Extraordinary 2024, November

12 most colorful places on Earth

12 most colorful places on Earth

The land is "to the brim" filled with different colors, but there are places where the palette of landscapes is amazing. Vivid colors are usually a sign of the presence of pigmented bacteria, sediment layers that have accumulated over millions of years, or the action of other natural forces

What is neuroplasticity?

What is neuroplasticity?

Dr. Lara Boyd assures us that after her lecture our brains will never be the same. In a scientific TEDx talk, she talks about how we change our brains with each skill, explains how and when a person's brains are unique, why some students find it easier than others, and how to make our brains the way you want them

Unusual facts about the brain

Unusual facts about the brain

Everyone sees what he wants. Although the word "wants" is inappropriate here, it would be correct to say - he sees what he programmed his brain for

Where do hexagonal structures come from in nature?

Where do hexagonal structures come from in nature?

Geometric Explanation of the Arrangement of Natural Elements in Hexagonal Shapes

The prototype of the "flying" mountains from Avatar

The prototype of the "flying" mountains from Avatar

It is no secret that the prototype of the "flying" mountains in the movie are quite real mountains, which any tourist can admire

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. "Tsul" and "Wholeness"

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. "Tsul" and "Wholeness"

Everything that in a global sense exists and has a name in this world is whole, otherwise it does not exist in the form to which it is attached by its name. The table is a table, while it is intact, a broken table will not be able to perform its functions, which means that it will no longer be a table

No Nail, No Bullet: Secrets of Impenetrable Special Vehicle Tires

No Nail, No Bullet: Secrets of Impenetrable Special Vehicle Tires

Cars for performing special tasks, including military ones, must be equipped with special tires, for which neither a banal puncture nor a bullet hit is terrible. What are protected tires, and what are they? "Army Standard" has studied the history of the issue and the latest innovations

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. Problems of Modern Words (Part 1)

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. Problems of Modern Words (Part 1)

Now that we see how everything looks at a deeper level, we can take a different look at some problem areas of modern word formation. And before that, we will promise ourselves not to scold or accuse anyone. No obsession like "we are smart and they are fools"

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. Deep decryption

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. Deep decryption

Letters "O", "I", "E", "b", "b". All perform the same function: they convey the meaning of the adjacent part of the word, in one direction or another. The only difference is that, for certain reasons, some are part of the morphemes, while others are not. And this is strange, since there is no logical reason for this

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. The letter "P"

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. The letter "P"

With the letter "P" and its meaning, we got acquainted in passing in the last chapter. It's time to talk better and get to know her better, after all, it is she who leads the largest army of words in the Russian language. For example, in Dahl's dictionary "P" completely occupied an entire volume of four printed

Dane Ichthyander: 22 minutes without air under water

Dane Ichthyander: 22 minutes without air under water

In 2010, Danish no-scuba diver Stig Severinsen jumped into a pool filled with sharks and held his breath in the water for 20 minutes and 10 seconds. The Stig Broke Previous Guinness World Record For Longest Underwater Without Breathing

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. The letter "X"

What do the letters mean? 3. Consistency. The letter "X"

It is difficult to define a clear and precise meaning that would fit under the name "Хѣр", any word will miss something. At the same time, "Khur" herself describes herself at the level of sensations in the best possible way. If you feel that "Khur" has come out, it means that this is "Khur" and there is no other name for it

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Interfixes

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Interfixes

According to modern rules, there is always a connecting vowel between two roots in our language - interfix

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Suffixes

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Suffixes

We have examined the ways of decoding all parts of the word, except for suffixes. And it was not without reason that we left them for last. There are more suffixes than prefixes, they are more diverse and at the same time more understandable. If there are 4 prefixes in a word, this is an obvious semantic overload

Cool concepts of Soviet cars

Cool concepts of Soviet cars

If you fantasize a little, you can imagine what Soviet cars could be. These concepts will help you imagine what would come of the Soviet car industry

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Prefixes

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Prefixes

As we know from school, in addition to the ending and the root, which are mandatory in every word, there can be a couple of morphemes-attachments: prefixes and suffixes. All of them, regardless of type, type and location, are included in the topic of the word, which means they are derivational

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Endings

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Endings

In addition to the root, every word always has an ending, even if it is imperceptible now

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Immersion

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Immersion

We have the meanings of several letters, and sometimes we can already understand the meaning of whole words if we know all the letters of which they are composed. We can recognize certain functions or properties of other words if we know only one or two letters that make up the word. But not everything is so simple

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Roots

What do the letters mean? 2. Decoding. Roots

We begin in practice to apply the found meanings of the letters for simple and understandable words

Taoist rumble: the most inexplicable natural phenomenon

Taoist rumble: the most inexplicable natural phenomenon

People in different parts of the planet periodically, and sometimes constantly, hear low-frequency noises, the sources of which cannot be identified. The most famous of all the sound anomalies was the drone recorded near the American town of Taos, located in the state of New Mexico. Despite the fact that this phenomenon was dealt with by a group of scientists specially created at the initiative of the US Congress, it was not possible to reliably establish its cause

What do the letters mean? 1. Methodology. Comparative analysis

What do the letters mean? 1. Methodology. Comparative analysis

Third way. Let's take two similar words, differing in one or a pair of letters, and compare both variants of their meanings. That is, we first compare the meanings of these two objects, and then compare the meanings of the letters of which they are composed. Or vice versa. Go

What do the letters mean? 1. Methodology. Sense enumeration

What do the letters mean? 1. Methodology. Sense enumeration

Second way. In order to find the meaning of a letter, it is not necessary to decipher the entire word completely. After all, if the word contains the desired letter, it means that it is there for a reason, it supplements the meaning of the word with its own meaning, which is obligatory for this word

What do the letters mean? 1. Methodology. The essence of the word

What do the letters mean? 1. Methodology. The essence of the word

Over the past two hundred years, our language has changed beyond recognition. The grammar and rules have changed, the spelling of words and the style of letters has changed, even the number of letters has changed. These processes took place earlier, but in the 19th century our language was overhauled to the "European standard"

What do the letters mean? 1. Methodology. Introduction

What do the letters mean? 1. Methodology. Introduction

What if each letter has its own meaning? Imagine that every word that we use in communication is an abbreviation, consisting of a set of letters, each of which has a specific meaning. Have you presented?

Smells from the past: what aromas of Soviet childhood are almost never found today

Smells from the past: what aromas of Soviet childhood are almost never found today

We rarely pay attention to this, but we are surrounded by thousands, if not millions of smells, each of which is absolutely unique and associated in our minds with a certain object or even a situation. However, over time, the usual range of smells changes: long familiar ones leave, and instead of them new ones appear, to which we also gradually get used. What smells have become a thing of the past and are practically not found today, Kramola found out

Ancient texts indicate the Massive Underworld under the pyramids of Giza

Ancient texts indicate the Massive Underworld under the pyramids of Giza

Does the underworld really exist under the pyramids of Giza? If we look at ancient texts written thousands of years ago, we find incredible details of a long-lost world hidden under our feet

Secret Nazi military base discovered in the Arctic Codenamed "Treasure Hunter"

Secret Nazi military base discovered in the Arctic Codenamed "Treasure Hunter"

Moscow, Russia. A secret Nazi-era tactical base was discovered by Russian explorers on Alexandria Island in the Arctic Circle, 620 miles from the North Pole

Empty Land maps of the Third Reich

Empty Land maps of the Third Reich

One of the most interesting questions that many people have asked over the centuries is is there a chance our planet is hollow? For many years, it was believed that the earth was hollow, although at least some evidence of this was not until 1968

German man woke up after 75 years of coma and learned that Hitler died during the second world war

German man woke up after 75 years of coma and learned that Hitler died during the second world war

Stuttgart - A 91-year-old German man who has been in a comic state for most of his adult life, recently awakened to learn that Germany was defeated in World War II

Last call for eight billionaires

Last call for eight billionaires

All of them considered university studies a waste of time. Is it really possible to become successful and rich without a higher education diploma? The Kramola portal offers a look at those who, to put it mildly, have slightly overtaken the bulk of graduates

Anenerbe's suitcase and two "ALIEN" skulls were found in the Caucasus Mountains

Anenerbe's suitcase and two "ALIEN" skulls were found in the Caucasus Mountains

It sounds like a scene from an Indiana Jones movie, but according to various sources, a briefcase and two alien skulls were found in the mountains of the Caucasus region of Adygea. Inside the briefcase, researchers found two skulls belonging to an unknown creature

A curious case with Putin's photographs

A curious case with Putin's photographs

Have you come across these images before? This is not the first time a conspiracy theory has argued that a world leader is either a time traveler or immortal. This time around, the internet seems to have taken a special interest in Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is said to be an endless time traveler

Ancient maps of Antarctica and the secret base of the Nazis

Ancient maps of Antarctica and the secret base of the Nazis

Is it possible that Antarctica is really hiding "evidence" of highly advanced ancient civilizations under its thick layers of ice? Is it possible that the Piri Reis map, the Buache map and the Orontius Finay map indicate that before Antarctica was discovered in modern times, someone was able to display the contents before it was covered with ice? And could this be the reason why the Nazis were so interested in ice content?

10 most amazing archaeological discoveries in 2017

10 most amazing archaeological discoveries in 2017

Now is the time to take a look at 2017 and uncover the many archaeological discoveries that have been made this year and pick out the 10 most exciting to see

Power Breakfast

Power Breakfast

Now I will give you a recipe for one remedy that will renew your body very quickly. But first, about who gave me this amazing recipe … … In Altai, not far from Barnaul, there lives one woman, her name is Valentina Markovna. She is a healer, a medium and such a strong healer that for almost 40 years a folk path has not overgrown to her

The day I stopped rushing

The day I stopped rushing

When you live a crazy life, every minute counts. You constantly feel that you have to check the list and run somewhere. And no matter how you try to distribute your time and attention, and no matter how many different tasks you try to solve, you still do not have enough time to do everything

The story of the shooting oak

The story of the shooting oak

In the Great Patriotic War, 3286 people were mobilized from the village of Rashevatskaya. Almost half of them did not return from the battlefields. There were three generals among the front-line raskhevatsev: Fyodor Evseevich Lunev, Semyon Ivanovich Potapov and Pyotr Ivanovich Kozyrev; nine colonels. In general, by the end of the war, 583 residents of the village had become officers

The mystery of the lead books describing the life of Jesus

The mystery of the lead books describing the life of Jesus

In a cave in northern Jordan, ancient manuscripts were found, engraved on lead plates, which were fastened together with wire. A collection of 70 books was discovered between 2005 and 2007. However, the general public about the find, which, according to scientists, will turn the whole biblical history, became known only a few days ago

Interesting facts about the roads in the USA, Germany and Russia

Interesting facts about the roads in the USA, Germany and Russia

American highways, like most local roads of different categories, are concrete. And, unlike European ones, they are designed for much higher loads and bandwidth. The German Autobahn has long become synonymous in Russia with a high-quality, reliable and high-speed road. The cost of building roads in Russia is either a product of the highest quality, or a sophisticated method of money laundering. Many are inclined towards the second option