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Seven scientific phenomena that continue to baffle researchers and curious minds alikeExplore a collection of unexplained scientific mysteries in this episode of The List Show. Designed for skeptics and those fascinated by unusual auditory occurrences, this video h…
Seven sea turtle species still patrol the world's oceansMarine turtles in the chelonioid superfamily still number seven living species worldwide, spanning hard-shelled cheloniids and a single leathery giant. Adults of each kind match i…
Seven shapes, endless clears: Pajitnov’s Soviet puzzle conquered screensTetris drops four-block tetrominoes into a well; complete a horizontal line and it vanishes. Alexey Pajitnov built it in his spare time at a Moscow computing center. Across versio…
Seven Simple Weekly Habits to Reclaim Your Garden and Your TimeGardening should be an escape, not a chore. By establishing a consistent weekly routine, you can maintain control over your growing space, ensuring your garden remains productive …
Seven species of spotted skunk exist, and they all perform handstands before spraying.Spotted skunks are tiny acrobats that weigh under two pounds. Before releasing their potent scent, they plant their front paws, hoist their hind legs, and splay their tails like f…
Seven stars, a thousand stories: why the Big Dipper is humanity's celestial compass.The Big Dipper is more than a ladle in the sky. Across cultures, this asterism has been a wagon, a bear, a funeral bier, and a hunter’s bow. While it serves as a vital navigationa…
Seven swords, one heart: the iconography of a mother's griefIn Catholic art, the Virgin Mary is often depicted with swords piercing her heart. This striking image isn't just dramatic flair; it is a precise theological map of the Seven Sorr…
Seven thousand islands took a Spanish prince’s sixteenth-century nameThe Philippines spreads about 7,641 western Pacific islands across roughly 300,000 square kilometres between the South China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Celebes Sea. Ruy López de Vil…
Seven true ribs, five false ones, and two that float freeEvery rib is anchored to the spine, but only the top seven pairs reach the breastbone on their own. Three more borrow cartilage from the rib above, which lets the lower chest swin…
Seven years of continuous solar observation reveal the rhythmic pulse of our starNASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has spent seven years tracking the sun in ultra-high resolution. By capturing images every 12 hours, the mission provides an unprecedented look a…
Seven years of engineering work culminate in seven minutes of Martian descentA former NASA JPL engineer shares the personal experience of watching the Curiosity rover land on Mars. This perspective highlights the intense emotional payoff of dedicating year…
Seven young rebels named themselves after art before RaphaelIn 1848, Millais, Rossetti, Hunt and four friends founded a secret Brotherhood in London, scorning Raphael's "corrupting" elegance and Joshua Reynolds as "Sir Sloshua." Their wet-…
Seven-a-side handball was born in a 1917 Berlin rulebookTeam handball pits two sides of seven, six court players and a goalkeeper, against each other as they pass by hand and throw at the opposing goal. Karl Schelenz, Max Heiser, and E…
Seven's bleak ending survived only because Fincher got the wrong scriptProducers forced writer Andrew Kevin Walker to replace the brutal ending of his thriller Seven with something more conventional. Then David Fincher was accidentally sent the origi…
Sevenoaks keeps replanting the oaks that gave the town its nameAround 1100 the Kent settlement appeared in records as Seouenaca, the place of the seven oaks. The original trees in Knole Park have been replaced many times. Seven planted beside…
Seventeen additional cost-free techniques to improve your vegetable garden productivity and efficiency.Huw Richards shares a second collection of seventeen practical gardening hacks designed to simplify tasks ranging from irrigation to composting. This follow-up to his popular Febr…
Seventeen clubs compete in the eighth season of American third-tier professional soccerThe 2026 USL League One season marks a significant milestone for the third tier of American soccer, featuring seventeen teams competing in a rigorous 32-game schedule. As the leag…
Seventeen has thirteen members, and the maths behind the name explains whyPledis Entertainment first imagined a boy band of 17 teenagers averaging 17 years old. After years of trial broadcasts and more than 30 hopefuls, 13 made the cut. The name survive…
Seventeen particles, 61 variations: the Standard Model's list of basic ingredientsAtoms were named for being uncuttable, and they turned out not to be. Today's Standard Model lists seventeen particles that, as far as anyone can tell, have no smaller parts: twel…
Seventeen stone faces still stare from Mexico’s Gulf coastOlmec colossal heads—basalt portraits from about 1.17 to 3.4 metres tall—define Mesoamerica’s first civilization. Seventeen confirmed examples sit at four Gulf Coast sites. The ea…
Seventeenth-century London gangs wore coloured ribbons to tell rival factions apartLong before modern street crews adopted colours, London in the 1600s was plagued by organised gangs with names like the Mims, Hectors, Bugles and Dead Boys. They clashed with one …
Seventh-century mission, then empires and debatesHistorians date Islam’s start to Muhammad’s seventh-century mission in Mecca and Medina; Muslims read it as restoring Abrahamic faith. Early conquests across Arabia and weakening …
Seventy years of Chinese breakup after Tang fell in 907From 907 to 979 China lived through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era: five short-lived dynasties racing across the Central Plain while more than a dozen regimes—ten famous …
Seventy-two days that haunted Marx and French politicsThe Paris Commune seized the French capital on 18 March 1871 and held parts of the city until 28 May. For two months Communards chased progressive, often anti-clerical experiments…
Several armies tried scrapping military ranks entirely, and every one brought them backCommunist governments have occasionally tried running armies without formal ranks. The Soviet Red Army went without them from 1918 to 1935, China's People's Liberation Army from 1…
Several scientists made X-rays by accident before Röntgen noticed what they wereIn 1890 two Pennsylvania experimenters developed photographic plates and found mysterious disks on them, shrugged, and moved on. Six years later they realised they had taken an X-…
Severity of crop losses from heatwaves and droughts has tripled in EuropeResearchers analyzing five decades of European agricultural data found that the impact of extreme weather on crops is intensifying. By combining weather disaster databases with ag…
Sevilla secures a record-extending sixth Europa League title in a disrupted seasonThe 2019–20 UEFA Europa League was defined by unprecedented shifts. From a sudden mid-March suspension caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to a high-stakes mini-tournament in Germany,…
Seville's Phoenician lowland became Andalusia's Guadalquivir capitalSeville, capital of Andalusia and its province on the lower Guadalquivir, held about 686,742 residents in 2024 and a metro near 1.5 million—Spain's fifth city—with a four-square-k…
Sex costs half your genes, so why did evolution keep it?On paper, sexual reproduction is a bad deal. An asexual population, where every individual can bear young, should grow much faster, and a sexual parent passes on only half of its …
Seymour Cray bet on oxen over chickens, and the chickens eventually wonSeymour Cray, who built the world's fastest computers for decades, scoffed at machines made from swarms of small processors. Would you plough with two strong oxen, he asked, or wi…
Seymour Cray: The Wizard Who Built the World's Fastest Computers Using Only Graph PaperKnown as the father of supercomputing, Seymour Cray revolutionized high-performance machines by prioritizing system-wide efficiency over raw processor speed. From his humble basem…
Seymour Hersh: The Investigative Journalist Who Redefined How America Sees Its Own GovernmentFrom exposing the My Lai massacre to uncovering the CIA's illegal domestic spying, Seymour Hersh has spent decades challenging official narratives. His career, defined by relentle…
Sgt. Pepper turned a studio album into a cultural eventReleased in the UK on 26 May 1967, the Beatles' eighth studio album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band helped invent the album era. Musicologists call it an early concept LP th…
Shabana Mahmood is reshaping British state power through surveillance and social conservatismAs Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood is driving a dramatic shift in British governance. From implementing expansive facial recognition technology to restricting immigration and asyl…
Shackleton’s graveyard sea still makes deep ocean waterThe Weddell Sea, a Southern Ocean embayment between Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula, spans roughly 2.8 million square kilometres. Sailors long called it treacherous; it als…
Shaders are the invisible engines transforming raw code into the vibrant visuals of modern computing.Originally designed to calculate colors for Pixar, shaders have evolved into the backbone of modern digital reality. These programmable instructions now run on specialized hardwar…
Shadow banning is the digital equivalent of being sent to Coventry by an algorithm.Shadow banning hides a user's content from others while leaving the user unaware they have been silenced. Originally a moderation tactic to discourage spammers on forums, it has e…
Shadow libraries are digital repositories challenging the corporate control of global scientific knowledge.Shadow libraries are online archives providing free access to paywalled academic papers and books. While publishers label them as pirate networks, supporters view them as essentia…
Shadow play is an ancient, global art form that predates modern cinematic projection techniques.Long before the silver screen, shadow puppetry captivated audiences from Asia to Europe. By manipulating articulated figures between a light source and a translucent screen, skill…
Shadows rise as Sung Jin-woo embraces his new powerFollowing the first season's conclusion, the animated adaptation of Chugong's web novel returns. In this second installment, the protagonist must navigate his evolving abilities a…
Shah Abbas survived a death order as a boy and remade IranIn 1577 an order arrived in Herat to kill the six-year-old prince Abbas. His guardian stalled, saying an execution during holy days would be improper, and within weeks the shah wh…
Shah Rukh Khan made his name playing villains before becoming Bollywood's romantic kingA shoulder injury ended a Delhi schoolboy's sporting dreams, so he turned to stage plays and impressions of film stars. Grief after his mother's death in 1991 finally pushed him t…
Shahid Afridi hit a 37-ball ODI hundred in his first international inningsSent in at number three as a pinch-hitter against Sri Lanka in October 1996, a teenage leg spinner who had not batted on debut struck eleven sixes and reached a hundred from 37 ba…
Shakespeare calls his own poem barren and says a child would do betterMost poets boast that their verse will make someone immortal. In Sonnet 16 Shakespeare does the opposite. He calls Time a bloody tyrant, then admits his rhyme is too feeble to fig…
Shakespeare hands a young man a mirror and tells him to have childrenSonnet 3 opens with a command: look in the glass. The face staring back, the speaker argues, owes the world a copy. Refuse to father one and you cheat some woman of motherhood, bu…
Shakespeare lifted his most dazzling Cleopatra lines from a translation of a translationShakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, first staged around 1607, draws on Thomas North's 1579 English version of Plutarch, which itself came via a French translation. Some of the pla…
Shakespeare mocks rival poets who compare their lovers to the sunIn Sonnet 21, Shakespeare takes aim at poets who drag the sun, the moon, jewels and spring flowers into every love poem. His speaker promises something plainer: a beloved as lovel…- Shakespeare predicted his verse would be outclassed, and asked to be kept anywayIn Sonnet 32 the most celebrated writer in English calls his own lines poor and rude, and expects every future pen to beat them. He asks only one favour of the friend who outlives…
Shakespeare squeezed weeks of Roman history into a single dayIn Julius Caesar, the assassination, the funeral speeches, the reading of the will and Octavius's arrival all happen on one day. In real life they spread from 15 March to May. Sha…- Shakespeare tells a bachelor that staying single makes the whole world a widowSonnet 9 imagines a young man refusing marriage so no wife will ever have to mourn him. Shakespeare flips the excuse inside out: die childless, and the entire world becomes the gr…
Shakespeare turns a lover's body into a painter's studio with glass windowsIn Sonnet 24 the speaker's eye becomes an artist, his heart the canvas and his body the frame. The beloved can only see the finished portrait by looking through the painter himsel…- Shakespeare's answer to ageing in Sonnet 5 is a bottle of perfumeTime, in Sonnet 5, is a craftsman who spends years shaping a lovely face and then turns tyrant and wrecks it. Summer is marched into winter. The only thing that escapes is summer'…
Shakespeare's desert of Bohemia had no sand, only an absence of peopleDesert once meant an abandoned place, not a dry one. Before the twentieth century English speakers used it for any empty land, which is why a desert island needs no dunes. Today t…- Shakespeare's first sonnet scolds a beautiful young man for refusing to have childrenThe opening poem of Shakespeare's sonnets is not a love letter but a lecture. Its speaker tells a gorgeous, self-absorbed addressee that hoarding his looks is a kind of greed, and…
- Shakespeare's forest song promises no enemy except the weatherCome and lie under the trees, the singer urges, and whistle along with the birds. Out here the only foes are winter and rough weather. Shakespeare's short song is an invitation to…
- Shakespeare's insomnia sonnet: the body rests, the mind goes travellingExhausted from a journey, Shakespeare's speaker finally reaches bed, and that is exactly when the real trip begins. His thoughts set off on a pilgrimage to an absent beloved, hold…
- Shakespeare's Sonnet 10 treats refusing to have children as a kind of self-hatredIn Sonnet 10, Shakespeare stops flattering and starts scolding. The young man he addresses is adored by many yet loves no one, and the poet frames that coldness as a plot against …
Shakespeare's Sonnet 14 swaps the night sky for a friend's eyesAstrologers in Shakespeare's day claimed to forecast plagues, famines, storms and the fortunes of princes. Sonnet 14 waves all that away. The poet says he does practise a kind of …- Shakespeare's springtime song is full of flowers and one nervous husbandDaisies, violets and silver-white lady-smocks paint the fields, larks wake the ploughmen, and girls lay out their summer linen. Then a single bird ruins the mood. In Shakespeare's…