Fractals and Euclidean Geometry in Pre-colonial African Architecture: A New Perspective www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/fractals-a...

The University of #Nottingham Museum

The University of #Nottingham Museum

"Spiegare l’inevitabilità della vittoria russa mentre la Crimea dichiara lo stato d’emergenza, la raffinazione e le esportazioni di petrolio sono sotto pressione e l’avanzata russa tende allo zero netto richiede ormai sforzi di fantasia e sfacciataggine sempre più notevoli"

M.I.A. (2007), Paper Planes www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRj...

Con la stessa grazia. Maurice-Louis Branger, A young woman at the beach in Deauville, France, 1920s.

The University of #Nottingham Museum

The University of #Nottingham Museum

"Contrary to his expectation, history has largely forgotten Vargas. In Brazil, he is neither properly celebrated nor loudly rejected. Outside of it, he is barely known" www.theideasletter.org/essay/vargas...

The University of #Nottingham Museum

‘In the 1960s, Lebanese society was divided between those who saw armed resistance against Israel as a national duty and those who believed it would inevitably lead to the country’s destruction. Then, as now, Israel identified that split and widened it.’ Zain Samir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Per sempre più persone visitare la Cina equivale a vedere in anticipo il futuro, e questo ha creato una forma di turismo specifico che coinvolge sia visitatori comuni sia imprenditori occidentali, che vengono in Cina per osservare questa trasformazione da vicino" www.ilpost.it/2026/06/25/t...

The Two Roberts: Colquhoun and MacBryde #Nottingham castle

The Two Roberts: Colquhoun and MacBryde #Nottingham castle

Can you really be a research institution (ie a university) if your staff only have 10% of their time earmarked for research?

Pourquoi faire une révolution ? En pleine canicule Louis Vuitton installe une vague artificielle dans les jardins de la Cité Universitaire de Paris. Pendant ce temps 5 camions de police sont mobilisés pour démanteler une piscine où des gosses se baignaient dans un quartier populaire. #Justice

"As heatwaves intensify across Europe, most cities are reaching for a familiar fix of more air conditioning. But in 1990s Paris, planning began for a different kind of solution: one of the world’s largest district cooling networks" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Two Roberts: Colquhoun and MacBryde #Nottingham castle

The Two Roberts: Colquhoun and MacBryde #Nottingham castle

"Non bisogna abbandonare l’open access, ma cambiarne radicalmente le modalità, investendo in modelli alternativi che non alimentino il circuito commerciale dominante: infrastrutture editoriali comunitarie, forme non commerciali di pubblicazione, preprint" www.roars.it/oltre-le-apc...

We start with our editorial about what is "long late antiquity" and why do we think that is more relevant than ever, especially given new discoveries about the first millennium and our changing understanding of the boundaries of our disciplines. 2/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

The Two Roberts: Colquhoun and MacBryde #Nottingham castle

The Two Roberts: Colquhoun and MacBryde #Nottingham castle

"And there it was—a great dome, an overturned bathtub, trying to cross the road. What set of circumstances favored an animal that weighs up to 600 pounds, moves at four miles a day, and takes a quarter of a century to reach sexual maturity?" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"Having accidentally tasted the dragon's blood, Siegfried becomes able to understand the language of the birds which tells him of Brünnhilde, the fair maiden who sleeps on a fire-encircled rock..." As pictured in The Victrola Book of the Opera (1913): publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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“Younger siblings tend to drop out of education earlier than first-borns, regardless of family size and gender. They also earn less as adults, with the gap widening for each subsequent child” www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

👉 My article "Lombard Models in Byzantine Splendour: Building a Regional Identity in eighth-century Lombard Southern Italy" is finally out in the thematic section "Constructing the Eighth Century", ed. Montinaro & Prigent, in Travaux et Mémoires 2025 📖 www.orient-mediterranee.com/review-volum...

#Nottingham castle

#Nottingham castle

"When genuine achievements become impossible, they begin to manufacture their appearance. Military parades become camouflage for military weakness, while displays of grandeur conceal political failure and economic decay" hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

#Nottingham castle

#Nottingham castle

"Meanwhile I was back in a corner laminating croissant dough by hand while nearby conference rooms discussed artificial intelligence with the confidence of a man who’s never been told no and the caution of a toddler approaching a puddle" yeastconfections.substack.com/p/i-fed-the-...

#Nottingham castle

#Nottingham castle

"Only having grown in notoriety since 1970, the Friedman Doctrine has served as a satisfying punching bag and a singular example of what not to think" hedgehogreview.com/issues/marke...

#Nottingham castle

#Nottingham castle

"La riforma dell’istruzione tecnica opera una radicale manomissione della funzione costituzionale della Scuola, portando a compimento un processo di aziendalizzazione che coinvolge non solo, anche se soprattutto, gli istituti tecnici" jacobinitalia.it/la-scuola-an...

#Nottingham castle

#Nottingham castle

Manuel Mota, 1-7 mapledeathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/1-7

"Jack is also the architect of the archival art project Cruising Archaeology, which preserves sexual detritus recovered from cruising grounds around Europe" thecoldmagazine.co.uk/faggots-fuck...

#Nottingham castle

#Nottingham castle

"Before the Revolution, Wood pointed out, Washington referred to the people as the “grazing multitude,” and Adams talked about the “common herd of mankind.” A few decades after the Revolution, one would be hard pressed to find politicians saying such things" hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

The Exeter UCU branch statement on the proposed cuts, most of which will land on humanities and social sciences. World-leading departments in HASS are under threat of losing up to 25% of their academic staff. Failure of leadership through and through (esp. since no real data to support it).