By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Aug 22
Japan’s history can be told as a story of the “never-ending human dance with water,” its landscape deeply-shaped by the natural and infrastructural paths of water. https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-history-help-the-never-ending-human-dance-with-water
Japan’s history can be told as a story of the “never-ending human dance with water,” its landscape deeply-shaped by the natural and infrastructural paths of water. https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-history-help-the-never-ending-human-dance-with-water
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 10 Aug 22
Time isn’t just a number you read off of a clock. The work of artist Alicia Eggert expands our understanding of time, using neon and balloons to toy with our lines between the now and eternity. https://longnow.org/ideas/02021/05/18/how-long-is-now/
Time isn’t just a number you read off of a clock. The work of artist Alicia Eggert expands our understanding of time, using neon and balloons to toy with our lines between the now and eternity. https://longnow.org/ideas/02021/05/18/how-long-is-now/
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 8 Aug 22
End-of-the-world novels are memento mori for civilization — reminders of the risks facing our society in ways that are both sobering and life-affirming.End-of-the-World Novels Are ‘Memento Mori’ for Civilizationlongnow.orgWhy envisioning the collapse of civilization can be unexpectedly life-affirming.
End-of-the-world novels are memento mori for civilization — reminders of the risks facing our society in ways that are both sobering and life-affirming.End-of-the-World Novels Are ‘Memento Mori’ for Civilizationlongnow.orgWhy envisioning the collapse of civilization can be unexpectedly life-affirming.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 8 Aug 22
Former NASA research scientist Creon Levit gives an overview on ways to manage orbital debris: – Proactive Design: restricting satellite lifespan – Collision Avoidance: orbital traffic management – Active Debris Removal: claws, nets, and other ways to grab debris out of orbitManaging Orbital Space Debris | Creon LevitWatch video on Facebook.com
Former NASA research scientist Creon Levit gives an overview on ways to manage orbital debris: – Proactive Design: restricting satellite lifespan – Collision Avoidance: orbital traffic management – Active Debris Removal: claws, nets, and other ways to grab debris out of orbitManaging Orbital Space Debris | Creon LevitWatch video on Facebook.com
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Aug 22
Brian Eno’s works in generative art & ambient music “encourage the listener to live and to be present in the moment, the ‘now,’ but to feel that moment expanding forward and backward through time, literally to experience the ‘Long Now.'”Music, Time and Long-Term Thinking: Brian Eno Expands the Vocabulary of Human Feelinglongnow.orgLike much of Brian Eno’s work, the chimes in the 10,000-Year Clock draw together far-flung traditions, high and low tech, and science and art to create a meditative experience, unique in a given moment, but expansive in scale and scope.
Brian Eno’s works in generative art & ambient music “encourage the listener to live and to be present in the moment, the ‘now,’ but to feel that moment expanding forward and backward through time, literally to experience the ‘Long Now.'”Music, Time and Long-Term Thinking: Brian Eno Expands the Vocabulary of Human Feelinglongnow.orgLike much of Brian Eno’s work, the chimes in
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Aug 22
The health risks that alcohol poses are dangerous, yet neither evolution nor prohibition have succeeded in getting rid of it in the ten thousand years since our species invented it. Why? From Edward Slingerland (@Slingerland20)’s Long Now Talk: https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/05/10/drinking-10000-years-intoxication-and-civilization/Evolution’s Ambivalence to Alcohol | Edward SlingerlandWatch video on Facebook.com
The health risks that alcohol poses are dangerous, yet neither evolution nor prohibition have succeeded in getting rid of it in the ten thousand years since our species invented it. Why? From Edward Slingerland (@Slingerland20)’s Long Now Talk: https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/05/10/drinking-10000-years-intoxication-and-civilization/Evolution’s Ambivalence to Alcohol | Edward SlingerlandWatch video on Facebook.com
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Aug 22
Alcohol has potent neurological effects, depressing the brain’s pre-frontal cortex and unleashing a wave of pro-social chemicals that have helped humans build social connections for millennia. From Edward Slingerland’s Long Now Talk: https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/05/10/drinking-10000-years-intoxication-and-civilization/Evolution’s Ambivalence to Alcohol | Edward SlingerlandWatch video on Facebook.com
Alcohol has potent neurological effects, depressing the brain’s pre-frontal cortex and unleashing a wave of pro-social chemicals that have helped humans build social connections for millennia. From Edward Slingerland’s Long Now Talk: https://longnow.org/ideas/02022/05/10/drinking-10000-years-intoxication-and-civilization/Evolution’s Ambivalence to Alcohol | Edward SlingerlandWatch video on Facebook.com
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Aug 22
NYC! 🗽Join us for a special screening of WE ARE AS GODS, the documentary about Stewart Brand. It’s happening Aug 11th at Quad Cinema in the Village, with director David Alvarado in person for Q&A. Get tickets now! https://quadcinema.com/film/we-are-as-gods/ cc Greenwich Entertainment The Long Now Foundation
NYC! 🗽Join us for a special screening of WE ARE AS GODS, the documentary about Stewart Brand. It’s happening Aug 11th at Quad Cinema in the Village, with director David Alvarado in person for Q&A. Get tickets now! https://quadcinema.com/film/we-are-as-gods/ cc Greenwich Entertainment The Long Now Foundation
In Noema Magazine, Nathan Gardels argues that “Technology can expand the short-term horizon of our …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Aug 22
In Noema Magazine, Nathan Gardels argues that “Technology can expand the short-term horizon of our Paleolithic survival instinct.” https://www.noemamag.com/planetary-homeostasis/
In Noema Magazine, Nathan Gardels argues that “Technology can expand the short-term horizon of our Paleolithic survival instinct.” https://www.noemamag.com/planetary-homeostasis/