Reads tagged with “technology”

The Age of Edison: Radical Invention and the Illuminated World

A brief history of giving the people what they wanted, or why the lightbulb was a mere cog in the machinery of total illumination.

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The Pale Blue Dot: A Timeless Valentine to the Cosmos

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.”

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High Times: An Illustrated History of Aviation

From Icarus to the Wright Brothers, by way of hot air balloons and dirigibles.

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Love in the Age of Data: How One Woman Hacked Her Way to Happily Ever After

Reverse-engineering the algorithms of romance, one picky data point at a time.

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How Lantern Slides Revolutionized Education: A Protein Story

When an old entertainment technology brought the world to the lecture hall, bridging science and art.

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A Pictorial History of the London Tube and Its Graphic Legacy

Visual mementos celebrating 150 years since the birth of the world’s first underground railway system.

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Uncreative Writing: Redefining Language and Authorship in the Digital Age

“An updated notion of genius would have to center around one’s mastery of information and its dissemination.”

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Thomas Edison, Power-Napper: The Great Inventor on Sleep and Success

“Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.”

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An Illustrated Chronicle of the Space Race

Astronauts vs. cosmonauts, Apollo vs. Sputnik, and what Gagarin had to do with JFK.

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Vintage Holiday Cover Designs for Radio Times Magazine

Vibrant visual mementos of cultural obsolescence.

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Reads tagged with “technology”

A brief history of giving the people what they wanted, or why the lightbulb was a mere cog in the machinery of total illumination.

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.”

From Icarus to the Wright Brothers, by way of hot air balloons and dirigibles.

Reverse-engineering the algorithms of romance, one picky data point at a time.

When an old entertainment technology brought the world to the lecture hall, bridging science and art.

Visual mementos celebrating 150 years since the birth of the world’s first underground railway system.

“An updated notion of genius would have to center around one’s mastery of information and its dissemination.”

“Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.”

Astronauts vs. cosmonauts, Apollo vs. Sputnik, and what Gagarin had to do with JFK.

Vibrant visual mementos of cultural obsolescence.

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