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Miró tried to assassinate bourgeois painting itselfJoan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) turned Catalan childhood symbols into Surrealist signs. From Barcelona's Gothic quarter to Paris automatism, he mocked convent…
Mirtazapine is a unique antidepressant that often helps patients sleep and gain weight.Unlike many common antidepressants, mirtazapine acts as a potent sedative that can improve sleep quality and stimulate appetite. While it is primarily prescribed for major depress…
Miryam of Nazareth became Christianity’s most titled saintMary, a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth married to Joseph, is named in the synoptic Gospels as Jesus’s mother. Matthew and Luke narrate a virginal conception by the Holy Sp…
Miscarriage is far more common than most people realise, and rarely anyone's faultAmong women who know they are pregnant, roughly one pregnancy in ten to one in five ends in miscarriage; counting every fertilised egg, the share may reach a third to a half. In a…
Mischmetal is the industrial workhorse that turns discarded rare-earth leftovers into sparks and steel.Often overlooked, mischmetal is a versatile alloy of rare-earth elements, primarily cerium and lanthanum. Born from the need to find uses for industrial waste, this material is th…
Misogyny is not just hatred of women; it is the enforcement arm of patriarchy.While often dismissed as a simple, individual emotion, misogyny functions as a systemic mechanism designed to control and punish women who challenge male dominance. From ancient G…
Misrata: The ancient Phoenician trading post that became Libya's modern economic powerhouseLocated 187 km east of Tripoli, Misrata has evolved from a Phoenician commercial station into Libya's third-largest city. Known for its business-oriented culture, the city serves …
Miss Piggy started as an unnamed chorus pig and outsold KermitIn 1975 she was a nameless, beady-eyed blonde pig in a Muppet pilot sketch. Within a few years the writers realised a lovesick pig could carry far more than a running joke, and Mi…
Miss Universe 2024 breaks records for diversity and participationThe 73rd Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City marked a significant shift in the competition's history. By removing age, height, and weight restrictions, the event saw a record 125…
Missiles descend from rocket-powered arrows flown in tenth-century ChinaChinese archers were strapping rockets to arrows by the 10th century. Iron-cased rockets from Mysore and the Maratha Empire later inspired Britain's Congreve rocket, and today's g…- Missiles turned Cold War rivalry into a race for orbitOn 29 July 1955 Washington vowed satellites for the International Geophysical Year; five days later Moscow matched the pledge. What followed—Sputnik, Gagarin, Kennedy's Moon bet, …
Missionaries gave Taiwanese speech a Latin alphabet and Taiwan its first newspaperChinese characters take years to master, so nineteenth-century missionaries tried a shortcut: write Hokkien in Latin letters with tone marks. The result, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, meaning verna…
Mississauga is not a traditional city but an amalgamation of villages and rural hamletsMississauga is Canada's seventh-most populous municipality, yet it lacks a single historic core. Instead, this sprawling urban center emerged from the coalescence of three former …
Mississippi waited 130 years to officially ratify the ban on slaveryThe Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery across the United States in 1865, but the legal paperwork wasn't complete for every state. While most states agreed quickly, Mississippi …
Mississippi-born playwright of Glass Menagerie fameTennessee Williams (1911–1983), born Thomas Lanier Williams III, stands with O’Neill and Miller atop twentieth-century American drama. The Glass Menagerie in 1944 broke through af…
Mississippi: How a Great River Shaped a State's Complex and Often Troubled HistoryNamed for the Ojibwe word for great river, Mississippi is a land of fertile deltas and deep historical scars. From its origins as a hub for mound-building cultures to its central …
Mississippi's second district is a unique political and geographic corridor along the riverSpanning 275 miles along the Mississippi River, the state's second congressional district is a distinct region defined by its geography and demographics. It stands alone in Missis…
Missouri football achieves rare back-to-back ten-win seasons amidst a season of high volatilityFollowing a dominant 2023 campaign, the 2024 Missouri Tigers entered the season with immense playoff aspirations. Despite facing significant injuries and lopsided conference losse…
Missouri voters will decide the future of 17 state senate seats in November 2026On November 3, 2026, Missouri will hold elections for 17 of its 34 state senate districts. These seats, representing half of the chamber, are currently held by senators serving fo…
Missouri's 2022 Congressional Map Was the Final One Finalized in the Redistricting CycleThe 2022 U.S. House elections in Missouri were defined by a protracted, contentious redistricting process. As the final state to finalize its congressional map, Missouri faced mon…- Missouri's 2026 Congressional Elections: A Snapshot of Eight Districts and Their IncumbentsOn November 3, 2026, Missouri voters will decide the future of the state's eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Following primary contests held on August 4, the gener…
Missy Elliott transformed hip-hop through groundbreaking production, visionary music videos, and relentless creative reinvention.Before she became a global icon, Missy Elliott was a member of the collective Swing Mob, living in a single house with twenty other artists. She evolved from a struggling songwrit…
Mistborn reimagines epic fantasy by placing a dark lord on the throne from the startBrandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series subverts traditional fantasy tropes by exploring a world where the prophesied hero failed and the dark lord triumphed. Set on the planet Scadri…
Mister Rogers built kindness into a daily ritualFred McFeely Rogers (20 March 1928 – 27 February 2003) hosted Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 to 2001—895 episodes of slow talk about feelings, death, and divorce. A Presbyt…
Mistletoe is a parasitic plant with a history far deeper than holiday traditions.Beyond its role as a festive decoration, mistletoe is a complex parasite. This video explores the biological reality of the plant, including how experts propagate species like Vis…
Mistletoe is not just a holiday decoration but a sophisticated, often lethal, plant parasite.While famous for prompting kisses, mistletoe is actually a diverse group of hemiparasitic plants that survive by hijacking the circulatory systems of trees. These organisms range …
MIT narrowly escaped being swallowed by Harvard, then an anonymous donor saved itCash-strapped and cramped in Boston's Back Bay, MIT's governing corporation once agreed to merge with Harvard. Only a 1905 court ruling that it could not sell its land killed the …
MIT's bold bet on free knowledge has reached 500 million peopleIn 2001, MIT made a radical decision: give away its entire curriculum for free. What began as a decade-long experiment has transformed into a global movement, democratizing high-l…
MIT’s Bold Bet on Open Education Has Reached Half a Billion Learners WorldwideIn 2001, MIT launched a radical experiment to share its entire curriculum online for free. Twenty-five years later, that decision has evolved into a global movement, impacting ove…
Mitanni’s kings spoke Hurrian with an Indo-Aryan twistFrom about 1550 to 1260 BC, Mitanni ruled a Hurrian-speaking kingdom across northern Syria and southeast Anatolia, pressed by Hittites, Egyptians, Kassites, and later Assyrians. N…
Mites and springtails are the top predators of Antarctica's great rangeThe Transantarctic Mountains run about 3,500 km across the whole continent, dividing East from West Antarctica. On their rare ice-free ground, nematode worms graze on cyanobacteri…
Mithra: The Ancient Iranian Deity of Covenants, Justice, and the Ever-Watchful SunMithra is an ancient Iranian divinity of oaths, contracts, and light. Often misunderstood as a simple sun god, he is actually a complex judicial figure and protector of truth. Fro…
Mithridates VI fought Rome through three wars and outlasted Sulla and LucullusFor nearly half a century, the king of Pontus on the Black Sea kept defying the Roman Republic. Mithridates VI drove Rome out of Asia Minor, won Athens to his side, survived defea…
Mitochondrial Eve was not the first woman, but the most recent common maternal ancestor.The term Mitochondrial Eve is one of science's most misunderstood labels. It does not refer to the first female of a species, nor the only woman alive in her time. Instead, she is…
Mitochondrial supercomplexes organize to power the cell's primary energy productionResearchers have mapped out how the mitochondrial respiratory chain assembles to produce ATP, the cell's main energy currency. By organizing into large structures called respirato…
Mitosis is named after the Greek word for a loom's warp threadWhen Walther Flemming watched chromosomes condensing into threads during cell division, he named the process mitosis in 1882, from Greek mitos, the warp thread on a loom. The proc…
Mitsubishi is not a single company, but a loose federation of autonomous corporate giants.Founded in 1870 as a shipping firm, Mitsubishi evolved from a unified conglomerate into a decentralized network of independent entities. Today, these companies share a brand and a…
Mitsubishi's 3000GT came with spoilers that moved by themselvesAt speed, the 1990s Mitsubishi 3000GT automatically extended its front and rear spoilers, part of a package that also included four-wheel steering, all-wheel drive, adjustable sus…
Mixing is the hidden engine of industry, turning raw components into uniform, usable products.From the concrete in our buildings to the pharmaceuticals in our cabinets, mixing is a fundamental unit operation. It is far more than simple stirring; it is a precise manipulatio…
Miyagi's Matsushima Bay, dotted with 260 pine-clad islets, ranks among Japan's three great viewsOff the coast of Miyagi Prefecture, some 260 small islands covered in pine trees crowd Matsushima Bay, a scene counted among the Three Views of Japan. The same Pacific shoreline t…
Miyamoto turned a Kyoto cave walk into global game designShigeru Miyamoto, born 16 November 1952 in Sonobe, Kyoto, joined Nintendo in 1977 after showing toys to Hiroshi Yamauchi. Donkey Kong rescued unsold Radar Scope cabinets; a 1985 M…
Miyamoto’s childhood cave became a twenty-one-game kingdomThe Legend of Zelda, created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka for Nintendo, sends Link—and sometimes Zelda—to stop Ganon from seizing the wish-granting Triforce. Since 1986 …
Miyazaki started out unable to draw people, so he drew battleshipsThe teenager who would make Spirited Away wanted to be a manga artist but found he could not draw human figures, so for years he sketched planes, tanks and warships instead. He al…
Miyazaki: A Japanese City Where Ancient Mythology Meets Modern Subtropical Coastal LifeNestled on the island of Kyushu, Miyazaki is a city defined by its humid subtropical climate, sprawling alluvial plains, and deep historical roots. From the legendary birthplace o…
Miyazaki's bathhouse epic was Japan's top film for nineteen yearsChihiro wanders into a spirit spa, loses her name to the witch Yubaba, and works to free parents turned into pigs. Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 Studio Ghibli film cost about US$19 millio…
MLB fused two rival leagues after the 1903 National AgreementMajor League Baseball fields thirty clubs—fifteen National, fifteen American—with twenty-nine in the U.S. and one in Canada. The NL (1876) and AL (1900) warred over contracts unti…
MMA braids striking and grappling from many lineagesMixed martial arts is a full-contact sport of striking and grappling that borrows techniques from fighting systems worldwide. Its roots run from ancient Greek pankration and Chine…
MMR cut mumps hard after a grimace-named childhood virusMumps is a contagious paramyxovirus illness of humans alone, usually opening with fever and malaise before painful parotid swelling. Without shots it clustered in crowded childhoo…- Moab's king carved his own version of a battle the Bible also tellsThe Bible describes Moabites tricked by water glowing red as blood and routed by Israel. A 9th-century BCE stone set up by Moab's King Mesha tells the same war the other way round…
Moai watch from one of Earth's most remote inhabited islesRapa Nui, Chile's Easter Island, sits at the southeastern tip of the Polynesian Triangle and is famous for nearly a thousand moai. Pitcairn, the nearest inhabited land, lies 2,075…
Mobile payments are transforming global finance by bypassing traditional banking for the unbanked population.Mobile payments do more than replace physical wallets; they act as a vital bridge for the world's unbanked. By leveraging mobile networks, these systems offer secure, rapid transa…
Mobutu's favourite book as a schoolboy was Machiavelli's The PrinceAs a mission-school pupil in the Belgian Congo, Joseph-Désiré Mobutu devoured history, admired Napoleon and de Gaulle, and prized Machiavelli above all. Punished with seven years …
Moby-Dick hides an encyclopedia of whales inside a revenge storyHerman Melville's 1851 novel is famous for Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale that took his leg. Less famous is how much of it is not narrative at all: sermons, stage directi…- Moby-Dick took eighteen months yet found no audienceHerman Melville (1819–1891), born Melvill, wrote Moby-Dick (1851), Typee, and Billy Budd in the American Renaissance. A merchant father’s 1832 death pushed him to sea as a common …
Mocked as England's ugliest man, John Wilkes still charmed crowds into a fight for libertyJohn Wilkes had a squint, a jutting jaw and a name as the ugliest man in England, yet he boasted he could talk away his face in half an hour. That charm made him a radical hero, a…
Mocked by his own family, Claudius survived the purges and became emperorA limp, a stammer and a tremor left Claudius shunned by his relatives and kept out of public life. Rivals saw no threat in him, so he outlived the bloodletting under Tiberius and …
Moctezuma's name meant 'he frowns like a lord', and he ruled accordinglyIn Classical Nahuatl, Moctezuma joins a word for lord with a verb meaning to frown in anger. The ninth Aztec emperor lived up to it, purging his court and barring commoners from p…
Modafinil keeps pilots and astronauts awake, but does it make anyone smarter?Developed in France in the 1970s, modafinil is a first-line treatment for narcolepsy, flown aboard the International Space Station and used by several militaries instead of amphet…
Model predictive control uses process models to anticipate and optimize system behaviorResearchers reviewing model predictive control (MPC) found that this advanced engineering method allows systems to be managed by predicting future behavior rather than just reacti…
Modeling is not a job, it is a freelance businessEntering the high-fashion markets of New York, Paris, or Milan requires more than a striking face. It demands an understanding of a complex commercial ecosystem where you are not …