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Artesanal Easter chocolate from Girona chocolatier family business by the covered market. View in LinkedIn

Curiously, there is an ancient tradition of hooded figures in Girona, here evident at Easter, quite unrelated to the very sinister misappropriation by modern traditions. View in LinkedIn

“Living and partly living." "Sometimes the corn has failed us," "Sometimes the harvest is good," "One year is a year of rain," "Another a year of dryness," "One year the apples are abundant." "Another year the plums are lacking." "Yet we have gone on living." "Living and partly living.”" "(Murder in the Cathedral (1935) by T. S. Eliot). https://lnkd.in/eMd2ZZ7f View in LinkedIn

COSMIC SYMMETRY. “The concept of global symmetry has proved remarkably fruitful in understanding the fundamental properties of the elementary particles. Particles and their anti-particles are a particular favorite, leading to such speculation as the idea that half of the stars in the universe are composed of anti-matter.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

“The long conical hats worn by the members of some brotherhoods during Spain’s Easter celebrations originate in the hats worn by people found guilty of religious crimes in the Spanish Inquisition. Those criminals would walk the streets in the hats while they were mocked and insulted by the crowds. By donning the hats in Spain’s Easter celebrations, penitents are also re-enacting Christ’s road to Calvary.” https://lnkd.in/eRzwYnP4 View in LinkedIn

WRENCHING CHANGES. “Once, the craggy limestone peaks that skim the sky of Everest were on the ocean floor. Scientists believe it all began to change about 200 million years ago – at around the time the Jurassic dinosaurs were beginning to emerge – when the supercontinent of Pangea cracked into pieces.” https://lnkd.in/e6xDEQ2H View in LinkedIn

UNKNOWN LIMITS. “What then is the upper limit of magnetic monopoles in the universe? There is no theoretical basis for expecting either their presence or absence. We have only the philosophical possibility, suggested by the symmetry between electric and magnetic fields in Maxwell’s equations, that if there are electric charges, then why not magnetic charges?” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

NO MAGNETIC NEUTRALITY. “Consider the implications of the universal occurrence of large-scale magnetic fields. They could not exist if magnetic monopoles were abundant. They would be neutralized in exactly the same way that electric fields are neutralized. In that case there would be no induced electric fields either.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

ELECTRON MIASMA. “Apart from obscure nooks, space is universally populated by free electrons...(but) any large-scale electrostatic field is quickly and effectively neutralized by the universal free electrons.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn

ELECTRON SEA. “But it appears that everywhere in the universe there are enough x-rays, ultraviolet radiation, cosmic rays and thermal excitation to guarantee that at least a few electrons everywhere will be dislodged from the local atoms at any given time. Certainly this is the rule in the sun...in interstellar space the electron density appears to be 10(-3) or more.” https://lnkd.in/eYiqnNnc View in LinkedIn