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Metafilter Behind the Mask - Michael Jackson's rarest recording? Michael Jackson penned and recorded lots of songs, many of which remain unreleased. Perhaps the most infamous, and rarest recording, is his version of Behind the Mask. Legend has it that upon hearing Yellow Magic Orchestra's original track, somewhen around 1979, Quincy Jones…

July 1 2009, 11:40am | Comments
Bookmark Take two video games and call me in the morning
Growing scientific evidence demonstrates that the human brain dynamically changes in response to experience and to changes in the environment, a phenomenon that is known as “plasticity.” It is also believed…

July 1 2009, 9:22am | Comments
Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Bookmark Music is Math is Beauty
Glenn Marshall is an Irish computer video artist and musician whose recent work has focused on audio visualization programed in the Processing language. Generally the program is left to its own…

June 28 2009, 4:05am | Comments
Bookmark Michael Jackson's patented "Smooth Criminal" leaning shoes
Patent number 5255452, filed in 1992, shows how Michael Jackson and his dancers could lean at 45-degree angles during live performances of the song "Smooth Criminal". 1. A system for engaging…

June 27 2009, 4:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content
Boston University neuroscientist Patrick McNamara has an interesting evolutionary theory of dreaming. McNamara’s theory draws from the well-known “handicapping principle” in evolutionary biology, where some organisms have been observed to display…

June 27 2009, 4:32am | Comments
Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science
“The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability and Biases in Spatial…
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, including…

June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments
Misc This Way to a Face Melting Face Come along for the ride as Carol Maggio raises cheek bones, restores lips, and melts faces.

June 23 2009, 2:47am | Comments
Bookmark NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar…
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 crater…

June 23 2009, 1:39am | Comments
Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments
Bookmark 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 unique…

June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments
Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments
Misc Das Testament des Dr Mabuse (1933) - (Trailer)

June 13 2009, 4:33am | Comments
Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists
It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments
Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

June 10 2009, 6:55pm | Comments
Bibliography The Open Work

June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments
Bookmark Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism
Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments
Bookmark How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race
This is a remarkably uninformed article about what effect a huge nuclear war would have upon the human race. The author seems to think that the radiation would create a race…

June 6 2009, 9:36am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: These marks in printer's ink The Táin lithographs In 1967 Louis le Brocquy was commissioned to illustrate Thomas Kinsella's translation of the great Irish prose epic the Táin Bó Cuailnge. The resulting collaborative volume is widely acknowledged as the great Irish Livre d'Artiste of the twentieth century; Le…

June 6 2009, 3:04am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: MonkeyFilter! II Ron Gilbert (Wikipedia) recently sat down with his game, The Secret of Monkey Island, and wrote a commentary track detailing the design, secrets, and cuts made in creating the game. (via)

June 5 2009, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,' 'Catching Fire' take path-breaking…
A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was "the…

June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Is There a Better Word for Doom?
Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word. In a report to be released the first week…

May 27 2009, 5:19pm | Comments
Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: Atheism definition aka Philosophy 101 Is atheism the belief that there are no gods or the lack of belief in existence of gods? This is philosophy 101 but I honestly keep finding different definitions claimed by atheists. Can someone clarify? (and if my question is phrased poorly, please…

May 26 2009, 8:58am | Comments
Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for…
The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model…

May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments
Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…
The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront of…

May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments
Bookmark The disembodied book
In the shadows of the global financial crisis of the early 21st century, another revolution is gathering pace, whose repercussions reach far beyond the current correctable economic buckling. It impact on…

May 17 2009, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds
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 unpopular.…

May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments
Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style
TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

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