In the Kitchen of the Elysee Palace

UFOs: Facts Farse and Congress

In late May, UFO filmmaker Jeremy Corbell released an unclassified Navy video of radar revealing US Navy warships being swarmed by UFOs. The video was released together with the tweet: “2019 US Navy warships were swarmed by UFOs; here’s the RADAR footage that shows that. Filmed in the Combat Information Center of the USS Omaha […]

Hercules and the Hydra – Antonio del Pollaiuolo

This small panel, the companion-piece to “Hercules and Antaeus”, refers to three panels representing the Labours of Hercules which Antonio del Pollaiuolo painted for Lorenzo de’ Medici around 1460, lost works we know about only from later versions. Here too is represented a ferocious fight between the hero, his body tensed into an agile, muscular […]

True Friendship

True Friendship – where does it start? what makes a true friendship? Some-one who doesn’t judge you by what you have or have not. Some-one who knows your weaknesses, and doesn’t use them against you. Some-one who when you need a helping hand will offer, no strings attached. Some-one who’s loyal to you, when others […]

Do Not Go To War

Some of latest headlines: “Russia fired warning shots and bombs at HMS defenders, and China threatened to join Russia in the counterattack.” This deep headline may be clickbait, or somehow sensational, or half-truths; but I believe that if we look at these headlines from the perspective of the fourth turning point, a new screen might […]

Virgin Annunciate – Antonello da Messina

The Virgin Annunciate is perhaps the most famous of the Sicilian painter’s works and is one of the art icons of all time, dating back to Antonello’s stay in Venice. The former enchants and surprises in its masterly orchestration of light sources, generating an interplay of backlight and, at the same time, wholly unifying the […]

The Adoration of the Magi – Andrea Mantegna

In 1985, Mantegna’s masterpiece, The Adoration of the Magi became the most expensive old Master painting ever sold at Christie’s (at the time for £8.1 million). The Adoration of the Magi or Uffizi Triptych is a group of three tempera-on-panel paintings by Andrea Mantegna, dating to around 1460. Their three subjects are the Ascension of […]

NASA Releases Out-of-This-World Photos

NASA has released new images of our universe system, and the results are out of this world. The new images come from a variety of missions and telescopes that show off the universe that we reside in. The photos show a number of different galaxies, supernovas and stars.          

TLDR: the TRGB gives us another HotTake!

The value of the Hubble Constant (H0) is a beast to pin down. However, it’s integral to our understanding of how the Universe evolved and will continue to evolve. H0 relates the speed with which distant objects are moving away from us—due to the Universe’s expansion—to how far away they are (see this Astrobite for a detailed explanation of how H0 assumed its […]

How Words Get Their Meanings

Some of our words have quite history. In the Oxford English Dictionary there are full entries for meanings of 171,476 words that are currently in use and 47,156 that are considered obsolete. Here are five of those words (or word phrases) and how their current meaning came to be. These particular words came from uses […]