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• Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

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  Major evolutionary trend in human beings

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• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo

  The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

  April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

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  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

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  Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

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  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

  April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments

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  Journal of Digital Humanities

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• Bookmark Q&A;: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens

  Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the…

  April 6 2012, 2:07am | Comments

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  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

  March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments

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  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

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  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

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  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

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  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

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  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

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  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

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  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

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  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

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  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

  March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments

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  Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled "Visual Theft," Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve

  February 28 2012, 6:35am | Comments

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  How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot

  February 26 2012, 9:21am | Comments

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  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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• Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Major evolutionary trend in human beings

  April 22 2012, 1:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Nietzsche's Posthuman: Rules for the Human Zoo

  The concept of a “formless matter” [that] embodies … all that’s been thought between Hegel and Turing on the relation of “things” to “mind.” It tests out a trivalent—or multivalent—logic that’s…

  April 20 2012, 12:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

  April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

  April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Journal of Digital Humanities

  April 9 2012, 4:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Q&A;: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens

  Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the…

  April 6 2012, 2:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

  March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

  March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled "Visual Theft," Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve

  February 28 2012, 6:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot

  February 26 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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