- 🤩 🎥 Terraforming 2021. “Featuring new design and policy projects by The Terraforming 2021 researchers on rethinking populations, mobility and borders; positive biopolitics and ecological engineering & enforcement, hemispherical stacks and alternative notions of ‘technocracy,’ the future of space law and astronomic & political modes of ‘planetarity.’”
- 🤓 💍 🇬🇧 A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: this enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester in 1785. The square bezel has a portrait of the pagan goddess Venus, inscribed backwards SUNEV for use as a signet ring by the owner. Curiously…
- 🦜 An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media. “This field guide looks at social media that works on different “logics” than do Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. It features communities that have tried consciously to use different models than surveillance capitalism and includes the work of collaborators in other countries and subcultures.”
- 👍🏼 🌳 🇬🇧 Royal family urged to lead rewilding efforts and transform estates. “The letter, addressed to the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, urges them to prioritise biodiversity in their land management and allow for the restoration of ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, heathlands, swamps and rivers – both as vital wildlife habitats and important carbon sinks.”
- ⭕️ The Circles of Friendship. “The 15 layer includes the previous five, and your core social partners. They are our main social companions, so they provide the context for having fun times. They also provide the main circle for exchange of child care. We trust them enough to leave our children with them. The next layer up, at 50, is your big-weekend-barbecue people. And the 150 layer is your weddings and funerals group who would come to your once-in-a-lifetime event.”
- 🔭 🇺🇸 NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus. “These investigations are the final selections from four mission concepts NASA picked in February 2020 as part of the agency’s Discovery 2019 competition. Following a competitive, peer-review process, the two missions were chosen based on their potential scientific value and the feasibility of their development plans. The project teams will now work to finalize their requirements, designs, and development plans.”
Note — Jun 13, 2021