The Economist:
The story of how the dinosaurs disappeared is getting more and more complicated
From Cosmic Log:
Murals found on a buried Mexican pyramid reveal how the average Maya lived about 1,350 years ago - shedding light on aspects of Maya society that are “virtually unknown,” researchers say.
This is an image of the Waldseemüller map, or “Universalis Cosmographia,” drawn by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507. It was one of the first maps to chart latitude and longitude precisely and was the first map to use the name “America”. There is only one known extant version of this map, which was purchased by the US Library of Congress from Prince Johannes zu Waldburg-Wolfegg for 10 Million Dollars. It now hangs permanently at the US Library of Congress.
The map was the subject of a recent program of NPR’s OnPoint in which host Tom Ashbrook interviewed Toby Lester, contributing editor at The Atlantic and author of “The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name.”
Bertrand Russell
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One of the most annoying things about the modern world is that it is so much less simple than it used to be.
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The preeminent psychologist C. G. Jung (1875-1961) considered his Liber Novus, the famous Red Book, to be the “prima materia for a lifetime’s work.” Many contemporary scholars regard it as the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. Now this cultural touchstone—in which Jung developed his principal theories of archetypes, collective unconscious, and the process of individuation—is to go on public view for the first time in a special showing at the Rubin Museum of Art. Entitled The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology, the exhibition from October 7, 2009, to January 25, 2010, coincides with a major event in publishing: W.W. Norton & Company’s publication of a facsimile and translation of Jung’s original.
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