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• 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

  December 20 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

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  I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

  December 19 2011, 9:35am | Comments

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  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

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  How the internet transforms scientific discovery

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab animal to study every…

  "I began to realize that the ‘control’ animals used for research studies throughout the world are couch potatoes," he tells me. It's been shown that mice living under standard laboratory conditions…

  December 13 2011, 12:34pm | Comments

• Bibliography Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

  November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Failure lecture at Gli.tc/h 20111 Birmingham

  Glti.ch Karaoke in the flesh! This is a lecture, performance and intellectual escapade all rolled into one. Watch Daniel and Kyoung chat, fail, sing and fail some more. And the crowd go wild… Check out some of the other, superb, glitchy lectures and performances,…

  November 22 2011, 3:50pm | 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

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

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  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

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  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

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  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | 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 Great Tech War Of 2012

  And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies…

  October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

  October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | 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

• Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

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  September 5 2011, 3:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…

  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble

  The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

  August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Digital tendencies

  From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a different…

  August 12 2011, 4:59am | Comments

• Tumblr How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

  August 10 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

  August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Rebellion Against Pluralism

  Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are…

  July 27 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

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• 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

  I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

  December 19 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How the internet transforms scientific discovery

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab animal to study every…

  "I began to realize that the ‘control’ animals used for research studies throughout the world are couch potatoes," he tells me. It's been shown that mice living under standard laboratory conditions…

  December 13 2011, 12:34pm | Comments

• Bibliography Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

  November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Failure lecture at Gli.tc/h 20111 Birmingham

  Glti.ch Karaoke in the flesh! This is a lecture, performance and intellectual escapade all rolled into one. Watch Daniel and Kyoung chat, fail, sing and fail some more. And the crowd go wild… Check out some of the other, superb, glitchy lectures and performances,…

  November 22 2011, 3:50pm | 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

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | 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 Great Tech War Of 2012

  And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies…

  October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

  October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | 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

• Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

• Vimeo

  September 5 2011, 3:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…

  Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

  September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble

  The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

  August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Digital tendencies

  From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a different…

  August 12 2011, 4:59am | Comments

• Tumblr How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

  August 10 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

  August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Rebellion Against Pluralism

  Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are…

  July 27 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

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