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9 OCT 2026

Day 282

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso · Interview with William Fifield
A wide horizontal oil painting of a night-time circus sideshow, organised in a markedly symmetrical, geometric arrangement of figures across the canvas.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

The Circus Parade

Georges Seurat · 1887–88 · Oil on canvas

An 1887–88 oil by Georges Seurat of a Paris circus sideshow at night — cool, geometric, and among the least admired of his works when first shown.

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A pair of modern eyeglasses with clear lenses in a thin metal frame, resting on a flat surface, with temple arms extended.

II · THE DISCOVERY · HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Glasses

1270 · Vision correction · Italy

Someone in Italy in the 1270s worked out how to hold a lens steady in front of each eye. The arms that hook over the ears came four centuries later.

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A large bronze sphere with geometric facets and openings, visibly damaged with dents and torn sections, standing on a pedestal in an urban park.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Sphere

Fritz Koenig · 1971 · Bronze

Fritz Koenig made a fountain sculpture for a plaza. Twenty-nine years later the plaza was gone, the sculpture was crushed, and what had been decoration became something else entirely.

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A left-handed pitcher in mid-delivery, his left leg raised high, his body coiled, wearing a white uniform with 'Dodgers' across the chest in script, a baseball cap with the letter D, and the number 32 visible on his back.

IV · THE GAME · MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Sandy Koufax

Pitcher · 24 June 1955 · Brooklyn Dodgers · Los Angeles Dodgers

He walked twenty-eight batters in his first forty-one innings and struck out thirty. Six seasons later he struck out three hundred and six in a single year.

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