David Rumsey Map Center, cataloging historical works

The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford houses hundreds of thousands of maps dating back to the 1500s. Andres Picon for San Francisco Chronicle wrote about the collection: At the heart of that endeavor is the digitization of Rumsey’s vast physical collection, a...

Olympic champions versus past Olympians

With the 2020 Olympics wrapped up, The New York Times raced this year’s medal winners against previous medalists to provide context for the new records set in Tokyo. The simplified style of the animations gave me Sega Game Gear flashbacks. NYT made similar...
21st Century Homes

21st Century Homes

What did the people in the 1960’s think home would look like in the 21st century? This film, made in the late 1960s, tells what future homes will look like in the 21st century or 2001 to be exact. It’s narrated by Walter Cronkite and is often comical to...