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Human Zoo
THREE men and three women will be locked in the primate enclosure for seven days at a time, from 7am until 6pm and until 8pm on Friday nights.
Group One – In the exhibit 2-7 January 2007
Planetocopia
Planetocopia is a group of model worlds supporting intelligent life. Some of these worlds are set in our future, some are alternate Earths, some are purely imaginary experiments in planetology, biology, sociology.
Take a globe of the Earth. Pry it loose from its stand. Now choose new poles ~ [and] spin it ~ for a million years!
Imagine it’s exactly one thousand years from now. Picture Earth, Mars, and Venus, all on the same day. How have the three worlds changed?
Peter Douglas Ward’s book “Rare Earth,” ~ claims worlds with microbial life may be common but multicellular life is rare, and intelligent life vanishingly rare. Ward lists all Earth’s quirks that influenced our unique path of evolution, then demands other worlds match every one.
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I’ve convinced myself that many different kinds of worlds are possible biospheres; Earth is not the only path.
Alternate Earths, each with a single drastic, surreal change.
More Dream Worlds
Best of Joel’s Blog 2006
01/01/06 More Cowbell
01/07/06 Motivation
01/13/06 Imperial
01/17/06 Old School Wrestling
01/27/06 Flying Snakes
02/11/06 Sinking
02/17/06 Free Fall
02/23/06 Serious Lego
02/27/06 Blond
02/28/06 For The Love
03/03/06 Cow Abduction
03/11/06 Jet Boots
03/20/06 Rendezvous
03/23/06 RatMan
03/28/06 Checker Shadow
04/19/06 The Long Now Foundation
04/20/06 Your House
04/24/06 Dance Monkeys Dance
04/27/06 Danier Leather
04/27/06 Rube Goldberg
05/01/06 Jet Powered Beetle
05/13/06 Hawkeye Point
05/23/06 Everest Expedition
05/27/06 Rattlesnake
05/30/06 VW Bus
06/15/06 Tommy Emmanuel
06/18/06 Claes Oldenburg
06/19/06 Rocket Science
06/20/06 Waiting For Camaro
06/24/06 Paul Bunyan
07/02/06 Iowa Cows
07/04/06 Erik Mongrain
07/09/06 One Red Paperclip Success
07/20/06 Thagomizer
07/27/06 Parking Spots
08/02/06 Global Sea Level
08/04/06 Blastolene Indy Special
08/08/06 Pranks
08/22/06 Fishing
08/28/06 Yellowjackets
09/09/06 The Everyday Miricle Of Life
09/13/06 Messy Eater
09/14/06 Chubby Vegan
09/27/06 VR RC Plane
09/30/06 Grass Wheel
10/04/06 Heartbeats
10/12/06 Wheelchair Crash
10/15/06 Trojan Horse
10/21/06 Tesla Coil Music
10/28/06 Leukocyte Extravasation
11/12/06 In The Beginning
11/16/06 Scotty And Fiddy
11/19/06 Jet Powered Fire Extinguisher
11/25/06 Not In A Pool
11/26/06 The Boat
12/05/06 Infrared Light
12/16/06 Andy McKee
12/17/06 Time’s Person of the Year 2006 is now on my resume’.
12/21/06 Homemade Ferrari
12/26/06 History For Kids
Closer to Truth
Close your eyes. Now fast-forward 25 years. Open your eyes. What do you see? Humanity has moved through the agrarian age to the industrial age and now, the information age. With what moniker will we label our future? Experts debate where we’ve been, what we’ve learned, what the future holds in store, and if it really is possible to forecast the not too distant future.
You can use current trends, such as Moore’s Law, to predict certain aspects of the future. The problem is, I can remember old quotes such as “If current trends continue, we’ll need all of downtown just to store punched cards.”
My three predictions for the next 25 years:
I predict that many current trends will not continue.
I predict that unexpected things will happen.
I predict that 25 years from now, a huge safety pin in the nose will still not be accepted as proper formal attire.
The 7 Wonders of Iowa
100 Characters
Hi, I’m Jared and I’m going to impersonate 100 Characters in five minutes or less starting now.
History For Kids
History for Kids began in 1995 as a community service learning project for sophomores at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Since 2000, however, it has been entirely organized and run by Karen Carr.
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Her interests lie especially in the Greek and Roman worlds, which is where this site began; we have been gradually expanding into other periods in response to audience demand.
