In 1917 the ubiquitous urinal was raised on a pedestal and given the status of a work of art.

The porcelain urinal presented by Duchamp is regarded by art historians and thier Avante garde ilk as a defining and defying landmark that changed 20th century art. The work also is sexually suggestive, in placing the urinal horizontal it appears more passive, feminine while remaining a receptacle designed for the functioning of the make penis.

Duchamp took a standard urinal and turned it on its side, dated and signed it as R , Mutt 1917 and called it the “fountain”.

The connection between quantum mechanics and China’s terracotta army is a lost pigment called Han Purple. Han Purple was used more than 2800 years ago to colour the x’ian terracotta army of the Qin dynasty. Han Purple or barium copper silicate if exposed to very high magnetic fields and very low temperatures ( under 1…

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back…

Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and crystallographer ,is best known for her work on the x-ray diffraction images of DNA particularly photo 51 ( photograph of B-DNA ) which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix for which James Watson , Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel prize. The…