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  Ok this is kind of incredible: Brick Technology built a solar-powered Lego clock that will keep time for a billion years.

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  The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind…

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  Dr. Keith is a professor of applied physics and of public policy at Harvard, where he led the development of the university’s solar engineering research program.

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  Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

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  “Guess what the best planet is in this solar system?” asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a recent media event on his Blue Origin space program. “It’s easy to know the…

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  Solar panels might be the energy source of the future, but they also create a problem without an easy solution: what do we do with millions of panels when they stop…

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• Bookmark Solar Geo-Engineering Can't Save the World’s Crops - The Atlantic

  Over the past few years, I’ve heard dozens of scientists talk about solar geo-engineering, the once-outlandish idea that humanity should counteract climate change by releasing special gases into the stratosphere to…

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  We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

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  To colonize Mars, researchers are developing a new kind of concrete that doesn't require water and is more than twice as strong. Concrete has been critical to the colonization of our…

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  McKay's research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. McKay is currently involved in planning future Mars missions and has authored a number of studies…

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• Bookmark The Anthropocene Myth | Jacobin

  Last year was the hottest year ever recorded. And yet, the latest figures show that in 2013 the source that provided the most new energy to the world economy wasn’t solar,…

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  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

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  You're looking at alpinist Gaston Rébuffat standing proud on the Aiguille de Roc, a striking needle rock in the Alps, near Chamonix, France. It's an outstanding image—one that aliens from another…

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  The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an 8-track and 68K of memory | 89.3 KPCC

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  With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant,…

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  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

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  elsewhere in the solar system life of a very different kind was seeking, in its own strange manner, ends incomprehensible to mankind

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• Tumblr (Quote) Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  “All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.” - Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

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• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

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  The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

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  Just finished watching Solaris (1972, Tarkovsky). Radically different deus ex machina to the novel (Lem). Closure as product of affect?

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  You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

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  The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53, had…

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• Bookmark Making A Solar-Powered Billion-Year Lego Clock

  Ok this is kind of incredible: Brick Technology built a solar-powered Lego clock that will keep time for a billion years.

  July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2022, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Mining the Planet to Death: The Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies -…

  The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind…

  November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | Can Geoegineering Fix Climate Change? - The New York Times

  Dr. Keith is a professor of applied physics and of public policy at Harvard, where he led the development of the university’s solar engineering research program.

  October 4 2021, 7:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - Architecture - e-flux

  We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

  February 4 2021, 12:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria

  Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

  August 20 2020, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Bezos Reveals His Ugly Vision For The World He’s Trying To Rule –…

  “Guess what the best planet is in this solar system?” asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a recent media event on his Blue Origin space program. “It’s easy to know the…

  May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark More solar panels mean more waste and there’s no easy solution -…

  Solar panels might be the energy source of the future, but they also create a problem without an easy solution: what do we do with millions of panels when they stop…

  October 31 2018, 5:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Solar Geo-Engineering Can't Save the World’s Crops - The Atlantic

  Over the past few years, I’ve heard dozens of scientists talk about solar geo-engineering, the once-outlandish idea that humanity should counteract climate change by releasing special gases into the stratosphere to…

  August 9 2018, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux

  We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

  April 10 2018, 12:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Martian Concrete Might Be The Best Building Material In The Solar…

  To colonize Mars, researchers are developing a new kind of concrete that doesn't require water and is more than twice as strong. Concrete has been critical to the colonization of our…

  January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why don't we just terraform Earth? — Hopes&Fears; — flow "Science"

  McKay's research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. McKay is currently involved in planning future Mars missions and has authored a number of studies…

  June 11 2015, 2:40am | Comments

• Bookmark The Anthropocene Myth | Jacobin

  Last year was the hottest year ever recorded. And yet, the latest figures show that in 2013 the source that provided the most new energy to the world economy wasn’t solar,…

  April 4 2015, 1:55am | Comments

• Instagram [video] #AdamCurtis #BitterLake #Solaris #Additivism

  February 14 2015, 7:52am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 1 2014, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 30 2014, 12:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark All the Voyager Golden Record Images

  You're looking at alpinist Gaston Rébuffat standing proud on the Aiguille de Roc, a striking needle rock in the Alps, near Chamonix, France. It's an outstanding image—one that aliens from another…

  March 13 2014, 9:57am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an 8-track and 68K of memory | 89.3 KPCC

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an…

  With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant,…

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

• Twitter

  elsewhere in the solar system life of a very different kind was seeking, in its own strange manner, ends incomprehensible to mankind

  February 26 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  “All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.” - Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  July 4 2011, 11:02am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published

  The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

  June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Just finished watching Solaris (1972, Tarkovsky). Radically different deus ex machina to the novel (Lem). Closure as product of affect?

  April 29 2011, 4:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Kubrick on 2001

  You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary…

  November 19 2010, 2:29am | Comments

• Bibliography Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

  August 16 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Flickr L'albufera de Valencia.

  August 6 2010, 8:06am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K Dick journals to be published next year

  The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53, had…

  May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments

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