1908: Hofstraat

Léon Spilliaert - Hofstraat Ostend (1908)

Léon Spilliaert: Hofstraat, Ostend (1908)

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2011: Visualization

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“The 1,318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue.” (source)

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1820: Thirlmere

John Glover - Thirlmere (c. 1820)

John Glover: Thirlmere (c. 1820)

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2016: Correction

Micronesian navigational chart

A correction in The New York Times, April 10, 2016:

An article on March 20 about wave piloting in the Marshall Islands misstated the number of possible paths that could be navigated without instruments among the 34 islands and atolls of the Marshall Islands. It is 561, not a trillion trillion. (source)

Image: “A Micronesian navigational chart from the Marshall Islands, made of wood, sennit fiber and cowrie shells.” (source)

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1863: Sheep in a Boat

Rosa Bonheur - Changing Pastures (1863)

Rosa Bonheur: Changing Pastures (1863)

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1977: FZAAKK!!!

Kirby - Captain America 214 (Oct 1977)

Jack Kirby (pencils) & Mike Royer (inks): Captain America #214 (October, 1977) (source)

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1914: Silent Evening

Anna Boberg - Silent Evening - Scene from Lofoten (1910-1914)

Anna Boberg: Silent Evening – Scene from Lofoten (1910-1914)

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2006: Wilderness

Mark Dion - Mobile Wilderness Wolf Unit (2006)

Mark Dion: Mobile Wilderness Wolf Unit (2006)

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1890: Autumn

László Mednyánszky, Slushy Road, Autumn Field at Twilight (1890s)

László Mednyánszky, Slushy Road, Autumn Field at Twilight (1890s)

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2015: Mutually Noncoherent Pulses

Dolphin Experiment

In this study, we carried out a reliable measurement of the mutually noncoherent pulses and their subsequent analysis as the most probable acoustic signals of the hypothetic spoken language of dolphins.

As this language exhibits all the design features present in the human spoken language, this indicates a high level of intelligence and consciousness in dolphins, and their language can be ostensibly considered a highly developed spoken language, akin to the human language. This claim is supported by the fact that dolphins have possessed brains that are somewhat larger and more complex than human ones for more than 25 million years. Due to this, for further research in this direction, humans must take the first step to establish relationships with the first intelligent inhabitants of the planet Earth by creating devices capable of overcoming the barriers that stand in the way of using languages and in the way of communications between dolphins and people.

—Vyacheslav A.Ryabov, “The study of acoustic signals and the supposed spoken language of the dolphins,” St. Petersburg Polytechnical University Journal: Physics and Mathematics Volume 2, Issue 3 (October 2016) (source)

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