Cryptoforestry

Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men Thistles spike the summer air Or crackle open under a blue-black pressure. ...

The New York Public Library is making available for download a vast collection of restaurant menus. Here are some visualizations I done of ...

The things you can find online (via Twitter). From the 16th century comes the manuscript of  ' Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal with treatises...

Here is a link to a small thingie I did over the weekend. It uses WordTree , the latest addition to Google's webcharts, and lets you se...

In the preface to a book collecting some of his lectures " The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community " (199...

Taken from Penguin Atlas of Medieval History .

Earlier I wrote about IBM's attempt at computational gastronomy, finding it a bit of a trainwreck. Recently I have been accepted as a B...

Nature printing is a special technique for representing plants on paper that was developed in the 15th century (according to Wilfrid Blu...