Arion Press – Making books by hand
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour, who notes, “Understanding where we came from,” but asks “But where exactly are we going?”
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Fascinating video. Thanks to Cotour for sharing.
Oh I know where we’re going!!! We could burn them!
Cool video. I lost touch with a friend in San Francisco decades ago. His name: Jeff Raymond. That _could_ be him. I just can’t tell.
John–
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
“We must burn the books, Montag. All the books”
https://youtu.be/ZaLJ10v4xUA
3:38
When I was a kid we had a friend who owned a print shop. He did printing of brochures and leaflets and such by hand. He had a hand powered press and millions of letters he used for making documents. I don’t think he ever did full books. Every once and a while he would let me help put a page together. Lots of work.
I would like to see all metal books…with each back ” page ” reversed to use as a printing plate.
Jeff–
Great Idea!
(So– whom remembers mimeograph machines?)
->on the other end of the spectrum, entirely–
The First Serious Problem Solved by AI: Protein Folding
PSW Science Meeting 2,445 (September 24, 2021)
John Moult University of Maryland
https://youtu.be/Y4nCYlyRMD8
2:21:55
“A reliable general method for accurately predicting protein two and three dimensional structure from one dimensional amino acid sequence information is something of a holy grail in protein science that has long eluded the best and most creative approaches of scientists. The recent success of AI programs to do better at this not only provides a powerful new tool to researchers, it also is a dramatic example of the rapid acceleration on the power of AI programs.”
Wayne
“(So– whom remembers mimeograph machines?)”
I am appalled that you did not link to the scene in ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High” ( 1982 Heckerling) where tests are passed out and all the kids start sniffing the paper (alcohol from the mimeograph). Yeah, that was me, and everyone else.
Some teachers had mimeograph machines in the ‘back room’ off the classroom, and you had to let the ink dry a bit, or it smear.
Blair–
holy cow, can’t believe that clip didn’t come to mind!