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John F. Kennedy on Humanity's Origin in the Sea and Salt in the Blood
“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because the sea changes, and the light changes, and the ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is
Coming Up · Museums · Science
Exhibition “What Does Space Have to Do with It” opens at the Museum of Cryptography on 4 October
Only yesterday, space seemed inaccessible, frightening and far away. Today, everything is different. Every day, without a second thought, we use space technologies: when we talk to friends and family by satellite link, check the weather forecast or consult a satnav. Trainers, smartphones, memory-foam pillows, crisp packets and many
Art · Museums · Science · Paris · People
Edelfelt's portrait of Louis Pasteur, the rabies vaccine and pasteurisation
As Louis Pasteur said, a Sunday spent in the laboratory: could a Sunday be better spent? In this portrait of the laboratory by the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt (1885), from the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Louis Pasteur holds a flask containing the spinal cord of a rabbit
Geography · Science · Nature
Mercury's tail consists of surface particles ejected by micrometeorites
Professor of Planetary Science Paul Byrne explains that what we see in this photograph by the astrophotographer Sebastian Voltmer is not a comet but Mercury. The reason it has a tail is that micrometeorites bombard the planet's surface and throw tiny fragments of it out into space. These
NB! · Geography · Science · Nature
Andrew McCarty photographed Saturn being occulted by the Moon from a Hawaiian volcano
Saturn emerging from behind the Moon. The American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy climbed to the summit of a volcano in Hawaii to photograph Saturn being briefly covered by the Moon. The Mauna Kea Observatory, where the picture was taken, stands on the volcano at an altitude of between 3,700 and
Books · Observations · Science · People
Verses by Julian Huxley, brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, President of the Royal Society of London and corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Verses by Julian Huxley, brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, President of the Royal Society of London and corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. All three grandsons of that gentleman, by the way, became distinguished men, luminaries before whom one ought,
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After the Revolution, the steamship “Nicholas II”, built in 1895, was renamed “Ilyich
After the Revolution, the steamship “Nicholas II”, built in 1895, was renamed “Ilyich. In the course of her voyages the ship, laid down at a shipyard in the Scottish town of Dumbarton, sailed to the Far East, served as a floating industrial exhibition, represented Russian culture as an exhibition vessel
Art · Observations · Science · Palaeontology
Léon Becker's 1884 painting and the discovery of 30 iguanodon skeletons at Bernissart
How touching that a man was found, namely the nineteenth-century Belgian painter Léon Becker, who wished to record "The Mounting of the First Iguanodon from Bernissart in the Chapel of Saint George in Brussels", for that is what the picture is called. 1884. At that time, 30
Archaeology · Faith · The East · Science
Excavations at Göbekli Tepe led by Klaus Schmidt changed views of the Neolithic
In the 1960s, archaeologists from the Universities of Istanbul and Chicago worked on excavations in the region of South-Eastern Anatolia and found a mound there, covered with limestone slabs. The scholars documented the fact of the find, but the place did not interest them overmuch. So the mound lay
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Study of the Wadlow family portrait, a possible lifetime image of Shakespeare
Stephen Wadlow, a 58-year-old window cleaner from Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom), has spent more than ten years trying to prove that he owns the only portrait of Shakespeare painted in his lifetime. Stephen's father, Peter Wadlow, an antiques dealer, bought the portrait at the Great Tew
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