Luthiers / Violin Makers
Violin Makers (2013). Full documentary – ENG. From Count Cozio di Salabue to Giuseppe Fiorini, from the Bisiachs in Milan to the foundation of the first schools of violin making,… Read more »
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Moniuszko Wit Anjez Gonxhe Bojaxhiu Teresa “Anyway.” The Paradoxical Commandments
The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you… Read more »
About the Universe (Asymmetric <> Symmetric)
Although we like to think that the Universe is symmetric, reflecting something as simple as a left hand in a mirror reveals a fundamental asymmetry: the mirror image of your… Read more »
A surprising new solution to the famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information.
A classically intractable problem that asks for a 6-by-6 arrangement of military officers can be solved, so long as the officers are quantum. n 1779, the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler… Read more »
:) …ask Ethan Siegel about travelling in a straight line…
What would happen if you traveled in a straight line forever? 🙂 Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here’s what… Read more »
Station Agriculture Teaching How to Sustain Space Crews – Veritas – Bach Gould
ISS – Expedition 66 Mission patch. Jan 26, 2022 Space agriculture dominated the research schedule aboard the International Space Station today to learn how to sustain long-term crews… Read more »
Richard Feynman
In June 1945, the 27-year-old physicist Richard Feynman lost his wife, Arline Feynman, to tuberculosis. Only 25 years old, she was Richard’s high-school sweetheart. And yet she was much more. As Lawrence Krauss writes in 2012… Read more »
Clemens Krauss
In the Studio »Sleeping dogs that better should not be woken.« Clemens Krauss is particularly well-known for his pastose paintings from an unusually slanted angle, as well as for his… Read more »
Тарковский Tarkovsky Солоницын Solonitsyn
Photo: Maria Ivanova Vishnyakova, Andrei Tarkovsky’s mother. Andrej Arsenjevitsj Tarkovski Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский. (Zavraje (bij Moskou), 4 april 1932 – Parijs, 29 december 1986) was een Russische filmregisseur, schrijver en acteur. Hij wordt in cinefiele kringen beschouwd als een van… Read more »
Tobias en de Vis
Tobit was een van de weinigen uit het joodse volk, die zich niet had laten verleiden tot het dienen van afgoden. Hij was tegelijk met andere Israëlieten gevangen genomen en… Read more »