Month: October 2025

ISS in Real Time

The ISS in Real Time is a fully interactive timeline of the ISS’s operation and is more than a little cool. They’ve managed to dig out all sorts of old footage and photos, crew manifests and daily schedules, and have put it all together in a pretty but usable interface. The flightpath widget is also a nice way of showing where the station was at any particular time.

BSE, A 90s Chronology of Events

And here’s another interesting chunk of Archivery via Period Sites in Period Browsers that doesn’t appear to be online anywhere else – A mid 1990s chronology of the BSE outbreak in the UK as published by the MAFF.

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First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself

Quanta Magazine has a nice article on a question I’d not even thought about – can all shapes pass through themselves? And, apparently, the answer is ‘no’, but only for a very limited number of shapes.

The article is pretty good and breaks down the problem and its history quite nicely. Go read!

The Lonely Shore / BBC (1962)

The BBC archive has just thrown up this lovely little clip. Shot in 1962, this short Ken Russel piece can only be described as a post apocalyptic archeological report. It has good fun misidentifying various pieces of 60s paraphernalia and contains a couple of sly digs at archaeology’s propensity to call anything it doesn’t understand ’religious’.

It also has a few subtle hints as to the nature of this post apocalyptic world; there’s still no mass production, no knowledge of radiation, nor (given the ignorance of the electric fire) apparently, electricity. Indeed, destruction must have been almost total – no books, no photos, no pictures. Even no real oral history.

The BFI also has a nice article on The Lonely Shore here.