Imaging the Antikythera Mechanism
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Google Tech Talk March 5, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Tom Malzbender. The Antikythera Mechanism is an astronomical mechanical computer built by the ancient Greeks in 200 B.C.E. and resides in the National Archeological Museum in Athens. In 2005, Dan Gelb and I travelled to Athens to apply our Reflectance Transformation methods to the device in... Read more
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- -: Imaging the Antikythera Mechanism
March 10, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk March 5, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Tom Malzbender. The Antikythera Mechanism is an astronomical mechanical computer built by the ancient Greeks in 200 B.C.E. and resides in the National Archeological Museum in Athens. In 2005, Dan Gelb and I travelled to Athens to apply our R...
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- -: Cities That Pre-Date Religion: Real Estate and Human Civilization - Stewart Brand
March 17, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/01/Long-Term_Thinking_in_the_Next_10000_Years Why are there so many histories of architecture, but none of real estate? Futurist Stewart Brand discusses the central role that land has played throughout human civilization. ----- Long Finance is an initi...
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- -: The 13,000-Year-Old Underground Forest of South Africa
December 23, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/15/Rachel_Sussman_The_Worlds_Oldest_Living_Organisms Photographer Rachel Sussman describes a species of baobab tree found in a particularly dry and fire-prone region of South Africa. The tree protects itself from fire damage by growing primarily upside d...
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- -: The Oldest Living Thing on Earth? 500,000-Year-Old Bacteria
January 4, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/15/Rachel_Sussman_The_Worlds_Oldest_Living_Organisms Photographer Rachel Sussman presents an image of what is most likely the oldest living thing on planet Earth: a specimen of actinobacteria, found in Siberian permafrost. The bacteria are about 500,000 ...
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Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone For the Indus Script
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Rajesh Rao explains the process he and his colleagues are undertaking to decipher one of the last undeciphered languages on Earth, the Indus Script.
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Camille Seaman: Haunting Photos of Polar Ice
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Camille Seaman shares her passion for photographing icebergs and her perception that each one has a personality and unique characteristics.
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