Time crystals: the search for a new phase of matter
aken from the April 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Pedram Roushan, from Google’s Quantum...
The Sexual Politics of Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4CJ7h3mX4Q Video by The Nerdwriter (Evan Puschak) Reading "Leda and The Swan," the sonnet by William Butler Yeats, is an experience—it's a vivid and violent retelling of a Greek myth...
Sevens Wonders of the Ancient World
[caption id="attachment_79978" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Nick Brundle Photography/Getty Images[/caption] The amazing works of art and architecture known as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World serve as a testament to the...
Ouroboros (or Uroboros)
Ouroboros (or Uroboros) Ancient Greek alchemical symbol of a serpent eating his tail. The mystical work The Chrysopoeia of Kleopatra has a drawing of the Serpent Ouroboros eating his tail,...
The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything
https://youtu.be/f1x9lgX8GaE On Oct. 7, 2015, Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok opened the 2015/16 season of the PI Public Lecture Series with a talk about the remarkable simplicity that underlies nature....