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• Bookmark "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?

  A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week.…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

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• Bookmark Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

  In 2006 Stacy Snyder, a 25-year-old student at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, was denied a teaching degree just days before graduation. University officials had discovered a photo of her, captioned “Drunken…

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• Bookmark The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify…

  In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for…

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• Bookmark The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)

  Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The…

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• Flickr the lost childhood

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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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• Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

  April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Missing link between man and apes found

  The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week. Scientists believe the…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

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• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

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• Bookmark Incredible Journeys

  Some animals can instinctively solve navigational problems that have baffled humans for centuries. Now, researchers are uncovering how. The nervous system of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis, with around 100,000 neurons,…

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• Bibliography The Inner Touch

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• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

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

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• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

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

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• Bookmark How to fake science, history and religion

  One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true…

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• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | 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…

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• Spacecollective.org History as Revolution: A Dialogue

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• Flickr Viktor Bulla's Pioneers in Defense Drill, Leningrad (1937)

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• Flickr Gensensambo and Horse

  August 12 2010, 12:29am | Comments

• Bookmark "Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?

  A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week.…

  July 20 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

  In 2006 Stacy Snyder, a 25-year-old student at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, was denied a teaching degree just days before graduation. University officials had discovered a photo of her, captioned “Drunken…

  June 13 2010, 11:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify…

  In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for…

  June 12 2010, 9:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)

  Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The…

  May 29 2010, 2:00am | Comments

• Flickr the lost childhood

  May 7 2010, 7:04am | 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

• Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

  April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Missing link between man and apes found

  The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week. Scientists believe the…

  April 4 2010, 3:45am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

  March 21 2010, 12:54pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Incredible Journeys

  Some animals can instinctively solve navigational problems that have baffled humans for centuries. Now, researchers are uncovering how. The nervous system of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis, with around 100,000 neurons,…

  March 1 2010, 9:17am | Comments

• Bibliography The Inner Touch

  January 15 2010, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

  January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments

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

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

  October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments

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

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to fake science, history and religion

  One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true…

  August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

  June 30 2009, 9:05am | 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

• Spacecollective.org History as Revolution: A Dialogue

  April 3 2008, 10:10am | Comments

• Flickr Viktor Bulla's Pioneers in Defense Drill, Leningrad (1937)

  July 6 2007, 4:58am | Comments

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