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• Link Seen in a new light, Giotto's Florentine masterpieces

  Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shine an astonishing new light on the work of one of the most important painters in the history of Western art. The…

  March 10 2010, 11:45am | Comments

• Link Is "Science Fiction Humanism" A Contradiction In Terms?

  People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of…

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• Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be…

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• Link Symphony in J flat

  What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee.…

  March 10 2010, 12:55am | Comments

• Link The 'Basic' Plots in Literature

  Q: I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they? A: People often say that there are only…

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• Link Chtodelat? / What is to be done?

  Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod…

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• Link A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson

  By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture."…

  March 7 2010, 4:53pm | Comments

• Link An evolutionary biologist on religion: Spirit level

  WHEREVER their investigations lead, all analysts of religion begin somewhere. And in the final lines of his densely but skilfully packed account of faith from the viewpoint of evolutionary biology,…

  March 7 2010, 4:52pm | Comments

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• Podcast /noise : Borrowed or Stolen

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  MachineMachine radio show tonight at 5pm, wiredradio.co.uk. The theme = "Borrowing or Stealing"

  

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• Link Your Reality is out of Date

  These slow-changing facts are what I term “mesofacts.” Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often,…

  March 5 2010, 6:14am | Comments

• Link Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection

  As with any other species, human populations are shaped by the usual forces of natural selection, like famine, disease or climate. A new force is now coming into focus. It…

  March 2 2010, 5:38pm | Comments

• Link Incredible Journeys

  Some animals can instinctively solve navigational problems that have baffled humans for centuries. Now, researchers are uncovering how. The nervous system of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis, with around 100,000…

  March 1 2010, 10:17am | Comments

• Link Should We Clone Neanderthals?

  If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of…

  March 1 2010, 4:58am | Comments

• Link How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was…

  March 1 2010, 4:56am | Comments

• Blog Post 3quarksdaily Prize : Vote for me

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• Podcast /noise : Music Your Mum Would Hate

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• Link Publishing: The Revolutionary Future

  Though Gutenberg's invention made possible our modern world with all its wonders and woes, no one, much less Gutenberg himself, could have foreseen that his press would have this effect.…

  February 24 2010, 10:51am | Comments

• Link Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new…

  February 24 2010, 8:38am | Comments

• Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers.…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

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• Link A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter

  In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him…

  February 21 2010, 5:00pm | Comments

• Podcast /noise on 19th February 2010 / theme = Unique or forgotten cover…

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