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Craig Venter “Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention”
via Long Views by Stewart Brand on February 25, 2008
Decoding and recoding lifeTo really read DNA accurately and understand it thoroughly, you need to be able to write it from scratch and make it live, Venter explained.His sequencing the first diploid human genome (with the genes from both parents) last year showed there is much more genetic variation between humans than first thought. His current goal is to fully sequence 10,000 humans and bring...
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Svalbard Seed Vault Opens
via Long Views by Alexander Rose on February 26, 2008
Amazingly only a few years after it begun the Seed Vault in Svalbard has opened. I cant wait to go and see how they built a multi-millennial structure so fast.PhysOrg reports:The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. With the deposits ranging from unique varieties...
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Mapping in the virtual world
via Long Views by Alexander Rose on March 04, 2008
MIT Tech Review is reporting that Long Now board member and mapping maven David Rumsey is launching his historical map collection in Second Life this week.A new installation inside Second Life is bringing alive one of the world’s largest collections of antique maps. Called the David Rumsey Maps Island (registration required), the Second Life site is San Francisco map collector David Rumsey’s...
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Digital read out via analog hands
via Long Views by Alexander Rose on April 23, 2008
This astonishing clock project was brought to my attention by Austin Brown via the Make blog… note in the image above the analog clock hands forming the word FOUR in the lower right quadrant.Dutch designer Christiaan Postma figured out how to arrange more than 150 analog clocks in such a way that at certain times, the hands line up to spell the words of the hour.
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Archiving TV… the old fashion way
via Long Views by Alexander Rose on May 06, 2008
This is a wonderful find by the “America Found: A Snapshot History” blog. It is someone’s snap shots they took of their TV as one of the Apollo missions took place. I am not sure what it is, but there is something lovely about taking pictures of your television to document an important moment. Pre VCR, pre DVD, pre TiVo but still captures the essence of the broadcast.
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