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• Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

  May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital legacy: Archaeology of the future

  The historians of 2061 will want to study the birth of the world wide web. How on earth will they know where to start? Today, historians have to piece together the…

  May 3 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D

  The daring German filmmaker Werner Herzog once walked a thousand miles to propose to a woman. He once plotted to firebomb his leading man's house and once ate his own shoe…

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• Bookmark Jon Ronson On… Voices in the Head

  Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a label she totally rejects. Now she is a high…

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  Just finished watching Solaris (1972, Tarkovsky). Radically different deus ex machina to the novel (Lem). Closure as product of affect?

  April 29 2011, 4:38am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Jorge Borges Jorge Luis Borges delivers the Norton lectures at Harvard, 1968: The Riddle of Poetry :: The Metaphor :: A Poet's Creed

  April 28 2011, 2:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark We are as gods and have to get good at it

  The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as gods,…

  April 28 2011, 3:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants team up to stay dry

  A team of engineers has discovered how colonies of ants survive floods by forming themselves into life rafts. The work shows how many simple components can interact to create complex structures…

  April 28 2011, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bibliography Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 by Nicolas Bourriaud

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography They Became What They Beheld by Edmund Carpenter

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems by Paul Cilliers

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind (Philosophers and their Critics) by Bo Dahlbom

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography This is not a Pipe 25th Anniversary Edition (Quantum Books) by Michel Foucault

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory by Francis Halsall

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Friday, or the Other Island by Michel Tournier

  April 26 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Overlapping Magisteria

  April 26 2011, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif art without the glitch

  I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

  April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analogue artists defying the digital age

  Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal to…

  April 24 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic

  In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic --which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years ago…

  April 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Connecting Science and Art: A Conversation

  Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration…

  April 21 2011, 3:31pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why is entropy necessary for there to be memory? In the From Eternity to Here episode of the Science Talk podcast, Sean Carroll says that without entropy there could be no memory. Could you provide an explanation of why that is to somebody who's very much a layperson when it comes to…

  April 21 2011, 3:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Insomnia

  Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he who…

  April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

  In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the…

  April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments

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  Gang Gang Dance ... That is all

  April 19 2011, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

  A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

  April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark The Information Essay

  Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

  April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Wellcome Collection - 'Dirt' exhibition: "Nothing is so sacred that it cannot become profane. Gravity pulls us into dirt." - Meghna Haldar

  April 14 2011, 7:46am | Comments

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  Rubbish Junk Trash Detritus Waste Excess Midden Crap Matter Debris Stuff Scrap Shit Litter Garbage Bunkum Clutter Flotsam Ruin Jumble Kipple

  April 13 2011, 1:44am | Comments

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  May 5 2011, 5:56am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

  May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital legacy: Archaeology of the future

  The historians of 2061 will want to study the birth of the world wide web. How on earth will they know where to start? Today, historians have to piece together the…

  May 3 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D

  The daring German filmmaker Werner Herzog once walked a thousand miles to propose to a woman. He once plotted to firebomb his leading man's house and once ate his own shoe…

  May 2 2011, 4:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jon Ronson On… Voices in the Head

  Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a label she totally rejects. Now she is a high…

  May 1 2011, 11:43am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 30 2011, 7:01pm | Comments

• YouTube

  April 30 2011, 6:35pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Just finished watching Solaris (1972, Tarkovsky). Radically different deus ex machina to the novel (Lem). Closure as product of affect?

  April 29 2011, 4:38am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Jorge Borges Jorge Luis Borges delivers the Norton lectures at Harvard, 1968: The Riddle of Poetry :: The Metaphor :: A Poet's Creed

  April 28 2011, 2:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark We are as gods and have to get good at it

  The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as gods,…

  April 28 2011, 3:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants team up to stay dry

  A team of engineers has discovered how colonies of ants survive floods by forming themselves into life rafts. The work shows how many simple components can interact to create complex structures…

  April 28 2011, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bibliography Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 by Nicolas Bourriaud

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography They Became What They Beheld by Edmund Carpenter

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems by Paul Cilliers

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind (Philosophers and their Critics) by Bo Dahlbom

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography This is not a Pipe 25th Anniversary Edition (Quantum Books) by Michel Foucault

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory by Francis Halsall

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Friday, or the Other Island by Michel Tournier

  April 26 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Overlapping Magisteria

  April 26 2011, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif art without the glitch

  I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

  April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analogue artists defying the digital age

  Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal to…

  April 24 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic

  In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic --which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years ago…

  April 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Connecting Science and Art: A Conversation

  Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration…

  April 21 2011, 3:31pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why is entropy necessary for there to be memory? In the From Eternity to Here episode of the Science Talk podcast, Sean Carroll says that without entropy there could be no memory. Could you provide an explanation of why that is to somebody who's very much a layperson when it comes to…

  April 21 2011, 3:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Insomnia

  Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he who…

  April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

  In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the…

  April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Gang Gang Dance ... That is all

  April 19 2011, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

  A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

  April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark The Information Essay

  Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

  April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Wellcome Collection - 'Dirt' exhibition: "Nothing is so sacred that it cannot become profane. Gravity pulls us into dirt." - Meghna Haldar

  April 14 2011, 7:46am | Comments

• Twitter

  Rubbish Junk Trash Detritus Waste Excess Midden Crap Matter Debris Stuff Scrap Shit Litter Garbage Bunkum Clutter Flotsam Ruin Jumble Kipple

  April 13 2011, 1:44am | Comments

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