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Cat-lovers will recognise the struggle 🐈 This sketch is a fabulous example of Da Vinci’s ability to capture expressions: just look this cat's clear disdain as it squirms within an overly eager embrace! 🎂 Leonardo Da Vinci was born #OnThisDay in 1452. @britishmuseum #museums #cats #animals #daVinci #art #drawing When it snows in Scotland the snow turns the Bannockburn statue of Robert the Bruce into something magical. Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds. The devices—developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX—have a warming feature to prevent snow buildup from disrupting the signal. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/outdoor-cats-are-using-500-starlink-satellite-dishes-as-self-heating-beds-180979401/ #cats #ElonMusk #Starlink   This is a cute read but the final paragraph should concern us all: "Starlink satellites are responsible for 1,600 near-crashes in orbit every week, reports Futurism’s Dan Robitzski, a number that he reports is likely to increase as Starlink plans to launch more satellites." Cistercian Numbers; are an extremely interesting and basically forgotten number system developed 8 Centuries Ago. It is much more compact than Arabic and Roman systems, you can basically write any integer from 1 to 9999 with one character. @archeohistories #Numbers
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 @globalmuseum but do they have #Unicode codepoints? (This cries for a base vertical line glyph plus 36 combining characters, and it’d even work well in bitmap fonts for #xterm) @globalmuseum particulièrement ingénieux... la correction des copies devait être rigolote à l'époque 🤔 12
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