“> See all stories on this topic Experts declare ‘air bombs’discuss Bermuda Triangle mystery Archaeologists accidentally find dozens of ancient shipwrecks at the bottom of the Black Sea The “Bermuda Triangle” is the stuff of legend– in both senses of the word. The location of the Atlantic Ocean in between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda has actually seen its share, or perhaps more than its share, of mysterious disappearances of ships and airplane, causing a popular theory that some paranormal force is at work in the triangular body of water. Two meteorologists inform the Science Channel that hexagonal cloud patterns, 20 to 55 miles across, are likely to blame for the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon. “These types of hexagonal shapes over the ocean are in essence, ‘air bombs,'” said Dr. Randy Cerveny at Arizona State University. “They’re formed by what are called microbursts. They’re blasts of air that come down from the bottom of the clouds and struck the ocean, and they produce waves that can often be huge in size once they begin to interact with each other.” These “air bombs,” with winds up to 170 miles per hour or 100 mph near sea level, are strong enough to sink ships by producing substantial waves or pounding down airplanes from the sky, Cerveny informs the Science Channel. Other meteorologists disagree with this theory, keeping in mind that it is based upon weather patterns in the North Sea off Britain, which has a very various climate. You can discover more in the CNN report below. Peter Weber William Shakespeare is no longer getting all the credit for the legend of Henry VI. Oxford University Press has revealed it’s going to list author Christopher Marlowe’s name alongside Shakespeare’s on the title page for each of the 3 Henry VI plays in upcoming editions of the works. The choice followed new “textual analysis and using digital tools to examine the scripts” by 23 international scholars, whose research figured out rivals Marlowe and Shakespeare more than simply influenced one another’s work, BBC reported. “We have actually been able to verify Marlowe’s existence in those three plays highly and plainly enough,” Gary Taylor of Florida State University told The Guardian. Marlowe, who was as soon as wrongly believed to in fact be Shakespeare, has actually been believed of being involved in the production of the Henry VI plays considering that the 18th century, but this marks the first time he’s getting a share of the credit. The research further exposed that these 3 plays may not be the only ones Shakespeare got some aid on; now, researchers say the Henry VI trio might be among “as lots of as 17 plays that … consist of composing by other people, often numerous hands,” The Guardian reported. That’s close to two-fifths of Shakespeare’s plays, of which there are 44 in total, that the Bard might not have actually written completely alone. But as Shakespeare– or any of his potential co-writers– put it: “What’s in a name?” Becca Stanek The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Job had planned to learn how quickly water levels rose in the Black Sea after the last Glacial epoch, but the group wound up discovering a great deal more than they had actually anticipated, Quartz reports. While examining the seabeds, the researchers found dozens and lots of previously undiscovered shipwrecks– 41 in all. “The wrecks are a total bonus offer, however an interesting discovery, discovered throughout the course of our substantial geophysical studies,” the task’s principal investigator, Jon Adams, stated in a statement. Much of the shipwrecks were in incredible condition due to the low oxygen levels that exist almost 500 feet below the surface area. “Definitely no one has actually accomplished models of this efficiency on shipwrecks at these depths,” Adams stated. Explorers discover more than 40 ancient shipwrecks in the Black Sea https://t.co/qe5Eslr0VL by means of @MailOnline #archaeology #maritime pic.twitter.com/850u90K7n9 Method to go @sotonarch – over 40 #shipwrecks revealed during mapping of Black Sea landscape https://t.co/IxY1NsWH1u #maritime #archaeology pic.twitter.com/I4DV3dX1iJ Much of the ships date back to the Byzantine and Ottoman empires. The scientists are using pictures to develop 3D models of their finds and want to learn more about “the maritime interconnectivity of Black Sea coastal neighborhoods and manifest way of livings and seafaring that extend back into prehistory.” Jeva Lange If you’re aiming to rack up thousands and thousands of air miles in one fell swoop, you may think about Air India’s nonstop flight from Delhi to San Francisco– now 870 miles longer, since the path has actually altered to fly throughout the Pacific, instead of throughout the Atlantic. By altering the route, the flight is now the longest on the planet at 9,506 miles, surpassing Emirates’ Dubai-Auckland path, which had been the previous record holder. But Air India didn’t alter their route simply to obtain the title– by flying over the Pacific, the Boeing-777 200ER airplanes knock 2 hours off the flight time by taking advantage of the Jet Stream. Unfortunately, you’re still on an aircraft for an overall of 14-and-a-half hours. 2nd flight for @airindiain’s new Pacific routing to @flySFO. Info: https://t.co/n3ioEgav8a Follow live: https://t.co/MwtVdjntbY pic.twitter.com/HV1rfI8MYK “The aircraft removed from Delhi at 4 a.m. on Sunday [Oct. 16] morning. We remained in that date till Japan. After that, we crossed the International Date Line and were in Oct. 15. By the time we landed in San Francisco, it was 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 16,” among the pilots informed The Telegraph. Air India will not hold the record long, though– an even lengthier flight has been proposed by Singapore Airlines, a Singapore-New York route that would run 10,252 miles and last 19 hours. Pack a great book. Jeva Lange Of all the possible debates to have actually arisen throughout Hillary Clinton’s presidential run, it is rather surprising that her health became one of the greatest– the subject was even front-and-center in a Donald Trump campaign ad. But how exactly Clinton’s “peculiar travel habits” and “lengthy naps” changed from relatively regular ol’ travel and naps is another story, and one that was thoroughly crafted on social networks utilizing the same type of believing that creates viral memes. Among the major architects is Mark Cernovich, an influential alt-right Twitter user who clarified “I’m not a pure giant” to The New Yorker. “Pure trolls are amoral. I use trolling tactics to build my brand name,” he explained. And in doing so, Cernovich has actually also developed the political conversation: “There are a million things wrong with Hillary,” Cernovich informed me. “She’s a documented liar. She’s massively corrupt. She wishes to let in more so-called refugees, that makes her an existential risk to the West.” (He calls the Syrian refugee crisis a “media lie.”) “However I was looking at the conversation online– what was getting across people and exactly what wasn’t– and none of that was sticking. It’s too complex. I believed that the health stuff would be more visceral, more resonant from a persuasion perspective, therefore I pressed that.” On September 11th, Clinton passed out after going to a funeral at Ground No. Cernovich composed a post called “Total Timeline of Hillary’s Health #HillarysHealth,” that included such data points as “strange travel routines” and “prolonged naps.” It got two hundred and forty thousand page views– less than a marquee Huffington Post story, but impressive for a blog without any marketing budget plan. More crucial, #HillarysHealth ended up being a nationwide trending subject on Twitter. That day, Chris Cillizza, a centrist expert at the Washington Post, composed a post entitled “Hillary Clinton’s Health Just Became a Real Concern in This Project.” Scott Greer, a deputy editor of the Daily Caller, tweeted, “Cernovich memed #SickHillary into reality. Never doubt the power of memes.” [The New Yorker] Find out more about how one tiny troll can influence the whole governmental race at The New Yorker. Jeva Lange Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has considerably changed his tune about President Obama now that he’s fighting to hang onto his seat in Congress. After years of requiring the president’s impeachment and engaging in birtherism theories, Issa chose to make his latest project mailer about how “pleased” he is that Obama “has signed into law the Survivors’ Expense of Rights– legislation that I cosponsored to protect the victims of sexual attack.” And, as the icing on the cake, the mailer featured an image of Obama– the guy Issa called “one of the most corrupt presidents in modern-day time”– sitting at his desk in the Oval Workplace. Here’s the mailer Issa sent out that set Obama off tonight https://t.co/JpsKAyWNKp pic.twitter.com/DrrYT8doyp Obama was not having it. At a Democratic Congressional Project Committee fundraising supper Sunday night, he called out Issa’s efforts at a fair-weather friendship, and presumed regarding say Issa was “Trump prior to Trump.” “Now that is the meaning of chutzpah,” Obama stated, hitting Issa’s decision to send out leaflets “touting his cooperation with me” because “his survey numbers are bad” as woefully transparent. “That,” Obama added, “is shameless.” Becca Stanek Among the most significant mysteries of the 2016 election has lastly been solved. That word Donald Trump has actually repeatedly used on the campaign trail that begins with “big” and ends somewhat imperceptibly is “major league”– not “bigly,” as a few of us might have heard. The New york city Times got linguists to perform a voice analysis and end the argument over exactly what Trump is really stating once and for all. Ends up, “big league” has actually been a preferred phrase of Trump’s given that the ’90s. He’s used it on an episode of The Apprentice, on a tv interview with CNN’s Larry King, and in an appearance with NBC’s Meet journalism. But, linguists found, there readies factor for the confusion over whether Trump has been saying “bigly” or “big league.” The New york city Times reported “major league” is usually utilized as an “adjective or metaphorical noun,” however Trump has been using it as an adverb. “It’s some combination of a great deal of people unknowning the phrase ‘big league’ then likewise that it’s an unusual location to utilize that expression in a sentence,” stated Susan Lin, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. “So people are parsing it as an adverb, which would be ‘bigly.'” Head over to The New York Times to learn more on what linguists discovered about Trump’s vocabulary. Becca Stanek Donald Trump has made the expulsion of undocumented immigrants a huge part of his campaign, however simply a few brief years ago he had a drastically various opinion on the matter, CNN has actually discovered. Trump discussed that he didn’t believe in deporting immigrants in a June 2012 interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box: “You have individuals in this country for Twenty Years, they’ve done a fantastic job, they’ve done wonderfully, they have actually gone to school, they have actually gotten excellent marks, they’re productive– now we’re supposed to send them out of the country, I do not think in that, Michelle, and you comprehend that. I don’t think in a lot things that are being said,” Trump said. The comments don’t do much to clarify how Trump in fact does feel– by June 2015 he was declaring Mexicans were “rapists.” “And some, I presume, are good individuals,” Trump added. Compare the remarkable flip-flop, below. Jeva Lange
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