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Syllabus Cache The Changing Ontology of the Image | The Nordic Journal…
Traditionally we think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena that, in one way or the other, appear to the human mind and apparatus of perception. Currently, however, we are witnessing an intensification of what we might…

July 4 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | Psychoterratica
It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

June 22 2021, 9:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says | Archaeology | The…
When Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Humans Can't Contain Superintelligent Machines | Super AI
In a new study, researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development say they’ve shown that an artificial intelligence in the category known as “superintelligent” would be impossible for humans…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark Scientists grow human-neanderthal hybrid 'minibrains' in petri dishes | Live Science
Sesame seed-size brains created from a mix of human and Neanderthal genes lived briefly in petri dishes in a University of California, San Diego laboratory, offering tantalizing clues as to how…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans | New…
The existence of the Denisovans was discovered just a decade ago through DNA alone. Now we're starting to uncover fossils and artefacts revealing what these early humans were like TODAY, there…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Fossil evidence of mysterious 'southern Denisovans' yet to be found | Natural…
Island Southeast Asia contains one of the world's richest fossil records documenting human evolution. Some of these fossils date to at least 1.3 million years ago.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Humans Will Probably Evolve to Be Venomous
Could future humans evolve to have venom glands? In new research, scientists close a long-open door by causally linking early salivary glands with what eventually became venom glands in many animals.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Digital Condition: Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age
UPDATE: Due to circumstances the Winter School will be held virtually. Please note that the programme follows the EET Eastern European Time UTC+2 timezone!

January 26 2021, 10:39am | Comments
Bookmark Organisms are not passive recipients of evolutionary forces | Aeon Essays
Humans are shaping the evolutionary future of life on Earth.

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Reddit Can anyone suggest me a book wherein a character undergoes a SLOW/ GRADUAL permanent transformation into a creature/animal/monster/ hybrid I've seen my fair share of novels wherein characters transform into werewolves or animals but the transformations I've encountered almost always seems to happen rather instantaneously and in the case of shapeshifters, well they could always revert back to their human forms so…

January 1 2021, 11:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Otherkin Are the Internet’s Punchline. They’re Also Our Future
Rhia is queer, trans, and nonbinary. They are also otherkin, or an individual who identifies as nonhuman on a non-physical level, according to the Otherkin Wiki.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American
Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried
Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

October 22 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark How Humanity Came To Contemplate Its Possible Extinction: A Timeline | The…
It is only in the last couple of centuries that we have begun to grasp that our existence might one day cease to exist forever. Today's attempts to measure and mitigate…

October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays
Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

October 2 2020, 6:13am | Comments
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September 11 2020, 1:04pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen
What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments
Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria
Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

August 20 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal
I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be…

August 19 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as…
There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

August 18 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthal DNA in Modern Human Genomes Is Not Silent | The Scientist…
From skin color to immunity, human biology is linked to our archaic ancestry.

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Podcast Cache When did modern humans first arrive in Europe? – podcast | Science…
Nicola Davis speaks to Prof Jean-Jacques Hublin about new archaeological discoveries which reveal that modern humans co-existed with Neanderthals for several thousand years https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/may/28/when-did-modern-humans-first-arrive-in-europe-podcast

June 29 2020, 2:46pm | Comments
Reddit Would you rather have sex with a human sized fish or one of those tiny fish people find in sushi… submitted by /u/wouldyouratherGPT2 to r/SubSimulatorGPT2 [link] [comments]

May 21 2020, 6:00am | Comments
Podcast Cache #86 After Geoengineering w/ Holly Buck
Holly Buck joins me to discuss her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. We talked about why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering to avert the worst of the climate crisis. We…

May 13 2020, 5:59pm | Comments
Bookmark ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in…
In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating. By In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic age.

May 9 2020, 4:29am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in…
In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating. By In 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic age.

May 8 2020, 9:29pm | Comments
Bookmark Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus | In the Moment
The novel coronavirus is posthuman in at least two senses. First, and most obviously, because it is oblivious to human intentions, desires, and motives.

April 18 2020, 8:12am | Comments
Bookmark Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus | In the Moment
The novel coronavirus is posthuman in at least two senses. First, and most obviously, because it is oblivious to human intentions, desires, and motives.

April 18 2020, 1:12am | Comments
Bookmark Humanity's Origin Story Just Got More Complicated | Gizmodo UK
Human evolution was messy, with multiple human species living and interbreeding at the same time, in a convoluted process that eventually led to us. Such is the emerging narrative in anthropology,…

April 12 2020, 7:18am | Comments
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