19 solar years correspond to almost exactly 235 synodic lunar months or full cycles of moon phases. This so-called Metonic cycle synchronizes the solar with the lunar year, and it can be turned into a virtual online and even a physical moon phase calculator.
New paper out: https://www.thomasweibel.ch/data/uploads/text/the_moon_machine.pdf
#astronomy #mathematics #mechanics #history #moon #moonphase #fullmoon #antiquity #archaeology #sciencehistory #digitalhumanities #astrophysics #physics #diy #3dprint
The Thinking Plant’s Man
Jagadish Chandra Bose and the long, contentious search for plant intelligence.
Book review – Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography
This admirably concise biography offers a factual and nuanced picture of Humboldt’s life and work, and critically interrogates previous portrayals.
A Treasure Trove of Cambrian Fossils Rewrites the Story of Early Life | Quanta Magazine
Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the Cambrian explosion, with half of the species uncovered being new to science.
Passage from Homer’s Iliad discovered in the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy
A snippet of text from Homer’s famous epic recounting the siege of Troy was apparently placed inside this body as part of the mummification process
Nature Communications: A digital archive reveals how a funding agency cooperated with academics to support the nascent field of genomics. “Here, we present a fully digital archive assembled by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), focusing on the nascent stages of ‘genomics’ as a scientific field and the everyday workings of the Human Genome Project and subsequent major genomics […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/30/nature-communications-a-digital-archive-reveals-how-a-funding-agency-cooperated-with-academics-to-support-the-nascent-field-of-genomics/
Nature Communications: A digital archive reveals how a funding agency cooperated with academics to support the nascent field of genomics
Nature Communications: A digital archive reveals how a funding agency cooperated with academics to support the nascent field of genomics. “Here, we present a fully digital archive assembled b…
The history of lab notebooks in science, from the Renaissance humanist practices of copying excerpts from texts to digital systems.
https://www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebooks
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A Brief History of Lab Notebooks
How experimental recordings have changed, from the Renaissance through today.
In Gabon, scientists discovered natural nuclear reactors that operated billions of years ago. These formations challenge how we understand energy, geology, and Earth’s hidden processes.
#ScienceHistory #NuclearEnergy #EarthMysteries #Geology #NaturalPhenomenaRead more:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/gabon-nuclear-reactor-0016597Medieval thinkers believed tiny humans already existed inside sperm and could be grown artificially. Was the homunculus an early scientific idea—or a dangerous misunderstanding of life?
#DarkHistory #Alchemy #Homunculus #ScienceHistory #MysteryRead more:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/homunculus-0017287
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