Geomagnetic harddrive
In her recent biography of Sir Christopher Wren – whose towers, domes and steeples appear in the image above – Lisa Jardine describes how she discovered that the London Monument, designed in 1677 by...
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[Image: “Conceptual diagram of satellite triangulation,” courtesy of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations (ONCO)]. I’ve long been fascinated by what I might call the geological nature of harddrives –...
View ArticleThe Museum of Speculative Archaeological Devices
Perhaps a short list of speculative mechanisms for future archaeological research would be interesting to produce. [Image: A toy antique oscilloscope by Andrew Smith, courtesy of Gadget Master and...
View ArticleVillage Design as Magnetic Storage Media
[Image: “Magnetic Field” by Berenice Abbott, from The Science Pictures (1958-1961)]. An interesting new paper suggests that the ritual practice of burning parts of villages to the ground in southern...
View ArticleArchiving “Geomagnetic Spikes” in Everyday Objects
[Image: One of the pots; photo by Oded Lipschits, courtesy NPR]. Ancient clay pottery in the Middle East has inadvertently recorded the Earth’s magnetic field, including evidence of an “astonishing...
View ArticleMagnetic Landscape Architecture
[Image: R. Fu, via ScienceNews]. Although I seem to be on a roll with linking to ScienceNews stories, this is too amazing to pass up: “People living at least 2,000 years ago near the Pacific Coast of...
View ArticleGeomagnetic harddrive
In her recent biography of Sir Christopher Wren – whose towers, domes and steeples appear in the image above – Lisa Jardine describes how she discovered that the London Monument, designed in 1677 by...
View ArticlePlanet Harddrive
[Image: “Conceptual diagram of satellite triangulation,” courtesy of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations (ONCO)]. I’ve long been fascinated by what I might call the geological nature of harddrives –...
View ArticleThe Museum of Speculative Archaeological Devices
Perhaps a short list of speculative mechanisms for future archaeological research would be interesting to produce. [Image: A toy antique oscilloscope by Andrew Smith, courtesy of Gadget Master and...
View ArticleVillage Design as Magnetic Storage Media
[Image: “Magnetic Field” by Berenice Abbott, from The Science Pictures (1958-1961)]. An interesting new paper suggests that the ritual practice of burning parts of villages to the ground in southern...
View ArticleArchiving “Geomagnetic Spikes” in Everyday Objects
[Image: One of the pots; photo by Oded Lipschits, courtesy NPR]. Ancient clay pottery in the Middle East has inadvertently recorded the Earth’s magnetic field, including evidence of an “astonishing...
View ArticleMagnetic Landscape Architecture
[Image: R. Fu, via ScienceNews]. Although I seem to be on a roll with linking to ScienceNews stories, this is too amazing to pass up: “People living at least 2,000 years ago near the Pacific Coast of...
View ArticleThe Magnetic Depths
The emerging sub-genre of public service announcements about geological surveys—apparently offered not just due to FAA regulations, but to quell the growth of potential conspiracy theories—continues...
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