July 44 BC: Cicero, reading his own work aboard ship, realises he’s sent Atticus a copy of ‘On Glory’ featuring a preface he’d already used in his ‘Academic Books’. Explains that he has a volume of ready-made prefaces to use on each book he starts. Sends a new one to be pasted in

Still the BEST sports commentary of all-time. 😂

Oh no, this made me laugh too hard.

I just learned that W. R. Johnson, author of the seminal book on Vergil’s Aeneid, _Darkness Visible_, died yesterday. That book profoundly affected me as an undergrad. It took me a while to realize it was the same Ralph Johnson, my next door neighbor growing up in Ithaca. RIP.

Dedicated to friends who read the stacks and get stacked. A ramble on barbells, Greek philosophy and dealing with physical injury. philologicalcrocodile.wordpress.com/2024/04/14/lif…

In the days before mobile phones, if a Corporation bus broke down the driver could summon assistance from the nearest depot using the municipal carrier pigeon service. Every bus carried one of these useful birds, known as an

Shameless misinformation! These are actually physics students being presented a calculation using (- + + +) metric

Where are the community notes when you need them?

‘Zilla Black. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Lecturer in Pure Mathematics (Teaching and Research) at University of Leeds jobs.ac.uk/job/DGY844/lec…

Interesting approach to how to start progressing from translating to understanding.

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94 theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Really interesting looking, and I wish I understood it better.

Math time.

Today I heard an interesting talk by Kenji Nakanishi, based on his joint work with Wang Baoxiang. While it is technically a talk in PDEs, it went in a direction that is almost entirely orthogonal to usual research in the field.

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This looks very cool (though perhaps not for the faint-hearted).

I've noticed a few people are still wrong on the internet, but I'm going to go to sleep anyway.

For those that are going to miss the eclipse on Monday, I have created a simulation of what the eclipse will look like along the path of totality

Easter, Ēostre and Ostara - a 🧵

(1) Easter, like Christmas, Halloween and so many other Western festivals is field for a now-annual set of arguments over the holiday's 'true' provenance - Christian or 'really' pagan? Much of this roots in a murky and debatable figure - 'Ēostre'

there is so much technology in this video