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Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?
Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments
Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!
Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark The last stand of the Amazon
The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that…

April 4 2011, 12:07pm | Comments
Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments
Bookmark Geocities - The Torrent
This is a collection of Geocities data downloaded by a bunch of people who call themselves ARCHIVE TEAM, who began scraping the Yahoo! Geocities site during a six month period in…

November 10 2010, 2:05am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
In the 1990s, Paul Romer revolutionized economics. In the aughts, he became rich as a software entrepreneur. Now he’s trying to help the poorest countries grow rich—by convincing them to establish…

June 12 2010, 9:21am | Comments
Bookmark Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed
Human evolution presents a puzzle. Nothing seems to explain the sudden takeoff of the last 45,000 years—the conversion of just another rare predatory ape into a planet dominator with rapidly progressing…

June 1 2010, 2:53am | 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
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Abandoned Places In The World
When starting on this post for some reason I was thinking that there are not many abandoned places in the world, at least the cities. I knew there are many villages,…

July 14 2009, 4:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Atlas Obscura
Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular, eccentric,…

June 16 2009, 3:14pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments
Wikipedia Fictional cities and towns - Wikipedia This category contains fictional towns and cities. If on Earth, they are found in the subcategories by real-world location (state or country), so that those categories may connect with their real-world counterparts.

December 19 2008, 8:09am | Comments
Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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