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• Twitter Links Keynote by Graham Harman: Everything Is Not Connected | transmediale

  Transmediale keynote with Graham Harman is underway. In/compatible #ObjectOrientedPhilosophy? Watch live stream here: http://t.co/39NjCl6c

  February 2 2012, 10:21am | Comments

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• Tumblr Don’t be a Materialist, be a Heroic Materialist

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• Link What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied…

  January 30 2012, 5:28pm | Comments

• Tumblr The Zombie President

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• Twitter Links Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

  We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural…

  January 29 2012, 4:05am | Comments

• Twitter Links Is Democracy Chinese?

  Chang Ping is one of China’s best-known commentators on contemporary affairs. Chang, whose real name is Zhang Ping, first established himself in the late…

  January 28 2012, 1:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Links Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  Most computer users are all too aware of the threat of viruses and worms infecting their machines, but according to security research firm BitDefender…

  January 28 2012, 11:36am | Comments

• Twitter Links The God gap

  Religion may have lost much of its power to explain our modern world but we still crave its emotional satisfactions

  January 28 2012, 11:35am | Comments

• Twitter Links It's time for science to move on from materialism

  Today we live in the 21st century, and it seems that we are still stuck with this narrow and rigid view of the things.…

  January 28 2012, 11:35am | Comments

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  January 26 2012, 8:23am | Comments

• Link Nature, nurture and liberal values

  Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses

  January 25 2012, 11:35am | Comments

• Tumblr Godzilla shoes

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• Twitter Links Re:Thinking Games

  Digital games are important not only because of their cultural ubiquity or their sales figures but for what they can offer as a space…

  January 25 2012, 4:50am | Comments

• Twitter Links The Pirate Bay - Physibles

  Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything…

  January 24 2012, 3:11pm | Comments

• Twitter Links Female Orgasm: An Evolutionary Journey

  Dr. Elisabeth A. Lloyd, among others, has described female orgasm as the female equivalent to male nipples, anatomy that one sex needed, while the…

  January 23 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Twitter Links Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  Why does our universe look the way it does? In particular, why do we only experience three spatial dimensions in our universe, when superstring…

  January 23 2012, 8:35am | Comments

• Tumblr ZOMBIES

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• Metafilter John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it’s possibly one of the most depressing films ever made [SPOILER].

  January 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

• Twitter Links Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  Freud’s ideas are today not simply rejected as false. They are repudiated as being dangerous or immoral; the “gloomy mythology” of warring instincts is…

  January 22 2012, 12:07pm | Comments

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  MORE HUMANS

  

  January 20 2012, 6:21pm | Comments

• Instagram The Glorious Sequel to a Woman of Substance

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  "Lethal or not, for the physicist a genetic mutation is neither more nor less than the substitution of one nucleic acid base for another."

  

  January 20 2012, 6:48am | Comments

• Twitter Links Cognitive scientists develop new take on old problem: why human language has so many words with…

  Ambiguity: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings http://t.co/kiyXMYQT #science #neuroscience #language

  January 20 2012, 5:21am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Tax Me Where can I find taxonomies of the everything?

  January 19 2012, 12:57pm | Comments

• Twitter Links Cross-section of a tree played like a record on a turntable

  This music -- which sounds like a moody piano soundtrack for a existentialist movie about a rainy day -- is made by slicing a…

  January 19 2012, 8:54am | Comments

• Twitter Links Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy

  Since the core function of copyright is to incentivize the production of creative works, it’s also worth looking for signs of declining output associated…

  January 19 2012, 8:08am | Comments

• Biblio The Necessity of Errors by John Roberts

  January 19 2012, 5:33am | Comments

• Twitter Links Speculative Realism Pathfinder

  Speculative Realism reading list

  January 19 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Link Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

  With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds…

  January 19 2012, 3:13am | Comments

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  January 18 2012, 3:23am | Comments

• Twitter Links Rereading Darwin

  The Dangers of Extrapolation (“Much light will be thrown on the origin of man.” Two centuries before Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of…

  January 17 2012, 6:06pm | Comments

• Tumblr Leave Me Alone!

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• Tumblr Protection

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• Twitter

  Who should be the 1,000th twitter entity I follow? Answers in no more than 140 characters please

  

  January 16 2012, 2:01am | Comments

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• Metafilter MeFi: You Can't Drown Fire Ants! Fire ant rafts are hard to sink - a very cool demonstration of how ants make use of surface tension.

  January 15 2012, 2:47pm | Comments

• Link Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

  Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish…

  January 15 2012, 2:32pm | Comments

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