Laughs at the rehearsal with dear kammerorchesterbasel and our amazing Concertmeister Julia Schröder! The last, 10th concert of the Venice tour is tomorrow at the Rheingau Musik

A short break from all the craziness going on around... This photo of birds on power lines from Dan Ilic looks like musical notation. So I tried to play it.

🌪️Revivez la trombe marine qui s'est produite cet après-midi vers 16h45 au large de #quiberon (#morbihan) ! Pendant plus de 2 minutes 30, Andrée Pernot a immortalisé ce moment rare ! Merci à elle pour le partage. #bretagne #meteobzh #orages #trombe #meteo

Very excited to announce: I've found a silk henge! There are still a lot of questions regarding this structure. Researchers have managed to photograph spiderlings hatching from the inside. Yet, there is still no record of adults making the intricate pen. I did find a pair

A great independent book & record shop in New Mills can use some support. They’re having a sale to try to keep going, with 50% off everything brought from the shop & if you can pick website orders up from the shop highstreetbooksandrecords.com

9 September 1930 | A French Jewish boy, François Sobol, was born in Metz. In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Hidden Secrets of the Voynich Manuscript Revealed Through Cutting-Edge Scans - great work by Lisa Fagin Davis medievalists.net/2024/09/hidden… #medieval #history

— James Baldwin

There is a death of sorts in the moments after being diagnosed with cancer. The self you were before is torn and blasted with the suddenness of a dozen mines, the heavy sword of Damocles is roped and hung, your own thin ghost steps forward from the shadows. It feels like being

Marked by a day of programmes on BBC Radio 4 and debates on BBC Newsnight, it was a key moment in the development of new forms of science communication, thanks to Brian Cox Gia Milinovich Andrew Cohen and others. See my chapter in this new book uk.bookshop.org/p/books/manche…

After my aborted morning walk yesterday I decided to go for a 2nd hobble down in the valley. I swear I didn’t plan this encounter with the afternoon Porthmadog to Beddgelert train. Sound on for the whistle

It should be facing the other way.

200 years ago, The University of Manchester was founded. Now, 'Manchester Minds' ed. Stuart Jones is here - the first full history of the University of Manchester🐝 Honouring the University's most brilliant thinkers, inc. Brian Cox, Alan Turing & many more: tinyurl.com/mr2ymwma

The traders on Church Street are being turfed out this weekend, gone for good. All in the name of 'development'.

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It's publication day for 'Knead to Know: A History of Baking'! Have you managed to get hold of copy? Please let me know if so! A huge thanks to everyone at Icon Books who have been an absolute pleasure to work with on this project.

Late 19th century brain metaphor still going strong - “switchboard”.