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Yardworks Festival returns to SWG3 in Glasgow for what promises to be its most ambitious edition yet – and we have a handy ...
The movie is a mythical thriller, and Chaitanya takes on a never-seen-before avatar that promises something different for audiences. The makers recently released a special video titled “NC24 – The ...
The roots of matrilineal, intergenerational violence. The roots of birth, death and everything between in a state where folklore, superstition and myth intermingle with the pervasive influence of ...
A British man and has wife have realised a slogan about a popular product they have been told all their lives may not be as true as they thought. Chris Hutchinson and his wife Tamira are currently ...
Garritt C. Van Dyk has received funding from the Getty Research Institute. University of Waikato provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. University of Waikato provides funding as a ...
Just when you think the folk-horror vogue is all played out, along comes Aislinn Clarke’s textured delve into Celtic mythology and intergenerational trauma. Siobhán (Clare Monnelly), known to ...
Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a woman sculpted by Pygmalion as art, then brought to life by Aphrodite.
One of the most common climate myths is getting dismantled — again — and the facts speak louder than the fiction. A TikTok video is setting the record straight on the long-debunked claim that ...
But is this depiction scientifically accurate? The belief that the Sun is yellow is very popular, yet it is, in fact, a myth. Read along to explore the fascinating science behind the Sun’s true ...
Irish folklore, like the island itself, is littered with tales of earth mounds known as fairy forts. The ancient ringforts date back to the Iron Age and have long been entwined with tales of the Aos ...
Tolkien was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis. Credit: Віщун, / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 British author J. R. R. Tolkien is beloved worldwide as the father of the literary fantasy ...
Barely a week after Jeannie Rice shattered a world marathon record in London last spring, researchers asked her to an exercise physiology lab in the Netherlands to find out what, exactly, allows ...