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• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

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• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…

  Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

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• Metafilter MeFi: John Peel - The scope of music on these shows is still gobsmacking. A user on Soundcloud has posted 458 full John Peel shows. The shows range from 2004 BBC episodes all the way back to several 1967 Radio London shows. Some of the shows playlists can be found on the John Peel wiki as well.…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

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• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

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• Bookmark A Home Before the End of the World

  Our ignorance is truly staggering. According to some estimates, 95 percent of organisms in the soil alone are unknown to science. Many of them labor unseen, in the dark, serving as…

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• Bookmark Zooming Out: How Writers Create Our Visual Grammar

  Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If, by…

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• Bookmark I, for One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

  In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the…

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• Bookmark Getting Over the Code Delusion

  It’s true that the code, as it was understood at the height of the genomic era, had some grounding in material reality. Each of the four different letters stands for one…

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• Podcast /noise : Blues, Reds (and some Yellows)

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

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• Bookmark Divine Wilderness

  PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the Tabernacle…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

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• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Instagram blue

  April 30 2013, 12:52am | Comments

• Tumblr spaceplasma: This image of Neptune was taken on 11 August 2006...

  January 26 2013, 7:40am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 6 2013, 10:23am | Comments

• Tumblr Bluescreen

  December 10 2012, 11:03pm | Comments

• Instagram 1st bluescreen of #glitch2112

  December 4 2012, 12:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…

  Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

  September 29 2012, 7:09am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: John Peel - The scope of music on these shows is still gobsmacking. A user on Soundcloud has posted 458 full John Peel shows. The shows range from 2004 BBC episodes all the way back to several 1967 Radio London shows. Some of the shows playlists can be found on the John Peel wiki as well.…

  September 11 2012, 6:04pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | 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

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 9 2012, 1:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

  December 20 2011, 4:31am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark A Home Before the End of the World

  Our ignorance is truly staggering. According to some estimates, 95 percent of organisms in the soil alone are unknown to science. Many of them labor unseen, in the dark, serving as…

  June 29 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Zooming Out: How Writers Create Our Visual Grammar

  Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If, by…

  March 8 2011, 9:41am | Comments

• Bookmark I, for One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

  In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the…

  February 19 2011, 5:15pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 26 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Getting Over the Code Delusion

  It’s true that the code, as it was understood at the height of the genomic era, had some grounding in material reality. Each of the four different letters stands for one…

  November 3 2010, 3:17pm | Comments

• Podcast /noise : Blues, Reds (and some Yellows)

  May 9 2010, 7:21am | Comments

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

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Podcast /noise : The Jazz; The Blues; The Schnizzle

  March 20 2010, 6:32am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 6 2010, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Divine Wilderness

  PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the Tabernacle…

  January 8 2010, 9:02am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• YouTube

  June 13 2006, 7:46pm | Comments

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