<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> fascinating, thanks for posting this! (Hi from Tartu, which also has a pretty old university, though a spanking new CS Institute building)</p>

<p>12/ Harvey&#39;s work is some of the most exciting and original in science. Think a bit: how would you discover *blood circulation* without vivisection?!?</p><p>If you are at all intrigued, read Andrew Gregory&#39;s brilliant /Harvey&#39;s Heart/.</p><p><a href="https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Personal/Books/Gregory-Harveys-Heart/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cs.brown.edu/~sk/Personal/Book</span><span class="invisible">s/Gregory-Harveys-Heart/</span></a></p>

<p>5/ The Kitchen was next door to the Anatomical Theater, from where students could view the dissection in progress. Day 1: flesh, veins, etc. Then the body was taken to the kitchen to have all the decomposing bits boiled away, so Day 2 onward was the skeleton. ↵</p>

<p>4/ See, Padova was a leader in dissecting dead bodies (natural deaths, criminals) instead of just reasoning about them from &quot;first principles&quot;. This required not only side-stepping the church but also dealing with the messy realities of decomposition in an era without fridges. ↵</p>

<p>1/ Modern medicine ows an immense debt to the University of Padova. Multiple of my scientific heroes studied here, coming (as they do) from around the world to a seat of learning. We all LIVE their legacy, but you can also SEE it here! A short thread w/ pix: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Italy25" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Italy25</span></a> ↵</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> assumptions can be hazardous. I have in fact seen a (foreign) birth certificate with &quot;3rd&quot; as a suffix, and on a case by case basis the number 7 or the symbol ? have been allowed (or will soon be) on birth certificates of indigenous people in recent years in Canada.</p><p>A range of symbols as well as numbers are technically supported in most registry systems in Canada although anything other than .,-&#39; are not generally permitted in names without a HUGE amount of hassle.</p>

<p>Two months in Servo…</p><p>🐟💭 new about:memory page<br />🪆🎞️ ‘&amp;’ selector and ‘image-set()’<br />📝⌨️ &lt;select&gt; and better &lt;input&gt;<br />🔎🐜 per-webview HiDPI support<br />✨🕸️ --enable-experimental-web-platform-features</p><p><a href="https://servo.org/blog/2025/05/09/this-month-in-servo/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">servo.org/blog/2025/05/09/this</span><span class="invisible">-month-in-servo/</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Obligatory <a href="https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/false</span><span class="invisible">hoods-programmers-believe-about-names/</span></a></p>

<p>i&#39;m learning that the world is even more interesting than i thought</p>