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  July 16 2010, 1:48am | Comments

• Link 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive

  This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was…

  July 14 2010, 9:05am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred…

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Link Last Supper helpings have grown

  An unusual study looks at the food portions in artistic depictions of the Last Supper throughout history. The apostles have eaten better and better over the years, scholars say. The…

  July 11 2010, 4:46pm | Comments

• Link The Agnostic Cartographer

  Oe fateful day in early August, Google Maps turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened without warning. One minute, the mountainous border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled with its usual…

  July 11 2010, 4:33pm | Comments

• Link Video Games And The Philosophy Of Art

  The film critic Roger Ebert’s recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet,…

  July 11 2010, 4:32pm | Comments

• Link Reading in a Whole New Way

  As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the…

  July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments

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  I have an article in the first issue of rattle, a new journal at the convergence of art & writing - out now: bit.ly/rattle-journal

  

  July 8 2010, 9:09am | Comments

• image soup first issue of rattle journal

  July 8 2010, 8:55am | Comments

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  July 6 2010, 2:46pm | Comments

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  July 5 2010, 4:06am | Comments

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  Neanderthals on the brain

  

  July 5 2010, 4:03am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Ledbury - Ledbury Poetry Festival, Holly Pester and James Wilkes perform at 9.30pm

  July 2 2010, 10:02am | Comments

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  July 2 2010, 12:51am | Comments

• Link Losing our minds to the web

  Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the…

  July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments

• Link Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'

  A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of…

  July 1 2010, 6:44am | Comments

• Link Borges on Pleasure Island

  Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed. One finds oneself tempted toward learned-sounding inadequacies like: His work combines the elegance of…

  July 1 2010, 2:17am | Comments

• Link Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

  In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained…

  June 29 2010, 11:49am | Comments

• Link The Perils Of Progress

  Pinker, true to type, opens his piece: "New forms of media have always caused moral panics. The printing press, newspapers, paperbacks, and television were all once denounced as threats to…

  June 29 2010, 11:48am | Comments

• Link Genetic Future: How much data is a human…

  The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much…

  June 29 2010, 8:33am | Comments

• Link Why e-books will never replace real books

  Because we perceive print and electronic media differently. Because Marshall McLuhan was right about some things. In case you don't recall one of the more influential thinkers of the late…

  June 29 2010, 8:21am | Comments

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  June 29 2010, 8:14am | Comments

• Blog Post To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Link Ten movies that never should have been made—and…

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds,…

  June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments

• image soup via what: Human spinal column / Coloured scanning electron micrograph

  June 27 2010, 3:34pm | Comments

• Link Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why…

  While mainstream literary figures sometimes praise their fellow writers, rarely do they present themselves publicly as hardcore pop culture fans. Since the publication of his novels Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress…

  June 27 2010, 10:21am | Comments

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  June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments

• Link The Writer Who Couldn't Read

  "In January of 2002," writes the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, "I received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist describing a strange problem." Engel's problem was so strange, I decided…

  June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments

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