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August 30 2010, 4:40am | Comments
Link Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time
Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple IT WAS a speech that…

August 11 2010, 3:25am | Comments
Link The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations
We've dedicated this Power Grid to the most disgusting alien civilizations to ever grace the page, screen, or hard drive. Why is biology used as technology the easiest way to…

August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments
Link Big Ball of Mud
The notion of SHEARING LAYERS is one of the centerpieces of Brand's How Buildings Learn [Brand 1994]. Brand, in turn synthesized his ideas from a variety of sources, including British…

July 18 2010, 6:09am | Comments
Link Analogue Inception
The structure of the film is that of a heist movie, but if the film were to be slotted into a genre, that genre would have to be science fiction.…

July 18 2010, 6:07am | Comments
hellograndad.com On plasticine worlds, orbiting pinker stars, the fingers of your left hand have…

May 15 2010, 4:21am | Comments
Link Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On…
Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or…

May 14 2010, 3:34am | Comments
hellograndad.com By mapping smile clusters in a small region of Happy Space, one becomes…

May 10 2010, 10:30am | Comments
Link Uniformity and Variability: An Essay in the Philosophy…
If the planet needs us to speed up information, and slow down matter, what does this mean for the complex relationship between information and nature? There is a growing awareness…

May 3 2010, 9:35am | Comments
Link Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write…
Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that…

April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments
Link Semiotics for Beginners: Codes
In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The…

April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments
Link Voyager 1 and 2's Infinite Playlist
Selected by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan, these songs were etched into a 12-inch, gold-plated copper record that was placed aboard the two spaceships in 1977

April 6 2010, 12:07pm | Comments
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 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 Lunar Archaeology
In a meeting today in Sacramento, commissioners might vote to register items left behind on the moon by Apollo astronauts "as an official State Historical Resource," the L.A. Times reports.…

January 29 2010, 2:33pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 10:04pm | Comments
Wikipedia Coriolis effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite…

January 20 2010, 6:57am | Comments
Link Divine Wilderness
PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the…

January 8 2010, 10:02am | Comments
Link Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider
Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute…

December 25 2009, 7:54pm | Comments
Link Myriahedral projection maps of the world
A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out…

December 23 2009, 3:50am | Comments
Link We have a message from another world
In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he…

December 11 2009, 5:11pm | Comments
Wikipedia Deep Web The deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, dark Web or the hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the surface…

December 8 2009, 8:11am | Comments
Link The cognitive benefits of time-space synaesthesia
SYNAESTHESIA is a neurological condition in which there is a merging of the senses, so that activity in one sensory modality elicits sensations in another. Although first described by Francis…

December 7 2009, 6:11pm | Comments
Link This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System
Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In…

November 19 2009, 4:46pm | Comments
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November 6 2009, 7:20am | Comments
Podcast Profane Prisms

November 5 2009, 2:14pm | Comments
Blog Post Profane Prisms

November 5 2009, 2:14pm | Comments

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