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 Rosetta Stone is a fragment of a larger slab erected at an Egyptian temple in 196 B.C.E., during the reign ofPtolemy V, aPtolemaic kingof Macedonian Greek ancestry. Its surface is inscribed with adecreeissued by a council of Egyptian priests on the anniversary of Ptolemy’s coronat...
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...
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) ...
“You may be at a place of deep heartbreak or deep despair. You may be at a place where the rug has been pulled from underneath you,”Michael points out. But this feeling, he further explains, isn’t an artifact of your undoing. In fact,“it’s the beginning of transformation.” ...
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...
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...
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