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• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

  Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer…

  June 2 2012, 9:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The madness of crowds: hoarding (Will Self)

  Wherefrom comes this urge to expose such traumatic interiors? After all, hoarding can be nothing new – it’s easy to imagine a Cyclops’s cavern stuffed to the roof with sheep bones,…

  May 30 2012, 1:50am | Comments

• Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely

  As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

  May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments

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  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

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  Just how big are porn sites?

  April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments

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  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

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  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | Comments

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  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

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  When independent thought flourishes

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

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  The Virus Planet

  March 9 2012, 3:36am | Comments

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

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  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

  March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments

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  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

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  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

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  Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

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  Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

  November 29 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

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  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

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• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

  Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer…

  June 2 2012, 9:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The madness of crowds: hoarding (Will Self)

  Wherefrom comes this urge to expose such traumatic interiors? After all, hoarding can be nothing new – it’s easy to imagine a Cyclops’s cavern stuffed to the roof with sheep bones,…

  May 30 2012, 1:50am | Comments

• Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely

  As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

  May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Just how big are porn sites?

  April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  When independent thought flourishes

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Virus Planet

  March 9 2012, 3:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

  March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

  November 29 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

  But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

  October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

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