New Book - Soviet Logos: Lost Marks of the Utopia
Even if thousands of logos were created in the USSR only a very small part of them managed to survive until our days. Designed by professionals of various specialties, these fine graphic creations quickly became forgotten because of the turbulent fall of the Soviet Union. This monograph aims to rediscover the unrighteously forgotten logos and to introduce them into the global design context.
via Soviet Logos
NASA Opens International Space Station to New Commercial Opportunities, Private Astronauts
NASA is opening the International Space Station for commercial business so U.S. industry innovation and ingenuity can accelerate a thriving commercial economy in low-Earth orbit.
Press Release | NASA
Space weather affects your daily life. It’s time to start paying attention.
Meet the space-weather forecaster leading the charge to help us understand solar flares and geomagnetic storms before it’s too late.
Erin Winick | MIT Technology Review
The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history?
Human activity has transformed the Earth – but scientists are divided about whether this is really a turning point in geological history.
Nicola Davison | The Guardian
SpaceX beginning to tackle some of the big challenges for a Mars journey
SpaceX realizes that getting to Mars will require a lot of help. NASA and the academic community have begun to step up and help one of the most ambitious undertakings of our times.
Ben Pearson | Ars Technica
For All Mankind — Official First Look Trailer
What if the space race had never ended? Watch an official first look at For All Mankind, an Apple Original drama series coming this Fall to Apple TV+.
via Apple TV YouTube
New Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ in 2050
A harrowing scenario analysis of how human civilization might collapse in coming decades due to climate change has been endorsed by a former Australian defense chief and senior royal navy commander.
Nafeez Ahmed | Vice
NASA is Using This Underwater Lab to Train Astronauts for the Moon
This summer, NASA astronauts will join an international diving crew in a special underwater laboratory under the Atlantic to prepare astronauts for the harsh environment of space as well as the lunar and Martian surfaces.
Victor Tangermann | Futurism
OFFF 2019 Open Film ARXIV by Mill+
Mill+ Director Ilya Abulkhanov opened Offf Barcelona 2019 with the debut of his sci-fi short film ‘ARXIV’. ARXIV (pronounced ‘archive’) is an immersive sci-fi family drama is set in two time frames: the deep future, that is left with no future, and the near future, that will bring about the eventual dystopian collapse of society. Protagonist Lew Aron survives both time frames and is set to discover a potential outlet to confront his innermost desire, or what’s left of it.
via OFFF Festival Vimeo
Terminator: Dark Fate - Official Teaser Trailer
Welcome to the day after Judgment Day. Producer James Cameron returns with director Tim Miller for Terminator: Dark Fate. In theatres 11.1.19.
via Paramount Pictures YouTube
WILDCATS with Ramon Villalobos & Tamra Bonvillain for DC Comics
Warren Ellis to write a six-issue WILDCATS series for DC as part of the Wildstorm pop-up imprint, with artist team Ramon Villalobos and Tamra Bonvillain.
via Warren Ellis Ltd.
Watch Future Mars Settlers Ride a Space Elevator in This 'Aniara' Sci-Fi Film Clip
Watch a clip and the official trailer for "Aniara", as well as check out alternate posters for the film. The movie debuts in select theaters May 17.
Elizabeth Howell | Space.com
The 1968 sci-fi that spookily predicted today
In the first of BBC Culture’s new series on fiction that predicted the future, Hephzibah Anderson looks at the work of John Brunner, whose vision of 2010 was eerily accurate.
Hephzibah Anderson | BBC
Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants
A thousand years ago, Native Americans in South America used multiple psychotropic plants—possibly simultaneously—to induce hallucinations and altered consciousness, according to an international team of anthropologists.
via Phys.org
Club for the Future
This club is a way to connect young people who love our home planet, who believe in the power of human ingenuity and the abundance of space, and who are unshakably optimistic about the future. We welcome students, educators, and fans of the future to join a worldwide community of dreamers sponsored by Blue Origin, builders of reusable rockets and roads to space.
Introducing Blue Moon
Blue Moon is a flexible lander delivering a wide variety of small, medium and large payloads to the lunar surface. Its capability to provide precise and soft landings will enable a sustained human presence on the Moon.
via Blue Origin YouTube
Mad Scientist Laboratory… Forecasting the Future of Warfare
The Mad Scientist Laboratory blog is a marketplace of ideas about the future of our society, work, and conflict.
Mad Scientist is a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) initiative.
Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
Press Release | IPBES