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• Bookmark Memes Are For Tricksters: The Biology of Disinformation - Mondo 2000

  Back in 1990, when MONDO 2000 magazine promised Screaming Memes on its cover, it was more or less a secret argot winking at our technohip Mondoid readers.

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal DNA in Modern Human Genomes Is Not Silent | The Scientist…

  From skin color to immunity, human biology is linked to our archaic ancestry.

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Memes Are For Tricksters: The Biology of Disinformation - Mondo 2000

  Back in 1990, when MONDO 2000 magazine promised Screaming Memes on its cover, it was more or less a secret argot winking at our technohip Mondoid readers.

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Speculative biology: understanding the past and predicting our future | Science |…

  In 1981, a remarkable book was published: After Man: A Zoology of the Future, by Dougal Dixon.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark What constitutes an individual organism in biology? | Aeon Essays

  When she was two years old, I took my daughter to the American Museum of Natural History for the first time. As we strolled through the displays of taxidermy animals, she…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics…

  The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics.

  August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Sun Ra's Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971…

  A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band.

  August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Sun Ra's Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley…

  A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big…

  August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 27 2017, 5:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Can Now "Print" Genetic Code and Engineer Life

  We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me. Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite…

  February 14 2017, 11:08am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

• Wikipedia Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

  February 1 2016, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Welcome to the age of synthetic biology – it’s all about yeast

  Evolution’s retirement plan has been 3.6 billion years in the making. With the appearance of the modern human being, we now have an organism that can take over from natural processes…

  October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Femunculus [NSFW] | Method

  Male bodies are seen as the default in biology. One artist is working towards helping us see the alternatives. In psychology, the homunculus is a visual representation of the sensory and…

  June 12 2015, 2:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Sun Ra's Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971…

  A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band.

  July 28 2014, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark How the Movies of Tomorrow Will Play With Your Mind - Pacific…

  Since the dawn of cinema, the cut has been one of the most powerful tools in a director’s kit. If we see a man walk through a door and turn his…

  May 7 2014, 1:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Will Synthetic Biology Evolve Into the Next Hot Field? | Entrepreneur.com

  Synthetic biology grew from a very old human desire to engineer living systems and make them do useful things for us.

  April 21 2014, 8:25am | Comments

• Bookmark New Statesman | Welcome to the age of synthetic biology – it’s…

  Evolution’s retirement plan has been 3.6 billion years in the making. With the appearance of the modern human being, we now have an organism that can take over from natural processes…

  April 21 2014, 8:24am | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  @JackLScanlan @therourke Thought this might interest - does evolution have a purpose? The Q of teleology in biology: http://t.co/BwSFQwwYYf

  June 24 2013, 7:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity? - Atlantic Mobile

  May 18 2013, 3:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth - The Chronicle Review - The…

  Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon. More than a decade ago, Collins, a decorated scientist at Boston University, helped give birth to…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Synthetic Biology Is the Field of the Future — NOVA Next

  Most Americans may not be familiar with synthetic biology, but they may come to appreciate its advances someday soon. Synthetic biology focuses on creating technologies for designing and building biological organisms.

  March 8 2013, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark New Left Project | Articles |Biology in an Age of Technoscience

  Hilary Rose is a prominent feminist and sociologist and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Steven Rose is a neurobiologist at the Open University and the…

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

  September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

  The ultimate design material is one that understands what it is to become. By way of an example, I’d like to think about how we might design a chicken. Think of…

  September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

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• Bookmark Memes Are For Tricksters: The Biology of Disinformation - Mondo 2000

  Back in 1990, when MONDO 2000 magazine promised Screaming Memes on its cover, it was more or less a secret argot winking at our technohip Mondoid readers.

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal DNA in Modern Human Genomes Is Not Silent | The Scientist…

  From skin color to immunity, human biology is linked to our archaic ancestry.

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Memes Are For Tricksters: The Biology of Disinformation - Mondo 2000

  Back in 1990, when MONDO 2000 magazine promised Screaming Memes on its cover, it was more or less a secret argot winking at our technohip Mondoid readers.

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Speculative biology: understanding the past and predicting our future | Science |…

  In 1981, a remarkable book was published: After Man: A Zoology of the Future, by Dougal Dixon.

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark What constitutes an individual organism in biology? | Aeon Essays

  When she was two years old, I took my daughter to the American Museum of Natural History for the first time. As we strolled through the displays of taxidermy animals, she…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics…

  The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics.

  August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Sun Ra's Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971…

  A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band.

  August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Sun Ra's Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley…

  A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big…

  August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 27 2017, 5:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Humans Can Now "Print" Genetic Code and Engineer Life

  We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me. Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite…

  February 14 2017, 11:08am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

• Wikipedia Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

  February 1 2016, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Welcome to the age of synthetic biology – it’s all about yeast

  Evolution’s retirement plan has been 3.6 billion years in the making. With the appearance of the modern human being, we now have an organism that can take over from natural processes…

  October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Femunculus [NSFW] | Method

  Male bodies are seen as the default in biology. One artist is working towards helping us see the alternatives. In psychology, the homunculus is a visual representation of the sensory and…

  June 12 2015, 2:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

  August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Sun Ra's Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971…

  A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band.

  July 28 2014, 10:44am | Comments

• Bookmark How the Movies of Tomorrow Will Play With Your Mind - Pacific…

  Since the dawn of cinema, the cut has been one of the most powerful tools in a director’s kit. If we see a man walk through a door and turn his…

  May 7 2014, 1:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…

  Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

  May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Will Synthetic Biology Evolve Into the Next Hot Field? | Entrepreneur.com

  Synthetic biology grew from a very old human desire to engineer living systems and make them do useful things for us.

  April 21 2014, 8:25am | Comments

• Bookmark New Statesman | Welcome to the age of synthetic biology – it’s…

  Evolution’s retirement plan has been 3.6 billion years in the making. With the appearance of the modern human being, we now have an organism that can take over from natural processes…

  April 21 2014, 8:24am | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  @JackLScanlan @therourke Thought this might interest - does evolution have a purpose? The Q of teleology in biology: http://t.co/BwSFQwwYYf

  June 24 2013, 7:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity? - Atlantic Mobile

  May 18 2013, 3:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth - The Chronicle Review - The…

  Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon. More than a decade ago, Collins, a decorated scientist at Boston University, helped give birth to…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Synthetic Biology Is the Field of the Future — NOVA Next

  Most Americans may not be familiar with synthetic biology, but they may come to appreciate its advances someday soon. Synthetic biology focuses on creating technologies for designing and building biological organisms.

  March 8 2013, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark New Left Project | Articles |Biology in an Age of Technoscience

  Hilary Rose is a prominent feminist and sociologist and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Steven Rose is a neurobiologist at the Open University and the…

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

  September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

  The ultimate design material is one that understands what it is to become. By way of an example, I’d like to think about how we might design a chicken. Think of…

  September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

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