Skis Are Older Than the Wheel | NPR Story What came first: the ski or the wheel? According to a recent NPR story, it was the ski. We’ve previously reported on the origins of skiing and how skiing is about 9,000 years old and from Scandinavia. This article proposes that skiing is 10,000 years old and from China. The birthplace of skis is under debate, but the ski is believed to be even older than […] SnowBrains | September 5, 2020 1 Comment
Brain Post: Universe Found to be 100 Million Years Older than Previously Thought {Each day, SnowBrains.com is gonna publish one “Brain” post. Something that we think will interest you, challenge you, and be something you can use in a dinnertime conversation that day.} The European Space Agency’s Planck space observatory has been in space since May 2009. The Planck’s mission was to capture images of the left over radiation (Cosmic Microwave Background) from the formation of the universe that […] Brains SnowBrains | April 4, 2013 0 Comments