Also, I have to say that placing the Star Trek: Discovery EVA suit right opposite the Apollo 10 command module is about as "It's been a long road....." as it gets.
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Strongly recommend Sarah Perry on the wonder of Jodrell 🔭 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Earth to Whitehall: the wonder and knowledge of Jodrell B...
The threatened closure of the world-famous radio telescope is symptomatic of a drive against learning and inquiry that is making us sicker as a society
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Booker Prize readers might be interested in this excellent discussion between M. John Harrison and Julia Armfield on Harrison’s book THE END OF EVERYTHING. (Armfield asks some excellent questions here!) Via the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk podcast. #BookSky 💙📚 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
M. John Harrison & Julia Armfield: The End of Everything
Podcast Episode · London Review Bookshop Podcast · 29 July · 53min
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Can't wait for this, one of my favourite films of all time
Some Like It Hot: Men Reading Newspapers
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Lucy Jane Santos@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 4d agoNot sure if I have the discipline but gonna attempt to post something Some Like It Hot related every (most) days in the run up to publication of Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot at the end of August. It’s been a real labour of love and appreciate any support you can give the project!
Scientists do love turning accidents into discovery! Wed 5th Aug 06:34UTC: 4 tonnes of Space-X debris will crash into the moon 😮 This sim shows what will happen, if we understand the moon as well as we think we do. If we see something different, we learn something new! 👏 🧪🔭🛰️ 🎥 William Jo/UT Austin
I find myself almost daily recommending "Fire Weather" by @johnvaillant.bsky.social to people. A terrifying and insightful read, superbly researched and sympathetically peopled. It was already a book which has stuck with me, but its more evident than ever that we live in a fire world.
It’s the 81st anniversary of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and there’s only one way to mark that, obviously
Jaws (1975) - The Indianapolis Speech Scene (7/10) | Movieclips
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Got a new laptop temporarily from work whilst my old one gets a refit. Which agent of chaos made the power button a keyboard key and put it within easy typo range of backspace and delete?!
Was so surprised on a recent visit to the Science Museum to come across this shop front for Gibson & Sons Chemist and Opticians. The original Victorian pharmacy established in Hexham, Northumberland in 1834 and was donated to the museum when it closed in 1978 🤓 #gibsonandsons #sciencemuseum
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
"It's not a museum piece" says Andy Gregory, which is very true. Although we do currently have an amazing piece of it on loan in our museum! Wheat samples from 1899 in our free Future of Food exhibition @sciencemuseum.org.uk Free tickets and more info: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/f...
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · last wk.Why scientists watched grass grow for 170 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 'How long does it take each signal to come through?' 'Only a few seconds. They're tremendously compressed laterally, of course. . .They were first picked up at Jodrell Bank about twenty years ago. Nobody bothers to listen to them now.' JG BALLARD - THE VOICES OF TIME
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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"It's not a museum piece" says Andy Gregory, which is very true. Although we do currently have an amazing piece of it on loan in our museum! Wheat samples from 1899 in our free Future of Food exhibition @sciencemuseum.org.uk Free tickets and more info: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/f...
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · last wk.Why scientists watched grass grow for 170 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Across the Spider-Verse one was particularly fine.
Chinese poster for the new Spider-Man film makes me want to start buying film posters again.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
This is horrible, such an important (and historically significant) station. But it this photo does also look like it might have been a painting by Turner, or Monet's smoggy city scenes. I can't stop looking at it.
Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila
He's credited by Japan's cultural historians as having personally saved enormous amounts of folklore from being completely lost, too. Hundreds of yokai legends are only known now because he collected them from remote communities that are themseles often gone.
Ruki@skiesofarcadia.bsky.social · 3w agoArt by legendary mangaka Shigeru Mizuki
If we really must take ethnic background into account, well, we could consider what ethnicities the Greeks considered beautiful. Let's ask Herodotus: "The Ethiopians...are the most beautiful of all men" (Histories 3.20)
If we want her casting to reflect the original story what's important is she's (1) insanely gorgeous and (2) she should probably look very different from other actors in the film, to explain why everyone around her finds her appearance so immediately striking.
Helen's mother is also a granddaughter of Ares in most genealogies, so Helen is canonically mostly ethnically non-Greek. She's ethnically demigod, which doesn't have a consistent phenotype.
"Well then Zeus would have looked Greek when he conceived Helen" no sorry he looked like a swan at the time, it's a whole thing
And they were perfectly aware this meant the gods would be depicted with different ethnicities in different places. Xenophanes writes that Thracians give the gods red hair and Ethiopians give them dark skin and if horses could draw they'd draw the gods as horses.