Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

Satyendranath Bose was a brilliant theoretical physicist born this week in 1894 in East Bengal (now Bangladesh).

In 1924, while on faculty at the University of Dacca, he wrote a short paper to Albert Einstein about indistinguishable particles related to quantum theory.

Einstein immediately recognized Bose’ genius, translated the work into German & made sure it was published. Bose ideas led to Bose-Einstein statistics which continue to be studied in quantum mechanics. #science #history

An interesting thing I learned from Eleanor Roosevelt's biography is that Hitler used the USA's treatment of black people as justification for his treatment of Jews, and this was widely regarded *in the USA* as a reasonable point and a reason to stay out of the war: "we would have to stop mistreatment of black people".

Thinking of all the miners worldwide which includes women. I can't imagine what it must have been like, to worry about your loved ones working down the mines.

There are better ways to produce energy.

https://youtu.be/H5QeTGcCeug

#Climate

Pay attention. Start actually giving a shit about fascism. Fascist movements worldwide are connected, all talking to and learning from each other. They're learning from each others' failures, and they will keep pushing until the door falls in and they take total control.

No matter if this coup attempt in Brazil itself fails, they will keep trying. They will keep talking to each other, and unless people themselves fight them off and do them in, fascists will keep acting until they get the power they want.

I stand with President Lula and Brazil’s democratically elected government. Domestic terrorists and fascists cannot be allowed to use Trump’s playbook to undermine democracy.

Bolsonaro must not be given refuge in Florida, where he’s been hiding from accountability for his crimes.

Tragi-comic that the Conservative Party's xenophobia leads them to consider banning foreign students to cut the net migration figures. Such a big contributor to the UK. A hugely successful export industry that cross subsidizes Uk students and funds research in the UK.

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Utterly DEVASTATING letter in today’s @guardian@twitter.com

@SteveBarclay@twitter.com @rishisunak@twitter.com and @Jeremy_Hunt@twitter.com should face criminal charges. #NHS #NHSinCrisis #ambulancestrike #ToryLies #brexit #Rishi #bbcpm #SupportTheStrikes

‘Entrenched #CarCulture’ leaves millions of Britons in transport poverty | #Transport | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/09/entrenched-car-culture-leaves-millions-of-britons-in-transport-poverty

#UK #TransportPolicy #Infrastructure #Cycling #UrbanPlanning #Roads

@Marja Welcome to philosoper Karl Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance," wherin in unlimited tolerance can lead to the extinction of the tolerant society.

Please reboot this information:

Those who declined to accept an honour (e.g an OBE, MBE, Damehood, Knighthood):

Michael Rosen (poet)
Danny Boyle (director)
Michael Faraday (scientist)
J.B Priestly (playwright)
Amartya Sen (economist)
Stephen Hawking (physicist)
Ken Loach (director)
C.S Lewis (writer)
Virginia Woolf (writer)
Alan Rickman (actor)
Jon Snow (journalist)
L.S Lowry (artist)
Dorothy Hodgkin (scientist)
Howard Gayle (footballer)
Benjamin Zephaniah (poet)
David Bowie (musician)

Thanks to everyone for sharing

Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.

What we're seeing on both sides of the Atlantic are fascists trying to give birth to a new neo-fascism, hoping enough people have forgotten what happened with old 1939-45 fascism. My relatives died to stop it last time...👇

https://news.sky.com/story/its-difficult-not-to-see-parallels-between-chaos-of-us-republican-party-and-uk-conservatives-adam-boulton-12780639

Why does the media tell us that inflation is at a 40 year high without telling us that corporate profits are at a 70 year high?

EU ban on deforestation-linked goods sets benchmark, say US lawmakers - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/05/eu-ban-on-deforestation-linked-goods-sets-benchmark-say-us-lawmakers global power of the EU shown again, as is the stupidity of leaving it... #brexit

Would police be called if a man aged 32 allegedly arranged marriage to teenage while continuing affair w/older woman; if older brother allegedly thumped younger who defended wife upset by racism and being made to shut up; if uncle allegedly had serial sex w/trafficked young women?Or would family be paid millions to dress up& distract citizens from reality of #Brexit, #OwnGoal Loss of #Empire & #UnDemocratic #Monarchy?
#Whistleblowers #Harry #Meghan
#Oligarchs #Conservatives
#SaveNHS #Spare