History Concepts Long-term Thinking The Big Here Digital Dark Age Organizational Continuity Futures Millennial Precedent Archives Long Shorts Long News Projects Announcements Long Now Talks The Clock of the Long Now The Rosetta Project The Interval Long Bets Revive & Restore PanLex Manual For Civilization Disciplines Art Business Cities Civilization Climate Change Computing Culture Economics Energy Environment Evolution Genetics Globalization Government History Infrastructure Language Psychology Science Science Fiction Space Technology Year 02022 02021 02020 02019 02018 02017 02016 02015 02014 02013 02012 02011 02010 02009 02008 02007 02006 02005 02004 OLDER Culture Mythmaking for Burning Ground In 19th century Iceland, reframing aggressive nature as a source of belonging shaped a myth that built a more resilient future. We can do the same. By Johanna Hoffman Environment Building Nature at Silver Falls Oregon's largest state park is less a preservation of nature and more a monument to the power of ecological restoration, of intentional human rehabilitation of the land. By Zeb Larson The Clock of the Long Now How to Tell Time Using Stonehenge A new study sheds light on the precise mechanism through which Stonehenge may have told time. By Jacob Kuppermann The Big Here New Study Models Sea Level Rise Risks at African Heritage Sites The impact of sea level rise on African sites has largely been understudied. By Jacob Kuppermann Evolution The History of Hybrid Species from Kungas to Killer Bees Humans have long been fascinated with hybrid animal breeds as both friends and foes. By Jacob Kuppermann Civilization What a mysterious set of golden tubes tells us about Bronze Age beer A set of precious metal rods found in a bronze age tomb more than a century ago may be the world’s oldest surviving straws. By Jacob Kuppermann The Rosetta Project Linguistic Data in the Long View Where have we succeeded in moving knowledge into the future? Where have our efforts fallen short? What will help our data last and be meaningful in the future? By Laura Welcher Long Now Talks John Markoff Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand Long Now Talks Rick Prelinger Lost Landscapes 02021 — Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California Infrastructures The Big Here Stewart Brand Takes Us On “The Maintenance Race” Human life is driven by the essential drama of maintaining — of ensuring continued survival and working against the drive of entropy. Yet maintenance is a largely unheralded presence in our lives. By Jacob Kuppermann
Culture Mythmaking for Burning Ground In 19th century Iceland, reframing aggressive nature as a source of belonging shaped a myth that built a more resilient future. We can do the same. By Johanna Hoffman
Environment Building Nature at Silver Falls Oregon's largest state park is less a preservation of nature and more a monument to the power of ecological restoration, of intentional human rehabilitation of the land. By Zeb Larson
The Clock of the Long Now How to Tell Time Using Stonehenge A new study sheds light on the precise mechanism through which Stonehenge may have told time. By Jacob Kuppermann
The Big Here New Study Models Sea Level Rise Risks at African Heritage Sites The impact of sea level rise on African sites has largely been understudied. By Jacob Kuppermann
Evolution The History of Hybrid Species from Kungas to Killer Bees Humans have long been fascinated with hybrid animal breeds as both friends and foes. By Jacob Kuppermann
Civilization What a mysterious set of golden tubes tells us about Bronze Age beer A set of precious metal rods found in a bronze age tomb more than a century ago may be the world’s oldest surviving straws. By Jacob Kuppermann
The Rosetta Project Linguistic Data in the Long View Where have we succeeded in moving knowledge into the future? Where have our efforts fallen short? What will help our data last and be meaningful in the future? By Laura Welcher
Long Now Talks Rick Prelinger Lost Landscapes 02021 — Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California Infrastructures
The Big Here Stewart Brand Takes Us On “The Maintenance Race” Human life is driven by the essential drama of maintaining — of ensuring continued survival and working against the drive of entropy. Yet maintenance is a largely unheralded presence in our lives. By Jacob Kuppermann