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Costume fu as anciens,
ceo testimoine Precïens,
es livres que jadis faiseient
assez oscurement diseient
pur cels ki a venir esteient
e ki aprendre les deveient,
que peüssent gloser la letre
e de lur sen le surplus metre.
As Priscian bears witness, it was the custom of the Ancients to speak
obscurely enough in their books so that those who came afterward and
would be obliged to teach (or learn) them would be able to gloss the letter
and with their sense fill in the rest.
– Marie de France, Prologue to Lais
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On August 16, 2015 at 2:33pm
Frontispiece to Charles Howard Hinton’s The Fourth Dimension (1904), a book all about the “tesseract” – a four-dimensional analog of the cube, the tesseract being to the cube as the cube is to the square. Although Hinton’s work was an important stepping stone in understanding four-dimensional space, the real breakthrough came in a 1908 paper by Hermann Minkowski, in which four-dimensional space was thought of in non-Euclidean terms, leading to the revolutionary concept of “spacetime”.
See more diagrams from Hinton’s attempt to visualise the fourth dimension here: http://bit.ly/1Tw2NiM
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On August 3, 2015 at 7:35am
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On July 20, 2015 at 11:31am
PixelJoint
Top Pixel Art — May 2015(Top 10 ranks, titles and authors written in captions. Original posts can be found by following the source linked above.)
This month’s extra, read an extensive, beautifully designed feature of PixelJoint in Retronator Magazine:
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On May 25, 2015 at 7:14pm
When composer Philip Glass started performing his own music, a lot of people didn’t know what to make of it. Some people thought it sounded like the needle of a record was stuck in a groove, repeating over and over again. Some people thought it was simplistic. Some thought it was a joke, some even became violent:
“This was in Amsterdam and I played a piece called “Two Pages.” And I guess it could drive you crazy a little bit — it only had five notes in it, but it was five notes in a lot of different ways, and I thought it was interesting. This was about 1971 and the idea of music that was so, let’s say, consciously or steadfastly repetitive was not so common then.
And someone jumped on the stage and began banging on the piano and, without thinking about it, I stood up and I punched him on the jaw or something, just like the comic books, and he fell off the stage. People came afterwards to say hello and the fellow was there and he said, “And now we have the discussion,” and I said, “No. We had the discussion, thank you.” And that was it. … I think he thought that I was making fun of him. … When [artist Jackson] Pollock first began doing his drip paintings, people thought he was making fun of them. … Why would you go all the way to Amsterdam just to make a fool of yourself in front of other people? I mean, or to make fools of them?”
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Shohei Tsuchiya - Calm Down
On April 6, 2015 at 2:39pm
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Afropunk Hair Portraits by Artist Awol Erizku for Vogue USA
Read each story here:http://vogue.cm/XSNWEqi dont think you guys realize the importance of black hair being celebrated ON VOGUE..
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“I proved that every hypercube of suitable dimension can be edge decomposed by copies of an arbitrary tree.”
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Forget biodegradable, these plantable coffee cups embedded with seeds grow into trees and flowers.
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and…
If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.
On March 10, 2015 at 1:45pm