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“Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music.” - J W Von Goethe
Dec 16, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Who created metal pipes in Tibet and China more than 150,000 years ago?

The color of the rust says they are made of metal. And their creators had an advanced method of assembly. The purpose of the pipeline is also not entirely clear.

In China’s Qinghai Province near (cont.) Mount Baigong is a mysterious pyramid with three caves that lead to a saltwater lake. Under the lake bed and on the shore are iron pipes ranging in size with some being as small as a toothpick that are around 150,000 years old. What is baffling Chinese historians is that the area
Dec 16, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
The sacred geometry of snowflakes

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Apr 29, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
The curious case of the Zanetti train - or, is it possible to travel into another dimension?

Apparently Philadelphia Experiment (1943) is not the lonely case of paradimensional traveling that has been recorded over the years. Namely, in the summer of 1911 the train (cont. below) Image Zanetti with 3 cars and 106 passengers left Rome and should have gone through the mountain tunnel in Lombard. The train entered the half mile long tunnel in Lombardy Mountain but never came out! It just.... disappeared!

What actually happened?

Dozens had witnessed the train
Apr 5, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
A microscopic look at snowflakes

A snowflake begins to form when an extremely cold water droplet freezes onto a pollen or dust particle in the sky. This creates an ice crystal. As the ice crystal falls to the ground, water vapor freezes onto the primary crystal, (cont. below) building new crystals. The intricate shape of a single arm of the snowflake is determined by the atmospheric conditions experienced by the entire ice crystal as it falls. A crystal might begin to grow arms in one manner, and then minutes or even seconds later, slight changes in
Mar 3, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
“The original Ferris Wheel, sometimes also referred to as the Chicago Wheel, was
designed and built by George Washington
Gale Ferris Jr. as the centerpiece of the
1893 World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago, Illinois."

(Cont. below) ImageImageImageImage "Intended as an attraction in the same manner as the 1889 Paris Exposition's 324-metre (1,063 ft) Eiffel Tower, the Ferris Wheel was the Columbian Exposition's tallest attraction, with a height of 80.4 meters (264 ft).
Feb 17, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
Architecture of sound

The amazing connection between Old World architecture & sound

This video shows the power the built environment can have on sound and our emotional connection to that sound and space

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Oct 19, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Take back control of your mind.

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