About. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution.
The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating culture and help make long-term thinking more common. We hope to foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. The Clock and Library Projects Below is an essay by a founding board member Stewart Brand on the need for, and the mechanism by which, The Long Now Foundation is attempting to encourage long-term thinking. Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. Yates-1966-Art-of-Memory-excerpt.pdf. Glacier reveals 5,400-year-old Stone Age arrow. Radiocarbon dating of the sallow wood shaft of this arrow shows it to be 5,400 years old, dating it to the younger Stone Age.
The arrow was found in the Norwegian mountains, at Dovrefjell, by Tord Bretten and Line B. Aukrust. (Photo: Åge Hojem and Martin Callahan/NTNU Museum of Science) One late August day in 2011 Tord Bretten and his sister Line B. Aukrust came home from an extraordinarily successful hunting trip in Dovrefjell, a mountainous area in central Norway. No Nonsense Self Defense - Reliable information for dangerous situations. Secret Book Club. Welcome to the Secret Clubhouse!
Shh. We will discuss our club selection on the first Sunday of every month. Rules for our discussion: You do not need to have read or finished the book to participate in the chat, but please state that you haven’t read the book at the beginning of your comment. Remember to ask questions of those who have read the book in whole. How to Grow Shiitakes in Your Own Backyard - FROM SCRATCH Magazine. I’m not much of a risk taker.
It’s sad but true. I don’t plan to scale the highest summit or cage dive with sharks. But in the garden? Now, that’s a different story. I’ll plant varieties considered outside my USDA zone, push the envelope of sun verses shade recommendations, and squeeze just one more tomato plant into a bursting bed. Nickel-Iron NiFe batteries by Iron Edison. Preserving Your Rosemary Harvest. Rosemary is easy to grow in pots in a sunny location with plenty of moisture.
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During our boiling, broiling, blistering summer of 2012 here in the Missouri Ozarks, water was a topic of conversation wherever we went.
Creeks and ponds dried up (some never recovered) and the water table dropped, forcing a few neighbors to have their well pumps lowered or to even have deeper wells drilled. Many folks shared memories of rain barrels, cisterns, hand pumps and drawing water with a well bucket as a child, usually on grandpa and grandma’s farm. Some said they’d never want to rely again on those old-time methods of getting water. But, at least they knew how it was done. It seems we have lost much practical knowledge in the last 50 or so years because we thought we’d never need it again. The 10 Laws of Food Storage. Overwhelmed with your preps?
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Given the fact that her cupboard was bare it was probably because she didn't have the wherewithal to fill it. Finding the resources to put food by against troubled times is a common problem, but it is solvable, even for those of us on tight budgets. In fact, over the long term, the food storage program you start now will save you money. 10 Smart Ideas My Redneck Neighbor Taught Me - Online Survival Blog & Survival News. I found this great story from a “non-prepper” and thought you guys and gals might get a kick out of this!
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Think of it as a sort of Viking skittles that can be played on any flat surface, grass, gravel or even snow are all acceptable (Fig 1). There are no balls to throw but the skittles or blocks as they are called are knocked down with throwing sticks. The game is gaining in popularity and spreading outside of the Scandinavian countries. The pieces can be made from any type of wood but obviously if they are made from hardwood they will last longer. Invisible forms of renewable energy.
One of the ongoing objections wind power, Britain’s most promising form of renewable energy, is that it is unsightly and ruins views. I kind of like wind turbines, I think they’re rather graceful, but I appreciate that others don’t. Recycle a Bicycle Into an Elevator. There's repurposing, and then there's repurposing like a BOSS. NSA surveillance: how to stay secure. Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.
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