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• Bookmark Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites

  Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more.…

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• Bookmark Eureka! Neural evidence for sudden insight

  A recent study provides intriguing information about the neural dynamics underlying behavioral changes associated with the development of new problem solving strategies. The research... supports the idea of "a-ha" moments in…

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• Bookmark Uniformity and Variability: An Essay in the Philosophy of Matter

  If the planet needs us to speed up information, and slow down matter, what does this mean for the complex relationship between information and nature? There is a growing awareness of…

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• Bookmark Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism

  Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems…

  April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Mundaneum

  Otlet was the first to imagine all the world’s knowledge as one vast “web,” connected by “links” and accessed remotely through desktop screens, and because of this he can be seen…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

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• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

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• Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW

  A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

  March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

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• Bookmark Code is Law

  Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the…

  February 7 2010, 9:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way…

  Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and…

  January 8 2010, 9:55am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

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• Flickr Plastic sneeuwstormbeschermer / Face protection from snowstorms

  December 18 2009, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Teen Image

  IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. Ritualized Unknowing People keep trying to get a…

  November 5 2009, 2:06am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Library in the New Age

  Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What,…

  October 31 2009, 5:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• Vimeo

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I have looked into flights and trains (for the 17th of August) and both seem expensive…

  August 11 2009, 4:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Rosetta stone' offers digital storage for 1000 years

  Researchers working in Japan say they might have the breakthrough archivists are praying for - a sealed permanent memory bank that will be easily readable now and far into the next…

  July 30 2009, 2:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Immortal Information

  For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

  June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of Life

  How did life arise from inorganic matter? Our progress on this question has been impeded by a formidable cognitive barrier. Because we perceive a deep gap when we think about the…

  May 23 2009, 4:48am | Comments

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

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | 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 Liam Gillick: The Discursive | Journal / e-flux

  A discursive model of praxis has developed within the critical art context over the last twenty years. It is the offspring of critical theory and improvised, self-organized structures. It is the…

  February 16 2009, 5:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Further Reading on Reading | NYTimes

  What does it mean to read in a digital age? Researchers are just beginning to explore the question, and educators are engaged in passionate debate about how reading may be changing…

  February 2 2009, 4:55pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia MetaGlossary.com MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the we

  April 21 2008, 2:48am | Comments

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• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites

  Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more.…

  May 29 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Eureka! Neural evidence for sudden insight

  A recent study provides intriguing information about the neural dynamics underlying behavioral changes associated with the development of new problem solving strategies. The research... supports the idea of "a-ha" moments in…

  May 14 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Uniformity and Variability: An Essay in the Philosophy of Matter

  If the planet needs us to speed up information, and slow down matter, what does this mean for the complex relationship between information and nature? There is a growing awareness of…

  May 3 2010, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism

  Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems…

  April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Mundaneum

  Otlet was the first to imagine all the world’s knowledge as one vast “web,” connected by “links” and accessed remotely through desktop screens, and because of this he can be seen…

  April 22 2010, 2:39am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW

  A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

  March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Code is Law

  Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the…

  February 7 2010, 9:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way…

  Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and…

  January 8 2010, 9:55am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Flickr Plastic sneeuwstormbeschermer / Face protection from snowstorms

  December 18 2009, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Teen Image

  IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. Ritualized Unknowing People keep trying to get a…

  November 5 2009, 2:06am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Library in the New Age

  Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What,…

  October 31 2009, 5:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 13 2009, 2:59pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I have looked into flights and trains (for the 17th of August) and both seem expensive…

  August 11 2009, 4:09am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'Rosetta stone' offers digital storage for 1000 years

  Researchers working in Japan say they might have the breakthrough archivists are praying for - a sealed permanent memory bank that will be easily readable now and far into the next…

  July 30 2009, 2:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Immortal Information

  For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

  June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of Life

  How did life arise from inorganic matter? Our progress on this question has been impeded by a formidable cognitive barrier. Because we perceive a deep gap when we think about the…

  May 23 2009, 4:48am | Comments

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

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | 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 Liam Gillick: The Discursive | Journal / e-flux

  A discursive model of praxis has developed within the critical art context over the last twenty years. It is the offspring of critical theory and improvised, self-organized structures. It is the…

  February 16 2009, 5:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Further Reading on Reading | NYTimes

  What does it mean to read in a digital age? Researchers are just beginning to explore the question, and educators are engaged in passionate debate about how reading may be changing…

  February 2 2009, 4:55pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia MetaGlossary.com MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the we

  April 21 2008, 2:48am | Comments

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