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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 5h

🏺 The "dancing" look of Flora's floating garments is similar to Botticelli's Three Graces in his Primavera which was strongly inspired by classical texts rediscovered during the #Renaissance.

🎬 Watch here: ideasroadshow.com/primavera/

🏛️ Villa di Arianna, near Pompeii

🗃️ #arthistory #frescofriday

A fresco of Flora in Villa di Arianna, Stabiae, near Pompeii

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 7h

🎲 💯 Let's play! A well-preserved boardgame with exquisite decorations!

As long as there’ve been human societies, games have played a significant role in how people interact w/ each other & how we live our lives.

🎬 A Cultural Exploration: ideasroadshow.com/chess/

🏺 #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology

British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC.

The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals.

The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block.

Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part)

Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots.

Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 7h

📚 💙 "Could it be that, through the guise of writing for the layperson, Roger Penrose’s popular books are really addressed to the global community of theoretical physicists?"

Read more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/exploring-...

⚛️ 🧪 #physics #science #nobelprize #philsci #scicomm #Nobel 🗃️

Photo taken during the filming of a conversation between Roger Penrose and Howard Burton.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 1d

Non-Artificial Intelligence:

⚛️ 🧪 Tomorrow we’ll release our in-depth conversation with #Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose which includes lots of his celebrated drawings.

🔭 Visit here to subscribe & receive a notification: ideasroadshow.substack.com

#physics #science #nobelprize #philsci #scicomm

Screenshot from a conversation with Roger Penrose. He is holding a drawing he made to explain the universe.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 2d

❓How can we be 100% certain who made a painting 400 years ago?

Formerly attributed to Sofonisba, now this painting, Portrait of Infanta Catalina Micaela, is attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello.

Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas...

🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians #womenartists

Portrait of Infanta Catalina Micaela, attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 1d

❓What if architects would make designs of buildings but no actual buildings were built❓

Something similar happens when political scientists have lost touch with politics. Read more below👇.

#polsci #polscience #polisky @us.theconversation.com #academicsky

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Academic Irrelevance

Most political scientists don’t believe that their day job is to “examine and carefully analyze contemporary political communities".

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 1d

For #adoorablethursday a beautiful false door at the Tomb Chapel of Raemkai, Egypt, ca. 2446–2389 BC.

🚪 Egyptians believed that the soul of the deceased could freely enter and exit the tomb through a "false door".

🏛️ Met

🏺 #archaeology #Egypt 🗃️ #arthistory

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 1d

Non-Artificial Intelligence:

⚛️ 🧪 Tomorrow we’ll release our in-depth conversation with #Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose which includes lots of his celebrated drawings.

🔭 Visit here to subscribe & receive a notification: ideasroadshow.substack.com

#physics #science #nobelprize #philsci #scicomm

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 3d

🔎 'An Ennobling Idea: How to improve the Nobel Prizes' by Howard Burton, Founding Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Read here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/an-ennobli...

#Nobel #Nobelprize #research #highered 🧪🔬🏆 #physics #science #biology

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 2d

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 2d

❓How can we be 100% certain who made a painting 400 years ago?

Formerly attributed to Sofonisba, now this painting, Portrait of Infanta Catalina Micaela, is attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello.

Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas...

🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians #womenartists

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 3d

🔎 'An Ennobling Idea: How to improve the Nobel Prizes' by Howard Burton, Founding Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Read here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/an-ennobli...

#Nobel #Nobelprize #research #highered 🧪🔬🏆 #physics #science #biology

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 5d

♟️ Look at 3 magnificent examples of the evolution of chess pieces (in this case all representing a King) over the centuries.

🏺 Watch THROUGH THE MIRROR OF CHESS to find out what makes #chess unique, a game played for more than 1500 years!
🎬 ideasroadshow.com/chess/

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

King chess piece in an abstract form made of marbled glass, from Egypt or Syria, glass, 13/14th c.
Museum: MET

King chess piece part of the 12th century so-called Lewis Chessmen.

Charlemagne chess piece representing a King, 11th c.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 4d

"My core concern here is the grossly misleading effect that the Nobel Prizes have on the public understanding of what science is and how it actually works,"

#nobel #nobelprize #Academicsky #SciComm #Medicine 🧪 #Physics

ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/an-ennobli...

An Ennobling Idea

How to improve the Nobel Prizes

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 4d

Here is the trailer: vimeo.com/ondemand/the...

🧪 #science #scicomm #academicsky

Watch The Problems of Physics Online | Vimeo On Demand

Physics Nobel Laureate Tony Leggett discusses his book The Problems of Physics and shares captivating insights about the insightful plain-speaking itemization that…

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 4d

In this #Nobelprize week we feature an in-depth conversation with Prof. Tony Leggett, #Nobel Laureate in #physics 2003, talking about the very small, the very large, the very complex & the very unclear.

🧪 #science #scicomm #academicsky

ideasroadshow.com/tony-leggett/

Tony Leggett

The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Physics Nobel Laureate Tony Leggett.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 4d

✂️ Below is one of those remarkable cut-paperworks by Johanna Koerten - “Scissors-Minerva” that are mentioned by @philipkennicott.bsky.social below.

The illusion of shading is produced by hundreds of tiny horizontal cuts.

🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians #womenartists

A cut-paperwork by Johanna Koerten showed a forest with hunters, dogs and a hare in remarkable details.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 4d

"My core concern here is the grossly misleading effect that the Nobel Prizes have on the public understanding of what science is and how it actually works,"

#nobel #nobelprize #Academicsky #SciComm #Medicine 🧪 #Physics

ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/an-ennobli...

An Ennobling Idea

How to improve the Nobel Prizes

ideasroadshow.substack.com

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 5d

♟️ Look at 3 magnificent examples of the evolution of chess pieces (in this case all representing a King) over the centuries.

🏺 Watch THROUGH THE MIRROR OF CHESS to find out what makes #chess unique, a game played for more than 1500 years!
🎬 ideasroadshow.com/chess/

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 6d

🐈‍⬛ For #caturday a Giacometti-like cat in Botticelli's 'Scenes from the life of the St Zenobius', c. 1500.

🗃️ #arthistory #cat #catsofbluesky #skystorians #renaissance #Botticelli

A cat can be seen on a window ledge in Botticelli's 'Scenes from the life of the St Zenobius', c. 1500.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 7d

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” - Richard Feynman

🦩 Watch 'Memories of Feynman' w/ Nima Arkani-Hamed et al. ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/memories-o...

#physics @danirabaiotti.bsky.social 🌍 ⚛️ 🧪 🔭 #science @chanda.bsky.social

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 6d

🐈‍⬛ For #caturday a Giacometti-like cat in Botticelli's 'Scenes from the life of the St Zenobius', c. 1500.

🗃️ #arthistory #cat #catsofbluesky #skystorians #renaissance #Botticelli

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 7d

♟️ 👨‍🎨 Marcel Duchamp was a notorious chess fanatic who repeatedly threatened to quit art for chess and coined the phrase:

💬 “While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”

Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas...

🗃️ #arthistory #chess #art #skystorians

The Chess Game by Duchamp, 1910, showing 2 men playing chess and 2 women, one have a coffee and the other lying on the grass.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 7d

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” - Richard Feynman

🦩 Watch 'Memories of Feynman' w/ Nima Arkani-Hamed et al. ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/memories-o...

#physics @danirabaiotti.bsky.social 🌍 ⚛️ 🧪 🔭 #science @chanda.bsky.social

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 7d

♟️ 👨‍🎨 Marcel Duchamp was a notorious chess fanatic who repeatedly threatened to quit art for chess and coined the phrase:

💬 “While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”

Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas...

🗃️ #arthistory #chess #art #skystorians

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