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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 Being Human (Blame it on Andy)
Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments
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Which one of you is Jesus?

September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments
Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence
Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…
“What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments
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How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments
Bibliography The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob

August 31 2011, 7:31am | Comments
Bookmark Reading Life - What We Do to Books
There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

August 30 2011, 8:32am | 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
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Bookmark On Discovering Life
There is an aspect of life sciences that has been largely absent: the confrontation of fundamental questions of biology much as particle accelerators grapple with fundamental questions of physics. The roll…

July 27 2011, 3:05pm | Comments
Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution
Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments
Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!
Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark Heaven for Atheists
It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments
Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction
The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…
APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments
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June 16 2011, 4:26pm | 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 First ever direct English translation of Solaris published
The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Foucault, Deleuze, and the Ethics of Digital Networks
Information ethics has become a scholarly growth industry in recent years, especially through the work of Rafael Capurro, the founder of the International Center forInformation Ethics (ICIE). The maturity of the…

June 11 2011, 2:32am | Comments
Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…
Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments
Bookmark The glorious GIF renaissance
GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish…

May 17 2011, 2:46am | 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
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 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 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 Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game
The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments
Bookmark Where Do Animals Come From?
The origin of animals was one of the most astonishing and important transformations in the history of life. From single-celled ancestors, they evolved into a riot of complexity and diversity. An…

March 20 2011, 5:37am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments
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March 3 2011, 1:11am | Comments
Bookmark The artists who crossed the line
The group first came to prominence in February 2008, two days before the carefully choreographed elections that brought President Dmitry Medvedev to power. About 12 activists, one of whom was a…

March 2 2011, 2:29pm | Comments

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