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• Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science

  “The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

  June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability and Biases in Spatial…

  Empathy involves, in part, the ability to simulate the internal states of others. The authors hypothesized that our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world, including…

  June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Maastricht Ceramic Design

  Petrus Regout (a name associated with worker exploitation even today) started a modern earthenware production factory in Maastricht, the capital of the far South-Eastern Dutch province of Limburg, in 1836. Sphinx…

  June 22 2009, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gallery as Brain

  At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

  June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article

  Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

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• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

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• Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists

  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

  June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments

• Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

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• Bibliography The Open Work

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• Bookmark Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps

  “When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like…

  June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island

  About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

  June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

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• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

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• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality. Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia

  In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical…

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• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

• Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature." ~ Thomas Jefferson / "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion." ~…

  January 20 2009, 11:40am | Comments

• Wikipedia List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed. (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)

  December 16 2008, 8:52am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter The phenomenology of text The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms? I am interested in the experience and perception of text, both within readership and on an abstract (more holistic level perhaps) as the archetypical mediator…

  September 18 2008, 8:21am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia The alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds and that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words. The alphabetic principle is the foundation of any alphabetic writing system, which is the most…

  September 3 2008, 11:01am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

  July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

• Wikipedia The Charms of Wikipedia - Nicholson Baker Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It's fact-encirclingly huge, and it's idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering controversies—and it's free, and it's fast. In a few seconds you can look up, for instance, "Diogenes of S

  March 13 2008, 10:08am | Comments

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• Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science

  “The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

  June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability and Biases in Spatial…

  Empathy involves, in part, the ability to simulate the internal states of others. The authors hypothesized that our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world, including…

  June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Maastricht Ceramic Design

  Petrus Regout (a name associated with worker exploitation even today) started a modern earthenware production factory in Maastricht, the capital of the far South-Eastern Dutch province of Limburg, in 1836. Sphinx…

  June 22 2009, 9:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Gallery as Brain

  At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

  June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article

  Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

  June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists

  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

  June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments

• Flickr Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948) - 1942-43 Collage

  June 10 2009, 6:55pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Open Work

  June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps

  “When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like…

  June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island

  About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

  June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome.…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

  May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

  TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to…

  May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark A Society of Simulations

  This essay aims to increase our understanding of simulations and their impact on our notion of reality. Following on some observations regarding the dominant role of visual representations in our culture,…

  April 20 2009, 3:22pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality. Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a discussion of the…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia

  In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical…

  March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations

  A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to "get lost" in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the sounds, sights, tastes…

  January 29 2009, 6:04am | Comments

• Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature." ~ Thomas Jefferson / "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion." ~…

  January 20 2009, 11:40am | Comments

• Wikipedia List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed. (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)

  December 16 2008, 8:52am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter The phenomenology of text The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms? I am interested in the experience and perception of text, both within readership and on an abstract (more holistic level perhaps) as the archetypical mediator…

  September 18 2008, 8:21am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia The alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds and that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words. The alphabetic principle is the foundation of any alphabetic writing system, which is the most…

  September 3 2008, 11:01am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

  July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

• Wikipedia The Charms of Wikipedia - Nicholson Baker Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It's fact-encirclingly huge, and it's idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering controversies—and it's free, and it's fast. In a few seconds you can look up, for instance, "Diogenes of S

  March 13 2008, 10:08am | Comments

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