psychology textbooksKonrad Lorenz once had a gosling imprint on his boots, and it trailed whoever wore them. The bird learned who its mother was, yet following her was pure instinct. Psychologists ar…
By 2050, half of the global population may need glassesNearsightedness is no longer just a common inconvenience; it is escalating into a global health crisis. While not a traditional infectious disease, the rapid rise in myopia sugges…
By 2100, climate change could displace over 180 million peopleWe are approaching a crisis of climate migration that the world is currently unprepared to handle. As sea levels rise and storms intensify, millions face the loss of their homes. …
By biologists' rules, a bird eating seeds counts as a predatorPredation sounds simple: one creature kills and eats another. But a mouse eating seeds is technically a predator, since each seed is a whole living organism, while a deer browsing…
By mid-1915, the promise of a swift victory in the Great War had vanished.One year into the conflict, the initial hope for a quick resolution had been replaced by the grim reality of total war. From the Russian retreat to the catastrophic stalemate at G…
By modern biology's definition, you are an apeApes lack tails because of a mutation in a single gene, TBXT. Biologists once used the word for every hominoid except humans, but a consistent family tree cannot leave us out, so …
By summer 1917, the war that was supposed to end by Christmas 1914 continued.This video examines the state of World War I as it enters its fourth year. With the British preparing an offensive near Ypres and Russia in chaos, the conflict shows no signs of c…
By the 159th week of the Great War, despair had become the global standard.As the conflict dragged into its 159th week, the atmosphere across Europe shifted toward total exhaustion. From the mud-choked craters of Passchendaele to the crumbling morale of …
By the early 1900s the Friesian horse was down to three breeding stallionsThe jet-black Friesian, with its flowing mane, feathered legs and high-stepping trot, is a favourite of fantasy films. It nearly vanished more than once: at one point only three s…
By the early 1980s researchers had published over 150 definitions of droughtDrought sounds simple, yet by the early 1980s more than 150 definitions were in print. The UN climate panel now settles for drier than normal. The trouble is that dryness can stri…- By the logic of family trees, apes and humans are monkeys tooApes sit deep inside the monkey family tree: any ape is more closely related to baboons and macaques than South American monkeys are. So if a group should include all descendants …
By the summer of 1918, internal rebellion threatened to tear apart the warring empires.This video examines the widespread civil and military unrest that plagued major powers during the summer of 1918. It highlights how ethnic and political tensions pushed empires to…
Byblos: The Ancient Lebanese City That Gave Its Name to the BibleSettled as early as 8800 BC, Byblos is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Its deep connection to the Egyptian papyrus trade was so profound that the Greek wo…
BYD's founder smashed its first car prototype before building a best-selling brandBYD's first car design, codenamed 316, looked so poor that dealers refused it, and founder Wang Chuanfu destroyed the prototype himself, writing off 100 million yuan. Two decades …
BYD's name means nothing, and its early edge came from hand labourThe letters BYD have no meaning. The firm began as Yadi Electronics, named after a road in Shenzhen, and an extra character was added at registration partly to put it earlier in t…
BYD's tiny Seagull hatchback goes by four names around the worldIn China it is the Seagull, in much of Latin America the Dolphin Mini, in Europe the Dolphin Surf and across Asia and Australia the Atto 1. The same small electric hatchback drew …
Bydgoszcz: The Polish City That Once Minted Europe's Largest Gold CoinsStraddling the Vistula and Brda rivers, Bydgoszcz is a historic Polish hub known for its diverse architecture and industrial past. Once a royal city, it has evolved from a medieva…
Bytown’s timber camp became Canada’s bilingual capital on two riversOttawa, Canada’s capital in southeastern Ontario, sits where the Ottawa and Rideau Rivers meet, facing Gatineau, Quebec, in a bilingual metro. Founded as Bytown in 1826, incorpora…
Byzantine emperor Constantine V was nicknamed Dung-Named by the people who wrote his historyConstantine V ruled Byzantium for 34 years, secured its frontiers and reformed its army. Yet later chroniclers remembered him chiefly as Kopronymos, the Dung-Named, spreading a st…
Byzantine fashion was a rigid, high-stakes language of rank, politics, and divine orderIn the Byzantine Empire, clothing was far more than personal style; it was a strictly regulated code. From the color of one's shoes to the specific placement of a decorative panel…
Byzantine music was a sophisticated system of chant, court ceremony, and ancient mathematical theory.Far from a static relic, Byzantine music was a living, evolving tradition that spanned nearly two millennia. It blended ancient Greek harmonics with Syriac and Hebrew influences, …
Byzantine writers navigated a thousand-year linguistic divide between high-status archaism and the common tongue.For a millennium, Byzantine literature existed in two worlds. While the elite clung to a rigid, classicizing language to mirror the prestige of antiquity, a vibrant vernacular eve…
Byzantium once refused to adopt a Persian prince, and regretted itAround 520 the Persian shah Kavad asked the Byzantine emperor to adopt his youngest son, to shore up the boy's claim. Constantinople would only adopt him as a barbarian, not a Rom…