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• Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

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• Bookmark Mining the Planet to Death: The Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies -…

  The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind…

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  At a medical research laboratory in California, Alysson Muotri has used chemistry to change skin cells into neurons, which have multiplied to form “organoids” – globes of interconnected brain cells.

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• Bookmark The biological research putting purpose back into life | Aeon Essays

  Animal immune systems depend on white blood cells called macrophages that devour and engulf invaders.

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• Bookmark My degree show was cancelled – what can I do instead? The…

  Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

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• Bookmark My degree show was cancelled – what can I do instead? The…

  Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

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• Bookmark There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon…

  In 2003, a team of scientists in China managed to create embryos containing a mix of rabbit and human DNA. Most of the biological matter was human, while the rabbit DNA…

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• Additivism Sight + Sound Festival - Eastern Bloc, Montreal (exhibition)

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• Bookmark Cloning the neandertal: only a matter of time and resources

  Scientists are debating about a possible return of the Neanderthal. With stem cell technology breaking through elsewhere and a complete sequence of the Neanderthal genome at hand, it’s seemingly only a…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

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

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Global Hoarding? Human-made Junk Now Outweighs Humans Themselves, Scientists Say | The…

  Human-engineered structures and gadgets from cities to cellphones now represent an enormous mass weight of nearly 30 trillion tonnes on the planet, or vastly more than the world’s forests or life…

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• Bookmark Plastiglomerate - Journal #78 December 2016 - e-flux

  ­­The conditions that obtained when life had not yet emerged from the oceans have not subsequently changed a great deal for the cells of the human body, bathed by the primordial…

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• Bookmark Slime Intelligence | Rhizome

  Physarum polycephalum is a single-celled organism invisible to the naked eye. However, in its ideal conditions—dark, wet, and bacterial—it multiplies into a visible bright yellow mass that spreads ostentatiously, fanning out…

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• Bookmark People Are Making And Selling Counterfeit Jellyfish In China | Popular Science

  There are all sorts of food scams perpetrated every day here in America. The whole farm-to-table trend, for example — a lot of that is probably just marketing bullshit, according to…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Emperor’s Love of Slime Mold | Popular Science

  Slime mold—a living network of tendrils found on rotting wood and other plant debris—is easily one of the strangest things alive. Neither plant, nor fungus, it’s a collection of individual cells…

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life : Nature…

  Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.

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  "The slow cancellation of the future"

  

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• Bookmark Ferguson is the Future | Nassau Weekly

  On September 14, I spent the day in the Chancellor Green Rotunda at the “Ferguson is the Future” Symposium, and I have spent every day since then trying to process the magnitude…

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• Bookmark How a Hacked Virus Is Bringing Us Closer to Artificial Photosynthesis |…

  The question persists: Is a virus alive? Or is it simply a clever organic machine? It lacks most all of things we associate with "life": the ability to reproduce (outside of…

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• Additivism ISIS vs. 3D Printing: On Morehshin Allahyari's 'Material Speculation: ISIS' project

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• Bookmark Did Cancer Evolve to Protect Us? - Scientific American

  Could cancer be our cells’ way of running in “safe mode,” like a damaged computer operating system trying to preserve itself, when faced with an external threat? That’s the conclusion reached…

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  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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  OVER THE NEXT DECADE video game engines will be used in film-making, with the two disciplines combining to eliminate the movie post-production process. That rather ambitious claim comes from Lucasfilm, the…

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• Bookmark 'Faxing' Life from Mars: Craig Venter's Wild, Digital Space Exploration Idea |…

  Craig Venter is scientist/entrepreneur and founded the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization that announced in May 2010 they had successfully constructed the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial…

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• Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

  October 17 2022, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Mining the Planet to Death: The Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies -…

  The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind…

  November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to…

  At a medical research laboratory in California, Alysson Muotri has used chemistry to change skin cells into neurons, which have multiplied to form “organoids” – globes of interconnected brain cells.

  September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The biological research putting purpose back into life | Aeon Essays

  Animal immune systems depend on white blood cells called macrophages that devour and engulf invaders.

  December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2020, 12:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark My degree show was cancelled – what can I do instead? The…

  Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark My degree show was cancelled – what can I do instead? The…

  Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 1 2019, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon…

  In 2003, a team of scientists in China managed to create embryos containing a mix of rabbit and human DNA. Most of the biological matter was human, while the rabbit DNA…

  November 7 2018, 7:08am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 22 2017, 12:25pm | Comments

• Additivism Sight + Sound Festival - Eastern Bloc, Montreal (exhibition)

  September 4 2017, 4:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Cloning the neandertal: only a matter of time and resources

  Scientists are debating about a possible return of the Neanderthal. With stem cell technology breaking through elsewhere and a complete sequence of the Neanderthal genome at hand, it’s seemingly only a…

  April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

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

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Global Hoarding? Human-made Junk Now Outweighs Humans Themselves, Scientists Say | The…

  Human-engineered structures and gadgets from cities to cellphones now represent an enormous mass weight of nearly 30 trillion tonnes on the planet, or vastly more than the world’s forests or life…

  December 31 2016, 6:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Plastiglomerate - Journal #78 December 2016 - e-flux

  ­­The conditions that obtained when life had not yet emerged from the oceans have not subsequently changed a great deal for the cells of the human body, bathed by the primordial…

  December 31 2016, 6:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Slime Intelligence | Rhizome

  Physarum polycephalum is a single-celled organism invisible to the naked eye. However, in its ideal conditions—dark, wet, and bacterial—it multiplies into a visible bright yellow mass that spreads ostentatiously, fanning out…

  August 17 2016, 12:04pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 7 2016, 6:24am | Comments

• Bookmark People Are Making And Selling Counterfeit Jellyfish In China | Popular Science

  There are all sorts of food scams perpetrated every day here in America. The whole farm-to-table trend, for example — a lot of that is probably just marketing bullshit, according to…

  June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Emperor’s Love of Slime Mold | Popular Science

  Slime mold—a living network of tendrils found on rotting wood and other plant debris—is easily one of the strangest things alive. Neither plant, nor fungus, it’s a collection of individual cells…

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life : Nature…

  Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.

  March 29 2016, 2:35pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 28 2016, 1:48pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "The slow cancellation of the future"

  

  December 14 2015, 2:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Ferguson is the Future | Nassau Weekly

  On September 14, I spent the day in the Chancellor Green Rotunda at the “Ferguson is the Future” Symposium, and I have spent every day since then trying to process the magnitude…

  October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 20 2015, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark How a Hacked Virus Is Bringing Us Closer to Artificial Photosynthesis |…

  The question persists: Is a virus alive? Or is it simply a clever organic machine? It lacks most all of things we associate with "life": the ability to reproduce (outside of…

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 18 2015, 8:42am | Comments

• Additivism ISIS vs. 3D Printing: On Morehshin Allahyari's 'Material Speculation: ISIS' project

  May 25 2015, 9:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Did Cancer Evolve to Protect Us? - Scientific American

  Could cancer be our cells’ way of running in “safe mode,” like a damaged computer operating system trying to preserve itself, when faced with an external threat? That’s the conclusion reached…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Vimeo

  July 15 2014, 3:28pm | Comments

• 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

• Bookmark Lucasfilm shows off the future of filmmaking? Scenes get rendered out in…

  OVER THE NEXT DECADE video game engines will be used in film-making, with the two disciplines combining to eliminate the movie post-production process. That rather ambitious claim comes from Lucasfilm, the…

  April 22 2014, 3:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Faxing' Life from Mars: Craig Venter's Wild, Digital Space Exploration Idea |…

  Craig Venter is scientist/entrepreneur and founded the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization that announced in May 2010 they had successfully constructed the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial…

  March 4 2014, 10:54pm | Comments

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