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• Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science

  This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

  April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Think Globally

  The most familiar ideas of geometry were inspired by an ancient vision — a vision of the world as flat. From parallel lines that never meet, to the Pythagorean theorem discussed…

  March 26 2010, 5:54am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Reading and This Progress, Connecting Lévi-Strauss and Tino Sehgal

  Buried in the middle of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, a book digressive in exactly the right way, is an astonishing argument about writing. Lévi-Strauss considers what the invention of writing might…

  March 21 2010, 1:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Avatar and the Flight from Reality

  In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s studio…

  March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists supersize quantum mechanics

  A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

  March 21 2010, 12:51pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

  March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments

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

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is 'other' than the concept being considered. The term often means a person…

  January 26 2010, 1:48pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

  January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009

  Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

  January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark █░LAST░█░M░I░D░I░█ █░BACKGROUND░█

  It is an internet radio, a cyberspace shuttle, and a kind of archive. LMB takes you on a journey through an almost forgotten web that is loud, colorful, often "personal", and…

  December 8 2009, 3:04am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Wave is Changing the News

  It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still…

  November 23 2009, 5:17am | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | 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

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

  October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]

  Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal…

  October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

  August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker

  I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

  July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | 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

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Do languages ever shift from analytic to synthetic? Calling all historical linguists: do languages ever shift from being analytic to synthetic rather than vice versa?

  June 12 2009, 4:45pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science

  This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

  April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Think Globally

  The most familiar ideas of geometry were inspired by an ancient vision — a vision of the world as flat. From parallel lines that never meet, to the Pythagorean theorem discussed…

  March 26 2010, 5:54am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Reading and This Progress, Connecting Lévi-Strauss and Tino Sehgal

  Buried in the middle of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, a book digressive in exactly the right way, is an astonishing argument about writing. Lévi-Strauss considers what the invention of writing might…

  March 21 2010, 1:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Avatar and the Flight from Reality

  In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s studio…

  March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists supersize quantum mechanics

  A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

  March 21 2010, 12:51pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

  March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments

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

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is 'other' than the concept being considered. The term often means a person…

  January 26 2010, 1:48pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

  January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009

  Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

  January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark █░LAST░█░M░I░D░I░█ █░BACKGROUND░█

  It is an internet radio, a cyberspace shuttle, and a kind of archive. LMB takes you on a journey through an almost forgotten web that is loud, colorful, often "personal", and…

  December 8 2009, 3:04am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Wave is Changing the News

  It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still…

  November 23 2009, 5:17am | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | 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

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

  October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]

  Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal…

  October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

  August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker

  I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

  July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory

  Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

  July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | 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

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Do languages ever shift from analytic to synthetic? Calling all historical linguists: do languages ever shift from being analytic to synthetic rather than vice versa?

  June 12 2009, 4:45pm | Comments

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