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• Bookmark From Neanderthal Skull to Neanderthal Brain? – Phenomena: Only Human

  The first draft of the Neanderthal genome, published in 2010, came with some titillating news. It showed that some 50,000 years ago, these ancient hominids interbred with the ancestors of many…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Should we revive extinct species? Watch experts debate de-extinction - Cosmic Log

  If scientists can use genetic engineering to bring back the woolly mammoth, should they do it? How about the passenger pigeon? Or the western black rhino? Do we humans have a…

  March 19 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark "Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe"…

  Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. "Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer…

  March 8 2013, 3:55am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Bigfoot DNA' Study Seeks Yeti Rights : Discovery News

  A team of researchers led by Melba Ketchum, a Texas veterinarian, claims to have not only conclusively proven the existence of Bigfoot through genetic testing, but also that the mysterious monster…

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• Bookmark The demolition man - FT.com

  A little over a decade ago, John Gray secured his status as one of Britain’s leading public intellectuals with his anti-humanist polemic Straw Dogs.

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs

  In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

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  March 1 2013, 7:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientist wants human woman to give birth to a Neanderthal - Crave

  A scientist believes he's close to perfecting the necessary technology to clone a Neanderthal - all he needs is a human woman to gestate it.

  January 22 2013, 3:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark How art history is failing at the Internet

  Keeping up with the pace of change in the digital world is challenging, and harnessing its potential can be frustrating. But the biggest mistake many of us in the arts and…

  December 31 2012, 7:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism: not an ‘impossible dream’

  Andrew Brown, at The Guardian‘s ‘Comment is Free’ (CIF) wrote an article a couple of weeks ago now rubbishing humanism and the British Humanist Association. I’ve responded today on the Huffington…

  December 31 2012, 6:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism is an impossible dream

  The humanism that the BHA stands for is quite clearly defined in opposition to Christendom. By "Christendom", I mean the idea that the normative and proper state of a society is…

  December 31 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

  December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

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  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: what tools and models do we have for collaboration in the humanities? what tools and platforms exist right now which humanists can use to do collaborative research? what models exist of successful humanities collaboration?

  November 26 2012, 7:11am | Comments

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  Why OOO?

  November 14 2012, 4:38am | Comments

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  Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

  November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

  October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

  September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments

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  IS ONTOLOGY MAKING US STUPID?

  September 20 2012, 7:35am | Comments

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  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

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  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Instagram Art of Change: works are by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, including a column made…

  September 11 2012, 4:18am | Comments

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  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

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  September 5 2012, 10:27pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Time for Teletubbies: Resistance is Futile Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction - how the BBC children's show reveals our posthuman future.

  September 5 2012, 12:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog

  The frontier of science is a wild and lawless place. Like all badlands, it attracts visionaries, charlatans and the dispossessed. Far from the jurisdiction of law enforcers, isolated communities cluster together…

  August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark "The Virus Planet" -- A Hidden Universe that Would Reach Out 100…

  In the invisible, parallel world of Earth, they kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day, and invade a microbe host 10 trillion times a second around the world. There…

  August 11 2012, 2:13pm | Comments

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• Bookmark From Neanderthal Skull to Neanderthal Brain? – Phenomena: Only Human

  The first draft of the Neanderthal genome, published in 2010, came with some titillating news. It showed that some 50,000 years ago, these ancient hominids interbred with the ancestors of many…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Should we revive extinct species? Watch experts debate de-extinction - Cosmic Log

  If scientists can use genetic engineering to bring back the woolly mammoth, should they do it? How about the passenger pigeon? Or the western black rhino? Do we humans have a…

  March 19 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark "Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe"…

  Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. "Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer…

  March 8 2013, 3:55am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Bigfoot DNA' Study Seeks Yeti Rights : Discovery News

  A team of researchers led by Melba Ketchum, a Texas veterinarian, claims to have not only conclusively proven the existence of Bigfoot through genetic testing, but also that the mysterious monster…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The demolition man - FT.com

  A little over a decade ago, John Gray secured his status as one of Britain’s leading public intellectuals with his anti-humanist polemic Straw Dogs.

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs

  In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 1 2013, 7:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientist wants human woman to give birth to a Neanderthal - Crave

  A scientist believes he's close to perfecting the necessary technology to clone a Neanderthal - all he needs is a human woman to gestate it.

  January 22 2013, 3:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark How art history is failing at the Internet

  Keeping up with the pace of change in the digital world is challenging, and harnessing its potential can be frustrating. But the biggest mistake many of us in the arts and…

  December 31 2012, 7:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism: not an ‘impossible dream’

  Andrew Brown, at The Guardian‘s ‘Comment is Free’ (CIF) wrote an article a couple of weeks ago now rubbishing humanism and the British Humanist Association. I’ve responded today on the Huffington…

  December 31 2012, 6:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism is an impossible dream

  The humanism that the BHA stands for is quite clearly defined in opposition to Christendom. By "Christendom", I mean the idea that the normative and proper state of a society is…

  December 31 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

  December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: what tools and models do we have for collaboration in the humanities? what tools and platforms exist right now which humanists can use to do collaborative research? what models exist of successful humanities collaboration?

  November 26 2012, 7:11am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why OOO?

  November 14 2012, 4:38am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

  November 11 2012, 9:23pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."

  “Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

  October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

  September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  IS ONTOLOGY MAKING US STUPID?

  September 20 2012, 7:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Instagram Art of Change: works are by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, including a column made…

  September 11 2012, 4:18am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 5 2012, 10:27pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Time for Teletubbies: Resistance is Futile Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction - how the BBC children's show reveals our posthuman future.

  September 5 2012, 12:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog

  The frontier of science is a wild and lawless place. Like all badlands, it attracts visionaries, charlatans and the dispossessed. Far from the jurisdiction of law enforcers, isolated communities cluster together…

  August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark "The Virus Planet" -- A Hidden Universe that Would Reach Out 100…

  In the invisible, parallel world of Earth, they kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day, and invade a microbe host 10 trillion times a second around the world. There…

  August 11 2012, 2:13pm | Comments

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