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  1. He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.

    oddlet.com/p/56o

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  2. He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.

    oddlet.com/p/56o

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  3. He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.

    oddlet.com/p/56o

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  4. He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.

    oddlet.com/p/56o

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  5. Nice colour asagiite, but it’s no contest. Team #Quartz all the way!

    Quartz gets my physics vote as 20% of the Earth’s crust & representative typical elastic moduli, piezoelectricity & its role in clocks, electronics, GPS, computers!

    Quartz get art vote for carvings, jewelry & the making of pigments for centuries!

    Vote for Quartz here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #MinCup26 #scicomm #artHist #minerals

  6. Nice colour asagiite, but it’s no contest. Team #Quartz all the way!

    Quartz gets my physics vote as 20% of the Earth’s crust & representative typical elastic moduli, piezoelectricity & its role in clocks, electronics, GPS, computers!

    Quartz get art vote for carvings, jewelry & the making of pigments for centuries!

    Vote for Quartz here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #MinCup26 #scicomm #artHist #minerals

  7. Nice colour asagiite, but it’s no contest. Team #Quartz all the way!

    Quartz gets my physics vote as 20% of the Earth’s crust & representative typical elastic moduli, piezoelectricity & its role in clocks, electronics, GPS, computers!

    Quartz get art vote for carvings, jewelry & the making of pigments for centuries!

    Vote for Quartz here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #MinCup26 #scicomm #artHist #minerals

  8. Nice colour asagiite, but it’s no contest. Team #Quartz all the way!

    Quartz gets my physics vote as 20% of the Earth’s crust & representative typical elastic moduli, piezoelectricity & its role in clocks, electronics, GPS, computers!

    Quartz get art vote for carvings, jewelry & the making of pigments for centuries!

    Vote for Quartz here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #MinCup26 #scicomm #artHist #minerals

  9. Nice colour asagiite, but it’s no contest. Team #Quartz all the way!

    Quartz gets my physics vote as 20% of the Earth’s crust & representative typical elastic moduli, piezoelectricity & its role in clocks, electronics, GPS, computers!

    Quartz get art vote for carvings, jewelry & the making of pigments for centuries!

    Vote for Quartz here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #MinCup26 #scicomm #artHist #minerals

  10. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  11. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  12. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  13. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  14. This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
    - #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
    - The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
    - Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon

  15. Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!

    The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.

    Vote for orpiment here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #scicomm #pigment #arthistory #printmaking #minerals

  16. Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!

    The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.

    Vote for orpiment here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #scicomm #pigment #arthistory #printmaking #minerals

  17. Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!

    The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.

    Vote for orpiment here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #scicomm #pigment #arthistory #printmaking #minerals

  18. Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!

    The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.

    Vote for orpiment here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #scicomm #pigment #arthistory #printmaking #minerals

  19. Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!

    The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.

    Vote for orpiment here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #scicomm #pigment #arthistory #printmaking #minerals

  20. Cézanne thinks you should vote for orpiment the storied pigment in Round 1 Match 5 of the Mineral Cup!

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    ! #MinCup26 #arthist #scicomm #minerals

  21. Cézanne thinks you should vote for orpiment the storied pigment in Round 1 Match 5 of the Mineral Cup!

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    ! #MinCup26 #arthist #scicomm #minerals

  22. Cézanne thinks you should vote for orpiment the storied pigment in Round 1 Match 5 of the Mineral Cup!

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    ! #MinCup26 #arthist #scicomm #minerals

  23. Cézanne thinks you should vote for orpiment the storied pigment in Round 1 Match 5 of the Mineral Cup!

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    ! #MinCup26 #arthist #scicomm #minerals

  24. Cézanne thinks you should vote for orpiment the storied pigment in Round 1 Match 5 of the Mineral Cup!

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    ! #MinCup26 #arthist #scicomm #minerals

  25. She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.

    oddlet.com/p/5q7

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  26. She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.

    oddlet.com/p/5q7

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  27. She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.

    oddlet.com/p/5q7

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  28. She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.

    oddlet.com/p/5q7

    #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

  29. in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

    Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

    #scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

  30. in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

    Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

    #scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

  31. in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

    Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

    #scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

  32. in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

    Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

    #scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

  33. in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

    Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

    #scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates