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  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

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  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

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  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

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  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

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• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

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  Part 1 of Boing Boing's rather excellent taxonomy series, recommended reading http://t.co/agGCDEMU30

  July 1 2013, 3:08am | Comments

• Bookmark A disjointed conversation – Claire Bishop, The Digital Divide, and the State…

  I found Claire Bishop’s landmark essay on Digital Art, ‘The Digital Divide’ in Artforum’s 50th Anniversary issue three months late through Lauren Cornell and Brian Droitcour’s equally polemic response, ‘Technical Difficulties’…

  January 16 2013, 2:41am | Comments

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  Overheard cellphone chat at NY airport "Mommy bear says there's blood all over the place needs cleanin up. I'll see u down there real soon."

  December 11 2012, 8:35am | Comments

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  The ENCODE delusion

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• 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,…

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• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

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  In the invisible, parallel world of Earth, they kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day, and invade a microbe host 10 trillion times a second around the world. There…

  August 11 2012, 2:13pm | Comments

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  For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

  July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments

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  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Metafilter The Pantone Merkel Chart A Pantone chart of German chancellor Angela Merkel's many coloured jackets

  July 17 2012, 2:52pm | Comments

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  "How does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will & human life?" Can cells become little computers? And how does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will, intelligence, and…

  July 10 2012, 2:50am | Comments

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  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

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  A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice, researchers…

  May 9 2012, 8:14am | Comments

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  A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way…

  April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments

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  Bespoke pets: Just press “print” | The Economist

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

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  The Making of The Rings of Saturn

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

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  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

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  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

  March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments

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  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

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  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

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• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

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  January 9 2014, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

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

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Part 1 of Boing Boing's rather excellent taxonomy series, recommended reading http://t.co/agGCDEMU30

  July 1 2013, 3:08am | Comments

• Bookmark A disjointed conversation – Claire Bishop, The Digital Divide, and the State…

  I found Claire Bishop’s landmark essay on Digital Art, ‘The Digital Divide’ in Artforum’s 50th Anniversary issue three months late through Lauren Cornell and Brian Droitcour’s equally polemic response, ‘Technical Difficulties’…

  January 16 2013, 2:41am | Comments

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  Overheard cellphone chat at NY airport "Mommy bear says there's blood all over the place needs cleanin up. I'll see u down there real soon."

  December 11 2012, 8:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The ENCODE delusion

  September 25 2012, 3:41am | 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

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark "The Virus Planet" -- A Hidden Universe that Would Reach Out 100…

  In the invisible, parallel world of Earth, they kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day, and invade a microbe host 10 trillion times a second around the world. There…

  August 11 2012, 2:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software

  For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

  July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Metafilter The Pantone Merkel Chart A Pantone chart of German chancellor Angela Merkel's many coloured jackets

  July 17 2012, 2:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark I Like to Build Alien Artifacts

  "How does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will & human life?" Can cells become little computers? And how does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will, intelligence, and…

  July 10 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning

  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain?

  A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice, researchers…

  May 9 2012, 8:14am | Comments

• Bookmark The social cell

  A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way…

  April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bespoke pets: Just press “print” | The Economist

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Making of The Rings of Saturn

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

  March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience

  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

  November 21 2011, 2:09am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

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