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• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | 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

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future

  A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

  March 30 2011, 2:30am | 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

• Vimeo

  March 20 2011, 4:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prop Theory in a Nutshell

  Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game – it…

  March 10 2011, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell

  The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium parasite…

  January 24 2011, 2:54am | Comments

• Bookmark On Resilience

  A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist in…

  December 16 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Using a Facebook 'page' as University Research Hub My university department (art postgrad) wants to use Facebook as a community and research hub. What is the best way to go about this? In a perfect world we will use the facebook hub for: News of events and department politics Community options,…

  November 18 2010, 9:12am | Comments

• Bookmark What Are Books Good For?

  I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the defensive.…

  September 30 2010, 4:23pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

  September 27 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Bookmark 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive

  This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was created…

  July 14 2010, 9:05am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Symphony in J flat

  What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

  March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

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• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | 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

• Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

  May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future

  A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

  March 30 2011, 2:30am | 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

• Vimeo

  March 20 2011, 4:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Prop Theory in a Nutshell

  Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game – it…

  March 10 2011, 9:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell

  The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium parasite…

  January 24 2011, 2:54am | Comments

• Bookmark On Resilience

  A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist in…

  December 16 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Using a Facebook 'page' as University Research Hub My university department (art postgrad) wants to use Facebook as a community and research hub. What is the best way to go about this? In a perfect world we will use the facebook hub for: News of events and department politics Community options,…

  November 18 2010, 9:12am | Comments

• Bookmark What Are Books Good For?

  I've been wondering lately when books became the enemy. Scholars have always been people of the book, so it seems wrong that the faithful companion has been put on the defensive.…

  September 30 2010, 4:23pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

  September 27 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Bookmark 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive

  This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was created…

  July 14 2010, 9:05am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Symphony in J flat

  What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

  March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

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