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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 10h

❓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

🔎 '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 · 3d

♟️ 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 · 2d

"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

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An Ennobling Idea

How to improve the Nobel Prizes

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

✂️ 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 · 2d

"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 · 3d

♟️ 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 · 4d

🐈‍⬛ 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 · 5d

“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 · 4d

🐈‍⬛ 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 · 5d

♟️ 👨‍🎨 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 · 5d

“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 · 5d

♟️ 👨‍🎨 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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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 5d

My favourite elephant made 40,000 years ago! 🐘 Would love to see it sometime!
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 5d

I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago.

Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.

📷 me
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A mammoth figurine carved from ivory, its surface weathered with age. The shape captures the essence of the animal, with a prominent trunk and sloping back. The figure is displayed on a metal stand against a dark background.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 5d

Hi Manu, Can you please add us to the science feed? Thanks!

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely stunning!
🏺 #frescofriday

Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 5d

Some of the surviving frescoes from the House of Livia, the wife of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The frescoes date to around 30 BC. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Rome

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 5d

Please add us here - thanks! Driver of Ideas Roadshow is Howard Burton, Founding Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 5d

Hi there, Can you please add us here?

Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 5d

Five celebrated theoretical physicists describe how Richard Feynman (1918-1988) inspired & motivated them to become the researchers they are today.

#physics ⚛️ 🧪 🔭 #Academicsky #Edusky @caltech.edu @marcuschown.bsky.social @physicsworld.bsky.social

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Memories of Feynman

Exploring a hugely influential legacy

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 16d

🔎 Details matter - do you know from which celebrated painting this background setting is❓

Find out here ▶️ bit.ly/3W70nuZ

🗃️ #arthistory #renaissance #art #skystorians

Background detail from Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci, Uffizi Gallery

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 6d

#adoorablethursday 🚪 Entrance door to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

🚗 We're going back on the road!
Looking forward to filming again for our upcoming Travel & Art series! 🧳 🎨

🪜 We'll share details soon on Ideas Roadshow's substack here: ideasroadshow.substack.com

🗃️ #arthistory #photography #art

Entrance door to the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Photo by Lonewolf1976

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 6d

💸 ⚛️🧪 Money & Science: There is considerable scope for deeply enhancing our scientific understanding through thoughtful philanthropic activity in the footsteps of
Jim Simons @simonsfoundation.org

🛋️ Read here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/on-money-a...

#academicsky #HigherEd @chronicle.com

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