MARCH IS THE NEW YEAR? - 1452 MAP - Little is known about the 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer Giovanni Leardo, beyond the fact that three of his world maps have survived from late-medieval times, signed by their creator. This is the oldest world map held in the library of the American Geographical Society, and it is considered the finest example of a medieval mappamundi in the Western hemisphere. Leardo's two other maps, similar but not identical, are in Italy, at the Bibliotec

YOUR BRAIN SEES REBAR. GEOLOGY SEES A NIGHTMARE. 📏🗿 Stop scrolling. Look at the geometry. Found deep in the Australian outback inside solid Quartzite. Two rusted iron rods. They are perfectly parallel. They are spaced exactly 3 inches apart. They are fused into the stone matrix. This looks like modern reinforced concrete. But there is a problem: This rock solidified long before the first dinosaur was born. Before trees. Before anything on Earth even had legs. Who was building reinforced struct