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Once I had the idea that Chris Mason is doing Starmer's daily horoscope, I could not unhave it. Have a listen with that thought in your head. In terms of pacing, writing, and tone, it could not be more perfect.

Greatest scientist between Newton & Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist, born #OTD 1831; formulated Theory of Electromagnetism, four equations which underpin modern information & communication technologies. Monument George Street Edinburgh | James Clerk Maxwell Foundation Edinburgh

Cheers to the approaching weekend! This fabulous cup is reminiscent of a medieval chalice. It is decorated with scrolling tendrils and foliage, and lapis lazuli, garnet, opal, amethyst, rock crystal, tourmaline, mother-of pearl and red coral!

Bowie’s musical trajectory might have been rather different had Asher chosen otherwise…

Cuts and damage that have the de facto approval of the @royalsociety.org, which continues to honour Musk as a fellow despite his breaches of their code of conduct.

‘How Many Aunties?’, Black Hares Mount, Leeds, 1978, photo by Peter Mitchell.

Interesting that Burnham’s argument for less aggressive whipping is that this would “raise the status of members of parliament [and] let them appear more authentic to their constituents”, given his commitment also to PR which is somewhat inimical to the single-member constituency system.

Sometime at the end of the second century a local aristocrat got buried close to what will become Berlin. He was laid to rest with a bronze relief showing the labors of Hercules and might have been a veteran of the Marcomannic Wars. Small world! Landesmuseum Brandenburg

It’s worth checking if your local library service offers press reader. Mine does. So that’s today’s editions of pretty much most of what I ever need free.

Died (alas!) on this day in 1594, in Venice, the great Jacopo Robusti, commonly known as Tintoretto. Here, by himself, in 1587.

Stunning Iberian sculpture of a wolf head from El Pajarillo, Jaén, Andalucía, early 4th BCE. The ears pinned back and wrinkled muzzle suggest a threatening posture. It forms part of a large sculpture telling story of a hero who frees a youth from the wild animal. Museo de Jaén.

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This work was painted in the late 1940s when Theodore Major and his family lived in Wigan. After moving to Appley Bridge in 1950, he painted on board rather than canvas and relatively few works remain from the earlier period.

The Kearton Brothers (Richard & Cherry): Born in the tiny Swaledale village of Thwaite in the Yorkshire Dales, these farmers' sons are credited by Sir David Attenborough with inventing natural history photography. In 1895, they published British Birds' Nests, the world’s first

Manifold blows a gasket.

These took a while to design. I lost my dad eighteen months ago and Father's Day felt like a tough job this year. I got there by thinking about what he gave me. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/fathers-day-...

24th May is the feast of Pentecost. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 4452; Evangeliary of Henry II; circa 1007 CE-1012 CE; Reichenau; f.135v

sold out? He was lucky to get a seat then.

“Can you imagine a worse choice as reserve player on a seven-week trip than a footballer who thinks this is the correct way to behave, and the best way to support his teammates and his country? Spot‑on, Thomas. I wouldn’t want that guy wandering around the tennis courts between games either.”

Contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt

The arrival of the nuns at Nun Monkton came roughly a century after the Norman Conquest. In 1172, Ivetta of the Arches, an Anglo-Norman landowner, founded a small Benedictine nunnery which owned the village. The priory survived until 1536, when it was dissolved under Henry VIII. The village

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live. Traffic Procol Harum Van Morrison Richard Thompson Blowzabella Vasmalom Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars Flaco Jiménez Shooglenifty The Hot Sardines

204 years ago now. RIP Pfeilstorch.

“He had no plans to rejoin the EU in the next 10 years and he quite fancied some kind of electoral reform. And welfare also needed looking at. This was all for later, though. Now he just wanted to let Makerfield know he was an ordinary, humble local boy. A politician they could trust.”

A Swiss luxury train elegantly navigates two different track gauges without changing cars, showcasing innovative engineering in action.

#OTD in 1941, York Barracks. Infantry recruits practicing aiming their rifles at an aircraft, with the aid of a model plane held aloft on a pole. #WW2 #HISTORY

OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

bonkers. We need more care workers, not millionaires

Cornwall based, UK ceramics artist Linda Styles #womensart

Nicola Kantorowicz, contemporary stained glass artist #womensart

19 May 1649: The Long Parliament passed an Act declaring #England a Commonwealth. #History

Can a skull be cute you ask? In this case? Yes. This is a close up of a silver spoon which is engraved with a small skull. Made in York in 1666, this is one of several skull decorated spoons that were gifts exchanged between two families in East Yorkshire to celebrate christenings.

#AllMetalMonday The extraordinary 57.5cm tall C3 BC #Etruscan figure, called (in recent times anyway) Ombre della Sera, as it recalls long shadows cast at the end of day. Inspiration for Giacometti is pretty clear..... Now in Volterra's Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, stopping people in their tracks.

🧵Near Dewsbury lived a man described as there being 'no more bold and original thinker ever devoted himself to the study of the earth or the heavens.' He has also been called the true 'father” of the black hole concept,' John Michell was born in Nottinghamshire in 1724, and attended

Curiously irksome 2012 episode from the IOT archive, comprising little more than a disjointed tour through simple game forms. MB keeps asking, reasonably, what makes this *mathematical*. No-one can tell him, beyond some mumbling about calculating equilibrium probabilities in mixed strategies.

#SundayMorning has arrived once again so here's our traditional start to the day, Cecil Osborne's iconic view from his window at 221, Farringdon Road Buildings of "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" from 1929. The painting is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums. #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup

“Distracted Expressionist Boyfriend”, Skip Doncaster, 2019

I've read 32 of the Mr Men and Little Miss books. How many have you read? mrmenbooks.lovable.app

interesting attempt by Tory central to control its local councillors in what would seem to be a matter of local politics. And not obvious that it will change the situation anyway.

◽️ Starmer ◽️ Streeting

Interesting difference of focus between the likes of Clive Lewis, for whom the primary issue is winning the next election, and the likes of Jess Phillips for whom the primary issue is getting stuff done between now and then. Not unrelated of course, but definite difference of focus.

From now on, I'm going to write papers where I take an arbitrary performance metric, restrict the sample to top performers on that metric, and then hunt for negative correlations with everything else in the truncated sample. I'm at a business school, so this should be extremely lucrative.

Fifty years since David Munrow sadly took his own life aged 33. Nice piece in the Graun.

Oh my word! There's an Andrew Davies night on Wednesday 20th May on BBC4. He adapted novels into classic television like Pride & Prejudice, House Of Cards & Mother Love. But the best thing he ever did was his own creation. A Very Peculiar Practice. And it's getting a repeat! 🥳