Kenneth Cameron

books, countryside, spirituality, art, music, classics, literature, languages, history, philosophy, general interests. 🙂📚🖼🎼🌳🏞️🐪🏛️🙏☀️

[Kenneth Cameron @HighlandReader]

@AntigoneJournal Sappho poems
Aristotle dialogues

[Kenneth Cameron @HighlandReader]

@theo_nash Congratulations !

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

Recorded in Modena in 1994, the performance of the song 'O Sole Mio by Bryan Adams and Luciano Pavarotti was not only a remarkable artistic milestone, but also a solemn tribute honoring the life and career of the legendary maestro.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

This water has been running for almost 2,000 years, and nobody turns it on. The Romans found a spring up a hill and ran a stone channel down to their city. Then they walked away. The spring never dried up, so the water never stopped. You can find it under an old Roman market in İzmir, Turkey, and the channel is big enough to climb into and walk down.

There is no pump and no machine anywhere in it. The Romans just used gravity. They found water sitting higher than the city, then cut a channel that sloped downhill the whole way, gentle enough that the water kept moving without tearing up the stone or sitting still and going stale. Get the slope right one time, and the water carries itself for good. They got it right.

The same trick is still working over in Rome. The water in the Trevi Fountain, the one tourists toss coins into, is fed by a Roman channel called the Aqua Virgo that was finished in 19 BC. Rome once had eleven of these water lines running into the city. Ten of them eventually broke down and died. That one never did, and it has carried water for more than two thousand years without a break.

Part of why any of this still stands is the concrete. In 2023, MIT scientists broke open a chunk of old Roman concrete to see what made it last. It heals itself. The Romans had mixed in little lumps of lime that earlier scientists wrote off as careless work. When a crack opens and rain gets in, the lime dissolves, then hardens back into fresh stone and seals the gap before it spreads. It is the same concrete in the dome of the Pantheon, which has held up with no steel inside for nineteen centuries.

So that video is really just good math and a spring that outlived everyone who ever knew its name. The empire that built the channel fell more than 1,500 years ago. The water is still moving, the same way it always has, downhill and on its own.

[Kenneth Cameron @HighlandReader]

@ArmandDAngour Here is Joe Le Taxi, a charming jazzy French pop song about taxis🚕

Actually, it's about a Parisian taxi driver called Joe who plays music in the cab 🎷🎶🚖

https://t.co/U0k3tljitK

[Kenneth Cameron @HighlandReader]

@ArmandDAngour There is a light rom-com film called 'Dan In Real Life' (2007, with Steve Carrell and Juliette Binoche).

It turns out you are Dan In Taxi Life.

https://t.co/1gwz7DObu5

[Kenneth Cameron @HighlandReader]

@ArmandDAngour 'Dan, Dan, the classics man' 🙂

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

Never in my life have I ever heard the harmonica being played this way, Beautiful😱

[INACTIVE - workingclassicists.bsky.social @WorkClassicists]

ANNOUNCING...

A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉

📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales2
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @drcorabeth
👇 Read more...

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

So much detail.
She’s incredibly talented.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Now THAT was a dream team👏

[Oaks And Lions 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @oaksandlions]

The sound of birds singing before sunrise remains one of England’s oldest unbroken rituals.

The morning chorus begins nearly an hour before first light, when the air is cold, still, and silent.

Sound travels farther through this quiet. That is why it feels so commanding at dawn.

What seems like chaos is in truth one of nature’s most disciplined rhythms.

Robins are usually among the first to sing while the sky is still dark.

Blackbirds and song thrushes follow soon after with richer, clearer notes.

Then come wrens, finches and dozens more until entire hedgerows and woodlands seem alive with sound.

People on this island have heard the same rising chorus for thousands of years.

Before castles stood on hills, before church bells echoed across villages, before the English language even existed, spring mornings began the same way.

With birdsong.

What is your favourite birdsong?

Follow @oaksandlions for more posts about English wildlife.

#England #EnglishWildlife #Spring #Birdsong #Countryside

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Wow, she explained it well

[Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺 @Axaxia88]

This is a special kind of friendship that can stay with you for a lifetime. When Tony met that little robin, he never expected they would bond for so many years 💖✨

But after years together, Bob suddenly disappeared. To honor him, Tony wrote a book titled ‘Bob the Robin’ — like a love letter to the bird and his affection for robins. After that, Tony continued making friends with other robins.

📹putman_and_robin

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

Absolutely AMAZING!🕺 💃🎶

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.

It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars, thousands of star clusters in a section of the galaxy’s disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Each sphere is moving in a straight line, but the final motion is circular

[Kenneth Cameron @HighlandReader]

@ArmandDAngour @red_loeb

[Kenneth Cameron @HighlandReader]

@ArmandDAngour @red_loeb It's an occasion for this song:

'I will follow you - will you follow me ?'

Follow You Follow Me by Genesis (1978)
https://t.co/8LOyUt4zhh

[Kenneth Cameron @HighlandReader]

@benjcartlidge Well, Euripides is a serious writer, so a stern assessment 🤔 is appropriate !