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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 11: Art Forms in Nature

From Max Uhlig’s algae-like lines to Nathanael Pringsheim’s proof that algae reproduce sexually, today’s door asks: which Jena zoologist behind “Art Forms in Nature” inspired artists?

#ScienceArtTechAdvent #Microscopy #ScienceAdventCalendar

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 10: Dresden Painter

Physics meets art—who is the Dresden art student who started graphic design in 1955, later became painting professor in 1995, and painted the watercolor behind me?

#ScienceArtTechAdvent #EastGermanArt #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 8: Goethe’s Proto-Plant

From Goethe’s Jena Botanical Garden lab to today’s science-art debates: where did his idea of the “#Urpflanze”, a primal plant of all plants, first take root?

#ScienceArtTechAdvent #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience #AdventPuzzle

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 7: Goethe in Jena

From Fibonacci’s rabbit math to Goethe reshaping Jena’s university – can you guess where he stayed in Jena?

#ScienceArtTechAdvent #HistoryOfPhysics #ScienceCityJena #ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience #AdventCalendar

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Advent calendar 2025—day 5
Advent calendar 2025—day 5 YouTube video by GNT Publishing

🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 5

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From Prussian blue cyanotypes to Leonardo, Herschel’s iron-based photo process meets Vitruvius’ ideal human—what did Leonardo change (answer tomorrow)?

#ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #ArtAndScience

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🎄🔬🎨 Puzzle #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 4

Color mishap of 1706: a tainted potash batch turned a red dye into Prussian Blue, the first modern synthetic pigment—can you name the astronomer who used it to invent a blueprint process? Answer tomorrow.

#ScienceAdventCalendar

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🎄🔬🎨 #AdventCalendar #ScienceArtTechAdvent — day 1

How was brilliant blue produced in the Middle Ages from fermented #indigo plants—and what colour did the flower of this dye plant have?

#ScienceAdventCalendar #AdventPuzzle #IndigoDye #ColorChemistry #ArtAndScience

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Mt St Helens eruption, 1980
Black and white image of a volcano with a thick plume of volcanic ash and had rising from it.

Mt St Helens eruption, 1980 Black and white image of a volcano with a thick plume of volcanic ash and had rising from it.

Information from within the attached link from the USGS.

Information from within the attached link from the USGS.

🌋🧪 #ScienceAdventCalendar Day 6 (yes, I've already fallen behind...)

Volcanoes produce a LOT of gas, but still only ~1% of the CO2 amount produced by human activity. Even the biggest modern eruptions come nowhere near close!

Handy article about volcanoes and climate:
www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP...

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🌋🧪 #ScienceAdventCalendar Day 5!

Let's talk about the OTHER polar #volcano - Mt Erebus in #Antarctica. This 🌋 is one of only a few worldwide with an active lava lake in its crater! Technically NOT on Antarctica (Ross Island), this is the southernmost active volcano in the world

📸: (NatGeo and GVP)

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🌋 🧪 #ScienceAdventCalendar Day 4!

Did you know that Norway has its own active 🌋? Beerenberg volcano, on Jan Mayen island in the Arctic Ocean, last erupted in the 1980s. There is no permanent population on the island and is the world's most northern active volcano on land!
📸:Global Volcanism Program

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🌋 #ScienceAdventCalendar Day 3!

The big picture: There are thought to be ~1300 "active" volcanoes around the world. This accounts for any volcano with a likely eruption over the Holocene - the last 12,000 years.

Data from Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program - check out more here:
volcano.si.edu

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Who wants to join in with a #ScienceAdventCalendar over December, with facts each day about their field?

Here's #1: Zavodovski in the South Sandwich Islands (near Antarctica) is an active volcanic island and home to the largest penguin colony in the world! >1 million!

📸: British Antarctic Survey

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