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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s penultimate symphony is perhaps his most popular. Richard Wigmore surveys a selection of recordings – and busts a few Mozartian myths along the way

The second largest city in the tiny country of Luxembourg is one of the 2022 European Capitals of Culture. Esch-sur-Alzette has only 36,000 inhabitants. Despite COVID, the town has a full program.

Science can lead us, with each iteration, nearer to the truth. But that doesnt mean that some of its greatest practitioners werent sometimes way off the mark. Albert Einstein, despite rewriting physics, was wrong about more than a few things. Isaac Newton believed in alchemy and devoted a significant portion of his life to creating a Philosophers Stone (the making gold kind, not the Harry Potter kind). Edmond Halley, most famous for his discovery that a periodically appearing celestial object...

The #MyHeritage tech is producing some interesting results By Jessica MasonMar 1st, 2021, 4:37 pm You’ve heard of deep fakes: where someone with the help of an AI digitally pastes one face onto another person’s actions. It’s incredibly eerie all on its own, but when we’re talking about one living face getting plastered on another, there’s a level of “weird, but fine” there. It’s a little more complicated when the deep fake technology is being used to create “deep nostalgia”...

Doomsday Clock Close as Ever to Midnight in 2021 over COVID, Nukes, Climate Change On 1/27/21 at 10:51 AM EST Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveiled this years deliberation on the symbolic Doomsday Clock at a virtual event Wednesday. The clock was set to 100 seconds, unchanged from the 2020 finding, which marked the latest the time has ever been pushed since the clock was devised in 1947. The Bulletinwas established two years earlier by famed physicist Albert Einstein in re...

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European Capitals of Culture 2021 on hold Novi Sad, Timisoara and Elefsina were supposed to be the 2021 European Capitals of Culture. Then the coronavirus hit — forcing them to postpone their program. Novi Sad — the Serbian Athens Novi Sad, Serbias second-largest city, is colorful, loud and diverse, with a palpable cultural pulse. It is home to Serbs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Croatians, Rumanians, Montenegrins and Roma, among others. In the 19th century, Novi Sad was an important center of trad...

You think it means. >> far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve. >> you cannot be serious. >> you want these benefits that hundreds of thousands of texans now have, you want them taken away. >> thats not exactly right. >> youre not exactly the smartest guy i ever ran across. >> oh, yeah? who are you? alfred einstein? >> the point of reform is to lower the cost and make health care affordable. not impossible for the middle class. >> thank you. and god bless you. >> good to have yo...