Hitting the Books: Uncovering ancient civilizations with a plane and a prayer

University of California Press From Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past by Mark D. McCoy. Copyright © 2020 by Mark D. McCoy. Reprinted with… View original post here: Hitting the Books: Uncovering ancient civilizations with a plane and a prayer

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Epic Games teases its new, nearly-photorealistic Unreal Engine 5

Epic Games “Nanite frees developers from having to worry about polygon count and levels of detail. It enables you to author all the content in the game at its full, movie quality level of… Original post: Epic Games teases its new, nearly-photorealistic Unreal Engine 5

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NASA backs studies on environmental effects of COVID-19 lockdowns

You’ve probably heard stories of skies and water clearing up while most people stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but how much have things improved, really? Scientists are about to rely… Read the original: NASA backs studies on environmental effects of COVID-19 lockdowns

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Amazon VP quits over company firing COVID-19 whistleblowers

We’ve asked Amazon for comment. In the past, the company has insisted that climate change activists were violating policies on external communication, and that it fired COVID-19 protesters for… The rest is here: Amazon VP quits over company firing COVID-19 whistleblowers

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Hitting the Books: Without glass, we’d have never discovered the electron

MIT Press Excerpted from The Alchemy of Us – How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez. Reprinted with permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020.Long before the Great… Read more: Hitting the Books: Without glass, we’d have never discovered the electron

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