Category Archives: history/memory

monuments and palm trees

Posted on October 14, 2015 by twotreatises

In Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s 1968 study and revindication of American commercial vernacular architecture, the architects claimed, for that oft-maligned landscape, a new monumentality. The Las Vegas Strip, the gas station, and the billboard … Continue reading →

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time relativity, redux

Posted on September 14, 2015 by twotreatises

The year England switched to the Gregorian calendar from the Julian one in 1752, they skipped Sept 3-13. (see also, original post) a brief history of how clocks changed the world (see also, Robert Owen’s “Eight hours’ labor, Eight hours’ … Continue reading →

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re-dinosauring the undinosaur

Posted on April 7, 2015 by twotreatises

Pluto got demoted. Constellations get demoted. Meanwhile, the good ole Brontosaurus got reinstated (and its looks got updated a bit in the process). “It’s the classic example of how science works,” said study co-author Octávio Mateus. “Especially when hypotheses are … Continue reading →

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moon distance etc.

Posted on January 6, 2015 by twotreatises

chart with moon distances (perigee and apogee) for your location: www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/distance.html You can also find upcoming eclipses: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse and other fun random things to temporarily entertain yourself with: www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html

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telling time and calendar reformation

Posted on August 11, 2014 by twotreatises

solar calendars: the Roman calendar became the Julian calendar became the Gregorian calendar (composed of 97 leap years every 400 years) lunar calendars: such as the Chinese calendar (not, in fact, the official calendar of China), the Mayan calendar (with its five … Continue reading →

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