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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 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

Blog Post Profane Prisms

November 5 2009, 2:14pm | Comments

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October 13 2009, 11:25pm | Comments

Photo 50 Years of Space Exploration

October 11 2009, 11:26am | Comments

Link Beyond space and time: To the Nth Dimension

We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely…

September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments

Link On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of…

by Umberto Eco

September 8 2009, 9:15am | Comments

Link Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory

Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as 'dromology' (the 'science' of speed), Virilio is renowned…

July 7 2009, 9:34am | Comments

Link Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability…

Empathy involves, in part, the ability to simulate the internal states of others. The authors hypothesized that our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world,…

June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments

Link Michel Serres's Milieux

Mediation means that which stands, comes or moves between things otherwise separated or opposed. Serres’s work has never ceased to meditate upon mediation in every possible sense: as arbitration; moderation;…

June 23 2009, 2:38pm | Comments

Link NASA moon bombing violates space law & may…

The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep…

June 23 2009, 1:39am | Comments

Link The Gallery as Brain

At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s…

June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments

Metafilter Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other…

May 25 2009, 11:37am | Comments

Link Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy…

Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are…

May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments

Link Liam Gillick: The Discursive | Journal / e-flux

A discursive model of praxis has developed within the critical art context over the last twenty years. It is the offspring of critical theory and improvised, self-organized structures. It is…

February 16 2009, 6:59am | Comments

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