Diogenes The Dog: "The Lantern Of Diogenes:
Diogenes was also famous for walking through the streets of Athens in broad daylight waving a lantern and announcing that he was looking for a "honest man".
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a man.""
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Oh the Places You'll Go: 38,000 Historical Maps to Explore at New Online Library - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic
Oh the Places You'll Go: 38,000 Historical Maps to Explore at New Online Library - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic: "Oh the Places You'll Go: 38,000 Historical Maps to Explore at New Online Library
The Digital Public Library of America announces the addition of a vast treasure trove of maps."
The Digital Public Library of America announces the addition of a vast treasure trove of maps."
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How Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map Tessellated The World
How Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map Tessellated The World:
A map showing the distribution of 259 "critical infrastructures" in energy, agriculture, banking and finance, drinking water and other systems, via Domus."
A map showing the distribution of 259 "critical infrastructures" in energy, agriculture, banking and finance, drinking water and other systems, via Domus."
THE FULLER MAP
THE FULLER MAP: "This document is a study of the comprehensive designer Buckminster Fuller, an outstanding character of the 20th century, and a kind of practical visionary.
Fuller's remarkable career as an inventor, architect, designer, cartographer, writer and theorist amounts to a design syllabus in itself, even if his own conclusions and solutions are not accepted and applied. Many people would argue that life might be vastly improved if his designs were better known and implemented.
This presentation of his ideas is not intended as a slavish devotional exercise, nor a piece of cynical criticism. Part of the plan here is to investigate the logic of synergetics. At this stage the account is verbal, not visual, but what is important in geometry is the logic rather than the pictures."
Fuller's remarkable career as an inventor, architect, designer, cartographer, writer and theorist amounts to a design syllabus in itself, even if his own conclusions and solutions are not accepted and applied. Many people would argue that life might be vastly improved if his designs were better known and implemented.
This presentation of his ideas is not intended as a slavish devotional exercise, nor a piece of cynical criticism. Part of the plan here is to investigate the logic of synergetics. At this stage the account is verbal, not visual, but what is important in geometry is the logic rather than the pictures."
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Three Sisters (agriculture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Three Sisters (agriculture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The three crops benefit from each other. The maize provides a structure for the beans to climb, eliminating the need for poles. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other plants utilize, and the squash spreads along the ground, blocking the sunlight, helping prevent establishment of weeds.
The three crops benefit from each other. The maize provides a structure for the beans to climb, eliminating the need for poles. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other plants utilize, and the squash spreads along the ground, blocking the sunlight, helping prevent establishment of weeds.
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Journey
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Did a Massive Extraterrestrial Body Impact Earth 12,000 Years Ago? (Weekend Feature)
Did a Massive Extraterrestrial Body Impact Earth 12,000 Years Ago? (Weekend Feature): "New research results are consistent with a controversial theory that an extraterrestrial body – such as a comet – impacted the Earth approximately 12,900 years ago, possibly contributing to the significant climatic and ecological changes that date to that time period. The paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) includes significant findings about the nature of so-called "microspherules" that were found at a number of prehistoric sites, based on research done at North Carolina State."
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Nate Silver’s ‘The Signal and the Noise’
Nate Silver’s ‘The Signal and the Noise’: "But what had inspired Kasparov to commit this mistake? His anxiety over Deep Blue’s forty-fourth move in the first game—the move in which the computer had moved its rook for no apparent purpose. Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must be a sign of superior intelligence. He had never considered that it was simply a bug."
Full-frame goes mainstream: your next camera's must-have feature | The Verge
Full-frame goes mainstream: your next camera's must-have feature | The Verge
Full-frame sensors are one of the key indicators of image quality. In simple terms, larger sensors mean better pictures, and full-frame is as big as it gets for a consumer-level device. Full-frame is so called because it matches the "full frame" of 35mm film, meaning you can see and capture the entire picture instead of dealing with crop factors. Full-frame sensors offer huge improvements in depth of field and low-light performance, and allow you to shoot wider angles.
On This Day: Jean-Francois Champollion Announces Decipherment of Rosetta Stone
On This Day: Jean-Francois Champollion Announces Decipherment of Rosetta Stone: "Filled with excitement, Champollion went to his brother’s house and ran into his office shouting, “Je tiens l’affaire!,” meaning “I’ve got it!” Champollion then fainted and spent the next five days in bed recovering. "
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