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Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 21:49:47 UTC Ricardo

Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

https://youtu.be/eKyYPSpiC9g

#art #LeonardoDaVinci #history
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1. Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
  
  from Great Art Explained
  
  My other channel, Great Books Explained here - https://www.youtube.com/@greatbooksexplained371Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon (and getti...
Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 20:13:04 UTC Ricardo

Why This Lizard’s Venomous Spit is Worth $50 Billion | Be Smart

https://youtu.be/KELjtarJ2TY

#science #medicine #history
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1. Why This Lizard’s Venomous Spit is Worth $50 Billion
  
  from Be Smart
  
  Remove your personal information from the web at http://joindeleteme.com/BESMART and use code BESMART for 20% offDeleteMe international Plans: https://intern...
Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 20:08:00 UTC Ricardo

Don't believe everything you've been told about the Vikings... The latest episode of the Future Imperfect podcast is really interesting

What were ordinary Vikings really like? - Future Imperfect | Acast

https://shows.acast.com/future-imperfect/episodes/what-were-ordinary-vikings-really-like

#history
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1. What were ordinary Vikings really like?
  
  from Jason Kingsley
  
  On this episode Jason talks to Eleanor Barraclough about her new book, Embers of the Hands, about the day-t-day lives and material culture of ordinary Vikings.Producer: Natt TapleyAudio: Pete Dennis
Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 20:39:50 UTC Ricardo

The Madness of English Spelling: An Explainer | LetThemTalkTV

https://youtu.be/1eZwHiIfsnE

#linguistics #history #language #English #spelling
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1. The Madness of English Spelling: An Explainer
  
  from LetThemTalkTV
  
  Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use the code letthemtalktv at checkout.Download the Saily app or go to https://saily.com/letthemtalktvDan ...
Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 11:13:16 UTC Ricardo

I've been enjoying season 2 of the Future Imperfect podcast. The latest episode was really fun, full of #history and #mythBusting about the #MiddleAges
What's the oldest pub in England? - Future Imperfect | Acast

https://shows.acast.com/future-imperfect/episodes/whats-the-oldest-pub-in-england
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1. What's the oldest pub in England?
  
  from Jason Kingsley
  
  On this episode, Jason is joined by James Wright a buildings archaeologist who specialises in mediaeval myth-busting. He talks us through the legends about a lot of England's old buildings, and what the truth actually is.Producer: Natt TapleyAudio: Pete Dennis
Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 21:06:23 UTC Ricardo

The story behind the Stern-Gerlach Experiment: Reality is complicated...

How Cheap Cigars Legitimized Quantum Mechanics | SciShow
https://youtu.be/Mo1v8P7l4I4

#physics #history #science #education
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1. How Cheap Cigars Legitimized Quantum Mechanics
  
  from SciShow
  
  The Stern-Gerlach Experiment in lauded in textbooks around the world for its contributions to the world of quantum physics. But for a few years, scientists u...
Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 15:28:36 UTC Ricardo

From the cover of Vogue to Hitler's bathtub: Lee Miller | Great Art Explained

https://youtu.be/Azyz3Gr2Ivc

#photography #art #history
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1. From the cover of Vogue to Hitler's bathtub: Lee Miller
  
  from Great Art Explained
  
  My other channel, Great Books Explained here - https://www.youtube.com/@greatbooksexplained371Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! ...
Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 06:32:20 UTC Sheril Kirshenbaum

Pioneering geologist & oceanographer Marie Tharp changed our understanding of the ocean.
When Tharp sought a geology job at Columbia in 1948, women couldn’t go on research ships. So she was hired to assist male grad students.
Back then, many scientists still assumed the bottom of the ocean was featureless. Tharp figured out how to use data to create sketches of the ocean floor. Her hand-drawn maps helped develop plate tectonic theory. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/marie-tharp #science #history
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1. Marie Tharp Credit: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory & the estate of Marie Tharp
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2. Marie Tharp
  
  Learn about Marie Tharp, a pioneering ocean mapper who discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and proved the validity of the theory of continental drift.
CarveHerName (carvehername@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 17:44:36 UTC CarveHerName

Over on the blog we talk about how there is no known photo of Charlotte E Ray, but that doesn't stop people using photos of other, real Black women from history and claiming they are Ray. We've used illustrations instead.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory
https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/
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CarveHerName (carvehername@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 08:09:46 UTC CarveHerName

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen
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1. Marie Curie in a posed photo in her lab. She's a white woman with dark hair, holding a glass flask and a metal or ceramic dish.
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nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 21:36:36 UTC nixCraft 🐧

How SSH port became the default TCP/22
https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/port#the-story-of-getting-ssh-port-22 #linux #unix #history
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1. To: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Subject: request for port number Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Dear Sir, I have written a program to securely log from one machine into another over an insecure network. It provides major improvements in security and functionality over existing telnet and rlogin protocols and implementations. In particular, it prevents IP, DNS and outing spoofing. My plan is to distribute the software freely on the Internet and to get it into as wide use as possible. I would like to get a registered privileged port number for the software. The number should preferably be in the range 1-255 so that it can be used in the WKS field in name servers. I'll enclose the draft RFC for the protocol below. The software has been in local use for several months, and is ready for publication except for the port number. If the port number assignment can be arranged in time, I'd like to publish the software already this week. I am currently using port number 22 in the beta test. It would be great if this number could be used (it is currently shown as Unassigned in the lists). The service name for the software is "ssh" (for Secure Shell). Yours sincerely, Tatu Ylonen The next day, I had an e-mail from Joyce waiting in my mailbox: From: jkrey@ISI.EDU Re: request for port number Cc: iana@ISI.EDU Tatu, We have assigned port number 22 to ssh, with you as the point of contact. Joyce There we were! SSH port was 22!!!
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2. The story of the SSH port is 22.
  
  The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.
Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 21:52:27 UTC Ricardo

The Most Useful Curve in Mathematics | Welch Labs
https://youtu.be/OjIwCOevUew

#Maths #Mathematics #History
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1. The Most Useful Curve in Mathematics
  
  from Welch Labs
  
  This video’s sponsor Brilliant is a great way to learn more. You can try Brilliant for free for thirty days by visiting brilliant.org/welchlabs, and the firs...
CarveHerName (carvehername@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 12:38:40 UTC CarveHerName

#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1976, Sarah Caldwell takes up the baton at the New York Met Opera, becoming the first woman to conduct an opera there.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInOpera #History #Histodon
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1. black and white photo of Sarah Caldwell holding her baton horizontally over her head. She is a white woman with dark blonde hair.
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CarveHerName (carvehername@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 11:39:22 UTC CarveHerName

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.
Perey was a student of Marie Curie, and was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #History #Histodons
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1. photo of Marguerite Perey in her long lab coat. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 16:29:59 UTC Sheril Kirshenbaum

“Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century & pervaded popular culture. [But] it was the arrival of agriculture that led to rigid gendered roles & economic inequality. Hunting belonged to everyone.”
The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt & Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ #science #history
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1. The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
  
  from Sarah Lacy, Cara Ocobock
  
  The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence
Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 08:36:15 UTC Sheril Kirshenbaum

Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Great Britain. Her family lived in poverty, selling fossils to make ends meet.
Scientists of Anning’s day could not believe that a poor young woman could posses her knowledge & talent. She has been described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew' yet many people are still unaware of her incredible contributions.
The majority of Anning’s discoveries ended up in museums & collections without credit. https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html #science #history
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1. Mary Anning, 1799-1847
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2. Mary Anning (1799-1847)
Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 22:03:20 UTC Ricardo

They've outdone themselves with this one!
4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour | Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo

#science #history #Hearth #animation
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1. 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour
  
  from Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
  
  Learn more about how complex life evolved with our new, elaborately detailed Timeline of Evolution Poster. Available only on the kurzgesagt shop here: https:...
Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 21:30:37 UTC Ricardo

To Scale: TIME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVvEbH2GC0

#time #history #science
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1. To Scale: TIME
  
  from To Scale:
  
  On a dry lakebed in the Mojave, a group of friends build a practical scale model of time: 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution, and our place within it. Be...
Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 23:40:55 UTC Sheril Kirshenbaum

“Vote NO on Woman Suffrage” 🙄
Not ancient #history, but just a century ago.
Source: State Archives of North Carolina
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1. BECAUSE 90% of the women either do not want it, or do not care. BECAUSE it means competition of women with men instead of co-operation. BECAUSE 90% of the women eligible are married, and can only double on their husband’s votes. Because it can be of no benefit commensurate with the additional expense involved. Because in some states, more voting women than voting men will place the government under petticoat rule. Because it is unwise to risk the good we already have for the Evil which may occur.votes of women can accomplish no more than votes of men. Why waste time, energy, and money, without result? National Association opposed to Woman Suffrage, New York and Washington DC, post-1911. Equal Suffrage Amendment Coalition, Private Collections, State Archives of North Carolina
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Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 20:18:29 UTC Ricardo

Maths, the answer is maths

Why Are We So Obsessed With X? | Be Smart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_ZgV4OURI

#science #mathematics #history #algebra
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1. Why Are We So Obsessed With X?
  
  from Be Smart
  
  A truly X-cellent and X-ceptional video…Join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓Despite being ...

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