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| Title | Comments |
|---|---|
| Maps of War | An online respository of historical maps. |
| Rosetta Warms Up For Mars Swing-by | The team working on the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission have been particularly busy lately. Activities are underway to set the spacecraft's trajectory and prepare the on-board instruments ready for the next major mission milestone: the swing-by of planet Mars in February 2007. |
| The World's Youngest 100-year Experiment | UC Davis's Long Term Research on Agricultural Systems project has been evaluating the sustainability and environmental impact of conventional & alternative agriculture since 1993. |
| The Slow Lab | "A laboratory for slow design thinking and practice, envisioning environmental sustainability, social harmony and individual well-being as processes and products of good design." |
| Short Bets | Middle School Students make predictions about science and technology. A scholarship program sponsored by Pfizer and Wired Magazine, inspired by Long Bets. |
| Slow Walk | Interdisciplinary artist Ohad Fishof will lead a "very Slow Walk" on a set route across London Bridge and back, beginning with the morning rush hour on Tuesday, the 21st of June, the longest day of the year. |
| Toshiba's 10,000 Year Clock | Man-nen Dokei, a clock built in 1851, is to be refurbished by the Toshiba Museum (new Scientist subscription required for whole article) |
| 200 Year Software | The problem of long-lasting software |
| As Slow as Possible | To commemorate John Cage’s eighty ninth birthday on Sept. 5, 2001 a performance of his work ORGAN2/ASLSP lasting 639 years began to sound – played on an organ built especially for this single concert. |
| The Atlanta Time Machine | The Atlanta Time Machine website is dedicated to examining the history of Atlanta, Georgia by comparing vintage photographs of Atlanta with much more contemporary images shot, more or less, from the same perspective of the original photographer. |
| The Ten Thousand Year Blog | A vast and nicely laid out collection of news and utilities for digital archiving and long term thinking in general. |
| The Laboratory of Tree Ring Research | The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at The University of Arizona was founded in 1937 by A. E. Douglass, founder of the modern science of dendrochronology. The LTRR is a research unit in the College of Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Read more about the history of the LTRR. |
| In Pursuit Of The Future | A Three-year research project of The Economics and Social Research Council in Wales, UK. |
| The Ozymandias Project | A project by David Green of The New School University |
| Digital
Preservation Coalition |
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) was established in 2001 to foster
joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation
of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally to
secure the global digital memory and knowledge base. |
| PADI | PADI (preserving access to digital information) is a subject gateway to digital preservation resources, hosted by the National Library of Australia. |
| U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network | The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collaborative effort involving more than 1100 scientists and students investigating ecological processes operating at long time scales and over broad spatial scales. |
| Exploratorium | The excellent site for San Francisco's Exploratorium: Exploranet. |
| Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant | Sandia National Laboratories charged a panel of outside experts with the task to design a 10,000-year marking system for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) site, and estimate the efficacy of the system against various types of intrusion |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | A subscription based service that gives you the most up to date encyclopedia information. |
| The Institute of Human Origins | Where Donald Johansen and Lucy are. |
| White Pine Historical and Archaelogical Society | Because History Deserves to be Shared, We Are Enriching the Present By Preserving the Past! We proudly present the following information for the benefit of our citizens and visitors in Ely and White Pine County, Nevada. |
| Frederick S. Pardee Center | The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University |
| Eternally Yours | A Foundation and book from Europe that talks about making products that last |
