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Bookmark Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab animal to study every…
"I began to realize that the ‘control’ animals used for research studies throughout the world are couch potatoes," he tells me. It's been shown that mice living under standard laboratory conditions…

December 13 2011, 12:34pm | Comments
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Worth a new Mass?

December 8 2011, 7:06am | Comments
Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark A computer that thinks like the universe
For years, excitement about quantum computing has been growing among scientists and tech visionaries. Quantum computers, if they succeed, promise to make a whole new range of problems accessible to computers,…

December 3 2011, 2:10am | Comments
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Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

November 29 2011, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark The Mystery of the Five Wounds
Why, though, to begin with, did stigmata materialize in 13th-century Italy? Part of the answer seems to lie in the theological trends of the time. The Catholic Church of St. Francis’s…

November 21 2011, 12:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience
As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

November 21 2011, 2:09am | Comments
GLTI.CH Karaoke Gli.tc/h Amsterdam Retrospective
Clips and noises courtesy of Anthony Antonellis – See you all in Birmingham, Saturday 19th from 3pm!

November 17 2011, 1:58am | Comments
Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects
Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

November 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments
GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?
It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments
Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature
Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments
Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?
A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments
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On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments
Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution
Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments
GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments
Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas
This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?
But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up nuclear…

October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments
Bookmark Innovation Starvation
SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments
Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)
Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

September 30 2011, 7:33am | 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
Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]
Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments
Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory
For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments
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September 24 2011, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum | Art and design…
Postmodernism: Was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the Internet? http://t.co/KLWldzzq #x #exhibition #culture #digital

September 20 2011, 10:48pm | Comments
Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?
The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments
Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments
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Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum

September 17 2011, 2:03am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments
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From Scroll to Screen

September 16 2011, 6:52am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…
“What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age
Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments

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