New article: Slavoj #ลฝiลพekโs #Christian #Atheism: A #Dialogue with Chiara #Lubich by Peter Morovic and Jรกn Morovic
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Fan of beauty in maths, art, science, humanity. Color and imaging scientist with a CS background. All-round awesomeness enthusiast. Ut unum sint ๐คฒ๐ผ http://about.me/petermorovic
New article: Slavoj #ลฝiลพekโs #Christian #Atheism: A #Dialogue with Chiara #Lubich by Peter Morovic and Jรกn Morovic
pupilla.org/preprints/20...
"Una vegada [Papa Francesc] va dir: "No existeix un Dรฉu catรฒlic. Existeix Dรฉu". Es tracta de buscar Dรฉu on es trobi, no on un es pensa que รฉs. Dรฉu pot arribar a una persona de les maneres mรฉs inesperades, poรจtiques i lliures." @antoniospadaro.bsky.social
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The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cageโs 4โ33 on full blast again.
15.11.2025 08:36 โ ๐ 912 ๐ 153 ๐ฌ 31 ๐ 6An algorithm that doesnโt 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 โWe promised each other loveโ by Ivan Hoffman #otd #iwasthere #VelvetRevolution youtu.be/FW2TZvdAOiQ
17.11.2025 20:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Intertwined 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)โฆ and whether itโs at a fish counter or not ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ ๐ปโโ๏ธ #lifestooshort #ganbattekudasai
03.11.2025 12:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cartoon of a man holding up a placard that reads "Campaign for better kerming"
30.10.2025 09:47 โ ๐ 690 ๐ 126 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 12Photo 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 ๐งช
Teaching about color measurement geometry and the effect of gloss & sheen. 45ยฐ:0ยฐ vs 8ยฐ:de vs 8ยฐ:di
Ideally a measurement is representative of viewing, in which case excluding gloss is good!
Gran Rosalรญa! "Com a artista hi ha una relaciรณ entre la buidor i la divinitat". "Tinc un desig dins meu que sรฉ que aquest mรณn no el pot satisfer". "Potser aquest รฉs l'espai de Dรฉu".
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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-...
26.10.2025 19:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Br Dr Guy Consolmagno, SJ, former head of the Vatican observatory youtu.be/LE_NFQzxUrE?...
16.10.2025 07:17 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1โA 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.โ Pope Leo XIV, Dilexit Te www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
09.10.2025 15:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐งช 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...
07.10.2025 15:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โ... 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.โ (G. Eliot)
www.imdb.com/title/tt5827...
RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.
03.10.2025 14:36 โ ๐ 552 ๐ 176 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 13... "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
28.09.2025 10:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners https://video-zero-shot.github.io/
28.09.2025 10:29 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0via Angel Albarran and Ana Cabrera - photographers, print-makers, readers, writers, thinkers and all-round amazing people - follow them on instagram: www.instagram.com/albarrancabr...
27.09.2025 14:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"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"๏ผ้ฐ็คผ่ฎ๏ผ
New article: โTra realtร e immaginazione. Brevi note e riflessioni a partire dallโevoluzione del concetto di spazio in matematica.โ by Ugo Gianazza and Luca Magri
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youtu.be/_BrFKp-U8GI?... #sollewitt via @3blue1brown.com
14.09.2025 17:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sphere/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
โโฆnot only faith and reason, but [โฆ] โopen thought,โ which neither closes nor severs but opens and connects.โ
www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-hear...
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!
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