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  Zeus was the ruler of the Olympian gods and brother to Poseidon and Hades. Zeus was worshiped throughout the Greek world, the most important sites being at Athens, Acragas, and Olympia. At Olympia, the temple to Zeus contained a thirty-foot gold and marble statue of the god seated on a throne bearing the goddess of victory in one hand and a scepter in the other, on which was perched an eagle. The god was crowned in a wreath of olive shoots and adorned in gold robes and gold sandals.   Bronze bust of Jupiter(Zeus), ~1st c. BCE – 1st c. CE. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Zeus is commonly represented as a sky god with power over the weather, but as the ruler of the cosmos he was also a god of order and justice. On a small scale, Zeus meted out justice to criminals, protected travelers and the home, or bestowed kings with the right to rule. On a larger scale, Zeus could guide the fates of nations. Homer’s Iliad opens with the lines:   “Sing, goddess, of the destructive wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, who laid countless pains upon the Achaeans, and sent many strong souls of heroes to Hades, making of them carrion for dogs and birds, fulfilling the will of Zeus.”   By these words the epic opens, making it clear that all that is to come, including the subsequent fall of Troy, was part of Zeus’s plan. He was the guarantor of cosmic order, but also a means by which that order came about. His actions in the countless stories told of him describe how the world as the Greeks knew it and how it came to be as it was.   1. Birth and Rearing Statue of Zeus in the Temple at Olympia, drawing by Alfred Charles Conrade, 1913-1914. Source: British Museum   Zeus was born the youngest of six children to the Titan gods Kronos (Cronus) and Rhea. While his other five siblings were swallowed by their father soon after their births, Zeus’ mother tricked Kronos into swallowing a swaddled stone instead of the newborn god. She then took him to Crete, where he was raised. Second-century CE writer Apollodorus recounts in his Library of Greek Mythology that the baby Zeus was given to the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida to rear while the Curetes, minor Cretan gods, banged their shields to prevent Kronos from hearing the child’s voice.   2. Titanomachy Gold dish showing the Titanomachy, Elias Drentwett I, 1630s. Source: The State Hermitage Museum, St-Petersburg   When he was fully grown, Zeus rebelled against his father. Gaia convinced Kronos to regurgitate his swallowed children—though some versions state that the goddess Metis or Zeus himself gave Kronos a draught that made him vomit—and with their help, Zeus freed the Cyclopes from Tartaros (Tartarus), where they had been imprisoned. As thanks, the Cyclopes gave him the thunderbolt.   Zeus and the other Olympians would clash against the Titan gods for over ten years until they reached a stalemate. Zeus and his siblings then freed the Hecatoncheires (literally translated as hundred-handers), hundred-armed and fifty-headed monsters, and rallied them to his cause. They hurled hundreds of boulders at the Titans, and Zeus blazed into the center of the battlefield in a rain of thunderbolts. The battle shifted, and Zeus defeated his father, Kronos, imprisoning him and the other Titans in Tartaros (Hesiod, 7th c. BCE, pp.43-46).   3. Typhoeus Krater with black-figure painting of the Gigantomachy, 540 BCE. Source: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Following the Titanomachy came the Gigantomachy. Offspring of Gaia, the Giants were powerful beings that also challenged the Olympians but ultimately lost. At the end of the gigantomachy, Gaia gave birth to her last son, who was born by Tartaros, Typhoeus (Typhon). He was so fearsome that seventh-century poet Hesiod recounts in his Theogony:   “Surely that day a thing beyond all help might have occurred: he might have come to rule over the gods and mortal man, had not the father of gods and men been quick to see the danger […]”   Zeus leaped down from Olympus and smote the monster upon a jagged mountainside. With Typhoeus defeated, the Olympians proclaimed Zeus as the new king of the gods.   In Hesiod’s version of the story, Zeus divided up the spoils of the battle, handing out to each god their function and portion of the world as he pleased. In other versions, such as in Apollodorus’s The Library of Greek Mythology, Zeus and his brothers drew lots to determine which domain they would rule. Regardless of the version, Zeus was allotted the heavens, Poseidon the seas and all waters, and Hades the underworld.   4. Creation of Humans Black-figure painting of armored warriors in combat, Leagros Group, 510-500 BCE. Source: The British Museum, London   According to Hesiod in his Works and Days, there were four separate and distinct races, or generations, of humans before modern humans.   The first was a golden race that lived during the time of the Titans. These humans lived like the gods themselves. They didn’t work and knew no hardship. They didn’t age, fall ill, or feel sorrow. For unexplained reasons, these humans were hidden under the earth, where they continued to live as spirits.   The second generation was of silver. These humans were fashioned by the Olympians and were unlike their golden precursors. The silver race remained children for a hundred years, and when they were finally fully grown, they lived only briefly. They injured each other and paid no respect to the gods. Zeus, in his anger, hid these humans underground as well.   Zeus himself made the next humans, these ones bronze. The bronze race was powerful and violent. They were great warriors but ultimately killed each other.   Zeus then created the fourth generation, which was more just and good than the bronze. A race of demi-gods and heroes. It is in this time that the stories of heroes like Achilles and Odysseus occur. This race, too, eventually died out, the last of which Zeus made immortal and gave them homes at the edge of the earth.   The king of the gods then created the fifth generation of humans, the race of iron. These are modern humans, whose lot is to, as Hesiod puts it, work unceasingly, then waste away and die. This race, too, Zeus will one day destroy.   5. The Birth of Athena Black-figure image of Zeus giving birth to Athena, Antimenes Painter, circa 520 BCE. Source: The British Museum, London   Zeus’ first wife was Metis, the goddess of wisdom, but their marriage did not last long. He was told by Gaia and Ouranos that she would give birth to a daughter who would be equal in intelligence to himself and then to a son who would become a king among gods and men. In order to avoid this fate, Zeus swallowed his wife while she was pregnant. By doing this, he was able to maintain his indisputable rule over the world.   A side-effect of eating Metis, however, was one of mythology’s strangest births. Zeus began suffering from a headache. With the help of Hephaestus, who opened Zeus’ head with his hammer, Athena—the goddess of wisdom and strategy—sprang out of Zeus’ head, fully dressed in her armor with her shield and spear.   6. The Wives of Zeus and the Birth of the Gods Hera, Athena and Zeus, bell krater. Source: Metropolitan Museum, New York   Zeus had many wives. As mentioned previously, his first wife was Metis. His second wife was Themis, and with her had the Fates. His next wife was the daughter of Ocean, Eurynome. Together they had three daughters, the Graces, goddesses of beauty, joy, and all good things. Zeus then took his sister Demeter as his wife, and she gave birth to Persephone. Next he married Mnemosyne, who bore the nine Muses. Zeus’ sixth wife was Leto, and by her he had two more children, the twins Apollo and Artemis.   His seventh and most famous wife was Hera. Zeus would continue to spurn her throughout their marriage with numerous flagrant affairs. Their first quarrel occurred when Zeus gave birth from his skull to his daughter by Metis, Athena. In her anger and “without the act of love” Hera bore a son, Hephaistos (Hesiod, 7th c. BCE, pp.52-53).   7. Zeus’ Rule Challenged Black-figure amphora, depicting the marriage of Zeus and Hera, attributed to the Berlin Painter. Source: 550-530 BCE. Source: British Museum   In Book 1 of The Iliad, Homer names three Olympian gods that attempted to overthrow Zeus. Hera, Poseidon, and Athena chained and bound him, but Themis, the mother of Achilles, came to his rescue. She called upon Briareus, one of the Hundred-Handers that aided Zeus in his fight against Typhoeus, to go up to Olympus where he protected the chained god. Cowed by the giant, the three Olympians halted their plan and Zeus was freed from his bonds.   8. The Wanderings of Io Jupiter Enthroned, by Heinrich Friedrich Füger, 18th and 19th centuries. Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest   Io was a descendant of Argive royalty, and while sources differ on exactly who her parents were, they agree that Io was a priestess of Hera. Zeus seduced her in secret, and when his wife discovered the affair, he turned Io into a white cow, swearing to Hera that he never had relations with her. Hera didn’t believe him and demanded that he give her the cow, which she then imprisoned and set the monster Argos to guard.   Zeus instructed Hermes to free the metamorphosed Io from the monster, which he did by killing it, but Hera then sent a gadfly to continuously bite the tortured woman as she fled across the land. She first went to the Ionian Gulf, which came to bear her name. She eventually stopped in Egypt, where she was transformed back into her human form. There, she had a son, but Hera instructed the Curetes, the same gods that protected the infant Zeus from his father, to steal her son away. Zeus killed the Curetes, and Io wandered through Syria to find her abducted son. When she found him, she returned to Egypt where she lived out the rest of her days.   9. Europa Red-figure painting of Zeus carrying off Europa, The Policoro Painter, 4th c. BCE. Source: The British Museum, London   Europa was the daughter of a Phoenician king who caught the attention of Zeus. In order to seduce her, he ordered Hermes to drive the royal cattle down to the shore where the girl was known to play, and once there, Zeus disguised himself as a magnificent white bull. Europa was drawn to the beauty of the animal, not knowing that it was in fact the king of the gods. She hopped onto the bull’s back and Zeus carried her out with him into the sea, bringing her all the way to Crete. Zeus impregnated the girl, and she gave birth to Minos, later king of Crete.   10. Semele Jupiter and Semele by Gustave Moreau, 1894-95. Source: Gustave Moreau Museum, Paris   Semele was a princess of Thebes and daughter of Cadmus, who was the brother of Europa. Zeus impregnated Semele, and when Hera discovered the affair, she vowed vengeance on the soon-to-be mother for the shame she had caused her. Hera disguised herself as an old crone and manipulated Semele into asking Zeus for a gift, specifically that he appears to her in his godly form as he does for Hera.   Semele went to Zeus and asked for an unspecified gift, to which Zeus agreed, swearing an unbreakable oath on the river Styx. When Semele told him what she wanted he was dismayed but had no choice but to oblige. He revealed his divine form and upon seeing it, Semele burst into flames. The child she carried was torn from her womb and sewn onto Zeus’s thigh where he was brought to term. Thus Dionysos (Dionysus), the twice-born, was born.   11. Lykaon Engraving of Lykaon transformed into a wolf, Agostino Veneziano, 1524 CE. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Like most gods of the Greek pantheon, Zeus was both loved and feared, and expected piety and devotion from humanity. To those that did not show the level of affection he was due, or to those that spurned him outright, Zeus punished them with a heavy hand.   Early in his reign, Zeus descended to earth and walked the lands until he came to Arcadia. Through signs and omens, he let the people know that a god was among them. Common people offered prayers, but the king, Lykaon, mocked their piety and sought to test Zeus to prove whether or not he was in fact a god. The first test was to try and murder Zeus in his sleep, but when this method failed Lykaon was still not satisfied. The king killed a hostage sent to him by the Molossians and cut him into pieces, then cooked him and served him to the disguised Zeus. Enraged, Zeus hurled a thunderbolt and brought down the king’s house. Lykaon fled into the fields, where Zeus turned him into a wolf.   References   Apollodorus. (1st or 2nd century CE). The Library of Greek Mythology (R. Hard, trans). Oxford University Press, 1997   Homer. (8th or 7th century BCE). The Iliad (R. Fagles, trans). Penguin Books USA Inc., 1990   Hesiod. (8th century BCE). Theogony and Works and Days (D. Wender, trans). Penguin Group, 1973   Ovid. (43 BCE-17 CE. or 18 CE). Metamorphoses (C.Martin, trans). W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005

How do you explain to a 6-year-old what it’s like to give birth? This is something that many parents have to consider as their little ones get more and more curious. The Mom in the video below hadn’t explained the process yet when she overheard quite an interesting conversation between her two little ones. During it, her 6-year-old confidently tells her 4-year-old that, when their mom gave birth to them, she was “foaming at the mouth.” Clearly, there was a misunderstanding with the info this kid got, but Mom could not handle not knowing where she got it from or how. As a result, she and her husband sat down for a chat. If you’ve ever seen the dadchats social media account, you’ll know that this couple posts videos like this all the time. And it’s no wonder why! The stories they have to tell, and the way they deliver them, never fails to delight everyone, no matter if you currently have kids of your own. So, to find out the mystery behind why this 6-year-old thinks that giving birth involves foaming at the mouth, watch the video below! @dadchats This is a good day with @momchats ♬ original sound – dadchats That’s right — this adorable kid believes giving birth involves foaming at the mouth, all because of a misunderstanding over a single word. When she asked about babies, Dad thought she said rabies. This simple mistake led to one of the most hilarious misunderstandings, especially for these parents who can’t stop losing it! Truly, their laughter is just as entertaining as the misunderstanding itself. One Misheard Word Leaves This Curious Kid With a Hilarious Misunderstanding About Giving Birth “It’s a very dad thing to not even question why a six-year-old is asking about rabies and just start dispensing knowledge,” one person points out in the comment section, with another adding, “I love that you can see the exact moment when each of you realized what happened.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Mom Shares 6-Yr-Old’s Hilarious Misunderstanding Of What Happens During Birth appeared first on InspireMore.

Jefferson Starship emerged from the transformation of the iconic 1960s band Jefferson Airplane into a new entity that reflected changes in the musical landscape and the personal evolution of its members. The transition was marked by a shift from the psychedelic rock of Jefferson Airplane to a more straightforward rock sound mixed with elements of pop and AOR. Jefferson Starship was officially formed in 1974 by Paul Kantner and other Airplane members, along with some new faces, to explore these new musical directions. Their debut album Dragon Fly was released that same year. The band enjoyed considerable success throughout the The post Complete List Of Jefferson Starship Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

So, there you are, scrubbing away, belting out your favorite tunes, when suddenly… you’re attacked! By a flimsy piece of waterproof fabric. We’ve all been there at some point, grumbling as we try to un-stick ourselves from the shower curtain that’s randomly decided to billow in at us – which kind of raises the question: why does this always happen?For a seemingly everyday problem, finding a solution was much harder than you might think – and the true answer is probably not the explanation you’ve been given before. One of the most popular answers, for example, is that of Bernoulli’s Principle – a theorem from fluid dynamics which links the speed of a fluid with its pressure and height. “The Bernoulli effect is the principle that explains how an airplane's wings produce lift,” explained mechanical engineer David Schmidt in a 2001 article for Scientific American. “It says that as a fluid accelerates, the pressure drops.”Basically, the idea is that water from the shower speeds up the air around it, decreasing the pressure on the inside of the curtain. Meanwhile, no such effect is going on outside the shower, and so the higher pressure forces the curtain inwards.But there’s one rather large problem with this explanation: “the Bernoulli effect is based on a balance between pressure forces and acceleration, and does not allow for the presence of droplets,” Schmidt explained. “Nor, according to my calculations, is it responsible for the curtain deflection.”So much for Bernoulli – perhaps the other popular explanation can help us out?  Known as the “buoyancy theory”, this one says that the hot water from the shower causes the air inside the curtain to heat up, thus reducing its density. Again, the air outside the shower is unaffected, and so this cooler, denser air rushes inwards, pushing the curtain in as it does so.But again, we see a flaw with this argument: “the curtain will suck inward toward a cold shower, too,” Schmidt pointed out. Throw that theory in the trashcan too, then.Luckily, Schmidt had at his disposal not only a weird fascination with disobedient shower accessories, but also precisely the knowledge and equipment needed to figure out the real answer. As a professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in the dynamics of liquid sprays, his day job involved computer simulation technology that, well, pretty much nobody else in the world had access to.“I realized that [others] were all weighing in with their opinions,” Schmidt told Wired in 2001, “and with these computer simulations I was doing, I had something at my fingertips that I could use to answer it.”Unlike previous explanations for the shower curtain effect, Schmidt’s program allowed him to include thousands of minuscule real-life nuances – the distortion of the shower droplets as they fall through the air and interact with each other, for example; the effects of the droplets breaking up as they fall, and the impact of drag on their speed and direction; all things that big-picture answers such as the Bernoulli Principle or the buoyancy effect simply couldn’t account for.It took two weeks of calculations – this was 2001, after all; computers were slower back then – but Schmidt’s work came good. After years of debate, the shower curtain problem finally had an answer – and, for his discovery (which he swears wasn’t done on company time), Schmidt was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics.“Basically, a vortex sets up,” Schmidt explained. “It's like a hurricane (of air) turned on its side, and in the center of that is low pressure, and that pulls in near the middle of the curtain. But because of the way tension works in a curtain you get the bottom moving in.”Luckily, the effect is pretty weak – so if you’re really bothered by the daily attack of the shower curtain, there’s an easy solution to that, too.“The forces generated by this airflow […] are only sufficient to pull light, thin curtains inward. That explains why people with heavy plastic curtains typically don't have this problem,” Schmidt wrote in Scientific American. “Also, if someone has poor water pressure or a poorly atomizing showerhead, they may not see the curtain suck in.”So, he advised, “the easiest thing to do is to sew weights in the bottom. Or, if you have a metal tub, magnets can hold the curtain in place.”

Sam McKee: When considering human settlements on the Moon, Mars and further afield, much attention is given to the travel times, food and radiation risk. We’ll undoubtedly face a harsh environment in deep space and some thinkers have been pointing to genome editing as a way to ensure that humans can tolerate the severe conditions as they venture further into the solar system. In January, I was fortunate to attend a much-anticipated debate between astronomer royal Lord Martin Rees and Mars exploration advocate Dr Robert Zubrin. The event at the British Interplanetary Society took on the topic of whether the exploration of Mars should be human or robotic. In a recent book called The End of Astronauts, Lord Rees and co-author Donald Goldsmith outline the benefits of exploration of the solar system using robotic spacecraft and vehicles, without the expense and risk of sending humans along for the ride. Dr Zubrin supports human exploration. Where there was some agreement was over Rees’s advocacy of using gene editing technology to enable humans to overcome the immense challenges of becoming an interplanetary species. Our genome is all the DNA present in our cells. Since 2011, we have been able to easily and accurately edit genomes. First came a molecular tool called Crispr-Cas9, which today can be used in a high school lab for very little cost and has even been used on the International Space Station. Then came techniques called base and prime editing, through which miniscule changes can be made in the genome of any living organism. The potential applications of gene editing for allowing us to travel further are almost limitless. One of the most problematic hazards astronauts will encounter in deep space is a higher dosage of radiation, which can cause havoc with many processes in the body and increase the longer-term risk of cancer. Perhaps, using genome editing, we could insert genes into humans from plants and bacteria that are able to clean up radiation in the event of radioactive waste spills and nuclear fallout. It sounds like science fiction, but eminent thinkers such as Lord Rees believe this is key to our advancement across the solar system. Identifying and then inserting genes into humans that slow down aging and counter cellular breakdown could also help. We could also engineer crops that resist the effects of exposure to radioactivity as crews will need to grow their own food. We could also personalise medicine to an astronaut’s needs based on their particular genetic makeup. Imagine a future where the human genome is so well understood it has become pliable under this new, personalised medicine. Humans are not well adapted for life off-world. Genes for extremes Tardigrades are microscopic animals sometimes referred to as “water bears”. Experiments have shown that these tiny creatures can tolerate extreme temperatures, pressures, high radiation and starvation. They can even tolerate the vacuum of space. Geneticists are eager to understand their genomes and a paper published in Nature sought to uncover the key genes and proteins that give the miniature creatures this extraordinary stress tolerance. If we could insert some of the genes involved into crops, could we make them tolerant to the highest levels of radiation and environmental stress? It’s worth exploring. Even more intriguing is whether inserting tardigrade genes into our own genome could make us more resilient to the harsh conditions in space. Scientists have already shown that human cells in the lab developed increased tolerance to X-ray radiation when tardigrade genes were inserted into them. Transferring genes from tardigrades is just one speculative example of how we might be able engineer humans and crops to be more suited to space travel. We’ll need much more research if scientists are ever to get to this stage. However, in the past, several governments have been keen to enforce tight restrictions on how genome editing is used, as well as on other technologies for inserting genes from one species into another. Germany and Canada are among the most cautious, but elsewhere restrictions seem to be relaxing. In November 2018, the Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced that he had created the first gene edited babies. He had introduced a gene into the unborn twins that confers resistance to HIV infection. The scientist was subsequently jailed. But he has since been released and allowed to carry out research again. In the new space race, certain countries may go to lengths with genome editing that other nations, especially in the west where restrictions are already tight, may not. Whoever wins would reap enormous scientific and economic benefits. If Rees and the other futurists are right, this field has the potential to advance our expansion into the cosmos. But society will need to agree to it. It’s likely there will be opposition, because of the deep-seated fears of altering the human species forever. And with base and prime editing now having advanced the precision of targeted gene editing, it’s clear that the technology is moving faster than the conversation. One country or another is likely to take the leap where others pull back from the brink. Only then will we find out just how viable these ideas really are. Until then, we can only speculate with curiosity, and perhaps excitement too. Sam McKee, Associate Tutor and PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Science, Manchester Metropolitan University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The post To colonize other planets, we will have to use genome editing appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Matt Kittle at The Federalist found some serious bias by omission when Mediaite's "Press Club" podcast brought on Politico reporter Eugene Daniels to discuss how he is one of the few liberal-media reporters who was assigned to cover Vice President Kamala Harris.  Mediaite pushed the 45-minute interview with this quote: “'The excitement this week, it’s insane. Not two, but three points in just a few days into Biden’s deficit is huge,' Daniels told Mediaite editor in chief Aidan McLaughlin." Kittle noted: What McLaughlin curiously didn’t get around to, according to the podcast’s transcript, is why the esteemed president of the White House Correspondents’ Association falsely accused Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends of a racist remark. Daniels’ race-baiting post on X, after all, helped the atrocious accusation go viral.  Daniels and others jumped on Twitter to accuse Kilmeade of racism after he criticized Harris for skipping a speech before Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to campaign at a “college” sorority in Indianapolis. Daniels, and others, claimed they heard Kilmeade say “colored” sorority.  “He said ‘college’!” black talk host Charlamagne tha God told his audience on his nationally syndicated show “The Breakfast Club,” calling the manufactured outrage “ridiculous.” Daniels backed down and deleted the tweet: I spoke to Fox News about this and plan on speaking to Brian when he is off air. They've made clear to me that he used college, not colored. The audio is garbled but I am going to take Brian and his team at their word. pic.twitter.com/PNNV15xbfe — Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) July 24, 2024 Fox issued a statement, saying, “Eugene Daniels’ now deleted tweet completely misquoted and unnecessarily maligned Brian Kilmeade who clearly said college sorority.” Kittle added "Mediaite’s McLaughlin should be well aware of Daniels’ accusation and the damage it’s caused. His publication has reported on every bit of it." Kittle wrote he emailed McLaughlin “Why did you not ask him about the one thing that actually brought Mr. Daniels to the public’s collective attention this week? Seems like an important subject." He received on response. Mediaite, like many media outlets, are good at "No Comment." Mediaite's editor/podcast host displayed anti-Trump bias in his questions to Daniels: "Trump is historically unpopular as a political figure, and he had, to put it mildly, a fairly wacky presidency, left office on not great grounds." Naturally, Daniels -- a regular pundit on liberal networks -- toed the Harris campaign line on the "border czar":  McLAUGHLIN: ..a bunch of outlets wrote fact checks insisting that Harris was never technically crowned border czar by Biden, that she was tasked with tackling the root causes of immigration in a few Central American countries. You’ve been covering Harris for all this time. Is that a silly distinction? How much of a role did she have in the response to the border? And are Republicans within bounds to refer to her as a border czar because of her role there? DANIELS: She wasn’t the border czar. It’s just not true. And I’m not defending, if you go back, I’ve written some tough stories on the woman, but she just wasn’t the border czar. Don't buy the "I write tough stories on Kamala" line.

Decent propaganda is usually subtler than the media’s current attempt to rewrite the vice president’s story.