Evolution Concepts Long-term Thinking The Big Here Digital Dark Age Organizational Continuity Futures Millennial Precedent Archives Long Shorts Long News Projects Announcements Long Now Talks The Clock of the Long Now The Rosetta Project The Interval Long Bets Revive & Restore PanLex Manual For Civilization Disciplines Art Business Cities Civilization Climate Change Computing Culture Economics Energy Environment Evolution Genetics Globalization Government History Infrastructure Language Psychology Science Science Fiction Space Technology Year 02022 02021 02020 02019 02018 02017 02016 02015 02014 02013 02012 02011 02010 02009 02008 02007 02006 02005 02004 OLDER Long Now Talks Sara Imari Walker An Informational Theory of Life Long-term Thinking How to Dance for Millions of Years The dances of the colorful manakins of South America are not just spectacles but monuments to generations of avian society. By Liam Taylor Revive & Restore Controlling Nature Might Be in Our Nature The urge to reshape our environment is no transient social pressure. Instead, it’s a set of behaviors with deep evolutionary roots stretching back millions of years. By Andrew Tighe Science The Three-Century Lifespan of the Modern Bee The preservation of individual bee specimens across the centuries allows us to embrace the temporal expanse of what came before us, and leave good records for those who follow. By A'liya Spinner Science The Shocking Medical History of Electric Fish How a piscine biomedical tradition stretching from Ancient Egypt to Colonial Guyana helped create the first batteries By Ramsha Zubairi Long Now Talks Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz Resisting Dystopia Long-term Thinking Peering Into The Invisible Present How datasets spanning decades and nature apps are expanding our ecological attention span into the long now By Paul Constance Evolution How Humans Grew Acorn Brains If we are going to tackle humanity's biggest challenges, we will need to use our unrivaled ability to think long-term. Understanding how we developed this ability can help us use it to its full potential. By Roman Krznaric Evolution E. coli in the Long View E. coli has been with us for untold generations — more of theirs than ours, to be sure — and we have evolved together in both commensal and adversarial ways. By Jacob Kuppermann Evolution The History of Hybrid Species from Kungas to Killer Bees Humans have long been fascinated with hybrid animal breeds as both friends and foes. By Jacob Kuppermann
Long-term Thinking How to Dance for Millions of Years The dances of the colorful manakins of South America are not just spectacles but monuments to generations of avian society. By Liam Taylor
Revive & Restore Controlling Nature Might Be in Our Nature The urge to reshape our environment is no transient social pressure. Instead, it’s a set of behaviors with deep evolutionary roots stretching back millions of years. By Andrew Tighe
Science The Three-Century Lifespan of the Modern Bee The preservation of individual bee specimens across the centuries allows us to embrace the temporal expanse of what came before us, and leave good records for those who follow. By A'liya Spinner
Science The Shocking Medical History of Electric Fish How a piscine biomedical tradition stretching from Ancient Egypt to Colonial Guyana helped create the first batteries By Ramsha Zubairi
Long-term Thinking Peering Into The Invisible Present How datasets spanning decades and nature apps are expanding our ecological attention span into the long now By Paul Constance
Evolution How Humans Grew Acorn Brains If we are going to tackle humanity's biggest challenges, we will need to use our unrivaled ability to think long-term. Understanding how we developed this ability can help us use it to its full potential. By Roman Krznaric
Evolution E. coli in the Long View E. coli has been with us for untold generations — more of theirs than ours, to be sure — and we have evolved together in both commensal and adversarial ways. By Jacob Kuppermann
Evolution The History of Hybrid Species from Kungas to Killer Bees Humans have long been fascinated with hybrid animal breeds as both friends and foes. By Jacob Kuppermann