Open-air #space #museum near the National Space Centre, #Astana, #Kazakhstan.

#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#city #history
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa

Open-air #space #museum near the National Space Centre, #Astana, #Kazakhstan.

#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#city #history
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa

She rode through London in a coach pulled by eight white bulls, wore dresses that scandalized Samuel Pepys into near-incoherence, and published critiques of both Hobbes and Descartes. She also wrote science fiction 152 years before *Frankenstein*. Her name was Margaret Cavendish — the woman who kept writing the future while her century tried to close the door.

oddlet.com/p/5cb

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

Open-air #space #museum near the National Space Centre, #Astana, #Kazakhstan.

#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#city #history
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa

Open-air #space #museum near the National Space Centre, #Astana, #Kazakhstan.

#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#city #history
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa

Open-air #space #museum near the National Space Centre, #Astana, #Kazakhstan.

#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#city #history
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa

Open-air #space #museum near the National Space Centre, #Astana, #Kazakhstan.

#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#city #history
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa

Open-air #space #museum near the National Space Centre, #Astana, #Kazakhstan.

#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#city #history
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa

On this day in 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe took a photo of our planet from approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away.

"Commissioned by NASA and resulting from the advocacy of astronomer and author Carl Sagan, the photograph was interpreted in Sagan's 1994 book, Pale Blue Dot, as representing humanity's minuscule and ephemeral place amidst the cosmos."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blu…

Image via bbc.com/news/science-environme…

#OnThisDay #OTD #history #space #science #nasa #PaleBlueDot #humanity

Cambridge was home to the first Christmas tree in Massachusetts

Another Cambridge History "First" Most Folks Don't Know About

#History #MA #Cambridge #Xmas #CambridgeDay

The History of Earth as a 24 hr clock. Humans have only just arrived.

Note: I first came across this image through UW-Madison geology. #science #history

Jared Diamond Was Wrong... Easter Island Was NOT Deforested By the Natives To Make Moa

When Other Scientific disciplines are brought in to bear along with a wider understanding of History the old theories fall apart.

American Scientist (Magazine Article)

#History #Anthropology #Archaeology

How We Beat The Fascists Last Time: The London History Show

Remember History Britain

#LondonHistoryShow #History #Britain #UK #FightingFascism

The invention of the ox-drawn plough was a turning point in the #prehistory of #agriculture because it was the first time food production was decoupled from human labour (doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.105).

This is why, from Medieval Europe to the ancient Near East, farms were measured by the number of oxen (later horses etc.) working it, not people (doi.org/10.1002/9781118970959.…)

Yet it's surprisingly difficult to pinpoint when this actually happened.

#Archaeology #History #Economics #EconomicHistory

Île Saint-Honorat (Fortified monastery of Abbey Lérins)

Bronica SQ-A Camera
Bronica 50mm f3.5 Lens
Kodak TMax 400 Film
Rodinal R09 Developer 1:49
Ilford Rapid Fixer 1:9
Fotospeed RA50 Wetting Agent 1:200

#ÎleSaintHonorat #SaintHonorat #Honorat #IleSaintHonorat #Bronica #BronicaSQ #BronicaSQA #ZenzaBronicaSQ #mediumformat #filmphotography #photography #zenzanon50mm #Kodak #tmax400 #kodaktmax400 #Rodinal #R09 #Ilford #architecture #history #abbey #monastery

For Cambridge, July 3 is the claim to fame

Cambridge - Where the Continental Army First Formed In The American Revolution

#History #AmericanRevolution #MA #Cambridge #Washington #GeorgeWashington

Happy birthday to Dr. Cecilia Payne! Her 1925 PhD thesis has been described as “the most brilliant ever written in astronomy.”

At a time when few women entered academia, Payne discovered what the universe is made of. Her work began a revolution in astrophysics & more should know her name. #science #history

I don't know the source or year.

Labeled "Beatrix Potter and Xarifa" 🙂 💕

#BeatrixPotter and her pet #mouse #history

Beatrix Potter is best remembered for her charming tales of Peter Rabbit, but did you know she also studied #science?

Potter collected & examined beetles, butterflies, plants, bird eggs, shells, rocks, fossils & especially fungi. She conducted experiments & wrote a scientific paper with her own illustrations, presented at the Linnean Society of London. However, as a woman in the Victorian era, she couldn’t even attend the meeting.#history #art #books

There are currently over 8 billion people on Earth. Yes, that’s a lot BUT there are about 1.4 billion insects for every human. Combined, they weigh about 70x more than all of us.

And insects have been around for over 350 million years. That's longer than the dinosaurs. Modern humans only showed up between 200-300,000 years ago.

We need insects to survive. They don't need us. This is their world. #science #history

The history of Earth as the length of a human’s outstretched arm - representing 4.5 billion years of time.

At this scale, humans emerged so recently that we could be filed off from a microscopic slice at the very tip of a fingernail.

Infographic by Katie Scott. #science #history

Born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr was a famous American actress who pioneered the technology that would lead to WiFi, GPS, cell phones & Bluetooth communication.

Lamarr was brilliant. Among many fascinating inventions, she developed a new communication system with composer George Antheil that used “frequency hopping” among radio waves.

Once called the “most beautiful woman in the world," Lamarr is now remembered as "the mother of Wi-Fi."

smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian… #science #history

#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

About 250M years ago, 90% of species on Earth died during the Permian extinction. All of that loss created a lot of vacant niches to fill.

And not long after, the first mammals, our ancestors, appeared.

Life on this pale blue dot will be resilient - whether we’re part of it or not. #science #nature #history

David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka have traveled the width and breadth of Eastern Europe, photographing the region’s unique brutalist architecture. "Eastern Blocks II," the duo's new book, captures some of these stark scenes.

thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/eas…

#books #brutalism #design #architecture #europe #photography #history

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

The father of evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin, was born on this day in 1809.

Happy Darwin Day!
#science #history

Bella Ciao Then And Now

#Music #History #BellaCiao

How the highlighter was invented in Cambridge by Carter’s Ink, an innovator back to the 1800s

A Piece Of Cambridge MA History Most Folks Didn't Know

#History #LocalHistory #Highlighters #Invention #Cambridge #MA

Tiffany & Company - Liars or Time Travellers

About Silver Standards

#History #Tiffany #Silver

Vivian Maier was a nanny who, for decades, took photos she never expected anyone to see. She rarely looked at them herself, often didn't develop the negatives and kept the pictures in storage lockers that she eventually stopped paying for so the contents were auctioned off. @Smithsonianmag tells the story of how she came to be considered one of the great street photographers of the 20th century, with a major retrospective on view now at Fotografiska New York.

Link: flip.it/aadovS

#Photography #Photos #History @histodons #Culture

I simply adore this photo of James Earl Jones & Big Bird.

Yes, he played a lot of memorable dads from Darth Vader to Mufasa to King Jaffe Joffer + countless other incredible roles on & offscreen.

And Mr. Jones also happened to be the very first celebrity guest on Sesame Street. #history #media #art

In case you need some inspiration, Mister Rogers, Julia Child, LeVar Burton, Bob Ross & the wonderful folks at PBS have you covered.

pbs.org/show/pbs-remixed/extra… #art #tv #history

The Vice Presidents That America Forgot

Some Vice-President Facts

#History #USA #VPs

The hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west

"The flow of knowledge to Europe on maths, astronomy and much more has gone unacknowledged by historians"

theguardian.com/world/article/…

#astronomy #mathematics #history

‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west

The flow of knowledge from India to Europe on everything from maths to astronomy has gone unacknowledged by historians

^{William Dalrymple (The Guardian)}