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Mandragora. Tacuinum sanitatis, Rhineland 15th century. BnF, Latin 9333, fol. 37r.
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Ryszard Bukowski - Piano Sonata No. 4 (1975)

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First media review for Huge Numbers!

Emily Conover in Science News writes: "It’s a delightful survey of the field of googology, the study of large numbers.... It’s a joy to marvel at how boundaries have been broken time and again, thanks to the creative, intrepid explorers of the biggest numbers known."

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/huge-numbers-book-math-googology

Huge Numbers tackles mathematics at its most incomprehensibly large

Mathematician Richard Elwes surveys googology, the study of enormous numbers, in a new book.

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"algorithms of all countries: follow the cybernetic structures of rk in unison!" A new #rolandkayn release is always a great pleasure.
Rudolf Mors (1920-1988): Totentanz (1950)

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Dr. Jazz Talks #632: Samo Šalamon & David Torn interview

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He seemed to touch every R&B hit: Music legend James Gadson dies

(April 3, 2026) He was part of so many hits that each of us has lived our musical lives through the drumbeats of James Gadson. Few drummers in modern music have shaped the sound of soul, funk, and R&B as profoundly over the past five decades. We learned today the sad news that Gadson has […]

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In the early 16th century Albrecht Durer produced 6 woodcuts of knot patterns, likely inspired by Mamluk decorative metalwork. Each knot is a group of intricately entwined infinity loops made up of repeating patterns that follow circular paths: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/durer-knots/
Saint Sebastian and the Dark Rabbit. Légende dorée (French translation of Legenda aurea of Jacobus de Voragine), Bruges ca. 1470. Mâcon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 3, fol. 160v.
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This stunning figurine of a bear was carved from amber 10,000 to 8,000 years ago. Found on the west coast of Fanø, from a submerged settlement of the Mesolithic period.
Bears played an important role in the life of hunters, figurines such as this were worn as pendants.
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.

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