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Medieval scribes writing things like “fuck the abbot” (their boss) and “I am so hung over I feel dead” and “that goddamn cat got in here and pissed on the manuscript” and drawing penis monsters and purposefully unflattering portraits of public figures and animals in the marginalia is funny, yes. But more than that it is so deeply quintessentially human. It reminds you that they were largely just frustrated young adults who did an extremely repetitive and tedious job 6 days a week during daylight hours in poor conditions and felt the same malaise young adults feel now.

House In Nakijin / Studio Cochi Architects Photos © Ooki Jingu

Azerbaijani artist Tunzala Mamedzadeh's Hand-Painted Quran in Gold on 164 Feet of Black Silk

تم مجھے روزقیامت ملنا،

تم سے میرا حساب باکی ہے۔

Tum mujhe roz-e-qayamat milna,

Tum se mera hisab baaki hai.

~Lines

Álvaro Siza

Boa Nova Tea House Leça da Palmeira, Portugal 1956

प्रिय लिखकर

priya likhkar

after writing "beloved"

मैं नीचे लिख दूँ नाम तुम्हारा

main niche likh doon naam tumhara

I'll write down your name

कुछ जगह बीच में छोड़ दूँ

kuchh jagah beech mein chhod doon

I'll leave some space in between

नीचे लिख दूँ

neeche likh doon

ill write down

‘सदा तुम्हारा’

'sada tumhara'

always yours

लिखा बीच में क्या यह तुमको पढ़ना है

likha beech mein kya yeh tumko padhna hai

what I've written in the middle that you'll have to read

कागज़ पर मन की परिभाषा का अर्थ समझना है

kaagaz par man ki paribhasha ka arth samjhna hai

you'll have to understand the definition of my heart written on the paper

जो भी अर्थ निकालोगी तुम वह मुझको स्वीकार है

jo bhi arth nikaalogi tum woh mujhko swikaar hai

whatever meaning you'll decipher is welcomed by me

झुके नयन, मौन अधर या कोरा कागज़

jhuke nayan,maun adhar ya kora kagaz

bowed eyes,silent lips or blank paper

अर्थ सभी का प्यार है

arth sabhi ka pyar hai

everything's meaning is love

– Ashutosh Rana

what is even more heartwarming is that he(poet) courted his now wife using this poem

the hopeless romantic in me couldn't resist making a post about it when i saw it

At the very centre of the image above is something incredible - a single, positively-charged strontium atom, suspended in motion by electric fields.

Not only is this an incredibly rare sight, it’s also difficult to wrap your head around the fact that this tiny point of blue light is a building block of matter.

The image was captured by physicist David Nadlinger from the University of Oxford, and it’s been awarded the overall prize in the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council photo competition.

To give you a little perspective on the size of this set-up, the atom is being held in place by electric fields emanating from those two metal needles on either side of it.

The distance between them is about 2 millimetres (0.08 inch).

The atom is being illuminated by a blue-violet laser. The energy from the laser causes the atom to emit photons which Nadlinger could capture on camera using a long exposure.

The whole thing is housed inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber and dramatically cooled to keep the atom still. Nadlinger took this photo through the window of the vacuum chamber.

To learn more, click here.