I still find it ... curious, but very #astronomy on-brand that one of the prime and best studies stars with earth-sized #exoplanets is named #TRAPPIST1, which comes from the telescope #backronym name that it was discovered with (Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope), which of course is Belgian, since #Trappist#beer is a signature drink in #Belgium.
So we have exoplanets, named after a beer, named after an order of #monks, named after a city in #France.
The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.
On Friday, the #Dresden Science Night took place. This year, the Research Center for Comparative History of Religious Orders ( #FOVOG) and the Chair of Didactics of History of @tudresden cooperated and prepared a room with several stations all concerning the portrayal of #Monks, #Nuns, and religious #Orders in #Boardgames, #Comics, and #DigitalGames. It was great fun and we had lots of interested visitors! 10/10, would recommend! #Histodons#HistodonDE#WissKomm#LNdWDD
Imagine you are in Frankfurt in '64. You wander into a bar and see this band formed of American GI's stationed there cranking out THIS. I mean like....what? These guys were SO far ahead of their time. And that groove....Jesus. Amazing.