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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin (1706) - American #Polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Birth Anniversary of Muhammad Ali (1942) - regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest #Boxers of all time.

British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the #SouthPole, one month after Roald Amundsen (1912)

Happy Jim Carrey (1962).

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In old cowboy #books I read as a kid there were people who had lots of #skills--saddling horses, caring for livestock, fixing fences, maintaining tools, cooking on the trail, harnessing oxen, repairing wagons and barrels, etc. They were always in demand and someone always needed what they were doing.

I think people who understand file systems, network protocols, a couple of coding languages, graphics, etc. are kind of like that, now.

EDIT: As @Shanmonster has reminded me, the physical cowboy skills don't stop being awesome just because lots of our world shifted to an information/service model. If you can code AND fix a fence... damn. You're killing it.

Another without a known birthday: my #linocut of ancient Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which doesn’t make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction, 2000 years ago! Here with a reconstruction of his seismoscope, schematic of how it might have worked & horizontal earthquake surface waves (Rayleigh waves🧵

Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism. 🧵
#printmaking #womeninstemm #linocut #sciart #MastoArt

I’m trying to think about how to structure my projects in my notes system (currently using Obsidian) - right now I’ve just got them as files in the root folder along with everything else, but I feel like I’ll start to lose projects and then dive too deep into Dataview queries to find what I need.

Anyone got something that works for them well they’d love to share? I’d also love to see what your project notes look like in general (if you take them)!

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Imhotep, the OG polymath! 👨‍🔬 This ancient Egyptian vizier was an architect, physician, poet & more. He designed Djoser's iconic Step Pyramid 🏜️🔺 & pioneered rational medicine 💊 way before Hippocrates. A true Renaissance man of the ancient world! 🙌

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World History EncyclopediaImhotepImhotep (Greek name, Imouthes, c. 2667-2600 BCE) was an Egyptian polymath (a person expert in many areas of learning) best known as the architect of King Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara. His name means...