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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Time capsule"”.
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The Williston time capsule
This project is a time capsule of the oil economy, created by entombing everyday objects made from and powered by petroleum into a landscape that spatially recreates the processes of drilling and fracking a contemporary oil well. It consists of two interrelated landscape systems. The first is a …
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Tape archiving using the time capsule file system
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Buried Treasure? Excavating Active, Meaningful, and Worthwhile Learning from an Elementary Time Capsule
… learning that was discovered through a time capsule that was buried by six elementary gifted students at Springdale Elementary School in Macon, Georgia in 1980. Dan, Trevette, Bryan, Lee Ann, Stephen and Rhonda are six adults who, in seventh grade, filled a trash can with time treasured …
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Salvaging historic shipwrecks in South Africa
… sea travel itself. The wreck lies as a submerged time capsule, holding secrets of the past, patiently waiting to tell her stories, with rich rewards for archaeologists and salvors alike. Modern advances in underwater technology have supported a drastic increase in the discovery and retrieval of …
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The secret nature of seeds: science & seed improvement c.1520-1700
The seed is an extraordinary time capsule that can travel across socially constructed and humanly defined borders and boundaries. While certain characteristics of the seed have been captured in botanical, agricultural, economic and garden history, what the seed also carries is a social history. The …
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the hungarian word for owl
… of my grief. It may chiefly be described as time capsule, holding and imparting the scenes and core memories which make me up, both beautiful and violent. It is through a glancing backwards that we understand, that we begin to see the patterns cast by the colors and shadows of our …
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Home Suite Home: An Analysis of Comfort in Americana and Motel Culture
… media, such as <em>Bates Motel</em> and <em>Bad Times at the El Royale</em>. Through exploring nostalgic Americana, I investigate how motels connect us from the past to the pres- ent through their efforts to be a kitschy time-capsule that helps us reminisce the “good ole days.” I also analyze how …
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Brave Belgians of the Belle Époque : a study of the late-romantic Ghent horn playing tradition
… was enabled by analysis of a comprehensive time capsule of related archival findings, historical instruments and repertoire. Findings were contextualized from the perspective of a modern-day performer, creating a practice- based framework that reflects musical performance and perception, …
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New Tools for Measuring and Analyzing Bacterial Gene-Expression Dynamics
… cellular behaviors I have developed a molecular time capsule (MTC). An MTC is a self assembling protein capsule which captures highly reproducible snapshots of the full cellular transcriptome for delayed retrieval and analysis. These encapsulated records remain stable, even while the host …
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Ad Astra : designing future archeologies
… seeks to produce knowledge even in an isolated time capsule of humanity in which "knowledge" is expected to atrophy. The knowledge produced aboard the Theseus II comes from within its isolated condition. Each of the scenarios has a speculated physical response, a disturbance to the status quo …
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The self-presentation of poets: modern poets and their online personae.
… COVID-19 Lockdown, this data also serves as a time capsule of poets during this worldwide event. This research enhanced an understanding of poets and how they interpret the contribution of social media to the development of personal identities, contributing to the wider knowledge of …