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Bookmark Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron Collider
Among the defining attributes of now are ever tinier gadgets, ever shorter attention spans, and the privileging of marketplace values above all. Life is manically parceled into financial quarters, three-minute YouTube…

December 25 2009, 6:54pm | Comments
Bookmark Myriahedral projection maps of the world
A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

December 23 2009, 2:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Wall and the Books
by Jorge Luis Borges I read, in past days, that the man who ordered the construction of the nearly infinite Wall of China was that First Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who…

December 13 2009, 3:17pm | Comments
Bookmark The dark side of the internet
In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness…

December 8 2009, 7:14am | Comments
Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments
Flickr MegaJoy

December 8 2009, 2:52am | Comments
Flickr Super-Kamiokande Particle Detector

December 6 2009, 7:47am | Comments
Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments
Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark A Certain Realism: 'The Known Unknowns' - 4 hours of continuous readings…
The Known Unknowns is a scheduled cycle of continuous readings running parallel to Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, an evening organised by Maria Fusco and Book Works at Whitechapel Gallery.…

November 21 2009, 4:45am | Comments
Bookmark Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing
Saturday 21 November, 6pm Until 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings drawn…

November 21 2009, 4:43am | Comments
Bookmark This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System
Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the…

November 19 2009, 3:46pm | Comments
Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever
Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments
Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

November 6 2009, 9:28am | Comments
Portfolio Profane Prisms

November 5 2009, 1:14pm | 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
Bookmark Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger
Will we ever be able to think of Hannah Arendt in the same way again? Two new and damning critiques, one of Arendt and one of her longtime Nazi-sycophant lover, the…

October 30 2009, 6:20pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter The alternate 'Testament of Doctor Mabuse' - Fritz Lang's German and French versions Having recently learned that Fritz Lang filmed an entirely different, French language, version of The Testament of Doctor Mabuse alongside the 'original' German version, I set out to find it. The only way to get hold of it seems to be via the…

October 22 2009, 2:55am | 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 Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and…
Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s…

October 19 2009, 3:50am | Comments
Twitter
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October 17 2009, 9:59am | Comments
Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth. The term was coined in 1964 by…

October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Spooky Signals from the Future Telling Us to Cancel the LHC!
A recent essay in the New York Times by Dennis Overbye has managed to attract quite a bit of attention around the internets — most of it not very positive. It…

October 15 2009, 8:13am | Comments
Vimeo

October 13 2009, 2:59pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments
Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur
Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life…

August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments
Bookmark Smart machines: What's the worst that could happen?
An invasion led by artificially intelligent machines. Conscious computers. A smartphone virus so smart that it can start mimicking you. You might think that such scenarios are laughably futuristic, but some…

July 30 2009, 1:45pm | Comments
Bookmark Is Star Trek A Religion?
Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives…

July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments
Bookmark The Art-Work of the Future
AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved.…

July 22 2009, 4:37pm | Comments
Bookmark Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast
The dish contains a variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known in culinary circles as baker's or brewer's yeast. But Cano didn't get this from Whole Foods. Back in 1995, he extracted it…

July 20 2009, 7:01pm | Comments

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