mc ☕ @mc@qoto.org

Visual Integral of the Natural Logarithm
Source : Youtube / Mathematical Visual Proofs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdQHFUh3LE
#mathematics #math #maths #Youtube

Yesterday's newsletter included a sampling of Arthur Stieglitz's photos of New York, taken around 1900.
In his 50-year career, Stieglitz succeeded in elevating photography to a recognized art form.
His photos now hang in prominent museums.

#photography #NewYork https://look.substack.com/subscribe

👋🏻 Hi, my name is D'yani! (cisfem, she/her) #introduction time!

I'm a thoughtful #creative #introvert #leftist, very into #empathy #communication #mentalhealth #acceptance and real #friendship.

I'm afraid I suck at making friends? Despite unshakable deep loneliness. So pls if you think we could be friends, throw me a lifeline 😊

#learning #digitalArt #cats #animals #chronicFatigue #accessibility #design #art #tv #movies #socialism #communism #UX #crafts #miniatures #books #cozy #videogames

@classicalmusic
@earlymusic @renaissancemusic

#JohannesOckeghem 1420 - 1496

'Qu'es mi vida, preguntais'

#LaCapellaReialDeCatalunya, #JordiSavall

#musik #music #musique #musica
#classicalmusic #earlymusic
#renaissancemusic
#Ockeghem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HqGSCoUxxk

Introducing #Astro4j, my new toy project.

https://melix.github.io/blog/2023/04-22-introducing-astro4j.html

This is mostly for educational purposes. I have implemented my own algorithms to process Sol'Ex (http://www.astrosurf.com/solex/sol-ex-presentation-en.html) videos to reconstruct solar images.

Let me know what you think!

#java #astronomy #solar #processing #opensource

Lunar eclipse

#Photography #Astronomy

Time for #mythologymonday! Since we've already talked about Ganymede's disappearance (ahem, kidnapping) in the #myth of #Aquarius... how about a myth about the #constellations #Libra and #Virgo?

In #GreekMythology, Astraea is the goddess of justice (or innocence/purity/truth). She lived in the Golden Age, before the rule of Zeus. Long story short, Zeus takes over, and the Ages pass... and things get awful!

By the Iron age, Astraea is horrified by the world & disappears (escapes?) into the stars, where she awaits the return of the Golden Age.

#Astronomy #Myth #Hesiod #Ovid #constellation #star

📷 : https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/1596 & https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/715029

"coi rodo xagycerni"

I know you don't understand, but it's a nice compliment...
in #Lojban.

Funnier is this one (and it's a pangram - a sentence that contains every letter):

".o’i mu xagji sofybakni cu zvati le purdi"

(read: Ohee moo khagzhee sof-uh-bahknee shoo zvahtee leh poordee.)

translation: Watch out, there are five hungry Soviet-cows in that garden.

What's a Soviet-cow?
I have no idea - but I'm sure there's more than five out there.

#humor #sovietcows #sarcasm

By now you’ve no doubt read about the #jameswebbspacetelescope observing #galaxies that are the most distant and earliest ever seen, but how can astronomers be sure these aren’t more recent and closer? #Space #astronomy #scicomm https://www.space.com/how-do-we-tell-age-of-galaxies

What? It's #Monday again?

#humor #dogs

3/ the gutted interior of the White House during the Truman renovation, 1950
#photography #history #WhiteHouse

In my several months hanging around here, I've stumbled on few things I appreciate as much as @radiofreefedi. Have a listen - you're guaranteed to come across #music you've never heard before.

The earthquake struck San Francisco a few minutes past 8:00 in the morning on April 18, 1906, a Wednesday.

"But it's only #metadata…" they say.

#privacy #surveillance #thenib

"Modern physics can't explain it—but our new theory, which says time is fundamental, might"

Assembly Theory

"Each new area of fundamental #physics, whether describing space and time (Newton/Einstein), matter and light (quantum mechanics), or heat and work (thermodynamics) has introduced a new concept of time.

But what about #evolution and life? To build novel things, evolution requires time. Endless novelty can only come to be in a universe where time exists and has a clear direction.

To explain life, we therefore need to understand how the complex objects life creates exist in time.

This suggests that assembly theory is indeed capable of testing our hypothesis that life is the only physics that generates complex objects. And we can do so by identifying those objects that are so complex the only physical mechanism to form them is evolution.

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-life-modern-physics-itbut-theory.html