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The discovery of water on the moon is almost certainly the biggest Long News story of the year; it will make it much easier to build moon colonies, and it provides cheap fuel for travel to the rest of the solar system.
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Global warming seems to be speeding up the growth of the longest living organisms we know of. Bristlecone pines can live for almost 5,000 years and the information stored in the growth of their rings ...
The Long Now Foundation We're gearing up at Long Now HQ for tomorrow night's Seminar - hope to see you there!
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Are we the first civilization to try and innovate our way out of climate change? How have past societies engineered sustainable solutions to a shifting world?
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The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe made its final flyby of the Earth on Friday in order to fling itself off towards its target: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Officially inaugurated in 02002, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is an attempt by Egypt and the city of Alexandria to recreate, in spirit if not content, the original Library of Alexandria. The Ptolemaic ...
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The Genome 10k Project is currently just getting started, but if 65 scientists get their way, the University of California Santa Cruz could eventually house an extensive database of vertebrate genetic ...
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Rick Prelinger, a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible, presents the fourth of his annual Lost Landscapes of San Francisco screenings. You'll see an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes, labor and leisure in a vanished San Francisco as... captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers.
How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future. Prelinger will preface the screening with a brief talk on how historical memory is shifting away from mass culture towards individual expression, and what consequences will arise from the emerging massive matrix of personal records.
Join us for a reception with no-host bar following the Seminar in the main Lobby of the Herbst Theater.
Advance Tickets Recommended
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Tickets are $10
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Are we the first civilization to try and innovate our way out of climate change? How have past societies engineered sustainable solutions to a shifting world? Sander van der Leeuw, Director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institu...te, has spent his career studying these questions.
At his Seminar van der Leeuw will be exploring this research into the past, as well as its application to our current global predicament.
Advance Tickets Recommended
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Tickets are $10
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There may be more than nine billion humans by 2050, which begs the question: how will they all get fed? Particularly when you consider that we’re having trouble feeding the six billion who are already here.
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The Lava Project Documentary was created by White Elephant DesignLab,
a group of designers who explore natural phenomena and experiment with
various materials and their external influences. Earlier this year, the
group created a piece at the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of
Hawaii that was inspired by our promotion of ...long-term thinking through
use of the five-digit date. Using a “02009″ stamp made of hardwood and
aluminum, they imprinted the congealing surface crust of Pāhoehoe lava
in order to equip the emerging lithosphere with its date of origin.
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What seems to be the first real optical archival digital tech is now shipping. The Millenniata product is a type of DVD storage that uses a mechanical scratching process, instead of a thermal process, ...
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The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is holding its 10th anniversary Quantum to Cosmos Festival this month. The 10 day extravaganza has the theme this year of “Ideas for the Future” ...
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Are we the first civilization to try and innovate our way out of climate change? How have past societies engineered sustainable solutions to a shifting world?
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John Goodman is an engineer that admires intuition, a reluctant artist who enjoys elegant approximations. His best known creation, the Annosphere, was recently showcased at the Cambridge Science Festival in Massachusetts, where he lives and works.
