A team of scholars are recreating ancient recipes from cuneiform tablets via BBC https://lnkd.in/gXtyzkgB
The Long Now Foundation
Research
San Francisco, CA 10,879 followers
Fostering long-term thinking and responsibility
About us
The Long Now Foundation is a globally-recognized champion of long-term thinking and responsibility founded in 01996 by Stewart Brand, Danny Hillis, and Brian Eno. We believe that civilization-scale challenges call for civilization-scale thinking. We are working toward a world rich in imagination and possibility that provides a counterpoint to today's accelerating culture, a world in which we all take the long-term future and the long-term past seriously. Our highest hope is that the next generation will never doubt that we thought of them and built for them. The Long Now Foundation began its work with The Clock of the Long Now, a mythic monument designed to keep time for the next 10,000 years from deep inside a mountain. Our work expanded into related projects all aimed at fostering long term thinking — Long Now Talks, a renowned live event series whose podcasts and videos have over 100,000 subscribers and millions of global viewers, the Long Now membership program, which centers long-term thinking in the day-to-day lives of over 12,000 members from more than 60 countries, and an award-winning cafe, bar, and museum in San Francisco called The Interval.
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https://longnow.org
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- Research
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- 11-50 employees
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- San Francisco, CA
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- Nonprofit
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- 1996
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San Francisco, CA 94123, US
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If you were inspired by the news of Star Axis last week, here’s a whole series on the myth-makers and monument builders who started the land art movement—from Spiral Jetty to Sun Tunnels, Roden Crater to the 10,000-year clock. https://lnkd.in/gH3gsdvS
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Prediction markets were supposed to improve public and private decision-making, but what does the data say? Great reporting by Dan Schwartz in Asterisk Magazine: https://lnkd.in/g53kSjZz
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Why is the classic Chinese game of mahjong having a moment right now, both as a hobby and a lifestyle? With roots in Qing Dynasty China that first reached American parlors in the 1920s, mahjong’s modern renaissance is causing cultures to diverge even further, and new discourse on erasure, reclamation, and tokenism. How does a cultural tradition get passed down with fidelity? How do fashion trends and markets affect a tradition's arc across time? Nicole Wong, author of Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora, explains in Coyote Magazine. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gdeEtMcg Photography by Andria Lo (https://lnkd.in/g53qMCw6) courtesy of Hardie Grant Publishing.
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What is it like to participate in the chalking of the White Horse? Read a first-person account from Long Now London's Christopher Daniel for the Royal Society of the Arts: https://lnkd.in/ezD6ZqFR
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A reminder we still have copies available of our epically beautiful and deeply thoughtful annual journal Pace Layers. Essays from Blaise Agüera y Arcas, K Allado-McDowell, Benjamin Bratton, and Sara Imari Walker. Artworks and essays from Jonathon Keats, Ian van Coller, Anne Heggli, and Christopher Michel, among many others. Grab yours here: https://lnkd.in/gH26BDva
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Pre-order alert: Vincent Ialenti's upcoming book 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 weaves together nature writing and ethnographic storytelling to invite readers to slow down, inhabit stillness, and cultivate wide-angle temporal imagination in an Age of Haste. Pre-order here: https://lnkd.in/gDcujS7x
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Star Axis is complete. Fifty years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory on a mesa in New Mexico. A staircase, aligned with Earth's axis, climbs to a open lens that tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's gravitational wobble. Read the beautiful feature in the NYT: https://lnkd.in/gQFh-47E
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"When we are bound in a system of reciprocity, not return on investment, we will be closer to being the kind of ancestors future people need." -Forrest Brown Read more on Long Now Ideas here: https://lnkd.in/gVfTF2GV Illustration by Casey Cripe
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In an architecture landscape dominated by utilitarian five-over-ones, an ancient architectural style is having an unexpected come-back: Hindu temples. Read about the renaissance in Works in Progress magazine here: https://lnkd.in/gPsZWZh5
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