The chord change is happening today! The John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt's new chord means this 639-year project is about 4% complete. More from the AP here: apnews.com/article/john...

This organ will play one composition until 2640. It's redefining how slowly music can be played

A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage at a glacial pace for nearly 25 years.

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A team of scholars are recreating ancient recipes from cuneiform tablets via BBC www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

The world’s oldest-known recipes decoded

A team of international scholars versed in culinary history, food chemistry and cuneiform studies has been recreating dishes from the world’s oldest-known recipes.

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Star Axis is complete. 50 years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory in New Mexico. An open lens tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's precession. Read the beautiful feature in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/a...

What is it like to participate in the chalking of the White Horse? Read a first-person account from Christopher Daniel of @longnowldn.bsky.social: www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...

Drawn together

Christopher Daniel, FRSA reflects on the annual chalking of the Uffington White Horse, a 3,000-year-old land artwork whose survival depends on repeated communal care. Joining volunteers from Long Now ...

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✨📜 “In a complex system such as our world today, this is all it might take for the overall system to become destabilized, leading to a collapse.” Professor of ancient history and archaeology Eric H. Cline youtu.be/M4LRHJlijVU #complexity #synthesis #history #complexsystems @longnow.org #reflection

1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed | Eric Cline

YouTube video by The Long Now Foundation

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In an architecture landscape dominated by utilitarian five-over-ones, an ancient architectural style is having an unexpected come-back: Hindu temples. Read about the renaissance in @worksinprogress.bsky.social magazine: worksinprogress.co/issue/modern...

Modern Hindu temples - Works in Progress Magazine

Most ancient architectural traditions have withered, but one is enjoying a golden age: Hindu temple architecture.

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POV you have one drink at The Interval

Historians have used AI to restore lost verses of Gilgamesh, decipher carbonized papyrus scrolls, and fill in gaps in 2,000-year-old Greek inscriptions. @taras-grescoe.com reports on progress in ancient language decipherment, and which codes AI can’t crack (yet): longnow.org/ideas/the-co...

"How do we measure the number of sunrises that have ever happened on earth?" Beautiful short video on @longnow.org Council member Katie Paterson's cross-medium, cross disciplinary art practice exploring themes of atmosphere, space, light, and time. vimeo.com/1206273605?f...

The Power of Words

Commissioned by the UBS Art Collection, this film was shot in Katie Paterson’s studio in Scotland and explores the role of imagination at the heart of her practice. Katie reflects on how artworks ofte...

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Why a liberal arts education will soon be more valuable than ever. A great read from Long Now Council member and @noemamag.com editor @nilsgilman.bsky.social :

How To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI | NOEMA

The most prized workers will be those who can decode a sea of outputs, spot the meaningful signal and translate it into action that others understand and trust.

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The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a resolution recognizing TODAY, June 30, as Asteroid Day. Spearheaded by @b612-asteroid.bsky.social and introduced by AZ Senator and retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, Senator Moran (R-KS) and Cornyn (R-TX), this is a huge triumph, years in the making!

Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 @b612-asteroid.bsky.social · 7mo ago

At B612 Foundation, we’re building the open tools needed to find, track, and understand asteroids—so decisions about our future in space are guided by knowledge, not chance. If you believe this work should remain open, global, and accessible, consider making a gift today. b612foundation.org/donate/

Our long-time friend, Brewster Kahle, founder of the @archive.org, was named a 02026 Computer History Museum Fellow, honoring his pioneering work in digital preservation and open access to knowledge. So deserved. Congratulations, Brewster. computerhistory.org/2026-fellow-...

“Slop” aka the low-effort, high-volume AI-generated content, asks an urgent question: what happens when human expression can be reproduced at scale? @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social investigates on Long Now Ideas: longnow.org/ideas/identi...

Am I Slop? Am I Agentic? Am I Earth?

Identity in the Age of Neural Media

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How to experience Andy Goldsworthy's deep-time art and ephemeral works across San Francisco this summer ->

Calling all artists: Apply to be the @exploratorium.bsky.social ’s Artist-in-Residence. Past residents include Ruth Asawa, Brian Eno, and dozens of others. Applications close June 29, 02026, more info here: www.exploratorium.edu/arts/artist-...

Artist-in-Residence Program | Exploratorium

Learn about the Artist-in-Residence Program.

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🧠 Can geometry give us a theory of neural computation? Claire Isabel Webb and I discussed how #geometry, the hidden shapes & structure inside high-dimensional neural data, can be a powerful tool to understand how the brain computes. @longnow.org @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social

The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org · 2mo ago

Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? @ninamiolane.bsky.social proposes answers in her Long Now Talk with @berggruen.org's Claire Isabel Webb.

How buildings learn about living, loving and dying — a revelatory piece about how Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan have made their home a celebration of their extraordinary lives. www.wired.com/story/stewar...

Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary

An icon of Silicon Valley’s counterculture, Stewart Brand is confronting his final years in a home that embodies the self-sufficient, DIY ethos of his famous Whole Earth Catalog.

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The exceptional exhibit 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯 at @nevadaart.bsky.social is featured in the New York Times today! The article features many of the incredible artists, including our partnership with Jonathon Keats on the monumental Centuries of the Bristlecone clock -> www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/a...

Love to see The Interval's Navy Gimlet named one of the best in the city. Don't miss this great cocktail map from @thebolditalic.bsky.social, it's an epic tour of the San Francisco's greatest haunts ->

The Cocktail Map of San Francisco

San Francisco did not invent the cocktail, but we have spent roughly 175 years acting like we did. If a drink made this list, somebody who actually sat on the stool swears by it.

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In celebration of this amazing new series from @99pi.org, revisit this Long Now Talk from Richard Kurin where he explores 101 objects from the Smithsonian's collection that tell America's story—from Dorothy’s magic slippers to 500-million-year-old fossils

American History in 101 Objects | Richard Kurin

YouTube video by The Long Now Foundation

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99% Invisible@99pi.org · 2mo ago

A stack of dusty paperwork, teeming with unheard voices. What do Civil War pension files reveal about one of the most successful slave rebellions in American history? Listen to a new episode of A History of the United States in 100 Objects on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW

~40% of our @longnow.org Labs applications have come in within the last 24 hours...and we are still accepting submissions until midnight PST tonight, so the percentage will likely go higher. Apparently a huge number of us are procrastinators! Solidarity to all of you out there.

What an incredible season of Long Now Talks! We heard from @ninamiolane.bsky.social on the geometry of consciousness, @ericries.bsky.social on incorruptibility, @bayoakomolafe.bsky.social on new time paradigms, @indyjohar.bsky.social on planetary consciousness + more

We're an official selection at CineGlobe Film Festival in Geneva, Switzerland! 𝘌𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦, our making-of documentary about the Centuries of the Bristlecone art installation, will be premiering at CERN this weekend. We are so thrilled and honored.

Eight sophisticated civilizations across the Mediterranean collapsed within decades of 01177 BCE. What happened? Historians are still arguing about it. @driesdaems.bsky.social explains: longnow.org/ideas/reimag...

Reimagining the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

From ancient empires to the industrialized nation-states of our globally-interconnected world, complexity theory offers a fresh perspective on the past and possible futures of human societies.

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Deadline is one week away! Submit your concepts for the first cohort of Long Now Labs —from reimagining deep time to new methods for discerning truth, we want to hear from you. Submissions close on June 5. Apply here: longnow.org/labs/001/

My 4 book picks this month from some incredible authors 🧵↓ - @sussillodavid.bsky.social - @stewartbrand.bsky.social - @himself.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social - Katalin Karikó

@kevinkelly.bsky.social, Long Now board member and founding editor of Wired magazine, talks to Substack about long-term thinking, technoptimism, and how he helped shape the early internet. on.substack.com/p/open-tab-k...

Open Tab: Kevin Kelly

The radical optimist on starting Wired, stories from the early internet, originating 1,000 True Fans, and why the only way to steer technology is to use it

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A molecule too complex to have formed by chance could be a signature of life. This is the assembly theory framework, which could reshape how we search for life beyond Earth. Researchers @leecronin.bsky.social and @saraimari.bsky.social explain on Long Now Ideas: longnow.org/ideas/physic...

"This Lab is open to everyone, from precocious kindergarteners to prestigious watchmakers, from engineers to essayists to experimental artists."

The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org · 3mo ago

[Open call] Long Now Labs is looking for new concepts for marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. Submissions will be reviewed by our incredible panel of artists, philosophers, and technologists.

Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? @ninamiolane.bsky.social proposes answers in her Long Now Talk with @berggruen.org's Claire Isabel Webb.