2025-04-14

[EN] The Original Thinker


Hamangia culture, Late Neolithic (around 5000 BC)

Several millennia before Rodin, there was a no less talented sculptor on the Lower Danube.

The name of the culture is pronounced /kha-mahn-JEE-ah/.
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2025-04-12

[EN] The Last of the Windjammers

The Pamir, rounding Cape Horn in 1949.

The last Drake Passage voyage of the world’s last commercial tall ship.

[EN] House of Bears


Photographed by Dmitry Kokh.

An abandoned weather station on an island near Chukotka.
Photographed with a UAV (drone).

Full story from the BBC:
The polar bears living in an abandoned Arctic weather station

[EN] Performance of 'Naive' Ratio Addition

;;;; -*- mode: lisp -*- ;;; Explore the performance of 'naive' ratio addition. ;;; Evaluate (time-addition 17000) ;;; to compare tha...