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  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

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  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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  Lars von Trier: the interview

  February 25 2012, 2:20am | 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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  Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

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  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

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  Hacking Critical Theory

  February 17 2012, 12:35am | Comments

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  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

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  January 29 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

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  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

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  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

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  Female Orgasm: An Evolutionary Journey

  January 23 2012, 8:21am | Comments

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  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

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  "Lethal or not, for the physicist a genetic mutation is neither more nor less than the substitution of one nucleic acid base for another."

  January 20 2012, 5:48am | Comments

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  January 15 2012, 3:49pm | Comments

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  January 12 2012, 5:21am | Comments

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  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

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  What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

  December 20 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

  December 20 2011, 4:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

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  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

  November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments

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  Equivocation in information theory can be "autonomy-producing" - Sometimes, the way words mutate, infect & corrupt one another blows my mind

  November 23 2011, 10:06am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Failure lecture at Gli.tc/h 20111 Birmingham

  Glti.ch Karaoke in the flesh! This is a lecture, performance and intellectual escapade all rolled into one. Watch Daniel and Kyoung chat, fail, sing and fail some more. And the crowd go wild… Check out some of the other, superb, glitchy lectures and performances,…

  November 22 2011, 3:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change..."

  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

  I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature

  Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

  October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Lars von Trier: the interview

  February 25 2012, 2:20am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Hacking Critical Theory

  February 17 2012, 12:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 29 2012, 4:41pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Female Orgasm: An Evolutionary Journey

  January 23 2012, 8:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Lethal or not, for the physicist a genetic mutation is neither more nor less than the substitution of one nucleic acid base for another."

  January 20 2012, 5:48am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 15 2012, 3:49pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 12 2012, 5:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

  December 20 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

  December 20 2011, 4:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It Does Take a Village

  December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

  November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments

• Twitter

  Equivocation in information theory can be "autonomy-producing" - Sometimes, the way words mutate, infect & corrupt one another blows my mind

  November 23 2011, 10:06am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Failure lecture at Gli.tc/h 20111 Birmingham

  Glti.ch Karaoke in the flesh! This is a lecture, performance and intellectual escapade all rolled into one. Watch Daniel and Kyoung chat, fail, sing and fail some more. And the crowd go wild… Check out some of the other, superb, glitchy lectures and performances,…

  November 22 2011, 3:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change..."

  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

  I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature

  Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

  October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments

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