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• Link The Trouble with Scientism

  The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods…

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• Link Time-Lapse Expressway Into Google Search's Soul

  German artist Sebastian Schmieg has devised a sort of backdoor to understanding, however, in his “Search By Image” project. You can look at a handful of said project’s iterations below,…

  May 17 2012, 3:40am | Comments

• Link 'Will reading in the digital era erode our…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new…

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• Link Re-Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology

  Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology gives us a good perspective from which to think through what has been so far said about Derrida's book. The book is a careful selection of…

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• Link A challenge to God-guided mutations

  The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the…

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• Link "Videogames are the experience of being ruled"

  Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed…

  May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments

• Link “The Self” in the Future: Will it be…

  I’m more hesitant about the idea that neuroscience will kill the idea of ‘the self.’ I think it might be a good thing if it did, but some ideas are…

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• Link People see sexy pictures of women as objects,…

  Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at…

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• Link The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)

  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…

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• Metafilter MeFi: "It didn’t bother you to see the world… In a recent episode of Mad Men titled "Lady Lazarus," Pete Campbell has an existential crisis when he sees a picture of the Earth from space, but were…

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• Link Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain?

  A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice,…

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• Link At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's…

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• Link The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital…

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have…

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• Instagram Dissected brain of suicide victim showing trajectory of bullet

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• Metafilter Quality music/cinema receiver driving at least 130w for cheap? I need a new amplifier/receiver for music and TV/home-cinema. I've looked at the Onkyo "network" range, especially entry level around £350-£400, but I am sure I could get…

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• Instapaper Human Societies Starting to Resemble Ant Colonies :…

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• Twitter Links Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain? | LiveScience

  Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain? : http://t.co/EmOiHNia #consciousness #error #mutation #evolution

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• Link Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of…

  "We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the…

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• Link The animated history of the GIF

  The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections…

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• Link Inheriting The Hoard

  “I knew as a kid I’d have to take care of it. I had prepared myself for it – for this moment,” Greg M., 41, says rather stoically of the…

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• Link Psychology of Hoarding: Characteristics of a Hoarder

  Infographic on compulsive hoarding

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• Link Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of…

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• Link In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video…

  Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the stately 1979 film. In an account that combines…

  May 1 2012, 3:13pm | Comments

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• Link Post-Digitalism and Contemporary Spanish Fiction

  Postdigital literature is not centered in code, but in addressing a reality shaped by a mix of coded/uncoded reality – German Sierra (german_sierra)

  April 30 2012, 10:48am | Comments

• Link The social cell

  A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a…

  April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Instapaper When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  It’s an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. Business models are being transformed, lives are being upended, vast new horizons of possibility opened up.…

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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
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• And There It Was
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