http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=100641&iv=09&mac=100641- The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows' or not prefigure present day philosophical arguments. In his talk to the Blackheath Philosophy Forum Huw Price chose as his starting point the views of cosmologist Sir Arthur Eddington - a prominent figure in the first half of the 20th century, but little known today. What made Eddington's view of time interesting is that he was prepared to part company with most physicists - who conceive time as it… ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 08:12:52 -0700 http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=100641&iv=09&mac=100641- http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_chernobyl//is-chernobyl-a-wild-kingdom-or-a-radioactive-den-of-decay-wired-magazine-wiredcom Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay? : http://t.co/kh6tlzxk #hybrids #mutants #nature #thezone ]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:36:29 -0700 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_chernobyl//is-chernobyl-a-wild-kingdom-or-a-radioactive-den-of-decay-wired-magazine-wiredcom http://variablemedia.net/pdf/Sterling.pdf/digital-decay-2001-by-bruces-quotentropy-requires-no-maintenance-entropy-has-its-own-poetryquot-httptcoa87gldl-x #Digital Decay, 2001: by @bruces "Entropy requires no maintenance. #Entropy has its own poetry." http://t.co/A87gLDL #x ]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:59:32 -0700 http://variablemedia.net/pdf/Sterling.pdf/digital-decay-2001-by-bruces-quotentropy-requires-no-maintenance-entropy-has-its-own-poetryquot-httptcoa87gldl-x http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/traces_of_humanity/ What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space

Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth that nobody particularly intended to leave anywhere. But much of what we’ve left in space is intentional. Some of it is symbolic artifacts intended for an audience of people here on Earth - the fallen astronaut, the American flag on the moon, a CD containing a list of over half a million people who wanted to send their names to a comet, courtesy of a NASA… ]]> Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:32:57 -0700 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/traces_of_humanity/