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we’ve seen enough new technology arrive with good intentions but end up with unexpected costs attached. With technology this intimate, we’re obliged to think ahead and take the possibilities seriously rather than just call them tomorrow’s problem. If we just accept it all, we might someday wonder why our childhood memories are held under DRM

Google Glass – Denim & Steel (via worsethandetroit)

explore-blog:

When 13th-century Arab and Persian astronomers mapped the skies. Pair with this visual history of mapping the cosmos and 100 diagrams that changed the world.

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(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Arctic ice loss amplified Superstorm Sandy violence

warrenellis:

“Cornell and Rutgers researchers report in the March issue of Oceanography that the severe loss of summertime Arctic sea ice—attributed to greenhouse warming—appears to enhance Northern Hemisphere jet stream meandering, intensify Arctic air mass invasions toward middle latitudes, and increase the frequency of atmospheric blocking events like the one that steered Hurricane Sandy west into the densely populated New York City area.”

History isn’t
the devastating bulldozer they say it is.
It leaves underpasses, crypts, holes
and hiding places. There are survivors.
History’s also benevolent: destroys
as much as it can: overdoing it, sure,
would be better, but history’s short
of news, doesn’t carry out all its vendettas.

History scrapes the bottom
like a drag net
with a few rips and more than one fish escapes.
Sometimes you meet the ectoplasm
of an escapee and he doesn’t seem particularly happy.
He doesn’t know he’s outside, nobody told him.
The others, in the bag, think
they’re freer than him.