Alexander von Humboldt

In December 1802, a small sailing ship called the Causino set sail from Callao, Peru northward along the South American coastline toward Guayaquil in present-day Ecuador, a trip of about 700 miles, or 1,127 kilometers. One of the ship's passengers was a 33-year-old Prussian aristocrat, Alexander von Humboldt. A mining…

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At the Huawei Flagship Product Launch on Thursday, the company unveiled a wide range of new products designed to form an all-scenario, smart, and fully connected ecosystem centered upon the HarmonyOS. The innovative line-up includes the flagship HUAWEI P50 Pocket, HUAWEI WATCH D, HUAWEI Eyewear, and the next-generation HUAWEI MateBook X Pro. Richard Yu, Huawei’s…

Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu announced on Dec. 23, 2021, the first car with HarmonyOS will begin deliveries in February 2022. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — Less than a week after Chinese electric car start-up Nio announced its latest competitor to Tesla, Huawei released details on a…

At the HUAWEI Flagship Product Launch on Thursday, an intelligent luxury SUV – AITO M5 – was officially rolled out. The AITO M5 is equipped with the HUAWEI DriveONE electrical system and the HarmonyOS Smart Cockpit.  From AUTO to AITO – Adding Intelligence To Auto – “Intelligence” represents a huge change to mobility. Oriented towards…

After three generations in the Mate X foldable series, Huawei finally unveiled its first clamshell foldable phone – the Huawei P50 Pocket. It brings a Huawei patented hinge mechanism with no visible gap when closed. P50 Pocket continues the design language laid out by the Huawei P50 series and uses…

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When people entertain transporting to the past, 19th-century Berlin, say, they don’t often imagine a dramatic shift in smellscape. The inhabitants talk differently. Their fashion looks strange. But what do those streets smell like? Suddenly, it hits you—a texture of reality carried by a strong whiff of … horse manure.…

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jürgen Margraf,  Xiao Chi Zhang,  Kristen L. Lavallee,  Silvia Schneider x Published: June 23, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234997 AbstractThe present study examines a broad range of longitudinal predictors of dimensional positive mental health (PMH) and negative mental health (NMH), using data from the BOOM study.…

Hello, it’s Michelle here, with a post about Marianne North (1830–1890), a Victorian traveller and nature artist who left an extraordinary legacy. Painting 684. North painted the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) from a garden specimen in Java. For almost 140 years North’s paintings have been on permanent display in the…