We know that fossils are fragile, and volcanoes are destructive. So you wouldn’t think that volcanoes are really any help when preserving fossils… but you’d be wrong! From the Laetoli Footprints to the Blue Lake Rhino, here are five fossil sites that only exist thanks to the destructive might of volcanoes.
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Is a hotdog a sandwich? What even is a sandwich? How do we find meaning in words? Does meaning even exist? In this video, I’ll be using the question of “Is a hotdog a sandwich” to explore the various linguistic theories of how we assign meaning to words.
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Chopsticks vs forks design analysis. Which is a better design? This chopsticks versus forks industrial design analysis really has more to do with the importance of convention and culture than anything else.
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This episode of Words Unravelled is out of this world! Blast off with Rob and Jess as they explore the cosmic origins of space terms. 🌌 Where did the planets get their names? And how do you actually pronounce Uranus? What’s the difference between a meteor, a comet and an asteroid? And what’s so milky about the Milky Way? 🌠 From constellations that twinkle with mythology to the everyday words than fell to us from space, let’s dive deep into the linguistic black hole! 🚀
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From the lumberyard to the Elbphilharmonie stage. We took @NahreSol to the large Steinway factory in Hamburg and took a look at the process of creating a concert grand piano.
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JUNE 11, 2024 GRACE EBERT
“STAR OF THE UNBORN” (2024), pencil and ink on found paper, 16 x 20 inches
A bright, symmetric motif fills the paper and appears almost pixelated, despite being rendered in a faint grid with ink.
Neuromancer is one of the first science-fiction novels characterized as cyberpunk, a dystopic mix of rapidly advanced technologies and mass societal collapse. Written by William Gibson and published in 1984, the book has become a cult classic lauded for how it doesn’t reach toward a distant future but rather envisions “the real present,” a version of the stark inequities and nightmarish times we’re already living in.
The novel is a starting point for a new kaleidoscopic drawing by Matthew Craven. A bright, symmetric motif fills the paper—a found substrate once belonging to a ragged paperback or movie poster—and appears almost pixelated, despite being rendered in a faint grid with ink. On view at Asya Geisberg Gallery, the meticulous work is one in a larger series included in Rendezvous with Rama, a title that references another sci-fi classic by Arthur C. Clarke.
“SOLARIS.” (2024), pencil and ink on found paper, 20 x 15 inches
Considering the timeless universality of patterns and forms, the exhibition questions the recognizable and known through trippy works that capture both cyber structures and analog techniques. Smaller motifs embedded in the larger works evoke distant planets, explosions, and even an alphabet made of non-decipherable characters. “Craven’s central insight is that the unfamiliar must always be couched in the understood, just as science fiction can dream up a futuristic or alien world only by relating back to what we can easily observe,” a statement from the gallery says. […]
Detail of “STAR OF THE UNBORN” (2024), pencil and ink on found paper, 16 x 20 inches
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