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September 22, 2010
Richard Rhodes, "Twilight of the Bombs"
The evening began with a short version of Isao Ishimoto's animation of all the world's atomic explosions in the period 1945 to 1998. The total is shocking to most people—2,053. Rhodes commented that seeing the bomb tests on a world map over time shows how much they were a strange form of communication between nations. He also noted how the number of tests dropped from decades of intensity to near zero after 1993. In this century only North Korea has tested...
September 13, 2010
Woman power
The Long News: stories that might still matter fifty, or a hundred, or ten thousand years from now.
Burr Heneman suggests that the increasing empowerment of women around the world will have impact for generations to come.
Just a few weeks ago the U.S. marked the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote; yet few would argue that the genders have achieved equality. Still, there are signs of economic and political progress.
From The Atlantic Monthly: "According to ...
September 10, 2010
Sound Tower Event with Misha Glouberman
Long Now has been invited by experimental artist Misha Glouberman to be a partner in a commissioned performance he's created for Ann Hamilton's Sound Tower – an 80-foot tall site-specific sculpture located on the Oliver Ranch in Geyserville. This participatory event takes place on Saturday September 25, 02010 in Geyserville California.
Terrible Noises For Beautiful People is a performance where all the sounds are made by the audience, using their voices, in a series of structured...
September 7, 2010
August 31, 2010
Longplayer San Francisco Ticket Info
Long Conversation 3:00pm to 9:00pm at the Contemporary Jewish MuseumLong Now Members can reserve 1 seat, join today! • General Tickets $28About this Event:
Jem Finer's Longplayer is a 1,000 year long composition that's been playing in one form or another since the beginning of the millennium....
August 30, 2010
Long Quotes
Quotes related to long-term thinking. A new series. Have a favorite quote? Share it with us in comments.
"I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don't seem to want to do that as much as we used too."
– Dean Kamen
August 24, 2010
Two Rocks Converse
Here's a great comic strip by Tom Gauld:
See also: Das Rad.
(Sent in by Mark Watkins, via BoingBoing)
August 19, 2010
Richard Rhodes Ticket Info
Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun, and Arsenals of Folly completes his tetralogy on nuclear weapons with his new book, The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the...
August 17, 2010
Long Quotes
Quotes related to long-term thinking. A new series. Have a favorite quote? Share it with us in comments.
"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope."
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
August 11, 2010
Alexander Rose discussing "Now & When"
Now and When: Installation detail for Proof by Margaret Tedesco & Matt Borruso
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is hosting a series of conversations about time in conjunction with their current show Now and When. On Wednesday August 18th, Alexander Rose will join Jeannene Przyblyski of the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets in a discussion of "linear and not so linear" approaches to time.
There are 30 seats available for this talk and they must be reserved by calling or emailing t...
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