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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
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
Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?
Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments
Bookmark A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson
By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A…

March 7 2010, 3:53pm | Comments
Bookmark An evolutionary biologist on religion: Spirit level
WHEREVER their investigations lead, all analysts of religion begin somewhere. And in the final lines of his densely but skilfully packed account of faith from the viewpoint of evolutionary biology, Nicholas…

March 7 2010, 3:52pm | 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 Incredible Journeys
Some animals can instinctively solve navigational problems that have baffled humans for centuries. Now, researchers are uncovering how. The nervous system of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis, with around 100,000 neurons,…

March 1 2010, 9:17am | Comments
Bookmark Should We Clone Neanderthals?
If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454…

March 1 2010, 3:58am | Comments
Portfolio 3quarksdaily Prize : Vote for me

March 1 2010, 3:27am | Comments
Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive
"'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood…

February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter
In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him up…

February 21 2010, 4:00pm | Comments
Podcast /noise : Songs We’ve Never Heard Before From Records We’ve Never Played Before

February 12 2010, 5:39am | Comments
Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Leonardo da Vinci's Resume
From the Codex Atlanticus, this is a letter that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in 1482 to the Duke of Milan advertising his services as a "skilled contriver of instruments of war".…

January 29 2010, 1:31pm | Comments
Bookmark For The Love Of Culture
In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments
Wikipedia Coriolis effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite sides of a spinning roundabout (carousel), who are throwing a ball to each other. From…

January 20 2010, 5:57am | Comments
Bibliography The Inner Touch

January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments
Bookmark From Eternity to Here
The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is so…

January 12 2010, 2:15am | Comments
Bookmark Sleep Talkin' Man
My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only fair…

January 9 2010, 6:24am | Comments
Bookmark Divine Wilderness
PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the Tabernacle…

January 8 2010, 9:02am | Comments
Bookmark Theology for atheists
Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself has…

January 8 2010, 2:29am | Comments
Bookmark Evidence of Everything Exploding
A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

January 5 2010, 7:54am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: I shared my flesh with thinking cancer The Things - The Thing from the point of view of the thing, by Peter Watts (previously, previously, previously)

January 4 2010, 12:27pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments
Bookmark Myriahedral projection maps of the world
A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

December 23 2009, 2:50am | Comments
Bookmark When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?
Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest…

December 23 2009, 2:24am | Comments
Flickr Plastic sneeuwstormbeschermer / Face protection from snowstorms

December 18 2009, 5:25am | Comments
Bookmark The Wall and the Books
by Jorge Luis Borges I read, in past days, that the man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who…

December 13 2009, 3:17pm | Comments
Bookmark We have a message from another world
In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described…

December 11 2009, 4:11pm | Comments

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