“Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. The flâneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.”
— Walter Benjamin, “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire”, Illuminations (1970)
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“Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. The flâneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.”
— Walter Benjamin, “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire”, Illuminations (1970)
Seen in the window at Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine. Photo: Bill Roorbach
To automate is human
In the 1920s, the Soviet scientist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov used artificial insemination to breed a ‘humanzee’ – a cross between a human and our closest relative species, the chimpanzee. The attempt horrified his contemporaries, much as it would modern readers.
Bees… by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought, knew that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material.
Pappus, Greek Mathematical Works, Volume II: Aristarchus to Pappus (via inthenoosphere)
“The Hühnermensch (as depicted in Friderici 1737).“
“The supposed goose-human hybrid offspring of Queen Bertha of France (Image: Liceti 1634, p. 181).“
All the better to see you with, my dear - Spider eyeball arrangements
The flows of energy and mineral nutrients through an ecosystem manifest themselves as actual animals and plants of a particular species.
Ian G. Simmons (via inthenoosphere)
Your word of the day
Snarge: “The residue smeared on an airplane after a bird/plane collision. The snarge is generally all that is left of the bird. See if you can use it in casual conversation today! (via Dan Hon)
https://boingboing.net/2017/04/05/snarge.html
a Kafka for the 90s
Being Kafkaesque is neato
In the Northeast suburbs of central Osaka stands a curious train station unlike any other. Kayashima Station features a rectangular hole cut into the roof of the elevated platform and, from inside, a giant tree pokes its head out like a stalk of broccoli. It’s almost like a railway version of Laputa
“D'Arcy Thompson’s classic fish transformation“
In September 2013 another mass of jellyfish forced one of the world's largest nuclear reactors to shut down. The Operators of the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in Sweden had to scramble one of their three reactors after tons of jellyfish clogged the pipes that bring in cool water to the plant's turbines. "By Tuesday, the pipes had been cleaned of the jellyfish and engineers were preparing to restart the reactor, which at 1,400 megawatts of output is the largest boiling-water reactor in the world.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/prometheus-20-and-our-god-complex
Westinghouse's " Elektro " at the 1939 New York World's Fair. via Paleofuture About the time Greg Borenstein and I began working on 2...