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Sculpture by Yang Maoyuan

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In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Harpa was designed by the Icelandic-Danish artist Ólafur Elíasson in collaberation with Henning Larson architects, and was designed to symbolise Icelandic nature. read more

Text and photos by Simon Turner

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Ultracrepidarianism

Ultracrepidarianism is the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge.

The term ultracrepidarian was first publicly recorded in 1819 by the essayist William Hazlitt in an open Letter to William Gifford, the editor of the Quarterly Review:[1] “You have been well called an Ultra-Crepidarian critic.”[2] It was used again four years later in 1823, in the satire by Hazlitt’s friend Leigh Hunt, Ultra-Crepidarius: a Satire on William Gifford.

The term draws from a famous comment purportedly made by Apelles, a famous Greek artist, to a shoemaker who presumed to criticise his painting.[3] The Latin phrase “Sutor, ne ultra crepidam”, as set down by Pliny and later altered by other Latin writers to “Ne ultra crepidam judicaret”, can be taken to mean that a shoemaker ought not to judge beyond his own soles. That is to say, critics should only comment on things they know something about.[4] The saying remains popular in several languages, as in the English, “A cobbler should stick to his last”, the Dutch, “Schoenmaker, blijf bij je leest”, and the German, “Schuster, bleib bei deinem/deinen Leisten” (the last two in English, “shoemaker, stick to your last”).

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The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble

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Watch a Massive Sunspot Speed Across the Sun | Science | WIRED

Watch as an enormous and extremely energetic group of sunspots complete their trek across the face of the sun. Known as Active Region 1967 (AR1967), the sunspot complex is roughly 180,000 kilometers across, making it larger than the planet Jupiter. Another smaller group of sunspots can be seen rotating above it.