The Mother and the Whore (Criterion Collection): Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Jean Eustache’s still-controversial examination of polyamory and radical politics gets the full Criterion treatment (in 4K and Blu-ray), examining the film as a cultural artifact of Fra...
What does the Narmer Palette symbolize? Narmer Palette: The Narmer Palette is an Early Dynastic Egyptian artifact, excavated by a pair of British archeologists in the late 19th century. The stone, which was likely created in the 31st century BCE, has carvings on both sides and was probably co...
The “soul searching” meaning, simply put, is the process ofself-introspectionwhere you look inward to reconnect with your true self. It’s when you stop outsourcing your truth and start remembering who you are… before the job title, the grind, the pressure to “have it all figured out....
We soon realized we weren’t the only ones fascinated by this horological and cultural artifact. The Telltale Signs Here is what we knew about the watch. It had... A tonneau-shaped case in a silver tone (which suggested steel, white gold, silver, or platinum) ...
Two hundred years after Champollion announced his successful decipherment of hieroglyphs, the artifact responsible for his breakthrough—the Rosetta Stone—occupies a singular place in the cultural consciousness. It’s one of the most popular attractionsat the British Museum, where it will soon serv...
Putting it another way, layering is the artifact of the limits of human capacity to hold coherent mental models. If we imagine a software engineer with near-infinite mental model capacity, they could likely write well-functioning, relatively bug-free code using few (if any) layers of abstractio...
The Narmer Palette is a decorative stone tablet from the Egyptian Early Dynastic period, most likely created in the 31st century BCE. The artifact is named after the ancient pharaoh Narmer, who was the first leader to unite Upper and Lower Egypt. Narmer is depicted wearing the crowns of both...
not unlike the multiple ways in whichinformationhas been conceptualized as thing (Buckland,1991), thought and memory, a communication process, an artifact, and energy (Marchionini,2010). Serendipity, for example has not only been conceptualized as an outcome (Fine & Deegan,1996), but also a ...
When that is going to be mainstream, however, is a pretty big question that I can’t answer. But, because yesterday was about 2014, I am going to make this post about 2015. And so here is what is going to happen in 2015 according to me. 1/ The big companies that were started in...