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Bookmark Earth as hybrid planet: New classification places Anthropocene era in astrobiological context
For decades, as astronomers have imagined advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, they categorized such worlds by the amount of energy their inhabitants might conceivably be able to harness and use.

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments
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August 16 2015, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark Common Western Classifications of Suiseki | The Art of Stone Appreciation -…
| | | Among the four languages covered in this section, the most common terminology in use today is Japanese. This page contains English terminology with Japanese in parenthesis (where applicable).

May 14 2014, 3:19pm | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting
What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Biomathematics: The formula of life
Biology used to be about plants, animals and insects, but five great revolutions have changed the way that scientists think about life: the invention of the microscope, the systematic classification of…

May 11 2011, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Neanderthal Romeo and Human Juliet hypothesis
Just this year, researchers have estimated that gene flow from Neanderthals to humans occurred between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago (ScienceDaily May, 2010). Researchers have long wondered if Neanderthals were an…

October 28 2010, 3:49am | Comments
Bookmark Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray
One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents…

June 1 2010, 2:08pm | Comments
Bookmark Inside the Mundaneum
Otlet was the first to imagine all the world’s knowledge as one vast “web,” connected by “links” and accessed remotely through desktop screens, and because of this he can be seen…

April 22 2010, 2:39am | Comments
Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments

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