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System of the World - Astronomy and Cosmology in Early Modern Europe

May 25th, 2024

A Treatise of the System of the World, by Sir Isaac Newton. / Public DomainFor decades, historians have grappled with the origins of modern science in early modern Europe.By Dr. Oded Rabinovitch, Senior Lecturer in History, Tel Aviv UniversityAbstractHistorians have long debated the origins of modern science in early modern Europe. Recently, however, scholars pointed to our need to understand how the ‘new philosophy’ became a sustained movement, which did not dissipate over the course of a fe...

More Happy Accidents - Accidentally Preserved - Vol 5

May 21st, 2024

By Jeremy Carr. Ben Model and his Undercrank Productions continue to deliver eclectic fare from the annals of film history, distributing movies that shed light on their respective era, their audiences, and their creators."Given the nature of what is discovered, handled, and ultimately distributed as part of the Accidentally Preserved series, a fair amount of variety is to be expected. Accrued from private collections of rare 16mm prints—"Show-at-Home" versions of a studio’s 35mm offerings—div...

Lorelei And The Laser Eyes - a Puzzle Game

May 16th, 2024

Puzzles are a kind of analog telepathy. The puzzle designer conceives of an idea, and then attempts, through the expression of their work—a maze, a cipher, an encoded message or cleverly hidden clue—to export that idea to someone else’s head, in as clean a fashion as possible. It’s the same process that happens in nearly any artistic endeavor, really, except made more direct and pure: Puzzles, unlike stories, have solutions, essentially demanding that you follow the designer’s intent all the ...

ROBOT DREAMS: Pablo Berger Talks Nostalgia in Animated Love Letter to New York

December 29th, 2023

Spanish director Pablo Berger, known for his black-and-white silent film Blancanieves and Abracadabra, has ventured into a new realm with his latest project, animated bromance with melancholic pang Robot Dreams. The silent film, nominated for best European animation film, explores themes of friendship, loss, and nostalgia through the story of a dog and its robot companion. We meet in the center of Berlin; Berger arriving is animated and full of energy, willing to discuss any subject m...

Telecom history

November 28th, 2023

Introduction This is a book about cops, and wild teenage whiz-kids, and lawyers, and hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and high-tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security experts, and Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves. This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines. A science fiction writer coined the useful term "cyberspace" in 1982. ...

Bell Labs and BSD

November 23rd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 BSD (thing) See all of BSD, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by nyte Tue May 14 2002 at 5:12:35 Unix was born in the womb of Bell Labs, then a division of AT&T, in 1969. Since then it has had a long and convoluted history resulting in a multitude of flavors and versions. One of the most dominant of Unix's progeny is FreeBSD, as well as its cousins NetBSD and OpenBSD. Prologue In 1969, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others a...

Reviewing AI’s starring role in cinema - ITWeb

October 27th, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has always sparked storytellers' imaginations, bringing them into new, imaginative worlds. Movies, as a strong storytelling medium, provide us a peek into the future possibilities of AI and the impacts it might have on existence.Earlier films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Terminator" depicted AI and robots as entities that develop self-awareness and, consequently, a desire to overthrow or harm their human creators.HAL 9000, the intelligent computer in "...

Hal Foster - We are our apps

October 4th, 2023

Art history was shaken in the 1970s and 1980s, and the epicentre was 19th-century art. Emboldened by the resurgent Marxism and feminism of the 1960s, engaged scholars including T.J. Clark, Thomas Crow, Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock asked difficult questions about class, audience, gender and sexuality, questions that were soon rumbling through other fields as well.Yet disruptive though these inquiries were, they mostly continued to insist on the centrality of the French avant-garde. Even...

Russian Woodpecker

September 22nd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Russian Woodpecker (thing) See all of Russian Woodpecker, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by The Custodian Mon Apr 19 2004 at 21:37:21 The Russian Woodpecker Not an avian at all, the Russian Woodpecker was the vast, faceless and distant enemy of most of the users of shortwave radio in the Western World for eight or nine years, beginning in 1976. Folks were going about their electronic business in North America one day (Jul...

Moral Threat of Profound Loneliness

February 3rd, 2023

The Moral Threat of Profound Loneliness (Presidential Address) Paul Carron Baylor University Forthcoming in the Southwest Philosophy Review 39:1 I. Introduction Ours is a wonderful but strange new world. We live in a truly global community, where we can instantly connect with anyone, anywhere on the planet. We are constantly connected to others, yet our students suffer from anxiety, depression, and related mental health problems at unprecedented and alarming rates (Twenge et al., 2019). W...

Interacting with Print

January 3rd, 2023

Book Title: Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print SaturationAbout this ebook A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Printdelivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical monograph—rather, it is a "multigraph," the collective work of twenty-two scholars who together have assembled an alphabetically arranged tour of ...

Renaissance science – XLVI

December 3rd, 2022

One area that is not usually counted among the sciences is cryptography, lying as it does, in this day and age, between, logic, mathematics, and informatics. In earlier times it is perhaps best viewed as a part of logic. Perhaps surprisingly, cryptography underwent a major development during the Renaissance provoked by an earlier development in the hands of Islamicate scholars.Cryptography means literally hidden writing, coming from the Greek kryptos meaning hidden and graphiameaning write, e...

How Traveling Booksellers Spread Literature Throughout Ancient Greece

October 18th, 2022

How many books were there in the golden age of ancient Greece? What percentage of the population could read them? We have only shreds of information preserved by chance, blades of grass that float along on the breeze but don’t allow us to calculate the size of the meadow from which they came. And most of them refer to an exceptional place, the city of Athens. The rest remains in shadow.Seeking traces of this invisible literacy, we turn to images of readers represented in ceramic paintings. Fr...

Metalucid Dreaming

September 16th, 2022

Dream Log: March 17, 2001 (idea) See all of Dream Log: March 17, 2001, there are 2 more in this node. I had a dream about lucid dreams. No kidding! Prologue: I had just come home from the bar. It was three AM. While I was brushing my teeth i remembered the e2 node about lucid dreams and tried to levitate the soap dispenser. It didn't happen, as expected. Then I went to bed. Sometime in the early morning I started having these dreams. The first one was about an environmental...

Blue LED light

August 5th, 2022

Gallium Nitride - maybe worth further exploration for metaphorical or storytelling purposes. -zas Blue LED (thing) See all of Blue LED, there are 2 more in this node. Blue LEDs are usually manufactured in clear cases using gallium nitride. There are narrow beam bright ones that you can find in those personal LED flashlights, and dimmer ones that radiate all around, most often used as indicator lights in home electronics.Blue LEDs are COOL. I've changed my PC's case LEDs, my keyboar...

Robert Breer’s Perpetual Motion Machine

June 14th, 2022

Since its inception the enigmatic and attractive nature of avant-garde animation has resided in both its seeming rejection of any overarching interpretation of the artwork per se and, ironically, the formulation of temporary understandings that come to the audience’s mind with every new viewing. The geometric and linear abstractions so prevalent in these works, when presented in sequence, generate a sense of ambiguity that demands new interpretations across time. Often remembered are the stra...

Movies where people do 31337 h4x0RiNg on a Macintosh PowerBook (idea) by li - Everything2.com

June 7th, 2022

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Movies where people do 31337 h4x0RiNg on a Macintosh PowerBook (idea) See all of Movies where people do 31337 h4x0RiNg on a Macintosh PowerBook, there are 4 more in this node. (idea) by li Sun Jul 02 2000 at 3:33:58 Why macs makes it on to the screen more often Windows, Linux and MacOS are examples of popular operating systems. They help you get the work done. On the movie set they could use actual operating systems too, ...

Bathysphere - The Official William Beebe Web Site

May 31st, 2022

Bathysphere - The Official William Beebe Web Site Clip source: Bathysphere%20-%20The%20Official%20William%20Beebe%20Web%20Site https://sites.google.com/site/cwilliambeebe/The Official William Beebe Web SiteSearch this siteNavigationCharles William BeebeBathyspherePheasant ExpeditionBlair NilesElswyth ThaneBooksWhyLinksMagazine Articles2846days since 80th Anniversary of World Record Bathysphere DescentBeebe's Voice William Beebe audio on "Information Please."1911https://sites.google.com/site/...

Highlights from our Gold exhibition - Medieval manuscripts blog

May 19th, 2022

Highlights from our Gold exhibition Our new exhibition Gold opens this week. It explores the use of gold in books and documents across twenty countries, seventeen languages, and five major world religions. We show how people have used gold to communicate profound value, both worldly and spiritual, across cultures and time periods. All 50 of the objects in the exhibition are star items. But to whet your appetite, here are some of our highlights: The Harley Golden Gospels The exhibition be...

Mirror-less camera (thing) by The Debutante - Everything2.com

April 29th, 2022

Mirror-less camera (thing) See all of Mirror-less camera, no other writeups in this node. There are lots of different types of camera out there, from pinholes that you can make yourself using a cardboard box, to large format cameras that use one sheet of film per exposure, via instamatics and 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) cameras. Recently, however, there has been a trend towards 'mirror-less cameras'. They are commonly seen as a bridge between compact cameras and SLRs, but there's a b...

The Secret Scheme of Screens

April 14th, 2022

The Secret Scheme of ScreensSourceURL: https://mindmatters.ai/podcast/ep182/ The Secret Scheme of Screens Andrew McDiarmidApril 14, 2022 Our obsession today with screens is, often unintentionally, taking us to places we regret. We use these windows into the world for hours every day, often unaware how intentional content creators and app designers are in shaping our decisions and forming harmful habits. Andrew McDiarmid interviews Doug Smith, author of the bo...

Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla as Science Fiction Characters

April 5th, 2022

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LISA conference (thing) by eBishop - Everything2.com

February 25th, 2022

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 LISA conference (thing) See all of LISA conference, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by eBishop Wed Jun 18 2003 at 21:51:26 The LISA conference is the primary System Administration conference held annually by Usenix (the Unix Professional Socity) and its affiliate, SAGE (the System Administrators Guild). It has been held each year since 1987, and the location alternates between the Eastern and Western US. "LISA" stands for...

The Cornell Box

December 23rd, 2021

The Cornell Box The Cornell Program of Computer Graphics has become best known for its research on physically based rendering. We believe that computer graphics simulations will never become predictive of reality unless we correctly model the physics of light reflection and light energy propagation within physical environments. The Cornell Box experiments have come to symbolize our approach to physically based rendering. The Cornell box is a simple physical environment for which we hav...

Shotgun slugs are often

November 19th, 2021

Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-point-of-having-shotgun-slugs-as-opposed-to-bullets Shotgun slugs are often completely pointless. No, really. See this? No point. It’s round. Ba-dum-tsch! Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week. In all seriousness, the purpose of shotgun slugs is to make big damn holes in things at ranges longer than where a bunch of smaller projectiles can be reasonably expected to stay clumped together to make a similar big damn hole. If you fire a load of ...