Evolution of problem-solving throughout the ages! #StoneAge to #ComputerAge
#History #Evolution #Cartoon #Humor #Technology #ProblemSolving #ComicStrip #Throwback #TechHumor
We’re well into Black History Month, when white people love to quote the softballs from MLK. Which is fine. It’s palatable.
But in order to create real change, we have to get uncomfortable.
Example. Assata Shakur was vilified, and remains a concern for white folks. But she was a victim. Systemic racism wrote her story.
This counters the narrative:
https://www.undergroundhistory.com/stories/assata-olugbala-shakur/
#BlackHistoryMonth #AssataShakur #SystemicRacism #History #JoanneChesimard #Activism #Revolution
Evolution of problem-solving throughout the ages! #StoneAge to #ComputerAge
#History #Evolution #Cartoon #Humor #Technology #ProblemSolving #ComicStrip #Throwback #TechHumor
Reminder that I am giving a talk on the battle between IBM and Compaq for the soul of the PC!
It's next week at the Computer Conservation Society. Tickets available for both in-person and online. #history #compaq #technology
https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/2025-26/20260219.htm
"Phreaking Politics in Modern America", a new paper by Jacob Bruggeman covers "telephone hacking, AT&T's status as an icon of American technology, and the New Left-to-libertarian pipeline in modern American political order."
#openaccess PDF from *Modern American History:*
https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2025.10083
"Phreaking Politics in Modern America", a new paper by Jacob Bruggeman covers "telephone hacking, AT&T's status as an icon of American technology, and the New Left-to-libertarian pipeline in modern American political order."
#openaccess PDF from *Modern American History:*
https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2025.10083
Reminder that I am giving a talk on the battle between IBM and Compaq for the soul of the PC!
It's next week at the Computer Conservation Society. Tickets available for both in-person and online. #history #compaq #technology
https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/2025-26/20260219.htm
📣 New Podcast! "12 February 1920: First women's strike in Colombia" on @Spreaker #colombia #history #women
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/12-february-1920-first-women-s-strike-in-colombia--69728395
49 years ago
"Mongoloid" is the debut single by American new wave band Devo, released February 1977 with "Jocko Homo" as the B-side.
"Mongoloid" was later re-recorded by Devo and appeared on the album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!
49 years ago
"Mongoloid" is the debut single by American new wave band Devo, released February 1977 with "Jocko Homo" as the B-side.
"Mongoloid" was later re-recorded by Devo and appeared on the album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!
Here's the paper & the press release documenting the day in 2016 when we first developed the skills to see (or hear, if that's your preferred metaphor) two black holes merging into one.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102?fbclid=IwY2xjawP5rUdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFvV0daT25DMDhKMFo4cXBuc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgX6LaKMGqUB1DGiP0tE9Ugfrl454TcpwEdCN880joeZ_xDHfOY_G8QZQMsd_aem_77ClqYe_ZGU-3BgDt0H8qw #history #science #nature
Ten years ago today, physicists reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves, produced by colliding black holes 1.3 billion light years away.
That was when we, as a species, developed space-time eyes. My Invisible Universe column:
https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-day-we-evolved-space-time-eyes #space #science #nature #technology
Here's the paper & the press release documenting the day in 2016 when we first developed the skills to see (or hear, if that's your preferred metaphor) two black holes merging into one.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102?fbclid=IwY2xjawP5rUdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFvV0daT25DMDhKMFo4cXBuc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgX6LaKMGqUB1DGiP0tE9Ugfrl454TcpwEdCN880joeZ_xDHfOY_G8QZQMsd_aem_77ClqYe_ZGU-3BgDt0H8qw #history #science #nature
Some simply vanished. Often they came home to their families by return mail in little jars of ashes.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
Some simply vanished. Often they came home to their families by return mail in little jars of ashes.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
Hello Fedi! We are the still-in-progress Twin Cities Radical Community Archive. This project aims to collect, preserve, and increase access to left-wing, working-class activism in the Twin Cities metro, both historically and currently.
#GLAM #Galleries #Libraries #Archives #Museums #Minnesota #MSP #Minneapolis #StPaul #TwinCities #Antifa #Labor #Activism #History #Introduction
The Golden Ratio by Gary B. Meisner, 2018
The Divine Beauty of Mathematics
The Golden Ratio examines the presence of this divine number in art and architecture throughout history, as well as its ubiquity among plants, animals, and even the cosmos. This gorgeous book features clear, entertaining, and enlightening commentary alongside stunning full-color illustrations by Venezuelan artist and architect Rafael Araujo.
See also:
The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio, 2003
The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Most readers will have at least dim memories from geometry class of the irrational number pi. Theoretical astrophysicist Livio gives pi's overlooked cousin phi its due with this lively account, the first on the subject written for the layperson.
