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How can science fiction predict the future?
“Would you like to know what’s in our future? What’s going to happen to humanity tomorrow, next year, or even a millennium from now? Well, you’re not alone. Everyone from governments to military to industry leaders do as well, and they all employ people – called ‘futurists’ – who attempt to forecast the future. Roey…
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Gravity Waves Ripple over Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
“In this natural-color image from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR), a fingerprint-like gravity wave feature occurs over a deck of marine stratocumulus clouds. Similar to the ripples that occur when a pebble is thrown into a still pond, such “gravity waves” sometimes appear when the relatively stable and stratified air masses associated with stratocumulus cloud…
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Gravitational Waves Hit The Late Show
Brian Greene stops by to demonstrate an exciting new scientific discovery
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Futuring Peace
“Futuring Peace” is an effort of the UN DPPA Innovation Cell to encourage interdisciplinary approaches such as futures thinking and speculative design and their practical limits to peace processes in a world of increasing complexity, to better prepare the United Nations for the “unknown unknowns” and global systemic shocks such as COVID-19. This website serves…
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Futures Thinking : A Mind set- not a Method
“Design practices are becoming increasingly future-focussed, reflecting the complexities of the design challenges that we face. Futures thinking can offer us tools and methods to help with this, but more than that, it might offer us a new way of seeing the world that we design for.” – Zoe Prosser & Santini Basra https://medium.com/touchpoint/futures-thinking-a-mind-set-not-a-method-64c9b5f9da37
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Futures Literacy
“Futures Literacy, a universally accessible skill that builds on the innate human capacity to imagine the future, offers a clear, field tested solution to poverty-of-the-imagination.”- UNESCO https://en.unesco.org/futuresliteracy/about
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Festival of Lights
Each year in October, Berlin turns into a city full of light art. The artful displays on the famous landmarks, monuments, buildings and places are turning the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS into one of the best known light art festivals in the world. https://festival-of-lights.de/en/videos/
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Data Visualization: Masses in the Stellar Graveyard
What are the densest objects that form when stars die? https://ligo.northwestern.edu/media/mass-plot/index.html
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Crab Nebula Sonification
“The Crab Nebula has been studied by people since it first appeared in Earth’s sky in 1054 A.D. Modern telescopes have captured its enduring engine powered by a quickly spinning neutron star that formed when a massive star collapsed. The combination of rapid rotation and a strong magnetic field generates jets of matter and anti-matter…
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Citizen Science: Spiralgraph
“The ability of the human brain find and process patterns is far superior to any computer. Spiral patterns in disk galaxies are easily seen and followed by people but computer algorithms have a harder time determining where spirals begin and end, especially if they aren’t continuous. That’s where you come in! By tracing the spiral…
