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Advent calendar 2025—day 23: Kinetic lenses From Zeiss’ 1846 workshop to kinetic light art, Jena’s lens culture links physics and aesthetics. Which German kinetic artist, famed for glass lenses and mirrors, died in 1990? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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Advent calendar 2025—day 22: Quantum art From Planck to phones—and Munich’s “Seeing the Unseen” links quantum physics & art. Our riddle: which famous quantum theorist did Friedrich Hund team up with in Leipzig? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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Advent calendar 2025—day 21: Goblin Ore From CoAl₂O₄ to “Kobold” (“Goblin”) mine spirits: why cobalt ore fooled silver miners in the Ore Mountains—and when did Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří become UNESCO World Heritage? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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Advent calendar 2025—day 20: Cobalt blue & IKB From Yves Klein’s famous International Klein Blue process to Sabine Becker’s acrylic cobalt blue—discover why this intense hue glows and what mining secret hides in the name “cobalt blue”. #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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Advent calendar 2025—day 19: Installations Water is densest at 3.98°C (so lakes freeze from the top), and today’s riddle follows artist-physicist Peter Vogel—what was his first job as a graduate physicist? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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Advent calendar 2025—day 17: The Plastic 1960 brought Maiman’s ruby laser (pulsed) and Javan/Bennett/Herriott’s gas laser (continuous)—now guess the iconic plastic architecture in Germany linked to 1972 and tell us in the comments. #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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Advent calendar 2025—day 16: Laserblade Lasers don’t just paint the night sky—they can slice 10-cm (4-in) steel, like Bernhard Müller-Feyen’s 1996 sculpture; can you guess the year the first laser was built? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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🎄🔬🎨 New puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent—day 15 Der Stuttgarter Tagblatt-Turm (1927–28), das erste Hochhaus aus Sichtbeton, leuchtete einst mit Moore-Gasentladungsröhren, deren Erfinder andere Leuchtmittel als „zu klein, zu heiß, zu rot“ ablehnte: Welche waren das?

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Advent calendar 2025—day 15: And there was light Tagblatt Tower—Stuttgart’s 1927–28 New Objectivity high-rise, first exposed-concrete skyscraper, once glowed with Moore gas-discharge tubes; what light did Moore sneer was “too small, too hot, too red”? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 12: Jellyfish Art Ernst Haeckel’s “Art Forms in Nature”: How microscopic sea life and jellyfish studies shaped 100 iconic plates that still inspire artists from Art Nouveau to today. #ScienceArtTechAdvent #ArtFormsInNature #ErnstHaeckel

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 11: Art Forms in Nature From Max Uhlig’s algae-like lines to Nathanael Pringsheim’s proof that algae reproduce sexually, today’s door asks: which Jena zoologist behind “Art Forms in Nature” inspired artists? #ScienceArtTechAdvent #Microscopy

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 9: Trace of the East. Trace of the East—From Goethe’s Italy and the idea of the Urpflanze to lives reshaped after the fall of the Wall, a new book follows physicists from Jena as they reinvent their paths—with a small quiz. #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 8: Goethe’s Proto-Plant From Goethe’s Jena Botanical Garden lab to today’s science-art debates: where did his idea of the “#Urpflanze”, a primal plant of all plants, first take root? #ScienceArtTechAdvent #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 7: Goethe in Jena From Fibonacci’s rabbit math to Goethe reshaping Jena’s university – can you guess where he stayed in Jena? #ScienceArtTechAdvent #HistoryOfPhysics #ScienceCityJena #ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience

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🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent—day 6 From Vitruvian geometry to Fibonacci’s growth pattern: can you guess which natural process Fibonacci quietly modeled in 1202? Answer follows tomorrow! #FibonacciSequence #VitruvianMan #MathMeetsArt #RenaissanceScience

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🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 5 From Prussian blue cyanotypes to Leonardo, Herschel’s iron-based photo process meets Vitruvius’ ideal human—what did Leonardo change (answer tomorrow)? #ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience

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🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 4 Color mishap of 1706: a tainted potash batch turned a red dye into Prussian Blue, the first modern synthetic pigment—can you name the astronomer who used it to invent a blueprint process? Answer tomorrow.

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🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent—day 3 Yesterday we talked about Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) and his theory of simultaneous contrast—today’s puzzle asks: What lab mix-up in 1706 led to the discovery of Prussian blue (“Berliner Blau”)?

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🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent—day 2 Yesterday’s riddle was about dyer’s woad, the yellow-flowering dye plant whose indican once gave us indigo; today I’m asking which chemist helped shape color theory by focusing on a particularly striking color phenomenon.