Metrocosm: Watch as the world’s cities appear one-by-one over 6,000 years. “Watch the rise of human cities, beginning with [arguably] the world’s first city in 3700 BC and continuing up to the present.”
The maps spans the years between 3700 BC to 2000 AD.
Link via MetaFilter Projects.
The New Yorker, August 31, 1946: Hiroshima by John Hersey. The article was later pubished as a book.
Surprisingly, the cover of the issue of The New Yorker didn’t prepare the reader for what was inside. You can see photos of the six people described in the article here.
Link via MetaFilter.
Hoodline: Meet Dr. Color: How Bob Buckter Repainted San Francisco. His website is DrColor.com.
“Quick: imagine a colorful San Francisco Victorian. The way it looks in your mind’s eye probably has something to do with Buckter’s decades of steady influence.
[…]
One vista he hasn’t directly touched is the famed “postcard row” of painted ladies on Alamo Square. He’s done other historic work on the park, but not on that uniquely iconic stretch of Steiner St. They are “a bit understated for my taste,” he says.”
Link via MetaFilter.
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl.
McClatchy DC: Ruined Chernobyl nuclear plant will remain a threat for 3,000 years. “30 years since Chernobyl may seem like a long time, but it’s really just the start. Below reactor’s ruins is a 2,000-ton radioactive mass that can’t be removed. How do you protect a site for as long a time as Western civilization has existed?”
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty: The Chernobyl Disaster: How It Happened. “On April 26, 1986, a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine spiraled out of control. Follow the dramatic events that led to the world’s worst civilian nuclear disaster.”
Links via the 30th anniversary commemoration thread on MetaFilter, which contains more excellent links and interesting discussion, as usual: “This was the day, of course, when we learned we were wrong.“
I posted about Chernobyl on my weblog several times in the past: April 26, 2006, 20th anniversary; May 2, 2006, Artikel aus der Zeit; May 28, 2007; April 26, 2010; November 18, 2010.
What is Zero? Getting Something from Nothing – with Hannah Fry “Is zero really a number? How did it come about? Hannah Fry tells the story of how zero went from nothing to something.”
Link via Schockwellenreiter.
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