The Laugh of the Medusa — gnostek

01Cixous published 'The Laugh of the Medusa' in Signs in 1976; it introduced 'écriture féminine' — writing that flows from the female body — to Anglophone feminism.
02She argued that the Western philosophical tradition had mapped 'activity/passivity, sun/moon, man/woman' as a death sentence built into language itself.
03The essay ends with a direct imperative: 'Write yourself. Your body must be heard.' — an instruction, not an analysis.

A column of Bulgarian Comitadjis captured during WWI in Thessaloniki .

A block of silica aerogel in a hand.

Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft

01The pigeons roosting inside the horn antenna were trapped and relocated twice before the engineers accepted the hiss was cosmic.
02Penzias and Wilson won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics — accidentally, while testing satellite communication equipment.
03Princeton cosmologist Robert Dicke had been building a detector specifically to find this radiation; Penzias called him first, and Dicke told his team: 'We've been scooped.'

Fritz Haber , 1918