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@fadesingh

博学者 ( ポリマス) , 科学史家. Polymath, historian of science & mathematics.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    23 Jun 2015

    The very fact that things of any kind exist at all should be enough science fiction for most people.

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    Feb 4

    「愚者は経験に学び、賢者は歴史に学ぶ。」 ───　Otto von Bismarck　───

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    Feb 3

    The climate and ecological emergency is not a topic, like sport or fashion. You wouldn't have WWIII in a tab next to 'travel'. The environment is the all-defining context for our collective future, that of all species. News sites need to fix this.

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  4. Jan 21

    “We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

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  5. Jan 13

    "Other sciences seek to discover the laws that God has chosen; mathematicians seek to discover the laws that God has to obey." - Raoul Bott ( 1923-2005 ), acceptance speech for the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2000

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  6. Jan 2

    Just hearing the wind in this 24/7 livecam is enough for me, but the spiral oasis and it's myriad visitors can keep one hooked for days. One of the most ethereal things I've seen online in years...

    ナミブ砂漠の水飲み場の様子が淡々と流されるライブストリーム脇で朝から作業。お昼にダチョウが来た Namibia: Live stream in the Namib Desert
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    9 Dec 2021

    how to water plants “rising sea method”

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  8. 9 Dec 2021

    この映画は素晴らしいですね..(This video is amazing..)

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  9. 5 Dec 2021

    Incredible images in this thread. ( And since now I can read katakana, this seems to be an ad for the antipsychotic drug Serenace )

    A thread on Japanese psychiatry art and the medical/drug advertisement industry from 1968 to 2006 in Japan 🧵
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    2 Dec 2021

    Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.

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  11. 2 Dec 2021

    "The genesis of all science can be traced to the contemplation of...occult influences. Astrology preceded astronomy, chemistry grew out of alchemy, and the theory of numbers had its precursor in a sort of numerology..." - Tobias Dantzig, Number: The Language of Science (1930)

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    1 Dec 2021

    It would seem the growth of virtual worlds is inversely proportional to the felt ability to enact change in the real world.

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  13. 26 Nov 2021

    this is why i can't ever leave twitter

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    7 Nov 2021

    The flower closes its petals in a different way every night, because it is mouthing words in its slow language

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  15. 1 Oct 2021

    ...from Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890): "Diatoms are photosynthesising algae, they have a siliceous skeleton and are found in almost every aquatic environment [..] in fact almost anywhere moist.." via

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    30 Sep 2021

    In the past, mathematicians have criminally neglected the symmetry groups of their equations.

    I found a slip of paper in my desk with this written on it: 61-(8+8+8+8+8)=(8+8+8+8+8)-19 is true and reads the same if rotated 180°.
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    19 Jul 2021

    When you look up into the night sky, you are looking down from future null infinity of a Penrose diagram into strange new worlds.

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    29 Sep 2021

    As for opening lines in textbooks, this one is great: "The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time." Chandrasekhar (1983)

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  19. 28 Sep 2021

    In the Thar desert, if you open your mouth, sand gets inside your lungs.

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  20. 28 Jul 2021

    Stanislaw Lem had better names for everything: - virtual reality ("phantomatics") - search engine theory ("ariadnology", after Ariadne's thread) - molecular nanotechnology ("molectronics") - cognitive enhancement ("cerebromatics") - artificial intelligence ("intellectronics")

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    27 Jul 2021

    Correspondences in category theory, topology & texts (Neuman, 2021: 161)

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