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• Link The Limits of Science

  Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration…

  September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments

• Tumblr Entertainment Bear

  September 15 2010, 3:22am | Comments

• Link What is Posthumanism?

  Perhaps you have had a nightmare in which you fell through the bottom of your known universe into a vortex of mutated children, talking animals, mental illness, freakish art, and…

  September 13 2010, 3:19am | Comments

• Link …glitches without borders (contd.) « GlitchBlog

  [in continuation/response to Rosa’s post responding to Kyle's post responding to Evan's post] Inherent in glitch art is a denial for codification. Attempts to [con/de]fine this phenomenon, which by it’s…

  September 11 2010, 5:29am | Comments

• Link Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result…

  September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Link Code World - 'C' - By Tom McCarthy

  There are many stories Tom McCarthy chooses not to tell in “C,” his tour de force new novel encompassing the short life of one Serge Carrefax, born at the turn…

  September 11 2010, 4:07am | Comments

• Link Titans of science: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins

  We paired up Britain's most celebrated scientists to chat about the big issues: the unity of life, ethics, energy, Handel – and the joy of riding a snowmobile Sir David…

  September 10 2010, 5:00pm | Comments

• Link Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

  In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959…

  September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Atemporality is so hot right now (by Matt Jones)

  September 10 2010, 6:40am | Comments

• Twitter

  Am attempting to organise my notes from the last 6 months... "I am not a man, I am dynamite" ...all signs of order predict the coming revolt

  

  September 10 2010, 5:31am | Comments

• Flickr Atemporality is so hot right now

  September 10 2010, 5:24am | Comments

• Link What concepts do not exist in the English…

  Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures,…

  September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments

• Twitter

  Some great writing : “@3QD Philosophy Prize 2010 Semifinalists” including my piece on Neanderthals - Good luck!

  

  September 9 2010, 2:16am | Comments

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• Link Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the…

  In 2004, Bob Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, with the goal of finding new models for publishing as it moved from the page to the…

  September 8 2010, 3:37am | Comments

• Link Why like noise?

  The idea of noise is spreading…. From music into art into politics…. Why? As a synonym of avant-garde: noise as the unexpected, the dissonant and dissident. Its transgressiveness, which is…

  September 8 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Link The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course…

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire),…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's…

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Tumblr SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios

  September 4 2010, 8:18am | Comments

• Twitter

  My 3QD article about Neanderthals is up for a cash prize. Vote for me and I'll buy you a pint bit.ly/9h5ZeH

  

  September 4 2010, 7:51am | Comments

• Link Cave Painting: Videogames as Art

  Lanchester allowed that computer games would never tell us as much about character as other forms of narrative, but pointed out two great virtues of the form: “The first is…

  September 3 2010, 6:29am | Comments

• Twitter

  “[T]he patient forms a distinctive type of object relation based on perpetual and irresistible desire to merge (cont) tl.gd/3fa4ks

  

  September 3 2010, 6:25am | Comments

• Link Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

  Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is…

  September 2 2010, 3:41pm | Comments

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• Link Will the Book Survive Generation Text?

  Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp…

  September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments

• Link Cover story

  In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the…

  September 1 2010, 11:16am | Comments

• Link Adam Curtis on 'Mad Men'

  The widespread fascination with the Mad Men series is far more than just simple nostalgia. It is about how we feel about ourselves and our society today. In Mad Men…

  August 31 2010, 3:55pm | Comments

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  I'm into the evolving universe idea myself, but as a true Darwinist I am completely against the idea of any 'intention… disq.us/lpltp

  

  August 31 2010, 6:20am | Comments

• Link An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)

  Hard Atheism or What Shall I Name This Column? Hold onto your hats, folks. Although it is perhaps fitting that the actual day on which I sit here at my…

  August 30 2010, 10:12am | Comments

• Link First Cannibals Ate Each Other for Extra Nutrition

  The world's first known human cannibals ate each other to satisfy their nutritional needs, concludes a new study of the remains of cannibal feasts consumed about one million years ago.…

  August 30 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Link Westerners vs. the World: We are the WEIRD…

  It turns out the Machiguenga — whose number system goes: one, two, three, many — are not alone in their thinking. Most people from non-Western cultures introduced to the Ultimatum…

  August 30 2010, 10:10am | Comments

• Link The most isolated man on the planet

  He's an Indian, and Brazilian officials have concluded that he's the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. They first became aware of his existence nearly 15 years ago and for…

  August 30 2010, 8:05am | Comments

• Twitter

  RT @jason_silva: RT @brainpicker: The Most Isolated Man on the Planet – the fascinating story of the last survivor of an uncontacted tri ...

  

  August 30 2010, 8:03am | Comments

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• Link Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as…

  Is it really true that the washing machine has changed the world more than the internet? When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that…

  August 30 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Video

  August 29 2010, 12:14pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Shakespeare - "I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it"

  August 28 2010, 12:21pm | Comments

• Twitter

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  August 28 2010, 10:49am | Comments

• Link The First Church of Robotics

  THE news of the day often includes an item about some development in artificial intelligence: a machine that smiles, a program that can predict human tastes in mates or music,…

  August 28 2010, 6:43am | Comments

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