Reads tagged with “history”

The New Swiss Army Knife: Bill Gates Predicts the iPhone in 1995

What Siri and the appification of faxing have to do with the difference between envisioning and enacting.

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Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

On love, liberty, and the pursuit of silence.

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The Surrealist Chart of Erotic Hand Signaling

“You think no one understands / Listen to my hands”

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Emily Roebling and How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built

What wire-walkers and medical mysteries have to do with the world’s deepest pit and the secret female engineer behind an architectural icon.

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Nora Ephron on Women, Love, Happiness, Reading, Life, and Death

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

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100 Ideas That Changed Architecture

How the art and science of building evolved along the parallel axes of the philosophical and the pragmatic.

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Meet the Real Alice: How the Story of Alice in Wonderland Was Born

“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations!”

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Ralph Ellison on Race and the Power of the Writer in Society: A Rare 1966 Interview

“Power, for the writer … lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.”

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Powershift: Alvin Toffler Visionary Wisdom on the Age of Post-Fact Knowledge and the Super-Symbolic Economy

“We are interrelating data in more ways, giving them context, and thus forming them into information; and we are assembling chunks of information into larger and larger models and architectures of knowledge.”

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A Radical Journey of Art, Science, and Entrepreneurship: A Self-Taught Victorian Woman’s Visionary Ornithological Illustrations

The bittersweet story of a young woman and her family, who triumphed through tragedy to bring a passion project to life and change the face of science illustration.

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Reads tagged with “history”

What Siri and the appification of faxing have to do with the difference between envisioning and enacting.

On love, liberty, and the pursuit of silence.

“You think no one understands / Listen to my hands”

What wire-walkers and medical mysteries have to do with the world’s deepest pit and the secret female engineer behind an architectural icon.

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

How the art and science of building evolved along the parallel axes of the philosophical and the pragmatic.

“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations!”

“Power, for the writer … lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.”

“We are interrelating data in more ways, giving them context, and thus forming them into information; and we are assembling chunks of information into larger and larger models and architectures of knowledge.”

The bittersweet story of a young woman and her family, who triumphed through tragedy to bring a passion project to life and change the face of science illustration.

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