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As George Orwell wrote: "we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then [...] impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. [...] the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”

Master of illusion: M.C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist of conceptual works, inspired by mathematics, born #OTD 1898. Kunstmuseum Den Haag | Museum Escher in Het Paleis, Den Haag

Watch and share this please

@garius.bsky.social This interview might interest you: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Coimbra's cabinet of curiosities might just be the most marvellous thing I've ever seen. #earlymodern

🔭 Rainbow Airglow over the Azores Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro (TWAN); Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25060...

BTW, Ok Go has launched another great video, this one with kaleidoscopes and robots: Love (Official Video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz9B...

Unsafe Space Garden

So Dead with Henrique Toscano

So Dead with Henrique Toscano

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com