How would someone fare if they were dropped into a randomly chosen period in history? Would they have any relevant knowledge to share, or ability to invent crucial technologies given the period’s constraints? Ryan North uses these hypothetical questions to explore the technological and implicit knowledge underpinning modern civilization, offering a practical guide of how […]
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Interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert’s sign work uses sculpture to bring time to the foreground, embodying its passage through carefully chosen quotes. These words, rendered in neon and steel, cycle rhythmically through subtle text changes designed to encourage a heightened awareness of time and place in the viewer. In the sculpture “This Present Moment,” she uses
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Urbanist, researcher and writer Johanna Hoffman joins us to talk about speculative futures — a set of design tools that can reorient urban development to help us dream and build more resilient, equitable cities. Navigating modern change depends on imagining futures we’ve never seen. Urban planning and design should be well positioned to spearhead that
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Jonathan Haidt sees that we have entered a social-psychological phase change that was initiated in 02009 when social media platforms introduced several fateful innovations that changed the course of our society and disintegrated our consensus on reality. In this conversation with Long Now co-founders Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly, Haidt presses on questions of technological
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Forms of peer review are centuries old, but its contemporary model only dates back to the 01970s. The ways we produce, share, and review science must shift with time — what will the future of peer review hold? Real peer review has never been tried – Works in Progress www.worksinprogress.co Outdated forms of peer review
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Does holiness have a scent? A long line of religious texts and traditions says yes — though there is no agreement as to what the divine smells like. The Centuries-Long Quest For The Scent Of God | NOEMA www.noemamag.com The precise odor of the divine has eluded humans for millennia, but that hasn’t stopped us
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Founder and Mayor Michael Tubbs shares his experience of implementing policies that point the way toward providing equitable economic opportunities for all.
Our ability to think about our long-term future is unique among our animal relatives. Our challenge is making use of the cognitive toolkit of long-term thinking to help ourselves and future generations. Let’s be good ancestors. From Roman Krznaric: https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/07/29/how-humans-grew-acorn-brains/
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We Are As Gods, a documentary about Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand, is out on digital platforms on September 6, 02022. WE ARE AS GODS | Official trailer | On Digital Sept 6 Watch video on Facebook.com
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