Paul Halpernさんのイラストまとめ

German Expressionist artist Max Beckmann, whose works (among others) were condemned by Hitler as 'degenerate art,' was featured in a 1938 exhibition in London, including his extraordinary portrait of Albert Einstein

Dear Earthlings,

Please share your resources more equitably, protect your fragile environment, and stop violence against children and others.

Love,
Your alien friends.

In Florida, under its new oppressive law banning any classroom discussions of sexual orientation for younger children, assigning and discussing the book "This is My Family" depicting a loving family with two dads would be illegal, but a picture book about guns would be just fine.

'I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space'

-William Shakespeare, possibly referring to dimensional compactification of string theory manifolds into a Calabi-Yau space 🙄

What happened when Einstein took a Rorschach inkblot test:

'He looked at it, slowly rose from his seat and began to flap his arms to indicate that it had a kind of a birdlike thing.. Words came with difficulty, but images came...easily to him'
-G. Holton

https://t.co/EzDD97isnz

Non-Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain, and when one... tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of the Gothic tales... one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension

-HP Lovecraft

@elephande They had ruled out other possibilities, such as the "white dielectric material" dropped by pigeons. Much later, satellites such as COBE, WMAP, and Planck, mapped out that cosmic background radiation, called the CMBR (or CMB) in greater and greater detail.
A triumph!

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Mr. Tompkins meets Albert Einstein, and learns about his creator George Gamow. From the acclaimed Mr. Tompkins series of popular science books, begun by George Gamow and continued by his son Igor Gamow:

https://t.co/WJhMu7vZq7

'Blast of Giant Atom Created Our Universe:' One of the earliest popular accounts of the cosmological creation idea, proposed by Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître, that would become known as the Big Bang Theory (Popular Science, December 1932): https://t.co/9yvxfljYen #histSTM

About 10 years ago, musician @CurtSmith of @TearsForFears revealed the truth about the widely misunderstood final line in the song "Mad World:"

'The actual line is: “Halargian world.” Halarge was an imaginary planet... I added it as a joke...'

More here:
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