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I took my wife and went to my cosen, Thomas Pepys, and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

Remember the sound of an old slide projector? A chewing gum machine? A coffee mill?

#ConserveTheSound puts together a virtual audio #museum of (almost) lost everyday #sound:

https://www.conservethesound.de/category/sound

CTS - conserve the sound

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I keep thinking about this 1995 passage from “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan.
We live closer in time to Tyrannosaurus rex than it did to Stegosaurus. #science #SharedPlanet

“We've arranged a society based on #science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

- Carl Sagan, in his last interview to Charlie Rose https://charlierose.com/videos/9094

Carl Sagan - Charlie Rose

Astronomer Carl Sagan on his book, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark."

Charlie Rose

Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.

But evolution is not linear. It branches and branches. Divides in some places and recombines in others. #science
Image: @keesey #SharedPlanet

During the #Foucault research I wrote a series of research updates – not to share draft text from books, but to write about the process of doing research. They are a kind of diary of the project, tracing how it developed. Links are here - https://progressivegeographies.com/foucault-books/

I am doing similar research updates with the #Indo-European project, and the first few, including a new one today, some research resources and details of forthcoming publications from the project, are here - https://progressivegeographies.com/future-projects/indo-european-thought-in-twentieth-century-france/

Foucault

Between 2012 and 2022 I worked extensively on Foucault, leading to a four-volume intellectual history of his entire career. The books are published by Polity Press – Foucault’s Last Dec…

Progressive Geographies
Indo-European thought project update 7: Working on Dumézil’s teaching, a few research resources, and some archival work in Paris

Progressive Geographies
The subtle power of synchronisation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=t-_VPRCtiUg&feature=share
The Surprising Secret of Synchronization

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