Chrononotes

Historisch-futuristische kruimels en knipsels.

[wolfliving]

"Moëbius Gymnopedy. Transposition de la 1ère Gymnopédie d'Erik Satie. Bande de métal ajouré, componium 19 touches, caisson de résonance en bois gravé et numéroté. Edité à 8 exemplaires. 35 x 25 x 40 cm. 2012."

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astronomers

Bartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, French translation of Jean Corbechon), Bruges ca. 1470

BnF, Français 134, fol. 169r

[moopsy-daisy]

NEW SOLARPUNK IDEA. I don't think I've ever been in a house with a cistern, but apparently it's a thing. USE IT!

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(via (52) The Dawn of a New Age in AI? | Exponentially with Azeem Azhar - YouTube)

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(via Home / X)

[solarpunks]

In Idaho, beavers can be something of nuisance, chewing down trees and building dams that flood yards and fields. In the 1930s, officials began trapping beavers near cities and towns and dropping them — sometimes by parachute — into remote areas.

In one such area, Baugh Creek, beavers have visibly altered the landscape, as shown in newly released satellite imagery from NASA. Beavers erected dams that formed ponds and flooded meadows, supporting the growth of grasses and shrubs.

Flooded stretches along Baugh Creek are well guarded against drought and fire. When the Sharps Fire burned through the area in 2018, it left unsinged those parts where beavers had settled.⁠ (picture above)

[solarpunkbusiness]

Dutch Startup Respyre Empowers Cities to Breathe with Moss Friendly Concrete

Respyre has developed  an innovative –patent pending– bioreceptive concrete solution. These characteristics create the perfect setting for moss to thrive on.

Moss is incredibly well suited for green facades as moss has rhizoids instead of roots. Rhizoids are nondestructive, they mainly function as an adhesive, leaving the facade in perfect condition where roots are very invasive and demand a lot from the substance they grow from.  Our bio-receptive concrete creates a substrate that suit the rhizoids wishes perfectly. 

So, what do we mean with bioreceptivity? Something is bioreceptive when it has it’s arms open for nature to settle with it. In our case, the concrete invites mosses and algae to  live and grow on it. It is receptive to biodiversity… ;). 

Source

Respyre | Advanced Bioreceptive Technology

Advanced Bioreceptive Technology

[chrononotes]

(via (5) Making AI Tools Transparent | Yuval Harari and Lex Fridman Response - YouTube)

[sociologic]

From Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at the LSE.

[dutchscifi]

(via Dit is overgebleven van het ooit zo revolutionaire Huis van de Toekomst [RONDLEIDING] - Omroep Brabant)

[pangeen]

“ Literarily, a “Treehouse” “ // Benedikt Eroness

[new-aesthetic]

Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis With Traffic Cones

[gravity-rainbow-deactivated2024]

The Biologist Blowing Our Minds

Michael Levin is uncovering the incredible, latent abilities of living things.

Slime mold grows differently depending on the music playing.

In fact, he thinks electrical signaling is pervasive in nature; it is not limited to neurons. Recently, Levin and colleagues found that some diseases might be cured by retraining the gene and protein networks as one might train a neural network.

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Ken Reid’s “World Wide Weirdies” magazine cartoons, c. 1970s

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The Brothers Hildebrandt, 1981

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Gerard K O'Neill design from the 1970s for a space station colony — 2 cylinders rotate in opposite directions to provide artificial gravity and keep the station aimed at the sun. A similar colony appears at the end of Interstellar (2014). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s