テクノロジー性犯罪の被害者です

クラシック音楽とサブカルチャーは関連しています。想像力の拡張は、人類の生き残りに必須です。ただし、機械ではなく身体と精神でやるべきです。

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Do you recognise the two Nobel Prize awarded physicists?

These photos were taken when physicists Paul Dirac and Richard Feynman attended the international scientific conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in July 1962 in Poland. Here they are seen in deep conversation – presumably about quantum physics. It is said that Feynman idolised Dirac and saw him as one of his heroes.

Dirac was awarded the physics prize in 1933 for formulating a fully relativistic quantum theory. The equation gave solutions that he interpreted as being caused by a particle equivalent to the electron, but with a positive charge. This particle, the positron, was later confirmed through experiments.

Fifteen years later (1948), in particular, Richard Feynman contributed to creating a new quantum electrodynamics by introducing Feynman diagrams: graphic representations of various interactions between different particles. These diagrams facilitate the calculation of interaction probabilities. Feynman received the physics prize in 1965.

Photo credits:
1) Caltech
2) Marek Holzman, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

[テクノロジー性犯罪の被害者です @neandelthaler]

社会学のMax Weberは、少しどろどろしてるけど、作曲家のClaudio Monteverdi と重なる部分が有りまして、雑誌「近代文学」の仕事にも近いです。

[Teatro La Fenice @teatrolafenice]

Nel 1525 la Compagnia della Calza dei Trionfanti allestì tre commedie presso Palazzo Ariani. Le rappresentazioni comprendevano nove intermezzi musicali, definiti «belli e pieni di tutte le virtù de soni e canti che possibile haver».
Buongiorno!

#8luglio

[テクノロジー性犯罪の被害者です @neandelthaler]

宗教で問題なのは、入信した人の多くが、上級者に思考をお任せして、自分で考えなくなる事だ。つまり、無責任の体系である。

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

🔥 Rising temperatures are exceeding the thermal safety margin of crops, livestock & aquatic species.

Physiological stress can begin in the 25–35°C range during critical stages such as flowering & reproduction.

More in @FAO-@WMO report👉 https://t.co/dyTg4xyBHp

#ExtremeHeat

[HUBBLE @HUBBLE_space]

In the 2026 ESA/Hubble and ESA/Webb calendar, the month of July features the famous Sombrero Galaxy! Viewed nearly edge on, the galaxy’s bulge and disc resembles the crown and broad brim of the Mexican hat for which it is named 🇲🇽

Ready to print .pdf here: https://t.co/bncvSGOgAs

📷 @ESA / @Hubble_Space , @NASA , K. Noll

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The ruins of Khara-Khoto in the middle of Gobi desert...

In the westernmost banner of Inner Mongolia, in the middle of the Gobi Desert, there once stood a prosperous kingdom. It was a center of religious learning, of art and a trading hub. But all that remains now are the crumbling ramparts that once protected the city, a few shattered mud buildings, and scattered sun-bleached bones.

Khara-Khoto, or “black city” in Mongolian was founded in 1032 AD as the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty (1038–1227) and soon rose to become a thriving trade hub. The city was captured by Genghis Kahn in 1226, but instead of laying to waste as the Khan's Golden Horde usually did to captured cities, Khara-Khoto actually flourished under Mongol rule. During Kublai Khan's time, the city expanded to three times its original size, and was even mentioned by Marco Polo in his travelogue by its Tangut name of Etzina:

"When you leave the city of Campichu you ride for twelve days, and then reach a city called Etzina, which is towards the north on the verge of the Sandy Desert; it belongs to the Province of Tangut. The people are Idolaters, and possess plenty of camels and cattle, and the country produces a number of good falcons, both Sakers and Lanners. The inhabitants live by their cultivation and their cattle, for they have no trade. At this city you must needs lay in victuals for forty days, because when you quit Etzina, you enter on a desert which extends forty days' journey to the north, and on which you meet with no habitation nor baiting-place."

Under the Mongols, the Tangut people were able to enjoy peaceful existence for nearly 150 years, until the Ming dynasty laid siege to the city in 1372. No one knows exactly how Khara-Khoto fell, but local legend states that the cunning Ming rulers diverted the Ejin River, the city's only water source, that flowed just outside the fortress thus denying the city’s troops and inhabitants of the life-giving elixir. As the Ming troops choked the city without ever needing to set foot inside of its walls, the people of Khara-Khoto realized that they must make a terrible choice: die of thirst, or face the Ming soldiers in combat.

A Mongol military general named Khara Bator supposedly became so crazed by this plight that he murdered his wife and children before committing suicide. There is another version of the rumor that holds that Khara Bator made a breach in the northwestern corner of the city wall and escaped through it. When the Ming soldiers finally attacked, they slaughtered not only the remaining population but all the cattle and horses. After this defeat, Khara-Khoto was abandoned and fell into ruins.

The site was rediscovered in the early 20th century by a Mongol-Sichuan expedition under the command of Russian explorer Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov. During its initial excavation, the expedition uncovered over 2,000 books, scrolls and manuscripts in the Tangut language. These treasures were sent back to St. Petersburg along with Buddhist statues, texts, and woodcuts that were found in a stupa outside of the city walls. Further excavation produced many thousand more manuscripts, books, as well as daily items, production instruments and religious art. Many of these books and xylographs formed the basis for research of the Tangut language, written in Tangut script in subsequent years.

© The Archaeologist

#archaeohistories

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

التاريخ بين سوريا وفرنسا هو حكاية ثقة اكبر منا.

[Cambridge University @Cambridge_Uni]

Congratulations to all the winners of our 2026 Educator of the Year awards 👏

Celebrated at a special event at @StJohnsCam, this year’s awardees were recognised for the dedication, encouragement and support they provide to help students thrive.

Meet our winners 👇
https://t.co/1r1YC6d8p2

[medici.tv @medicitv]

[BIRTHDAY] On this day in 1860, the great Gustav Mahler was born! Let’s dive into the symphonist's tremendous musical legacy with Klaus Mäkelä conducting Mahler's Fifth Symphony with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. https://t.co/bOI4fdt0qm

[Westminster Abbey @wabbey]

'Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope, comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word'
2 Thessalonians 2: 17

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Did you know that only one person has received the #NobelPrize in Physics twice? John Bardeen received the physics prize in 1956 for the discovery of the transistor effect and in 1972 for developing the theory of superconductivity.

Read more: https://t.co/86KLiZIQK9

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

Science plays a key role in ensuring our food is safe, and is instrumental in ensuring 👇🏻

⚕️ better health
🍲 food security
👩‍🌾 livelihoods
📊 economic development
🚢 trade

#CodexCAC49 #FoodSafety #SafeFood #FoodLabelling

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

#OnThisDay in 1822, Percy Shelley drowned off the coast of Italy. On the day of his death, the poet had gone out sailing on his boat, the 'Don Juan', off the coast of Lerici. But when a violent storm sprang up, Shelley – a poor swimmer – did not survive.
📸 Getty

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Leshan Giant Buddha, the biggest stone Buddha statue in the world at 233ft (71m) high. It is carved into a cliff face made of red sandstone in Leshan, Sichuan Province, China 🇨🇳

Buddha is situated at confluence of Min, Qingyi and Dadu rivers, where numerous shipping accidents had occurred. In 713 CE, a monk named Hai Tong decided to carve a Maitreya Buddha statue to watch over the river, a project that took 90 years, until 803 CE, to fully complete. The resulting Buddha was immense: Its fingers are 27ft (8.3m) long and shoulders are 92ft (28m) across, nearly size of a basketball court. At 23ft (7m) long, ears, made of wood covered in mud, were attached to sculpture in a wonder of ancient engineering. Statue was originally sheltered by a 13-story wooden structure but this was destroyed during Ming dynasty.

Buddha did stop lives being lost to the rivers, if only because rocks from the construction filled in the riverbed. Over time, erosion and air pollution took their toll, plants and fungi are growing on parts of the statue and acid rain has caused the nose to turn black. However, repairs and preservation efforts are ongoing, with a major restoration project having been completed in 2019.

Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996, along with Mount Emei, the site is considered of exceptional cultural significance since it is the place where Buddhism first became established on Chinese territory. Indeed, the first Buddhist temples in China were built in this area in 1st Century CE.

#archaeohistories

[France Musique @francemusique]

Le 16 septembre 1966, Leontyne Price s'apprête à entrer dans l'histoire. Mais l'une des soirées les plus prestigieuses de l'opéra manque de dérailler. Côme Jocteur-Monrozier nous raconte !

Pour en découvrir plus, écoutez la saga musicale "Leontyne Price, la voix de l'Amérique"

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

#BornOnThisDay
Artemisia Gentileschi
and Käthe Kollwitz,
both born on this day, 8th July, both extraordinarily talented artists #womensart

[スウェーデン大使館 @EmbSweTokyo]

📣Brevröstning
📮Från och med den 30 juli kan du brevrösta från utlandet. Kom ihåg att din brevröst måste postas utanför Sverige för att vara giltig. Läs mer på https://t.co/MhpzPXrfWl .

📣From 30 July, you can vote by post from abroad.
📮 Remember that your postal vote must be mailed outside Sweden in order to be valid. Read more at https://t.co/MhpzPXrfWl.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”

— Eugene V. Debs

[Philharmonia Orchestra @philharmonia]

Clear-cut precision from Clara-Jumi Kang 🎻

As we gear up for this evening's performance of Sibelius's Violin Concerto at the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, we're looking back to the last time we performed this iconic work with South Korean-German violinist Clara-Jumi Kang! 😍

Kang returns this March for performances in Canterbury and Bedford, where she'll join us for another masterpiece of the violin repertoire: Vaughan Williams's 'The Lark Ascending' ✨

#Sibelius #ClassicalMusic #ViolinConcerto #BehindTheScenes #Orchestra