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Bookmark Energizing Futures: How SciFi Fuels Itself
Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They…

June 2 2012, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely
As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments
Bookmark “The Self” in the Future: Will it be Extinguished, by Neuroscience?
I’m more hesitant about the idea that neuroscience will kill the idea of ‘the self.’ I think it might be a good thing if it did, but some ideas are recalcitrant…

May 17 2012, 3:30am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: "It didn’t bother you to see the world tiny and unprotected, surrounded by darkness?” In a recent episode of Mad Men titled "Lady Lazarus," Pete Campbell has an existential crisis when he sees a picture of the Earth from space, but were there color pictures of the whole Earth in October 1966? First some background...

May 11 2012, 12:03am | Comments
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Should we clone Neanderthals?

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
Bookmark A universe without purpose
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments
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God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments
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The Virus Planet

March 9 2012, 3:36am | Comments
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The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments
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The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments
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Digital tools 'to save languages'

February 18 2012, 5:35pm | Comments
Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)
Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments
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Rereading Darwin

January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments
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September 18 2011, 4:21am | Comments
Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Traces of humanity
What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the earth…

August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Bookmark On Discovering Life
There is an aspect of life sciences that has been largely absent: the confrontation of fundamental questions of biology much as particle accelerators grapple with fundamental questions of physics. The roll…

July 27 2011, 3:05pm | 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
Wikipedia Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth are existential risks that could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even cause the end of planet Earth.[1] The concept is expressed in various phrases such as…

June 26 2011, 11:00am | Comments
Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…
APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments
Bookmark Digital legacy: Archaeology of the future
The historians of 2061 will want to study the birth of the world wide web. How on earth will they know where to start? Today, historians have to piece together the…

May 3 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Bookmark We are as gods and have to get good at it
The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as gods,…

April 28 2011, 3:27am | Comments
Bookmark Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic
In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic --which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years ago…

April 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments
Bookmark Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption
In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction,…

April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark What we cannot predict
"Risks are always interesting," writes George Dyson," especially in this case where you have such a mix of probabilities — the earthquake/tsunami that most agree was unpredictable, if inevitable, and the…

March 30 2011, 2:28am | Comments
Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game
The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

March 26 2011, 1:48pm | 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
Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments
Bookmark Where Do Animals Come From?
The origin of animals was one of the most astonishing and important transformations in the history of life. From single-celled ancestors, they evolved into a riot of complexity and diversity. An…

March 20 2011, 5:37am | Comments

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