MachineMachine /stream

• Link The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes…

  December 22 2011, 1:24pm | Comments

• Twitter

  HOT YORKSHIRE ACTION

  

  December 22 2011, 1:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Links The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

  “Turing’s Cathedral” reconstructs early moments of modern computing http://t.co/9Rmmbt7S

  December 22 2011, 2:50am | Comments

• Twitter Links What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

  Genetic hints of extinct human lineages — and the benefits we might have received from having sex with them — were among the discoveries…

  December 20 2011, 6:53pm | Comments

• Twitter Links The 20 Best Videogames of 2011

  2011 was a tremendous year for the videogame. A pile of big-budget, years-in-the-making blockbusters delivered on all of their promises and then some. Clever…

  December 20 2011, 3:35pm | Comments

• Link Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism &…

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern…

  December 20 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Twitter Links I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

  The author, who writes under a pseudonym, is a Japanese sushi chef. In 1982, at the invitation of a Japanese-North Korean trading company, he…

  December 19 2011, 10:35am | Comments

• Video

  December 18 2011, 12:40pm | Comments

• Tumblr Bitter Batman

  December 18 2011, 11:15am | Comments

• Twitter Links The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  To many, the internet holds great promises of freedom, wealth, power, and opportunity. One great example of this is the dot com bubble. When…

  December 18 2011, 4:51am | Comments

• Twitter Links The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

  Even in his earliest stories, Dick wrestled with the nature of perception. As he described it to me, “I began to get an idea…

  December 18 2011, 3:20am | Comments

• Twitter Links Never go with a cultist to a second location

  On HP Lovecraft: Alex Fitch talks to Alan Moore about his final graphic novel that isn’t part of the continuing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen…

  December 18 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Twitter Links How the internet transforms scientific discovery

  Internet users with no scientific training have helped discover a new type of galaxy and crack a problem in protein biochemistry that stumped experts,…

  December 18 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Tumblr Peace Fish (by Shintaro Kago)

  December 15 2011, 4:43pm | Comments

• Twitter Links All Language Is Murder

  Americans love people who kill people. We don’t want to say it that way, and we don’t want to be killed ourselves (most of…

  December 14 2011, 3:50am | Comments

• Link Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab…

  "I began to realize that the ‘control’ animals used for research studies throughout the world are couch potatoes," he tells me. It's been shown that mice living under standard laboratory…

  December 13 2011, 1:34pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Augment this

  

  December 12 2011, 6:40am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Classical vs statistical entropy Can someone explain to me in layman's terms the relation between classical entropy (heat over temperature) and statistical entropy (-k \sum p_i ln p_i)? More specifically, how do…

  December 12 2011, 2:24am | Comments

• Instagram We're cooking this beef rib shortly. Woah mamma

  December 10 2011, 11:03am | Comments

• Twitter

  You can't go wrong with Vampyroteuthidae Cephalopoda Octopodiformes

  

  December 10 2011, 7:35am | Comments

• Tumblr Shark Repellent

  December 9 2011, 5:49pm | Comments

• Twitter Links The science of poetry, the poetry of science

  The science of poetry, the poetry of science http://t.co/95v6BxEy

  December 9 2011, 5:35pm | Comments

• Link Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Links Barbarians on the Thames

  A postmortem of the British riots

  December 8 2011, 10:36am | Comments

• Biblio Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin

  December 8 2011, 8:31am | Comments

• Biblio The Woman in the Dunes (Penguin Classics) by Kobo Abe

  December 8 2011, 8:31am | Comments

• Biblio The Philip K.Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick

  December 8 2011, 8:31am | Comments

• Biblio Points...: Interviews, 1976-93 (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida

  December 8 2011, 8:31am | Comments

• Biblio The Birth of Physics (Philosophy of science) by Michel Serres

  December 8 2011, 8:31am | Comments

• Biblio Genesis (Studies in Literature & Science) by Michel Serres

  December 8 2011, 8:31am | Comments

• Biblio Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Susan Stewart

  December 8 2011, 8:31am | Comments

• Twitter Links Worth a new Mass?

  How should seminal texts from the remote past be translated in a contemporary idiom?

  December 8 2011, 8:06am | Comments

• Video

  December 7 2011, 10:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 9:50am | Comments

• Twitter Links Out of Imagination Came a New Online World

  Neal Stephenson doesn’t like talking about how he predicted the future.

  December 7 2011, 6:06am | Comments

• Link A computer that thinks like the universe

  For years, excitement about quantum computing has been growing among scientists and tech visionaries. Quantum computers, if they succeed, promise to make a whole new range of problems accessible to…

  December 3 2011, 3:10am | Comments

• Twitter

  what noise becomes

  

  December 2 2011, 5:24pm | Comments

• Video

  December 2 2011, 3:52am | Comments

• Tumblr December is here

  December 1 2011, 6:23am | Comments

• Instapaper It Does Take a Village

  It is possible to see Hrdy’s most recent book, Mothers and Others, as the third in a trilogy that began with The Woman That…

  December 1 2011, 4:37am | Comments

• Link What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life…

  November 30 2011, 12:50pm | Comments

• Tumblr chemistry

  November 30 2011, 6:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Letting the pie cool

  November 30 2011, 5:48am | Comments

• Twitter

  Public sector, we love you

  

  November 30 2011, 3:16am | Comments

Page: ‹ 1... 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...47 ›

Stream Categories

portfolio
writing (blog)
misc projects
twitter
3quarksdaily
podcasts
delicious links
twitter links
instapaper
foursquare
tumblr
flickr
instagram
librarything
findings
wikipedia
askmefi
youtube
vimeo
last.fm

Tag Cloud

Popular Tags

• social-media
• digital-media
• apple
• facebook
• competition
• amazon
• code
• design
• film
• google
• economics
• nature
• life
• evolution
• music
• weird
• politics
• time
• biology
• reality
• fiction
• mind
• future
• history
• news
• ideas
• human
• data
• media
• internet
• digital
• information
• books
• science
• technology
• perception
• philosophy
• art
• writing
• language
• text
• literature
• theory
• reference
• research
• culture
• religion
• humour
• funny
• video

Portfolio

• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
• The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web
• A Labyrinth (No Minotaur): Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show 2011
• Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean
• RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2
• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
• “Everything on the Face of the Earth”

Latest Blog Posts

• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
• GLTI.CH Karaoke IV: Where Will You Sing?
• A Labyrinth (No Minotaur): Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show 2011
• Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean
• RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2
• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
• “Everything on the Face of the Earth”