Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician an astrologer. He is celebrated for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then-novel Copernican model, proposing that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and moreover the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own. He also insisted that the Universe is in fact infinite, thus having no celestial body at its ‘center’.
Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition and in 1600 was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de Fiori. After his death he gained considerable fame, particularly among 19th and early 20th century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science. Today marks 415th anniversary of his death. Image above comes from my Wings series. Category: Diary Wings It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
~ Charles Darwin Darwin Day is an international celebration of science and humanity held on or around February 12, the anniversary of Charles Darwin‘s birth in 1809. Honouring the discoveries and life of Darwin, the man who first described biological evolution via natural selection, Darwin Day celebrates the enormous benefits that scientific knowledge has contributed to the advancement of humanity. Category: Diary Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.
~ Sara Raasch, Snow like ashes These are a few snapshots taken during a snowstorm that recently hit my hometown. Category: Diary I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.
~ Jeffrey McDonald The earliest tree-like organisms grew in forests in the Carboniferous period and their oldest fossils are dating back about 385 million years ago. Category: Diary Landscape Almost all energy on the Earth originates from the Sun. Solar radiation reaches Earth with more than enough energy in a single square meter to illuminate five 60-watt light bulbs if all the sunlight could be captured and converted to electricity.
Secondly, when sunlight strikes a plant, some of the energy is trapped through photosynthesis and is stored in chemical bonds as the plant grows. We can recover that energy months or years later by burning wood, which breaks the bonds and releases energy as heat and light. More often, though, we use the stored energy in the much more concentrated forms that result when organic matter, after millions of years of geological and chemical activity underground, turns into fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, or natural gas. Category: Diary Urban Landscape Entropy is a physical phenomenon and it is a state of disorder, confusion, and disorganization. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum as a consequence of the laws of thermodynamics.
Category: Diary “Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.”
Joseph Heller: Catch-22 Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller (1923-1999). It is set during World War II from 1942 to 1944. The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The phrase Catch-22 has entered the English language, referring to a type of unsolvable logic puzzle. The novel is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century and was first published by Simon & Schuster on 11 November 1961. Photograph above is from my ongoing series ‘Wings’. Category: Diary Wings Autumn of Life is a metaphor which likens one's life to the season when the time for planting, growing, and flowering is over, when the temperatures begin to drop, and the days become shorter. The leaves on the trees drop, and the natural world edges toward dormancy.
Photograph from my ‘Urban Tales’ series. Category: Diary Urban Tales The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat. You win a while, and then it’s done Your little winning streak. Leonard Cohen: A Thousand Kisses Deep Kissing another person's lips has become a common expression of affection and love in many cultures worldwide. Photograph from my ‘Urban Tales’ series. Category: Diary Urban Tales Place where are buried the remains of fallen German soldiers from World War II.
Photograph from ‘Necropolis’ series. Category: Diary Necropolis On one of my last photo walks I was shooting on the outskirts of the city, where I ran into a small greenhouse with tomatoes. Windows were nicely covered with drops of water condensed on a cool surface.
Category: Diary I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt.
The world was suddenly rich with possibility. Jack Kerouac: On the Road Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac died on October 21, 1969 (aged 47), so today marks the 45th anniversary of his early demise. Category : Diary Landscape Woman I can hardly express,
My mixed emotion at my thoughtlessness, After all I'm forever in your debt John Lennon, Woman Today marks the 74th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth. Category: Diary Urban Tales 112 is a single European emergency phone number, available in all EU member states. This number joins together emergency services of the fire brigade, ambulance, police and other emergency services such as the railway police, mountain rescue, etc.
Emergency service is free, available 24 hours a day from land-lines, mobile phones or pay phones without inserting coins or phone cards. Category: Diary Urban Tales Indian summer is a period of unseasonably warm, dry weather that sometimes occurs in autumn in the Northern hemisphere. In many Slavic-speaking countries, the season is called „ladies summer“, and occurs between late-September to mid-November. The days are sunny and clear with temperatures above 21 °C.
Category: Diary Urban Tales An equinox occurs when the plane of Earth's equator passes the center of the Sun. The word itself has several related definitions. The oldest meaning is the day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration.
Equinox occurs twice a year, around March 20 and September 22. This year, the autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere falls on September 23, and became exactly at 02:29 UT. Category: Diary 'The House of the Rising Sun' is a traditional folk song, sometimes called 'Rising Sun Blues'. It tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans. The most successful commercial version by the English rock group The Animals, was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, the United States, Sweden, Finland, and Canada, and was recorded in 1964, fifty years ago.
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