“If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.” – Henry Miller Technology is an evolutionary force, sling-shooting the species forward as never before. We are fast approaching a new renaissance, an age of wonder and radical possibility. A recent essay from NextNature entitled EntryParadise spoke about [...]
Category Archives: Science
Heavy Rays
May 28, 2011 – 7:03 pm
Its happy space out time. Take a 15 minute trip into unknown landscapes and structures with our friend and Dossier collaborator Josh Slater. So sit back, relax, and strap on your seatbelt. You’ve never been on a ride like this before, with a producer who can rap and control the maestro. Original score by Sahra Motalebi.
Chris Jordan: The Midway Atoll
November 12, 2009 – 3:32 am
This is not an assemblage, it is an albatross that died after eating debris its parents mistook for food. The phenomenon is common in the garbage-choked Midway Atoll where thousands of such corpses appear yearly. The photographer, Chris Jordan, captured these transfixing images just as he found them. See more on the NYRblog, or read [...]
A Still More Glorious Dawn…
November 9, 2009 – 4:37 am
Third Man Records is a Nashville-based label set up by The White Stripes’ Jack White. Their expressed mission includes the promotion of vinyl records, alongside novel digital formats. In a kind of weird meshing of ideas, they will release a 7” single of the song “A Glorious Dawn“ by John Boswell, which was a bit [...]
Snow Monkeys Washing Potatoes
November 8, 2009 – 7:28 am
I came across this wonderful clip from BBC’s Life on Earth from 1979, featuring a young David Attenborough, while searching for samples of Edward Williams music for the program, which has recently been released for the first time by Trunk Records.
Seahorses
November 2, 2009 – 8:04 am
A fascinating article on the sex lives of seahorses in The Guardian today. Above is Jean Painlevé’s brilliant The Seahorse (1934). In this version Painlevé’s enthusiastic scientific-poetic narration is replaced with a soundtrack by Current 93. I prefer the original but still worth watching.
Sci-Emo – “We float like a mote of dust in the morning sky”
October 5, 2009 – 2:41 am
Carl Sagan was an astronomer who hosted several successful popular science shows in the 1970s and 80s. He was deeply involved in bringing different aspects of science to public attention and also made some groundbreaking contributions to the research into extraterrestrial life. He believed that the existence of other technological civilizations was highly probable, but [...]
LIFE‘s 30 Dumb Inventions
September 29, 2009 – 5:52 pm
Because who wouldn’t want a pair of artificial Japanese breasts with a built-in heartbeat? Or for that matter, a precarious outdoor cage in which to dangle your infant several stories over the street. LIFE magazine has cataloged its picks for most absurd inventions of all time, most of which are rather amusing. A few of [...]
