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Going through my Google Reader articles and find one entitled ‘Pass me the nautiloid, nurse‘…
My heart leapt – at last Nature Magazine is referring to my blog!
Alas, the article is about something much more important, namely whether allowing hospital patients to handle museum objects could help speed up their recovery and alleviate suffering.
Great idea. I know I’d like it.
This Futurismic post is fascinating. It cites an article by Kevin Kelly about a disk that has been imprinted with a record of the world’s languages in ever decreasing font size, right down to the microscopically tiny.
It sounds like something Borges might have cooked up, but is a brilliant way to maintain decipherability across human languages, many of which we are losing at a depressing rate.
