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Quantum Navigation, Books to Read, Ambient Music
Using a city’s underground transportation network as a venue for clandestine scientific experiments is a premise I can easily get behind.
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, And Ourselves
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, And Ourselves Twilley (Until Proven Safe), cohost of the podcast, offers a revelatory deep dive into refrigeration’s past and present.
Este es el plan para trazar un mapa del mundo antiguo antes de que desaparezca
En el centro de Siena, en Italia, permanece de pie una catedral de casi 800 años de antigüedad. La imponente estructura, que ahora visitan más de un millón de turistas al año, es una superposición en blanco y negro de piedras pesadas, una colección de estatuas de corte fino y mosaicos de gran valor, y luce como un elemento permanente del pasado, presente y futuro de la ciudad. La mayoría de la gente la llama, simplemente, “la catedral”.
Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears
In the center of Siena, Italy, a cathedral has stood for nearly 800 years. A black-and-white layer cake of heavy stone, fine-cut statuary, and rich mosaics, the imposing structure—now visited by more than a million tourists each year—would seem to be a permanent fixture of the city’s past, present, and future.
Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears
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Archäologie: Mit Magnetometern auf der Suche nach vergangenen Kulturen
Archäologie: Mit Magnetometern auf der Suche nach vergangenen Kulturen Ohio: viele unentdeckte indigene Strukturen "Niemand hat sich um unsere Erdhügel gekümmert" Die Grenzen der Technik Einfallsreichtum und kulturelle Ausdrucksformen Artikel in MIT Technology Review 4/2023 lesen Jarrod Burks öffnet die Ladeklappe seines Vans und zeigt auf eine Reihe seltsamer Geräte: weiße PVC-Rohre, verbunden zu einem ausziehbaren, zaunartigen Gitter mit großen, robusten Rädern.
Industrial Robot Gets Open-Source Upgrade [Hackaday]
Industrial robots are shockingly expensive when new, typically only affordable for those running factories of some sort. Once they’ve gone through their life cycle building widgets, they can be purchased …read more View Article on Hackaday Industrial robots are shockingly expensive when new, typically only affordable for those running factories of some sort.
We Have A Ghost Ending Explained, Review, Plot, and More
We Have A Ghost "In February 2023, Netflix released a horror comedy movie titled "We Have a Ghost," which was based on Geoff Manaugh's 2017 short story "Ernest" and written and directed by Christopher Landon. David Harbour, Jahi Winston, Tig Notaro, Jennifer Coolidge, and Anthony Mackie starred in the film.
Un fantasma anda suelto por casa
Sorpresa en el desván El adolescente Kevin se muda con sus padres a un caserón, en cuyo desván encuentra el fantasma de Ernest, que al principio intenta asustarle, pero que resultará ser un bonachón. Entre ambos surge una gran amistad, aunque los medios de comunicación se enteran de la aparición del ente, y tratarán de explotarla. Mientras tanto, Kevin ayudará a Ernest a descubrir cómo murió, con la colaboración de Joy, la vecina, una médium de medio pelo.
The big archaeological digs happening up in the sky
Archaeology is facing a time crunch. Thousands of years of human history risk imminent erasure, from tiny hamlets to entire cities - temples, walls and roads under grave threat of destruction . Urban sprawl and industrial agriculture are but two culprits, smothering ancient settlements beneath car parks and cattle pastures. International conflict and climate change are also damaging vulnerable sites, with warfare and water shortages destroying pockets of history across the world.
The big archaeological digs happening up in the sky
The endless excavations of yesteryear are no longer the best solution. Big digs aren’t the big idea they once were: mapping the human archaeological record is now moving upward, into the sky. Lidar – short for light detection and ranging – has emerged as one of the most widely used technologies for rapid archaeological documentation.
Finding forgotten Indigenous landscapes with electromagnetic technology
ONE Jarrod Burks opened the rear cargo door of his van and pointed to an array of strange equipment tangled inside. White PVC tubes were locked together, forming an expandable, fence-like grid, with large, rugged wheels attached beneath. Beside it all, on a layer of soft blankets, were a tablet computer, many yards of cables, and a GPS antenna, held in a small protective case.
This Photographer Turns His Death-Defying Feats Into Stunning Crypto Art
Isaac Wright lives on the lookout for openings that other people ignore — popping open fire doors, climbing locked emergency stairs, and riding maintenance elevators long after everyone else has gone home. “The stuff we see is so incredible,” he tells me. “It feels like robbery that the rest of the world can’t see it.” Wright, 27, is a photographer, artist, and urban explorer.
Drawings by Lebbeus Woods now on view at Friedman Benda
Lebbeus Woods, Ecologies, 1984-1990 Curated by Jennifer Olshin Friedman Benda 8260 Marmont Lane Los Angeles, CA 90069 Open through February 4 Lebbeus Woods died at his home in New York City on October 30, 2012. It was the same night that remnants of Hurricane Sandy flooded the streets of Lower Manhattan—where Woods lived—with 80 mph tropical winds and a powerful Atlantic storm surge.
A tiny particle can travel through concrete. It could save many lives
Ernst Niederleithinger stands at the edge of an industrial laboratory in the south-western suburbs of Berlin.
Until Proven Safe: Interview with Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
by As part of UCHRI’s investigation into living through upheaval, Alison Annunziata spoke with Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, authors of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, to discuss the logistics and anatomy of quarantine, its logic and demands, and potential ways to reconstruct attitudes towards safety, isolation, society-and-self to accommodate a global civil society now emerging from mandated lockdown.
'Until Proven Safe' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2021
We’ve all become quite familiar with the word quarantine over the past two years, but journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley were studying the concept long before the days of COVID-19. In their deftly reported book, they trace the evolution of quarantine across the world, underlining the challenges of isolation and its impact on society.
Until Proven Safe by Geoff Manaugh
Geoff Manaugh Nicola Twilley Synopsis 'Timely, eye-opening, provocative – you will see the world differently after reading it.' - Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future 'Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley offer answers that will make your jaw drop.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Editors' Choice Aug. 5, 2021 Other people’s relationships are catnip. You may think you’re above speculating about Bennifer 2.0 — are they really back together, or is this all a publicity stunt to pave the way for a “Gigli” sequel? — and, fine, you may in fact be above it; you’re here for books, after all, not for tawdry pop culture gossip. Might I recommend Michael Burlingame’s “An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd”?
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
In March, my daughter called me in a panic. One of her college friends had tested positive for the coronavirus and had been sent to isolate in a designated building. My daughter and four other friends had recently tested negative, she told me, but they had spent time with the infected friend, so they were all at risk. For the next 10 days, each was quarantined in an individual hotel room at a local Hampton Inn.
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Review: Compelling and prescient history of quarantine through the ages
Nicola Twilley is the co-author of “Until Proven Safe.” The book reminds us that the COVID-19 pandemic will not be our last pandemic. Photo: Jenny GG It’s hard to imagine what Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley were feeling as news of the global reach of COVID-19 emerged in March of last year. The pair were just about to submit their book on the history of quarantine, a book they had begun researching nearly 10 years earlier.
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Geoff Manaugh: "Terrains of the Imaginary"
During pandemic confinement, Geoff Manaugh found escape online in the Library of Congress’s U.S. Geological Survey map archive. The dimensionality and texture of the historical topographic maps inspired Manaugh to “impose my own grid on the maps and thus create my own images, turning strategically important documents into mere patterns and shapes. What does a slice of mountain ridges look like, geometrically?
Geoff Manaugh: "Terrains of the Imaginary"
Portfolio Finding escape in survey maps Geoff Manaugh Terrestrial Astronomy (Nevada), 2021. All images Courtesy Geoff Manaugh. During pandemic confinement, Geoff Manaugh found escape online in the Library of Congress’s U.S. Geological Survey map archive. The dimensionality and texture of the historical topographic maps inspired Manaugh to “impose my own grid on the maps and thus create my own images, turning strategically important documents into mere patterns and shapes.
Nonfiction Book Review: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley. MCD, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-12658-2
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley. MCD, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-12658-2 BLDGBLOG blogger Manaugh (A Burglar’s Guide to the City) and Gastropod host Twilley take a riveting and timely look at how humanity has protected itself by isolating segments of its populations.
Until Proven Safe
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological, political, technological––that shape our modern world.
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
Description Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces---biological, political, technological--that shape our modern world.
Fail We May, Sail We Must
I’ve been listening to old sets by Andrew Weatherall all day, mostly from his long-running show on NTS, Music’s Not For Everyone. Like a million other people, I’m still shocked by news of his death. Weatherall’s taste in music was idiosyncratic, in the best possible sense, animated by something much larger than—and outside—the music, as evidenced by his own introductions to his show. “Greetings, sisters and brothers,” Weatherall usually began.
What Will We Find On Passengers' Cell Phones From Flight MH370?
Bearing in mind that CNN is the same network that suggested Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 might have flown into a black hole, it was nonetheless interesting to hear the network speculate that the cell phones of the flight's passengers might hold an archive of unsent emails, texts, photos, and videos of whatever sequence of events befell the doomed airliner—and that these fragile digital files could still be recovered.
When Russia and America Coöperated to Avert a Y2K Apocalypse
In Moscow, Frazier had a different experience. His Russian hosts were never less than generous, but the intense pressure of his Y2K-preparation work quickly became exhausting. When he landed, he learned that the U.S. Embassy had been evacuated because of safety concerns over Y2K; he would be working alone. Travelling from his hotel to the local telegraph station, where he could communicate securely with Generals Myers and Raduege, required commuting through Siberian-scale winds and snowstorms.
Witch Houses of the Hudson Valley
Walter R. Wheeler, known as Wally, is an architectural historian in the Hudson Valley. He works for a firm called Hartgen Archeological Associates—“Breaking Old Ground Every Day”—which is based in a restored eighteenth-century farmhouse across the river from Albany. Fifty-five years old, with a cheerful, open face and small, oval eyeglasses, Wheeler has been inside, behind, and under churches, barns, homes, and temples in cities and towns throughout New York State.
LOST OBJECTS (26)
By: Geoff Manaugh October 3, 2019 One in an ongoing series of nonfiction stories about lost objects. In 2017, we asked 25 writers to tell us about a significant object they’d lost (or thrown away, or destroyed), then assigned these stories to 25 illustrators. The first Lost Objects series was such a hit with readers, and so fun for us to publish, that we’ve decided it deserves a sequel.
The City To Be Deceived / Geoff Manaugh for the Shenzhen Biennale (UABB) 2019
The City To Be Deceived / Geoff Manaugh for the Shenzhen Biennale (UABB) 2019 Skyline of Shenzhen. Image © Anton Strogonoff What happens when the sensor-imbued city acquires the ability to see – almost as if it had eyes?
Opinion | Earthquakes Mock the Idea of Solid Ground
They remind you that dry land is a kind of ocean in waiting. By Geoff Manaugh Mr. Manaugh is a freelance writer. July 8, 2019 Image A crack in the road caused by an earthquake near Ridgecrest, Calif. LOS ANGELES — On the morning of July 4, my wife and I were sitting at the breakfast table when the effects of a 6.4-magnitude earthquake outside Ridgecrest, Calif., hit our home here.
The Surreal Landscapes of California City
essays From the air, photographer Chang Kim discovers a city that never was. By Geoff Manaugh Chang Kim, Utopia incomplete 160616_05, California City, CA, 2016 Courtesy the artist In his recent book, The City That Never Was: Reconsidering the Speculative Nature of Contemporary Urbanization (2016), architect and urbanist Christopher Marcinkoski writes about the strange fate of entire cities created for the speculative possibility of future financial gain.
Meet the Safecracker of Last Resort
Charlie Santore breaks into safes and vaults for a living. Photo by Angie Smith. The house was gone, consumed by the November 2018 Woolsey Fire that left swaths of Los Angeles covered in ash and reduced whole neighborhoods to charcoaled ruins. Amidst the tangle of blackened debris that was once a house in the suburbs northwest of Los Angeles, only one identifiable feature stood intact.
Why We All Dream of Being Jewel Thieves
Billed as the “biggest burglary in English legal history,” the April 2015 Hatton Garden heist in central London is already the stuff of legend—from the silver-haired suspects and their Ocean’s Eleven-style intricacies to the loot discovered in a graveyard.
Have Clock, Will Travel
[Image: From The Hunt For Red October, via Quora].
Have Clock, Will Travel
[Image: From The Hunt For Red October, via Quora].
Seedling - The Observer
There’s a poem I think about every once in a while called “For the Missing in Action,” by John Balaban, from his book Locusts at the Edge of Summer. In fact, I’ve written about it before. In it, Balaban describes the postmortem landscape effects of someone—possibly a U.S. soldier, possibly a local villager—killed in the Vietnam War. The person’s body “fertilized the earth” as it decayed for months after death, vegetation assuming the body’s outline in the landscape.
Harvard Design Magazine: Home Safe
In the winter of 2013, while writing a book about the relationship between burglary and architecture, I met safe room designer Karl Alizade at his New Jersey warehouse. Alizade also works as an insurance investigator for Lloyd’s of London, and at the time his low-slung workshop was filled with evidence from crime scenes that had been sent to him over the years for inspection.
There's an Ominous New Fault in Town
An emerging fault system along the Nevada border is shaking up the tech industry's latest frontier-and only a small group of scientists is paying attention. U.S. route 395 is a geologic master class disguised as a road. It runs north from the arid outskirts of Los Angeles, carrying travelers up to Reno along the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada. On the way, they pass the black cinder cones of Coso Volcanic Field and the eroded scars of a mighty 19th-century earthquake near Lone Pine.
Some of L.A.'s Most Beautiful Landscapes Are Its Freeways
The vast and looping knots of L.A.'s elaborate freeway system have long inspired an unlikely stew made from equal parts road rage, suffocating air pollution, and an unexpected aesthetic appreciation for their stacked coils and crisp lines.
five internet of things inventions that will change the way we live
The world is filled with amazing technologies, many that are so old we don’t even think of them as technologies at …
The Watch Thieves Who Picked L.A. Clean
Their story was always about time—time to plan, to execute, to get away—but in the end it was really about how quickly time could disappear. How fast a plan could dissolve, a getaway route crumble, or a profit margin explode, becoming greater than anyone had anticipated. They’re accused of forming one of the most ambitious robbery rings in recent Los Angeles history. The group operated for less than 10 months, yet it allegedly brought in nearly $6 million worth of stolen jewelry and luxury watches.
Assignment Baghdad: Did A Group of Grad Students Really Help Plan the Gulf War?
In the fall of 1990, an unusual grad-school seminar kicked off at a university in Washington D.C. Its students were asked to collect as much information as they could about buildings throughout Iraq, from palaces to warehouses, museums to bunkers. The students had likely been told that their work was an attempt to document, even to help preserve, works of architecture that might soon be lost to history in the impending war.
Assignment Baghdad: Did A Group of Grad Students Really Help Plan the Gulf War?
In the fall of 1990, an unusual grad-school seminar kicked off at a university in Washington D.C. Its students were asked to collect as much information as they could about buildings throughout Iraq, from palaces to warehouses, museums to bunkers. The students had likely been told that their work was an attempt to document, even to help preserve, works of architecture that might soon be lost to history in the impending war.
Assignment Baghdad: Did A Group of Grad Students Really Help Plan the Gulf War?
In the fall of 1990, an unusual grad-school seminar kicked off at a university in Washington D.C. Its students were asked to collect as much information as they could about buildings throughout Iraq, from palaces to warehouses, museums to bunkers. The students had likely been told that their work was an attempt to document, even to help preserve, works of architecture that might soon be lost to history in the impending war.
Literary Architecture
[Image: Photo via ]. There are still a few days left to apply for a spot in Matteo Pericoli’s Laboratory of Literary Architecture, this time setting up shop in Prague from June 7-11. “Architectural space is made of sequences, revelations, expectations and rhythm,” Pericoli explains, so “why not try to create a piece of architecture that explicitly embodies the structure of a literary text?” The program “is neither an architecture workshop nor a literature workshop,” he adds.
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