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Link The New Virology
Largely unseen by the world, two dangerous germs homed in on their targets in the spring and early summer of 2009. One was made by man to infect computers. The…

March 3 2011, 8:45am | Comments
Link How to Make Anything Signify Anything
It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from…

February 10 2011, 5:17pm | Comments
Link Matters of life and death
Trolleyology encapsulates the deepest tensions in our moral outlook. To tease out our moral intuitions, philosophers have come up with ever more ingenious scenarios. The trolley is usually racing towards…

October 11 2010, 3:39am | Comments
Link Ridley Scott goes back to Philip K. Dick…
According to the Guardian Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks…

October 8 2010, 3:45am | Comments
Wikipedia Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't…

August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments
Link Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm
Animal Farm, as its author later wrote, "was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose…

April 26 2010, 4:49am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 10:04pm | Comments
Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are…

January 8 2010, 10:51am | Comments
Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments
Flickr Viktor Bulla's Pioneers in Defense Drill, Leningrad (1937)

July 6 2007, 4:58am | Comments
Metafilter The Simulacrisation of Technology into Life As the Pentagon ousts plans to turn insects into cyber war machines you'd be forgiven for asking the question: Where does the real digital end and the faked…

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