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• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 20 2011, 4:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Where Do Animals Come From?

  The origin of animals was one of the most astonishing and important transformations in the history of life. From single-celled ancestors, they evolved into a riot of complexity and diversity. An…

  March 20 2011, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution

  Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement across…

  March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Conflict or Cooperation?

  Among the theorists who jumped into the market for models of the future, three stood out: Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer. Each made a splash with a controversial article,…

  November 5 2010, 5:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of Marina Abramovic and the Prophesy of Matthew Arnold

  The upside-down values of the art world, popularly infamous, ridiculed, and resented, are by now the mark of the sphere itself, sufficient to establish the cynic’s principle that if you wish…

  October 12 2010, 3:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger

  This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

  October 8 2010, 2:58am | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark 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 Christian…

  July 11 2010, 4:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why Novels are a Weird…

  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 of…

  June 27 2010, 10:21am | Comments

• Misc Dispersion Type Artwork Artist Seth Price URL http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion08.pdf Date 2002 Accessed 2010-06-24 10:09:31 Medium PDF

  June 24 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The linguistic turn and other misconceptions about analytic philosophy

  Analytic philosophy has a complex history of more than one hundred years and this movement is so variegated that it can hardly be characterized by a single feature. Most of those…

  June 13 2010, 11:56pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Should This Be the Last Generation?

  Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and…

  June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites

  Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more.…

  May 29 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius

  When a modern person thinks of artistic genius, they imagine an individual. Some have quantified genius by standardized exams – for example, the I.Q. test – but most know a genius…

  April 9 2010, 3:40am | Comments

• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

  March 21 2010, 12:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art

  "Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

  March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and…

  Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s…

  October 19 2009, 3:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

  Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern…

  October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | 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

• 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

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

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• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 20 2011, 4:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Where Do Animals Come From?

  The origin of animals was one of the most astonishing and important transformations in the history of life. From single-celled ancestors, they evolved into a riot of complexity and diversity. An…

  March 20 2011, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution

  Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement across…

  March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

  February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Conflict or Cooperation?

  Among the theorists who jumped into the market for models of the future, three stood out: Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer. Each made a splash with a controversial article,…

  November 5 2010, 5:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Art of Marina Abramovic and the Prophesy of Matthew Arnold

  The upside-down values of the art world, popularly infamous, ridiculed, and resented, are by now the mark of the sphere itself, sufficient to establish the cynic’s principle that if you wish…

  October 12 2010, 3:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger

  This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

  October 8 2010, 2:58am | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark 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 Christian…

  July 11 2010, 4:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why Novels are a Weird…

  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 of…

  June 27 2010, 10:21am | Comments

• Misc Dispersion Type Artwork Artist Seth Price URL http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion08.pdf Date 2002 Accessed 2010-06-24 10:09:31 Medium PDF

  June 24 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The linguistic turn and other misconceptions about analytic philosophy

  Analytic philosophy has a complex history of more than one hundred years and this movement is so variegated that it can hardly be characterized by a single feature. Most of those…

  June 13 2010, 11:56pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Should This Be the Last Generation?

  Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and…

  June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites

  Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more.…

  May 29 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius

  When a modern person thinks of artistic genius, they imagine an individual. Some have quantified genius by standardized exams – for example, the I.Q. test – but most know a genius…

  April 9 2010, 3:40am | Comments

• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

  March 21 2010, 12:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art

  "Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

  March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and…

  Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s…

  October 19 2009, 3:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

  Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern…

  October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | 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

• 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

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

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