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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

32,000 Years Ago

Our ancestors etched their impressions of the world on the walls of caves. They relay their messages to us across almost unfathomable gaps of time:

Via from the Chauvet caves in southern France as filmed by Werner Herzog in Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Today we rely on digital media. Our technology is exponentially more powerful in what it can do in the moment, but it becomes obsolete in no time at all.

Via

Their lives were as ephemeral as ours, but their art has lasted. Will ours?

About the Authors

recent Ph.D. started graduate school as an idealist with lofty goals for research and teaching. She has since become a pragmatist, no longer believing — given the bleak job market and the structural problems with higher education causing it — that she could have a future in the academy. "All the world's a stage," said the Bard, but recent Ph.D. doesn't know what role she is to play in the next act. Her posts reflect her adventures trying to figure it out.

LuckyZzz is a deceased cat whom recent Ph.D. was privileged to know. He inspired her to appreciate the value of friends, good food, potent catnip, and full days of napping. He occasionally visits to share his unique perspective.

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