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🌻Wir trauern um unseren Autor Wolfgang Beck, ein Mentor der Chemie an der LMU München für Generationen, der am 19. Januar verstarb. In seinem Buch mit 70 Biographien ihrer prägenden Köpfe www.gnt-verlag.de/1141 hat er all seine Erfahrungen gebündelt. www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/de/aktuelles...
January 24, 2026 at 12:15 PM
🌻Wir trauern um unseren Autor Wolfgang Beck, ein Mentor der Chemie an der LMU München für Generationen, der am 19. Januar verstarb. In seinem Buch mit 70 Biographien ihrer prägenden Köpfe www.gnt-verlag.de/1141 hat er all seine Erfahrungen gebündelt. www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/de/aktuelles...
Advent calendar 2025—day 24: The Light
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Advent calendar 2025—day 24: The Light
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Advent calendar 2025—day 23: Kinetic lenses
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Advent calendar 2025—day 23: Kinetic lenses
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Advent calendar 2025—day 22: Quantum art
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Adventskalender 2025—Tag 22: Quantenkunst
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December 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Advent calendar 2025—day 22: Quantum art
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Advent calendar 2025—day 21: Goblin Ore
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
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
December 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Advent calendar 2025—day 21: Goblin Ore
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
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
Advent calendar 2025—day 20: Cobalt blue & IKB
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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”.
#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”.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Adventskalender 2025—Tag 20: Kobaltblau & IKB
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December 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Advent calendar 2025—day 20: Cobalt blue & IKB
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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”.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
youtu.be/etYzN50u0LI
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”.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Advent calendar 2025—day 19: Installations
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
December 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Advent calendar 2025—day 19: Installations
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Advent calendar 2025—day 18: Pretty Dense
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
December 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Advent calendar 2025—day 18: Pretty Dense
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Advent calendar 2025—day 17: The Plastic
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Advent calendar 2025—day 17: The Plastic
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Advent calendar 2025—day 16: Laserblade
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Advent calendar 2025—day 16: Laserblade
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
Advent calendar 2025—day 15: And there was light
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”?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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”?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Advent calendar 2025—day 15: And there was light
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”?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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”?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 14: Rising towers
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #LeCorbusier #ConcreteTower #StructuralArt
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #LeCorbusier #ConcreteTower #StructuralArt
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 14: Rising towers
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #LeCorbusier #ConcreteTower #StructuralArt
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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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #LeCorbusier #ConcreteTower #StructuralArt
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 13: Jellyfish Concrete
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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!
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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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!
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
December 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 13: Jellyfish Concrete
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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!
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
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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!
#ScienceArtTechAdvent
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 12: Jellyfish Art
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #ArtFormsInNature #ErnstHaeckel #JellyfishArt
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #ArtFormsInNature #ErnstHaeckel #JellyfishArt
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 12: Jellyfish Art
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #ArtFormsInNature #ErnstHaeckel #JellyfishArt
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #ArtFormsInNature #ErnstHaeckel #JellyfishArt
„Aufgebrochen“: Wie Naturwissenschaftler Neuorientierung meistern
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December 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
„Aufgebrochen“: Wie Naturwissenschaftler Neuorientierung meistern
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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 11: Art Forms in Nature
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #Microscopy #ScienceAdventCalendar
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #Microscopy #ScienceAdventCalendar
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 11: Art Forms in Nature
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #Microscopy #ScienceAdventCalendar
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #Microscopy #ScienceAdventCalendar
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 10: Dresden Painter
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #EastGermanArt #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #EastGermanArt #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 10: Dresden Painter
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #EastGermanArt #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #EastGermanArt #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 9: Trace of the East.
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #EasternGermany
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #EasternGermany
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 9: Trace of the East.
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #EasternGermany
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.
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #EasternGermany
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 8: Goethe’s Proto-Plant
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience #AdventPuzzle
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience #AdventPuzzle
December 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 8: Goethe’s Proto-Plant
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience #AdventPuzzle
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?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience #AdventPuzzle
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 7: Goethe in Jena
From Fibonacci’s rabbit math to Goethe reshaping Jena’s university – can you guess where he stayed in Jena?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #HistoryOfPhysics #ScienceCityJena #ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience #AdventCalendar
From Fibonacci’s rabbit math to Goethe reshaping Jena’s university – can you guess where he stayed in Jena?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #HistoryOfPhysics #ScienceCityJena #ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience #AdventCalendar
December 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 7: Goethe in Jena
From Fibonacci’s rabbit math to Goethe reshaping Jena’s university – can you guess where he stayed in Jena?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #HistoryOfPhysics #ScienceCityJena #ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience #AdventCalendar
From Fibonacci’s rabbit math to Goethe reshaping Jena’s university – can you guess where he stayed in Jena?
#ScienceArtTechAdvent #HistoryOfPhysics #ScienceCityJena #ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience #AdventCalendar
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 6
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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
Advent calendar 2025—day 6
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December 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 6
youtu.be/Lg9-QJro81o
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
youtu.be/Lg9-QJro81o
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
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 5
youtu.be/YtniGamaD6Y
From Prussian blue cyanotypes to Leonardo, Herschel’s iron-based photo process meets Vitruvius’ ideal human—what did Leonardo change (answer tomorrow)?
#ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience
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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)?
#ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience
Advent calendar 2025—day 5
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December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 5
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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)?
#ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience
youtu.be/YtniGamaD6Y
From Prussian blue cyanotypes to Leonardo, Herschel’s iron-based photo process meets Vitruvius’ ideal human—what did Leonardo change (answer tomorrow)?
#ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 4
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.
#ScienceAdventCalendar
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.
#ScienceAdventCalendar
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 4
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.
#ScienceAdventCalendar
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.
#ScienceAdventCalendar
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 3
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?
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 3
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?
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 2
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.
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 2
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.