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Ea-Nasir: The World’s First Bad Businessman and Oldest Customer Complaint
The next time you find yourself composing an angry email to customer service, take comfort in knowing you're participating in a tradition nearly four millennia old. Long before Yelp reviews and Twitter rants, an irate customer named Nanni etched his frustrations into clay, creating what would become the world's oldest documented customer complaint. His target? A copper merchant named Ea-Nasir...
The Burning of the Library of Alexandria: Myths and History
For centuries, the phrase "burning of the Library of Alexandria" has conjured an image of mankind's greatest collection of knowledge going up in flames. It's become a metaphor for the triumph of ignorance over learning, a cautionary tale passed down through generations.
HAL 9000: This Lens is Cinema’s Most Memorable AI Villain
Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey gave the world one of cinema's most chilling villains - the malevolent AI known as HAL 9000. With his ominous glowing red "eye", HAL has become pop culture iconography for evil artificial intelligence.
Origin of “Eat your heart out!”
When someone tells you to "eat your heart out," they likely aren't speaking literally. This vivid expression dates back thousands of years to ancient Greece.
Moonbows and other rare Rainbows
We all know the colorful arc of a rainbow that follows a storm. But nature paints the sky with a diversity of rainbows beyond the common type.
Point Nemo: Where Earth’s Loneliest Waters Meet the Space Age
Imagine a spot on Earth so remote that your closest human neighbors are astronauts. A place where the nearest land lies nearly 1,700 miles away in any direction, and the waters below harbor less life than almost anywhere else in the world's oceans
