Peter Morovic

New article: Slavoj #Žižek’s #Christian #Atheism: A #Dialogue with Chiara #Lubich by Peter Morovic and Ján Morovic

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Antonio Spadaro: "S’ha de fer un monument a Rosalía" Antonio Spadaro: "S’ha de fer un monument a Rosalía"

"Una vegada [Papa Francesc] va dir: "No existeix un Déu catòlic. Existeix Déu". Es tracta de buscar Déu on es trobi, no on un es pensa que és. Déu pot arribar a una persona de les maneres més inesperades, poètiques i lliures." @antoniospadaro.bsky.social

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The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.

YouTube video by New York Times Opinion I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

An algorithm that doesn’t rot your brain? via @jackconte.bsky.social

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Remembering Nov 17th 1989 in Czechslovakia, the beginning of a fundamental change driven by peaceful but determined people in the streets. The soundtrack was “We promised each other love” by Ivan Hoffman #otd #iwasthere #VelvetRevolution youtu.be/FW2TZvdAOiQ

Intertwined annuli.

Curved circular creases of annuli. A construction by Erik and Martin Demaine (all rights reserved). Several annuli intertwined.
#MathSky #MathArt #Geometry #Origami
More examples: erikdemaine.org/curved/)

Counting fish in Japanese: depending on shape (long narrow or flat), size (big ir small), state (cooked, uncooked, sashimi)… and whether it’s at a fish counter or not 🤷🏻‍♂️🙆🏻‍♂️🙅🏻‍♂️ #lifestooshort #ganbattekudasai

Cartoon of a man holding up a placard that reads "Campaign for better kerming"

Photo of a page of Berns' Principles of Color Technology with diagrams of spectrophotometer geometry, also showing a gloss series on a printed card

Today in Principles of Color Science 🧪
Teaching about color measurement geometry and the effect of gloss & sheen. 45°:0° vs 8°:de vs 8°:di
Ideally a measurement is representative of viewing, in which case excluding gloss is good!

YouTube video by Radio Noia M'allito amb la Rosalía - RADIO NOIA

Gran Rosalía! "Com a artista hi ha una relació entre la buidor i la divinitat". "Tinc un desig dins meu que sé que aquest món no el pot satisfer". "Potser aquest és l'espai de Déu".

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"[A]ll are called to serve. No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate. No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it and seek it together." Pope Leo XIV www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

YouTube video by America - The Jesuit Review Br. Guy Consolmagno on praying as a scientist | The Spiritual Life Podcast

Br Dr Guy Consolmagno, SJ, former head of the Vatican observatory youtu.be/LE_NFQzxUrE?...

Dilexit te – a love that knows no limits 2584 words, 14 minute read. Today Pope Leo’s first apostolic exhortation, Dilexit te, was published. It addresses the centrality of love for the poor and is the work of four hands. The text was sta…

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“A Church that sets no limits to love, that knows no enemies to fight but only men and women to love, is the Church that the world needs today.” Pope Leo XIV, Dilexit Te www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

🧪 Job Alert - RIT will be posting a new Tenure-Track faculty position in Neuroscience. Looking for someone with neurobiology experience doing research with visual and/or computational neuroscience. Any amazing neuroscientists out there? Job posting coming soon... www.rit.edu/study/neuros...

A Hidden Life (2019) ⭐ 7.4 | Biography, Drama, Romance 2h 54m | PG-13

“... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” (G. Eliot)

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RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #337- I’ve had several disagreements with friends about where you stand on things. Where do you…stand? Dear Alistair, I acknowledge that this may be, to you and your friends, an unhelpful admission, but I’m not entirely sure where I stand on...

... "I believe we have an obligation to assist those who are genuinely marginalised, oppressed, or sorrowful in a way that is helpful and constructive and not to exploit their suffering for our own professional advancement or personal survival."

via: www.theredhandfiles.com/where-do-you...

Where do you stand?

"I think we consist of more than mere atoms crashing into each other, and that we are, instead, beings of vast potential, placed on this earth for a reason - to magnify, as best we can, that which is beautiful and true." ...

Cartoon: A crow is standing on a branch. Another, smaller crow is lying on top of it, on its back, legs in the air. Caption: Velcrow

Velcrow

Birds of a feather stick together.

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When Purple Perceived Only at Fixation: A Fixation and Distance-Dependent Color Illusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners https://video-zero-shot.github.io/

via Angel Albarran and Ana Cabrera - photographers, print-makers, readers, writers, thinkers and all-round amazing people - follow them on instagram: www.instagram.com/albarrancabr...

"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty."
-Tanizaki Junichiro "In Praise of Shadows"（陰礼讃）

New article: “Tra realtà e immaginazione. Brevi note e riflessioni a partire dall’evoluzione del concetto di spazio in matematica.” by Ugo Gianazza and Luca Magri

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YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown Exploration & Epiphany | Guest video by Paul Dancstep

youtu.be/_BrFKp-U8GI?... #sollewitt via @3blue1brown.com

Sphere/Cylinder

Archimedes: "Every cylinder whose base is the greatest circle in a sphere and whose height is equal to the diameter of the sphere has a volume equal to 3/2 the volume of the sphere." Cicero found Archimedes' tomb ~137 yrs later with his famous theorem represented.

#Mathematics #MathSky #Geometry

Francis, the Romantic Pope The true stake of Francis's papacy was the heart.

“…not only faith and reason, but […] “open thought,” which neither closes nor severs but opens and connects.”

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by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social

Mary, Mother of Innocents

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Delighted to see pupilla.org launched. A new, multidisciplinary, dialogue-focused preprint archive that @pezike.bsky.social and I have been working on. Do take a look at it and let us know if you would like to contribute/collaborate!