radio quiet

the world went dark room by room. in the quiet, a radio flash comes in from a time when "there was no earth, there was no sun".

the lights are on

click a line to keep that room lit. every light you keep makes the flash 22% dimmer.

today's flashes

every piece of today, in the order it surfaced.

the rooms that went dark

the ten named lines above are real places.

the old light

what arrived while the rooms were out.

80%

of cosmic history: how far a radio flash travelled before meerkat in south africa caught it.

kp 7

a storm on the sun. the aurora showed as far south as kent.

90

margaret hamilton led the software team of apollo. she died on 30 september: "we were the luckiest people in the world."

who kept a light on

some rooms refused to go quiet.

in delhi about 7,000 were detained and let go. the party "will neither back down nor be intimidated".

rosalía appeared to stand en pointe for a four-minute song. in another, rain fell on her.