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Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution
There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments
Bookmark Two podcasts about sound art
"Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass…

March 21 2010, 12:48pm | Comments
Bookmark Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection
As with any other species, human populations are shaped by the usual forces of natural selection, like famine, disease or climate. A new force is now coming into focus. It is…

March 2 2010, 4:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World
Manipulating Reality presents a selection of 23 artistic approaches that work through photography and video to develop possible models of reality. Its aim is not to understand whether photographs can convey…

January 29 2010, 4:00pm | Comments
Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley
Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

December 7 2009, 5:08pm | Comments
Bookmark Fictional Stimulus
Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments
Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists
It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments
Bookmark Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism
Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments
Bookmark 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,' 'Catching Fire' take path-breaking…
A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was "the…

June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks
People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

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