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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

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  Marx at 193

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  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The God wars

  Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in fact,…

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  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

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  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | 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 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

• Tumblr Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable...

  October 31 2011, 6:42am | Comments

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  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | 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

• Bibliography The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Science Masters) by W.Daniel Hillis

  June 19 2011, 5:11am | Comments

• Bookmark The truth is in there

  “I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what…

  June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

  We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph. But…

  June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Georges Bataille Electronic Library

  Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a…

  June 1 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Bookmark Depicting Relationships: The limits of language

  The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit sequel…

  May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Biomathematics: The formula of life

  Biology used to be about plants, animals and insects, but five great revolutions have changed the way that scientists think about life: the invention of the microscope, the systematic classification of…

  May 11 2011, 3:32am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution

  Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement across…

  March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology

  hrough Insect Media I wanted to investigate non-human media theory – and how we have for a longer time understood high-tech media through nature; through metaphors adapted from nature and more…

  March 2 2011, 6:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Hawking contra Philosophy

  Professor Hawking has probably been talking to the wrong philosophers, or picked up some wrong ideas about the kinds of discussion that currently go on in philosophy of science. His lofty…

  February 19 2011, 5:31am | Comments

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  December 17 2010, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World

  A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

  December 1 2010, 4:22am | Comments

• Bookmark All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben

  Radio receives little critical attention. Of the various methods for communicating ideas and emotions—books, newspapers, visual art, music, film, television, the Web—radio may be the least discussed, debated, understood. This is…

  October 28 2010, 3:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Biosemiotics: Searching for meanings in a meadow

  Are signs and meanings just as vital to living things as enzymes and tissues? Liz Else investigates a science in the making EVERY so often, something shows up on the New…

  August 27 2010, 1:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Ideas of the Century: Non-Critical Thinking

  Back in 1981, R.M. Hare, in his book Moral Thinking, featured a distinction that today I still find useful. Hare admitted that the distinction was not original with him, but he…

  August 21 2010, 3:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Creators Project | Takeshi Murata

  The Creators Project: Much of your work centers on the appropriation and distorting of things to the point that they’re entirely something else. I was wondering how you feel about this…

  July 22 2010, 10:01pm | Comments

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  July 19 2010, 2:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Ball of Mud

  The notion of SHEARING LAYERS is one of the centerpieces of Brand's How Buildings Learn [Brand 1994]. Brand, in turn synthesized his ideas from a variety of sources, including British designer…

  July 18 2010, 6:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best ... There are some great ideas here; so many many ideas. Almost too many, need to refer back to this site often.  And, no reason why we couldn't add some of our successful ideas/programmes here too :-)

  June 21 2010, 6:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

  Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with…

  June 6 2010, 3:54am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The God wars

  Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in fact,…

  March 7 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | 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 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

• Tumblr Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable...

  October 31 2011, 6:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | 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

• Bibliography The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Science Masters) by W.Daniel Hillis

  June 19 2011, 5:11am | Comments

• Bookmark The truth is in there

  “I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what…

  June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

  We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph. But…

  June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Georges Bataille Electronic Library

  Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a…

  June 1 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

• Bookmark Depicting Relationships: The limits of language

  The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit sequel…

  May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Biomathematics: The formula of life

  Biology used to be about plants, animals and insects, but five great revolutions have changed the way that scientists think about life: the invention of the microscope, the systematic classification of…

  May 11 2011, 3:32am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution

  Movement. How did we come to politicize the concept of “movement” in our Western lexicon to begin with? Walzer interprets this as a product of Exodus thinking, where “the movement across…

  March 20 2011, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology

  hrough Insect Media I wanted to investigate non-human media theory – and how we have for a longer time understood high-tech media through nature; through metaphors adapted from nature and more…

  March 2 2011, 6:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Hawking contra Philosophy

  Professor Hawking has probably been talking to the wrong philosophers, or picked up some wrong ideas about the kinds of discussion that currently go on in philosophy of science. His lofty…

  February 19 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 17 2010, 11:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World

  A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

  December 1 2010, 4:22am | Comments

• Bookmark All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben

  Radio receives little critical attention. Of the various methods for communicating ideas and emotions—books, newspapers, visual art, music, film, television, the Web—radio may be the least discussed, debated, understood. This is…

  October 28 2010, 3:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Biosemiotics: Searching for meanings in a meadow

  Are signs and meanings just as vital to living things as enzymes and tissues? Liz Else investigates a science in the making EVERY so often, something shows up on the New…

  August 27 2010, 1:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Ideas of the Century: Non-Critical Thinking

  Back in 1981, R.M. Hare, in his book Moral Thinking, featured a distinction that today I still find useful. Hare admitted that the distinction was not original with him, but he…

  August 21 2010, 3:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Creators Project | Takeshi Murata

  The Creators Project: Much of your work centers on the appropriation and distorting of things to the point that they’re entirely something else. I was wondering how you feel about this…

  July 22 2010, 10:01pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 19 2010, 2:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Ball of Mud

  The notion of SHEARING LAYERS is one of the centerpieces of Brand's How Buildings Learn [Brand 1994]. Brand, in turn synthesized his ideas from a variety of sources, including British designer…

  July 18 2010, 6:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best ... There are some great ideas here; so many many ideas. Almost too many, need to refer back to this site often.  And, no reason why we couldn't add some of our successful ideas/programmes here too :-)

  June 21 2010, 6:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

  Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with…

  June 6 2010, 3:54am | Comments

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