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  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

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  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

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  At what age do babies enter the uncanny valley?

  February 13 2012, 9:06am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Man as Machine

  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

  February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

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  Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains

  February 6 2012, 1:21am | Comments

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  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

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• Bookmark Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

  With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

  January 19 2012, 2:13am | Comments

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  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

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  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

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  What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

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  All Language Is Murder

  December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | 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

• 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

• Bookmark The King of Human Error

  The paper that resulted five years later, the abovementioned “Prospect Theory,” not only proved that one of the central premises of economics was seriously flawed—the so-called utility theory, “based on elementary…

  November 10 2011, 7:36am | 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

• 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

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

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  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

  October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

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• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  At what age do babies enter the uncanny valley?

  February 13 2012, 9:06am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl)

  Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount…

  February 12 2012, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Man as Machine

  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

  February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains

  February 6 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Twitter

  MORE HUMANS

  January 20 2012, 5:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

  With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

  January 19 2012, 2:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

  December 20 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  All Language Is Murder

  December 14 2011, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | 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

• 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

• Bookmark The King of Human Error

  The paper that resulted five years later, the abovementioned “Prospect Theory,” not only proved that one of the central premises of economics was seriously flawed—the so-called utility theory, “based on elementary…

  November 10 2011, 7:36am | 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

• 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

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

  October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

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