Shards

Credit: The Conversation The Great Sand Sea Desert stretches over an area of 72,000km² linking Egypt and Libya. If you find yourself in a particular part of the desert in south-east Libya and south-western parts of Egypt, you'll spot pieces of yellow glass scattered across the sandy landscape. It was first described in a scientific…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of archaeologists from Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Antiquities Authority has found a way to reconstruct a fire in a single building in Jerusalem burned by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. In their study, reported in Journal of Archaeological Science, the group analyzed magnetic signals in shards of pottery recovered from the site to learn more about…

Infinite shards for a finite time By the time you’re reading this, chances are Bungie developers will be hard at work at Destiny 2 headquarters trying to fix this rampant and easy-to-perform glitch, so let’s get to it. There’s a new method to easily acquire legendary shards in Destiny 2, and odds are it’ll be gone before the weekend. Want to get infinite shards in Destiny 2? Well, then this is what you have to do Meet up with Ikora at The Tower, and take one of the exotic quests. Any will do the trick, so maybe…

Glass fragments found at Elgin Cathedral. Credit: Heritage (2022). DOI: 10.3390/heritage5040180 Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland's religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge. A combination of scientific and historical research is shedding light on the physical and…

As you play Disney Dreamlight Valley, you'll quickly note that Dream Shards are quite the commodity. These special little shards are used for a variety of purposes, including as part of quests, to craft certain items, and to combine with Night Shards to make Purified Night Shards. Here's how to get more Dream Shards.Where to get Dream Shards in Disney Dreamlight ValleyDream Shards can be obtained in multiple different ways, so you're guaranteed to come across some naturally as you play. But here are the…

The shocks come fast in Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in 13 years: The Shards is prefaced by a sweetly sincere – or is it? – thank you note from the notoriously misanthropic author “for your support over the past four decades… I’m more appreciative than you’ll ever know”. The story proper begins with the audacious ruse of “Bret Easton Ellis” looking metafictionally back across time at the defining events that befell him and his friends in the autumn of 1981, during their final year in high school. Bret acknowledges the…

Each episode of Bret Easton Ellis’s long-running podcast begins with a monologue – sometimes a review, sometimes a mildly provocative essay, pillorying the culture’s supposed new puritans. His opening in September 2020 felt different. For 20 years, Ellis said, he’d been haunted by a book he longed to write but was terrified to begin: a memoir of sorts, detailing “what happened to me, and a few of my friends, one year at the end of high school”. His last false start – a few rough pages written with “trembling hands”,…

The AquaDom Aquarium in Berlin, Germany.Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)The AquaDom, the world’s largest cylindrical aquarium, burst on Friday morning in Berlin, releasing more than 264,000 gallons of water (a million liters) onto the premises, which also house a hotel, museum, and cafes. On Twitter, the Berlin police said that there had been “unbelievable maritime damage.”Videos and photos posted to social media by hotel guests on Friday show absolutely jaw-dropping damage, with dead fish, bent support beams, and broken…

Happy Halloween! You better be reading spooky stuff today, friends. If you don’t have time because you are neck deep in eating your child’s candy (I call it “mommy tax”), then Shards of a Story is the right comic for you. Created by Pantom, the Tapas horror anthology offers short tales that are filled with some of the creepiest, most unsettling concepts you can find. There are warnings before each episode so readers can decide if the story is something they want to dive into or if skipping to the next is better. Gore,…

Of all the new things that can be added to Minecraft, some of the most exciting are new enemy mobs and biomes. Enemies give players not only a new threat to contend with, as they typically have their own unique abilities, but also new drops. Biomes, meanwhile, are packed with new content, from blocks to mobs themselves. The Wild Update released with a few new biomes and mobs, plus a new mysterious item called echo shards. Echo shards are a surprise addition to Minecraft since they were not listed among the other…