The Gobekli Tepe temple near Sanliurfa, Turkey, is thought to predate civilization. The site isn’t just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization.
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Civilization at its oldest
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March 7 2010, 1:08pm | Comments »
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Living in a hologram
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Our world may be a giant hologram. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface. the 3D information about a precursor star can be completely encoded in the 2D horizon of the subsequent black hole – not unlike the 3D image of an object being encoded in a 2D hologram. Mind blown, check back later (via justin).
March 7 2010, 5:48am | Comments »
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NYT Magazine redesign
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Behind the redesign of the New York Times Magazine. Great visual and typographic treatment
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February 28 2010, 11:24am | Comments »
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Driving right
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Why some countries drive on the right and others on the left. The countries that drive on the left are largely made up of former British colonies, but they do account for 34% of the world’s population.
February 23 2010, 2:19pm | Comments »
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Art that sells itself
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A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter is a piece of artwork by Caleb Larson that perpetually tries to sells itself. Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.
February 7 2010, 3:17am | Comments »
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Gore’s choice
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For his new book, Al Gore wanted some tweaks to the typeface. “You see, Al is really involved with the project and we spend a lot of time working together in the publisher’s office. When he was reviewing the proofs, he had a comment about the typeface. Basically, he wants you to change the numeral one.” As a result, there is an updated version of Brioni now available.
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January 24 2010, 6:15am | Comments »
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Time Tube
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Oskar Karlin reworked the infamous London Underground map using the time it takes to travel between stations rather than the distance.
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January 22 2010, 11:31am | Comments »
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Electric photography
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January 13 2010, 11:23pm | Comments »
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The last London darkrooms
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Last one out, please turn on the light is a survey of London’s remaining professional darkrooms, by Richard Nicholson. The photographs are well lit to reveal the beautiful machinery of an often gloomy place.
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December 28 2009, 1:11pm | Comments »