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  Video games have come a very long way since the 1980s... As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, "Extra Lives: Why Video…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

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  There’s never been anything like the Internet for helping us find what we want. But when it comes to finding what we didn’t know we wanted, print is magic. Back in…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

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• Bookmark Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery

  In Don DeLillo's latest novel, the weirdly exciting "Point Omega," a character is "trying to read science fiction but nothing she'd read so far could begin to match ordinary life on…

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• Metafilter Projects: HelloGrandad.com Hello Grandad is a collaborative blog between a writer and an illustrator. We duel with each other in an attempt to freak the other one out - responding with words to an image or with an image to a sequence of words. The…

  May 1 2010, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumanism: A Christian Response

  The posthuman worldview goes a step beyond demoting human begins in the hierarchy of value. It promotes other species, proposing that animals are more rational than we knew. We are forced…

  April 29 2010, 10:16am | 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 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…

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

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• Bookmark Semiotics for Beginners: Codes

  In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The National…

  April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science

  This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

  April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

  Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

  April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye

  When the scientists tested the mind’s eye of MX, though, the difference was stark. The researchers gave all their subjects a standardized test called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. They…

  March 26 2010, 5:53am | Comments

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

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark The new Buddhist atheism

  In God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens writes of Buddhism as the sleep of reason, and of Buddhists as discarding their minds as well as their sandals. His passionate diatribe appeared…

  March 21 2010, 12:52pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

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

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  December 6 2009, 7:47am | Comments

• Bookmark French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic 3 soundtrack

  One of the longest running rumors of the video game community is the claim that Michael Jackson contributed to the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to some degree -- a…

  December 3 2009, 2:45pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

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

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | 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

• Bookmark Serpentine Gallery: Poetry Marathon - Holly Pester

  Holly Pester is a performance poet currently working on a project with the Barry Museum in Manchester. I, raven, the is about the relationship between words and sound, and the title…

  October 18 2009, 3:29pm | Comments

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  Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

  September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments

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  We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a…

  September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Must science declare a holy war on religion?

  This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book,…

  September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments

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  Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists,…

  August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments

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• Vimeo

  June 22 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Are video games the next great art form?

  Video games have come a very long way since the 1980s... As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, "Extra Lives: Why Video…

  June 21 2010, 7:02am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cooking With Dexter - Free Bird

  There’s never been anything like the Internet for helping us find what we want. But when it comes to finding what we didn’t know we wanted, print is magic. Back in…

  May 28 2010, 4:23am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery

  In Don DeLillo's latest novel, the weirdly exciting "Point Omega," a character is "trying to read science fiction but nothing she'd read so far could begin to match ordinary life on…

  May 16 2010, 4:33pm | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: HelloGrandad.com Hello Grandad is a collaborative blog between a writer and an illustrator. We duel with each other in an attempt to freak the other one out - responding with words to an image or with an image to a sequence of words. The…

  May 1 2010, 9:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumanism: A Christian Response

  The posthuman worldview goes a step beyond demoting human begins in the hierarchy of value. It promotes other species, proposing that animals are more rational than we knew. We are forced…

  April 29 2010, 10:16am | 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 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

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

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Semiotics for Beginners: Codes

  In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The National…

  April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science

  This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

  April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

  Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

  April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye

  When the scientists tested the mind’s eye of MX, though, the difference was stark. The researchers gave all their subjects a standardized test called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. They…

  March 26 2010, 5:53am | Comments

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

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark The new Buddhist atheism

  In God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens writes of Buddhism as the sleep of reason, and of Buddhists as discarding their minds as well as their sandals. His passionate diatribe appeared…

  March 21 2010, 12:52pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

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

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Flickr Super-Kamiokande Particle Detector

  December 6 2009, 7:47am | Comments

• Bookmark French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic 3 soundtrack

  One of the longest running rumors of the video game community is the claim that Michael Jackson contributed to the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to some degree -- a…

  December 3 2009, 2:45pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio 100% Magenta

  November 13 2009, 1:40am | Comments

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

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | 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

• Bookmark Serpentine Gallery: Poetry Marathon - Holly Pester

  Holly Pester is a performance poet currently working on a project with the Barry Museum in Manchester. I, raven, the is about the relationship between words and sound, and the title…

  October 18 2009, 3:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark Thinking literally

  Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

  September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Beyond space and time: To the Nth Dimension

  We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a…

  September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Must science declare a holy war on religion?

  This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book,…

  September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments

• Bookmark How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

  Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists,…

  August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments

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