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Link 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…

August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments
Link The Neolithic Age is over!
Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance,…

July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Link James Gleick’s History of Information
Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information…

March 20 2011, 5:41am | 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, 4:17pm | Comments
Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred…

July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Link Michelangelo's secret message in the Sistine Chapel
At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo…

June 1 2010, 2:44am | Comments

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