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  Last year, a curious nonfiction book became a Times best-seller: a dense meditation on artificial intelligence by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who holds an appointment at Oxford.

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  The first fossilised dinosaur brain has been found on a beach in East Sussex and could show that the extinct giants were more intelligent than first thought. The small brown pebble…

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  In his 1971 novella The Futurological Congress, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem describes a group of futurologists who have gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica to stave off…

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• Bookmark How a 3D clitoris will help teach French schoolchildren about sex |…

  Paul Verlaine celebrated it in his 1889 poem Printemps as a “shining pink button”, but thanks to the sociomedical researcher Odile Fillod, French schoolchildren will now understand that it looks more…

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  Russia is fighting a mysterious anthrax outbreak in a remote corner of Siberia. Dozens of people have been hospitalized; one child has died. The government airlifted some families out because more…

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• Bookmark Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century? | Books…

  It’s not science fiction, it’s not realism, but hovers in the unsettling zone in between. From Philip K Dick to Stephen King, Damien Walter takes a tour through transrealism, the emerging…

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• Ask Metafilter Books on Food and its relation to Colonialism/Imperialism Are there any good books telling the story of imperialism/colonialism through food? Since reading Guns, Germs and Steel many years ago I have been fascinated with the origins of world food, especially when it highlights untold histories of civilisation. This article on 'How…

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  When my daughter was little, we played a game on the way to her preschool called Count the Dog Poo. It was a game about counting, as you would play with…

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  Leaving planet Earth isn’t easy. This year, NASA’s Astronaut Candidate Program received a record 18,000-plus applications from highly qualified scientists bent on discovering space’s deep abyss. It will choose a handful,…

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  Bringing children into a disintegrating environment used to be a theoretical fear. Now it’s a very real one The decision whether or not to have a child is one of the…

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Centaur chess marries human and machine -- BloomReach

  The story of IBM’s Deep Blue computer defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 has been told so many times that it’s practically shorthand for the philosophical debate over man…

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• Additivism More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown

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• Instagram #Bartkira #nihilism

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• Bookmark Crocheting a Queer Vision of Art History

  Caroline Wells Chandler’s “Zack” (2016), hand-crocheted assorted wool, 30″ x 22″, installed at Lord Ludd (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) PHILADELPHIA — Just as you’re rounding the corner,…

  March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Closing the Loop – The New Inquiry

  “The black female’s body needs less to be rescued from the masculine “gaze” than to be sprung from a historic script surrounding her with signification while at the same time, and…

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• Additivism Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016)

  Sign up: Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016) There are still places available for our #Additivism Workshop at Sonic Acts Academy, on the theme of ‘Post-Nature’. Sign up!Workshop The 2-day 3D Additivism workshop, which will take place immediately after the…

  January 28 2016, 6:04am | Comments

• Bibliography Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols by Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, and J. Hillis Miller

  January 19 2016, 7:49am | Comments

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  January 5 2016, 11:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Death of the Cyberflâneur

  Palo Alto, Calif. THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 — published, of…

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  December 19 2015, 6:00am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Analog synths and VHS, digital dreams, SNES FrankJavCee knows what the kids like to listen to, and will teach you how to make songs in popular new genres, like chillwave and ocean grunge.

  December 5 2015, 10:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark The ghost that haunts American literature: The genius & the repugnance of…

  Howard Phillips Lovecraft will make you believe in ghosts. The legendary “cosmic horror” author has been dead for 78 years, and yet he continues to get more controversial by the day.

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reflections on Philip K. Dick | Open Geography

  Amazon have just released their adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle. David Gill, at San Francisco State University, was recently interviewed by Salon about the show. He makes…

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Doomsday Invention - The New Yorker

  Last year, a curious nonfiction book became a Times best-seller: a dense meditation on artificial intelligence by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who holds an appointment at Oxford.

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

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