By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 25 Aug 22
Founder and Mayor Michael Tubbs shares his experience of implementing policies that point the way toward providing equitable economic opportunities for all.
Founder and Mayor Michael Tubbs shares his experience of implementing policies that point the way toward providing equitable economic opportunities for all.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Aug 22
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/
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/
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Aug 22
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 6Watch video on Facebook.com
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 6Watch video on Facebook.com
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Aug 22
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a model that reconstructs the visual proteins of some of the earliest cetaceans, offering a vision through the eyes of ancient whales. https://hakaimagazine.com/news/what-did-the-ancient-whale-see/
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a model that reconstructs the visual proteins of some of the earliest cetaceans, offering a vision through the eyes of ancient whales. https://hakaimagazine.com/news/what-did-the-ancient-whale-see/
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Aug 22
Founder and Mayor Michael Tubbs outlines his optimistic outlook on our shared future.
Founder and Mayor Michael Tubbs outlines his optimistic outlook on our shared future.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Aug 22
Deep below an island in Finland, nuclear waste experts are pondering how to communicate with humans stretching thousands of generations forward. Can we use cryptic icons from the ancient past to inform decisions for the far future? Deep Time Undergroundlongnow.orgFinland’s nuclear waste experts have, for decades, quietly envisioned distant future ecosystems. Exploring their thinking anthropologically can expand our awareness of time.
Deep below an island in Finland, nuclear waste experts are pondering how to communicate with humans stretching thousands of generations forward. Can we use cryptic icons from the ancient past to inform decisions for the far future? Deep Time Undergroundlongnow.orgFinland’s nuclear waste experts have, for decades, quietly envisioned distant future ecosystems. Exploring their thinking anthropologically can expand our awareness of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Aug 22
In 01999, the poet Gary Snyder sent @stewartbrand an epigram: This present moment That lives on to become Long ago. This was Brand’s response:
In 01999, the poet Gary Snyder sent @stewartbrand an epigram: This present moment That lives on to become Long ago. This was Brand’s response:
From British Columbia to Florida, sea gardens stewarded by the Indigenous peoples of North America …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 19 Aug 22
From British Columbia to Florida, sea gardens stewarded by the Indigenous peoples of North America provided food for millennia. Can they once again help sustain communities?How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millenniawww.smithsonianmag.comCommunities created bountiful food without putting populations at risk of collapse
From British Columbia to Florida, sea gardens stewarded by the Indigenous peoples of North America provided food for millennia. Can they once again help sustain communities?How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millenniawww.smithsonianmag.comCommunities created bountiful food without putting populations at risk of collapse
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 18 Aug 22
For centuries, Northern Europeans played a strategy board game called hnefatafl, a pastime of the Viking elite that was eventually made obsolete by the spread of chess to the region. https://www.inverse.com/culture/viking-board-games-hnefatafl
For centuries, Northern Europeans played a strategy board game called hnefatafl, a pastime of the Viking elite that was eventually made obsolete by the spread of chess to the region. https://www.inverse.com/culture/viking-board-games-hnefatafl
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 17 Aug 22
A new study reveals that airborne signs of plant photosynthesis can be used as an “early warning system” weeks or even months before droughts strike. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2202767119
A new study reveals that airborne signs of plant photosynthesis can be used as an “early warning system” weeks or even months before droughts strike. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2202767119