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From Adolf Luther’s acrylic-glass lenses in Krefeld to microscopes and telescopes, lenses make light—and worlds from particles to galaxies visible. As this Advent calendar comes to a close, our gaze turns to the Star of Bethlehem.
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From Adolf Luther’s acrylic-glass lenses in Krefeld to microscopes and telescopes, lenses make light—and worlds from particles to galaxies visible. As this Advent calendar comes to a close, our gaze turns to the Star of Bethlehem.
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From Zeiss’ 1846 workshop to kinetic light art, Jena’s lens culture links physics and aesthetics. Which German kinetic artist, famed for glass lenses and mirrors, died in 1990?
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From Zeiss’ 1846 workshop to kinetic light art, Jena’s lens culture links physics and aesthetics. Which German kinetic artist, famed for glass lenses and mirrors, died in 1990?
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From Planck to phones—and Munich’s “Seeing the Unseen” links quantum physics & art. Our riddle: which famous quantum theorist did Friedrich Hund team up with in Leipzig?
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From Planck to phones—and Munich’s “Seeing the Unseen” links quantum physics & art. Our riddle: which famous quantum theorist did Friedrich Hund team up with in Leipzig?
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From CoAl₂O₄ to “Kobold” (“Goblin”) mine spirits: why cobalt ore fooled silver miners in the Ore Mountains—and when did Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří become UNESCO World Heritage?
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From CoAl₂O₄ to “Kobold” (“Goblin”) mine spirits: why cobalt ore fooled silver miners in the Ore Mountains—and when did Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří become UNESCO World Heritage?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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From Yves Klein’s famous International Klein Blue process to Sabine Becker’s acrylic cobalt blue—discover why this intense hue glows and what mining secret hides in the name “cobalt blue”.
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From Yves Klein’s famous International Klein Blue process to Sabine Becker’s acrylic cobalt blue—discover why this intense hue glows and what mining secret hides in the name “cobalt blue”.
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Water is densest at 3.98°C (so lakes freeze from the top), and today’s riddle follows artist-physicist Peter Vogel—what was his first job as a graduate physicist?
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Water is densest at 3.98°C (so lakes freeze from the top), and today’s riddle follows artist-physicist Peter Vogel—what was his first job as a graduate physicist?
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From Frei Otto’s acrylic Olympic roof to Clemens Hutter’s ice-warped steel, today’s quick quiz asks when water’s density starts dropping again above 0°C.
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From Frei Otto’s acrylic Olympic roof to Clemens Hutter’s ice-warped steel, today’s quick quiz asks when water’s density starts dropping again above 0°C.
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1960 brought Maiman’s ruby laser (pulsed) and Javan/Bennett/Herriott’s gas laser (continuous)—now guess the iconic plastic architecture in Germany linked to 1972 and tell us in the comments.
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1960 brought Maiman’s ruby laser (pulsed) and Javan/Bennett/Herriott’s gas laser (continuous)—now guess the iconic plastic architecture in Germany linked to 1972 and tell us in the comments.
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Lasers don’t just paint the night sky—they can slice 10-cm (4-in) steel, like Bernhard Müller-Feyen’s 1996 sculpture; can you guess the year the first laser was built?
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Lasers don’t just paint the night sky—they can slice 10-cm (4-in) steel, like Bernhard Müller-Feyen’s 1996 sculpture; can you guess the year the first laser was built?
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Tagblatt Tower—Stuttgart’s 1927–28 New Objectivity high-rise, first exposed-concrete skyscraper, once glowed with Moore gas-discharge tubes; what light did Moore sneer was “too small, too hot, too red”?
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Tagblatt Tower—Stuttgart’s 1927–28 New Objectivity high-rise, first exposed-concrete skyscraper, once glowed with Moore gas-discharge tubes; what light did Moore sneer was “too small, too hot, too red”?
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From Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel to Stuttgart’s pioneering TV tower and an earlier 1920s landmark: can you guess which structure changed tower design worldwide?
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From Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel to Stuttgart’s pioneering TV tower and an earlier 1920s landmark: can you guess which structure changed tower design worldwide?
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Jellyfish lines & concrete dreams – from Ulrike Michaelis’s medusa drawings to a 1955 French icon where organic form, structure and function flow together; guess the UNESCO-listed building!
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Jellyfish lines & concrete dreams – from Ulrike Michaelis’s medusa drawings to a 1955 French icon where organic form, structure and function flow together; guess the UNESCO-listed building!
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Ernst Haeckel’s “Art Forms in Nature”: How microscopic sea life and jellyfish studies shaped 100 iconic plates that still inspire artists from Art Nouveau to today.
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Ernst Haeckel’s “Art Forms in Nature”: How microscopic sea life and jellyfish studies shaped 100 iconic plates that still inspire artists from Art Nouveau to today.
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From Max Uhlig’s algae-like lines to Nathanael Pringsheim’s proof that algae reproduce sexually, today’s door asks: which Jena zoologist behind “Art Forms in Nature” inspired artists?
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From Max Uhlig’s algae-like lines to Nathanael Pringsheim’s proof that algae reproduce sexually, today’s door asks: which Jena zoologist behind “Art Forms in Nature” inspired artists?
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Physics meets art—who is the Dresden art student who started graphic design in 1955, later became painting professor in 1995, and painted the watercolor behind me?
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Physics meets art—who is the Dresden art student who started graphic design in 1955, later became painting professor in 1995, and painted the watercolor behind me?
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Trace of the East—From Goethe’s Italy and the idea of the Urpflanze to lives reshaped after the fall of the Wall, a new book follows physicists from Jena as they reinvent their paths—with a small quiz.
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Trace of the East—From Goethe’s Italy and the idea of the Urpflanze to lives reshaped after the fall of the Wall, a new book follows physicists from Jena as they reinvent their paths—with a small quiz.
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From Goethe’s Jena Botanical Garden lab to today’s science-art debates: where did his idea of the “#Urpflanze”, a primal plant of all plants, first take root?
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From Goethe’s Jena Botanical Garden lab to today’s science-art debates: where did his idea of the “#Urpflanze”, a primal plant of all plants, first take root?
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From Fibonacci’s rabbit math to Goethe reshaping Jena’s university – can you guess where he stayed in Jena?
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From Fibonacci’s rabbit math to Goethe reshaping Jena’s university – can you guess where he stayed in Jena?
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From Vitruvian geometry to Fibonacci’s growth pattern: can you guess which natural process Fibonacci quietly modeled in 1202? Answer follows tomorrow!
#FibonacciSequence #VitruvianMan #MathMeetsArt #RenaissanceScience
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From Vitruvian geometry to Fibonacci’s growth pattern: can you guess which natural process Fibonacci quietly modeled in 1202? Answer follows tomorrow!
#FibonacciSequence #VitruvianMan #MathMeetsArt #RenaissanceScience
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From Prussian blue cyanotypes to Leonardo, Herschel’s iron-based photo process meets Vitruvius’ ideal human—what did Leonardo change (answer tomorrow)?
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From Prussian blue cyanotypes to Leonardo, Herschel’s iron-based photo process meets Vitruvius’ ideal human—what did Leonardo change (answer tomorrow)?
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Color mishap of 1706: a tainted potash batch turned a red dye into Prussian Blue, the first modern synthetic pigment—can you name the astronomer who used it to invent a blueprint process? Answer tomorrow.
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Color mishap of 1706: a tainted potash batch turned a red dye into Prussian Blue, the first modern synthetic pigment—can you name the astronomer who used it to invent a blueprint process? Answer tomorrow.
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Yesterday we talked about Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) and his theory of simultaneous contrast—today’s puzzle asks: What lab mix-up in 1706 led to the discovery of Prussian blue (“Berliner Blau”), Europe’s first synthetic color?
Yesterday we talked about Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) and his theory of simultaneous contrast—today’s puzzle asks: What lab mix-up in 1706 led to the discovery of Prussian blue (“Berliner Blau”), Europe’s first synthetic color?
Yesterday’s riddle was about dyer’s woad, the yellow-flowering dye plant whose indican once gave us indigo; today I’m asking which pioneer of lipid chemistry helped shape color theory by focusing on a particularly striking color phenomenon.
Yesterday’s riddle was about dyer’s woad, the yellow-flowering dye plant whose indican once gave us indigo; today I’m asking which pioneer of lipid chemistry helped shape color theory by focusing on a particularly striking color phenomenon.