Spotted today:
L’Amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle
#Rome

Enjoy our country. Leusden is in a nice green part of the country

I rented a car on the weekend and was reminded of this great @mattsurelee cartoon. This is exactly what the Europcar counter looked like at Sydney airport 🤣🤣🤣

The Pantheon; an astonishing building.

Charles Darwin died on this day in 1882. All sorts of info regarding his funeral a week later at Westminster Abbey can be had at this page from @darwin-online.bsky.social:

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I was already worried about Trump’s mental decline—it just got worse In the past week alone, the US president has depicted himself as Jesus and picked a row with the pope

Last week I suggested that maybe Donald Trump was not quite all there. I would like to revise that opinion. I think he may be what we used to call stark raving bonkers. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73055/...

Erasmus Darwin is portrayed as a spectator, seated front left, in Wright of Derby’s most famous painting: An Experiment 1768. With profile largely in shadow, he is watching the experiment intently. Erasmus Darwin, Midlands Enlightenment thinker, physician, inventor, abolitionist, died #OTD 1802; founding member of Lunar Society (with Watt, Boulton & Wedgwood), grandfather of Charles Darwin, friend of Benjamin Franklin. National Gallery London

Portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby c.1770 Birmingham Art Gallery

Erasmus Darwin, Midlands Enlightenment thinker, physician, inventor, abolitionist, died #OTD 1802; founding member of Lunar Society (with Watt, Boulton & Wedgwood), grandfather of Charles Darwin, friend of Benjamin Franklin.
An Experiment 1768 by Wright of Derby
Portrait 1770 Birmingham AG - ALT

Je zou ook kunnen zeggen dat de overheid de komende jaren de boetes voor Tata zelf betaalt.
Dicht die toko

Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by ThinLizzyVEVO

this song turns 50 years old today.

And there is this book, which I believe also exists in English:

There is this book, haven’t read and maybe you have, but I thought it might be interesting
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Not necessarily my favorite unit of measurement, but definitely the strangest and most flexible unit: the don-percentage; changes whenever you want to, can be negative when mentioned as positive, whatever you like!
@andrechemist.bsky.social
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😅 To rice or not to rice?

That would be Schrōdingers rice cooker.

I now own a fuzzy logic rice cooker… Curious what the fuzzy logic part means.

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

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A monumental astronomy tome from the seventeenth century Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598–1671) was a third generation, seventeenth-century, Jesuit mathematician and astronomer. A student of Giuseppe Biancani (1566–1624) at the University of Parma, who w…

Jesuit, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, author of the monumental Almagestum Novum (1651), was born 17 April 1598 #histsci
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The mud; a Dutch measure of volume for potatoes (and other solid goods like coal), a mud is 4 Schepel (another very old unit) or about 111 litres.

Bij de knollentuin verkopen ze Nec-caccia, een focaccia waar de ene kant rood en de andere helft groen is.

Cover of Builder of Heavens: How Eise Eisinga Created the Greatest Planetarium of his Time

Book Review:
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Ja vond ik ook, echt prachtig

Old style train timetable in Ceske Velenice (Czech republic)

Abraham Ortelius and the 16th century information age. The sixteenth century saw the evolution of modern cartography emerge out of a renaissance in Ptolemaic cartography. In the second half of the century the Netherlands played a leading role in this p…

Renaissance, Dutch cartographer, Abraham Ortelius was born 14 April 1527 #histsci
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The Huygens Enigma The seventeenth century produced a large number of excellent scientific researches and mathematicians in Europe, several of whom have been elevated to the status of giants of science or even gods o…

Dutch, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, Christiaan Huygens, was born 14 April 1629 #histsci
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Excellent book that. I am travelling right now, but will have a look when I get home. Might have one or two other books on the topic.

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

One of the books from the Dublin trilogy by Caimh McDonnell

Sterfdag Primo Levi (1919-1987). De Italiaanse chemicus schreef een zeer aangrijpende Auschwitzgetuigenis, 'Is dit een mens'. In het boek onderzoekt hij met ingehouden emoties in hoeverre het bestaan van slachtoffers en daders nog menswaardig genoemd kan worden.

Cover of Orbital Studies magazine Issue 0

My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now!

Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture.

Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin...

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Ordered!