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@guy_lesch It was a fascinating discussion, indeed. Just finished your book, one of the most well written and balanced on the topics of neuroscience and free will that I have read. Congratulations!

Tomorrow night at 8pm - come join me at the National Museum for Scotland. Should be a fascinating and dark discussion of the biology and nature of human sin #edscifest

Great discussion on radio about the Antikythera Mechanism, @JoMarchant . Coincidentally just back from the Highlands doing a talk on the mechanism.

@astro_librarian Was great, coincidentally just back from the Highlands presenting on the same topic.

This morning, In Our Time will be about the Antikythera Mechanism, featuring Liba Taub, Mike Edmunds and Jo March ant bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Great evening at #Hoy presenting the #AntikytheraMechanism. A big thanks for the hospitality. Always a pleasure to be part of the @OrkSciFest.

We have the Olympic Games in 2024 and a model of the Antikythera Mechanism knows it! (we would also have the Isthmian Games if they were still happening)

@R_Trotta I do a lot of astronomy outreach and it has given me several new insights and ideas. If I had to choose, I would say that the part on how the stars may have given the edge to Sapiens vs the Neanderthal, as it was something completely new to me.

@R_Trotta Just finished it in record time. Well worth it and well done to you!

First text from inside intact Herculaneum scrolls! And they’ll have more very soon… My piece for @Nature - most exciting story I’ve worked on in a long time nature.com/articles/d4158…

Very enjoyable outreach activities at Stromness primary school and the @StromnessMuseum. It has been great bringing the #AntikytheraMechanism to the @OrkSciFest!

@NewsOrkney @OrkSciFest Thanks for this, glad you enjoyed the talk!

@James4cet @OrkSciFest We were very sorry to hear that you were missing it, James. Hope you are better soon!

About to start a presentation on the #AntikytheraMechanism at Stronsay island junior high school as part of the great @OrkSciFest

Great write up from @NewsOrkney on our talk The Ancient Greek Computer by Vassilios Spathopoulos @MyScienceWalks @EventScotNews @VisitScotland

The @OrkSciFest is famous in Greece!🇬🇷 Thanks to Dr Vassilis Spathopoulos' @MyScienceWalks fascinating presentation about an ancient Greek computer, the Antikythera, to an almost full house @pickyorkney.

Article in the Greek newspaper @tovimagr about my upcoming visit to the @OrkSciFest and my presentation on the #Antikythera Mechanism: tinyurl.com/22mp74jv

The UK's first drone mail service begins in #orkney! bbc.co.uk/.../uk-scotlan… ... And this year, we have talk on AN ANCIENT GREEK COMPUTER , a WORKSHOP: #AI ON YOUR PC and #robotS AFTER DARK. Book your Tickets 2023 here oisf.org/oisf/tickets/ #drone #royalmail #STEM

@Rainmaker1973 Check out how you can use the Stellarium software to simulate the method: mysciencewalks.com/distance-to-th….

In 190 BCE, Hipparchus measured the distance from the Earth to the Moon during a solar eclipse that was a total eclipse at Syene and a partial eclipse at Alexandria. He found 396,103 km vs 384,400. This is the method he used [source: buff.ly/34nGaXJ]

Thank you @RoyalAstroSoc for providing me with the opportunity to present at the @OrkSciFest 2022: ras.ac.uk/education-and-…

@astrofalls @juzajaro The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus did it over 2,000 years ago: #ref1083282" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">britannica.com/science/parall…

@juzajaro Quick question, can the distance to the moon be measured from this?

While I was capturing the lunar eclipse from the Arizona, I was also capturing it remotely from Australia 8,000 miles away. This shift in perspectives shows the parallax of the moon and the stars

Solar eclipse from bedroom window!