Dream project for the last year: art direction for Orbital Studies.
Featuring a brand new Authentic Serif; commissioned work from friends @mynameiseno.bsky.social @rileyjshaw.com;
printed on munken and gf smith colorplan citrine; layflat thread-sewn otabind (robinkinross.substack.com/p/otabind) !!!
Thank you! This means a lot.
Also features:
- Jan Zwicky
- M. Chirimuuta
- J.F. Martel,
- Sara Angelucci
and many other artists, poets, scientists and writers.
Our inaugural issue explores questions of the living world. What separates living matter from our creations? Meaning, purpose, and agency were once scientific taboos—why are biologists now grappling with them? Why do we believe that the world might be knowable to us at all?
Cover of Orbital Studies magazine Issue 0
My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now!
Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture.
Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin...
orbitalstudies.com
Adults love to talk about the impact of technology on kids, but we so rarely listen to the kids themselves.
Next week's Wayfinding event is trying to change that: a panel of teenagers talking about their relationship with technology.
Join us on Wednesday
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
This is one of the only good takes
The real world is what is left unsaid when we have said everything. What we have said is language and the world is not language. A rock is not a word. Guy Davenport
”The real world is what is left unsaid when we have said everything. What we have said is language and the world is not language. A rock is not a word.“
— Guy Davenport
I'll be doing one of these sessions, we'll take the love of complex patterns and structures which often draws us to work in tech, but instead we'll leave our screens and go for a walk in the woods, foraging new patterns, grounding the abstractions in the natural world.
Frankly amazed that any biology gets done at all tbh
You're a thoughtful talented writer! Although I have not been in the Rails ecosystem, I relate a lot to the nostalgia for a joy and creativity orientation in tech which I struggle to find today. Appreciate that you're putting in the work to try to recover it. In the end it's just made out of people.
We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science.
Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*
Deadline Dec 10: orbitalstudies.com
Please share! We pay all contributors.
Paul Klee
The Bounds of the Intellect, 1927
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Each type of touch neuron can detect specific sensations, such as vibration or temperature; together they generate our complex touch experience. www.quantamagazine.org/touch-our-mo...
An addressed envelope with some instructions. Further instructions on the back of filling out an index card and receiving further social messages.
Just got handed an invite to Western Toronto’s fastest growing screen free social network PostPost Social
The full protocol specification is available if you want to self onboard postpost.social
You should update your pinned post to reflect this change!
In response to all the ai pushed on us & predictions of replacing professions, I think "Men have forgotten this truth," "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
My images take extraordinary amounts of time for me to make and I wouldn’t have it any other way
TIL that most modern heavy metal logos are designed by a guy who works at the Co-Op in Exeter
www.devonlive.com/whats-on/wha...
Periodic reminder that are.na is the best place on the internet. Legitimately somewhere I feel awe/movement, not something I typically get through this little glowing demon rectangle.
Here's a great channel on anachronism: https://www.are.na/francesco-venturi/anachronisms
today is the day
Layers of information in an archival document:
- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
...
Dear trainee friends (et al.),
'Tis true that parts of the sky are falling & this is distracting. However, if you happen to have done A THING (paper, etc.), we want to support you. Don't hold back from letting us know. So we can learn and 👏.
We're still here for the science.
Sincerely,
Everyone
Well, this seems now to be official. Trust me, it is a beautiful thing.
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
An index card that says: Screen-Free Social Network! Decorate an index card and mail it to: PostPost.social #616-2938 Dundas St. W Toronto, ON M6P 3N8 CANADA Include $2 for return postage, wait, and soon you'll receive a package of Posts! Wow! Billionaire-Free! Made in Canada! Then: beautifully composited atop the image, the text "New Accessibility Feature: include a note with "call me:" and your phone number, and we'll call to describe your package of Posts.
By popular demand https://PostPost.social now includes accessibility features: send us your phone number and we'll read your posts aloud to you!
#toronto #socialmedia #mail #accessibility
this morning @wxs.ca led a discussion on Antiqua and nova - here are some my thoughts! www.vatican.va/roman_curia/...
A new study finds ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.
Learn more: scim.ag/4h2K0ID
I'm going to make enemies, but saying that we know the number of parameters of the brain is akin to saying that you have no clue about the brain. It's a complex multilevel system tightly integrated with the rest of the body. The statement doesn't even make sense, or "not even wrong" as they say.
