Liceo classico Parini - Milano

Due vecchi amici si rincontrano in un giorno d'estate nel paese in cui sono cresciuti, ripercorrendo i luoghi della loro giovinezza mentre lentamente scoprono le reciproche nostalgie e ambiguità. La spiaggia è un romanzo breve in cui Cesare Pavese racconta una delle sue, e dunque delle nostre, verità, cioè che il luogo più inabitabile è quello dove si è stati felici e non lo si è più. Ascolta l'audiolibro letto da Marco Foschi in podcast su RaiPlay Sound qui
https://www.raiplaysound.it/audiolibri/laspiaggia

On this day in 1925, physics laureate Werner Heisenberg submitted a paper that revolutionised quantum mechanics.

Heisenberg was only 23 years old when he submitted the paper "Quantum mechanical reinterpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations". For this theory and the applications of it which resulted especially in the discovery of allotropic forms of hydrogen, Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1932.

His new theory was based only on what can be observed, that is to say, on the radiation emitted by the atom. We cannot, he said, always assign to an electron a position in space at a given time, nor follow it in its orbit, so that we cannot assume that the planetary orbits postulated by Niels Bohr actually exist. Mechanical quantities, such as position or velocity should be represented, not by ordinary numbers, but by abstract mathematical structures called “matrices” and he formulated his new theory in terms of matrix equations.

Learn more about Heisenberg's work in his Nobel Prize lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1932/heisenberg/lecture/

🎨 William Turner, Tramonto scarlatto, 1829, acquarello e gouache su carta, Londra, Tate Britain

Il 20 luglio 1933 nasceva lo scrittore Cormac McCarthy.

Di carattere schivo e riservato, è stato un autore prolifico, caratterizzato da un grande eclettismo. Ha esordito nel 1965 con "Il guardiano del frutteto", un romanzo – come molti suoi altri – sovrastato da un'amara accettazione dell'ineluttabilità del male: l'essere umano non è suscettibile né di redenzione né di perdono.

Diversi sono i romanzi di McCarthy celebri, premiati e adattati per il cinema, come "La strada" o "Non è un paese per vecchi". Riuscite a indovinare da quale dei suoi libri è tratta questa citazione?

L'immobilismo non appartiene al Parini.

Leggere Foster Wallace non è mai tempo sprecato.

“I was born and raised in Amman, Jordan to a refugee family. We were ten kids plus our parents. We lived in a humble home. We didn’t have the usual conveniences of running water or electricity. In addition to that, we shared the space with our livestock that we lived off. So, I would say it was not an easy childhood. And my parents worked very hard to send us to these nice, strong schools.”

In our official interview, Omar Yaghi – chemistry laureate and son of Palestinian refugees – described his childhood. He was a quiet yet diligent student who became captivated by chemistry at an early age. Recognising his son's potential, his father gave him the entirety of their savings at 15 and pushed him to continue his studies in the United States. Yaghi told us, "I’m sure this is a story that repeats itself in many families where the parents are absolutely dedicated to their children’s education, because education is the gateway to better life and potentially happiness."

It's safe to say that his parent's dedication and Yaghi's personal work ethic paid off. He was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson "for the development of metal-organic frameworks."

Learn more about Yaghi's journey to the Nobel Prize by watching our interview: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/yaghi/interview/

Torna al Parini dopo un lungo restauro il globo di età napoleonica. Grazie ai maestri restauratori e ai loro allievi dell'Accademia di Brera per il lavoro svolto. Presto nuove notizie sull'evento.