Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 24m

- Launch live support chat

- Now powered by AI!

- Some items were substituted

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 19h

a woman drinking from a red mug in front of a blurry background

ALT: a woman drinking from a red mug in front of a blurry background

media.tenor.com

1

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 20h

Looking like Sunday will be a gonner too! This is ace thank you so SO much.

1

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 20h

Rear Windaugavpils perhaps. The Maltese Valmiera. The Big Sliepāja

1

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 20h

this one - and it's really REALLY good. Also looking forward to Horror in Architecture, which looked worth buying... discipline has totally broken down here today. I had work to do before this!

1

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 21h

That would be really kind and most appreciated thank you. Amazing looking course.

Reading the Bauman as we speak - not an essay I knew (and not easy to track down - so thank you to that one random Greek blog from 2018!) - and it's excellent. Thank you.

1 1

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 21h

Not only would I hyptothetically sign up, I would - very actually - download the screenshots from this post and carefully track down the readings I had overlooked.

If the rest of the syllabus is online anywhere, I'd more or less kill to see it...

1

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 1d

Which might just be enough to make one doubt that the assumed most politically salient parts of the population in fact ARE (at least for these purposes)? The pipeline of recruits isn't pulling from politically-central (or necessarily very populous?) areas, it's pumping youth out of the boondocks.

1

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 1d

Would nevertheless be rash to assume that any such perception is a mistake or was not - or at least is not now - in fact a goal. A sense of permanent crisis may be useful?

1 1

Reposted by g.j.hilton

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Historians of science: any thoughts on this? I'm intrigued by a "recipe" in a 1505 manuscript, which describes what appears to be the Leidenfrost effect, named after Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, who supposedly was the first to describe the effect in the 18th century 🗃️ #HistSTM #HistSci #EarlyModern 🧪

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 1d

The Leidenfrost effect! But wow is this ever an early description of it.

1 9 11

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 1d

He's welcome to go right ahead. I'll just stand over here well out of splash range. With my eyes closed so I don't see anything hard to unsee.

It'd be fun to look into when the effect was first described because this feels very very early,

1 2

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 1d

The Leidenfrost effect! But wow is this ever an early description of it.

2 6

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 3d

Many years ago I went to a lecture on Trans-Neptunian Objects by Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J. in his capacity as Keeper of the Papal Meteorite Collection and - no, no, really, hear me out! - should the opportunity ever present, I truly cannot recommend it highly enough. Once-in-a-lifetime experience.

1 1