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Bookmark A universe without purpose
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments
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Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments
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March 10 2012, 4:13am | Comments
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Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments
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The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments
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Re:Thinking Games

January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Era of Networked Science
The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments
Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments
GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments
GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments
Bookmark On Science Transfer
“Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments
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September 18 2011, 4:21am | Comments
Bookmark Is New Media Accepted in the Art World? Domenico Quaranta’s Media, New…
Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new media…

September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments
Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu
For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments
Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble
The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Bookmark Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…
For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments
Bookmark A Home Before the End of the World
Our ignorance is truly staggering. According to some estimates, 95 percent of organisms in the soil alone are unknown to science. Many of them labor unseen, in the dark, serving as…

June 29 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
Wikipedia Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth are existential risks that could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even cause the end of planet Earth.[1] The concept is expressed in various phrases such as…

June 26 2011, 11:00am | 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
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 Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph. But…

June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark Cory Arcangel Goes Old School
Arcangel’s conflicted relationship with technology drives his artistic practice and pervades Pro Tools, the artist’s first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At 33, Arcangel will be the…

June 6 2011, 3:11pm | Comments
Bookmark Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe
While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the…

June 6 2011, 1:36pm | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art
You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site…

May 19 2011, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...
Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

May 19 2011, 11:48am | 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 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
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

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