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Bookmark Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there? |…
In 1984, the philosopher Aaron Sloman invited scholars to describe ‘the space of possible minds’. Sloman’s phrase alludes to the fact that human minds, in all their variety, are not the…

October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments
Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene
It’s our 50th episode! To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table. We…

October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments
Bookmark 'Great Pacific garbage patch' far bigger than imagined, aerial survey shows |…
Giant collection of fishing nets, plastic containers and other discarded items called a ‘ticking time bomb’ as large items crumble into micro plastics 13.02 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 4 October 2016…

October 4 2016, 12:37pm | Comments
Bookmark Artist Profile: Lorna Mills | Rhizome
Paul Soulellis: Your recent work takes the form of animated GIF collages that convulse with explosions, weird animals and jerky gestures—scenes that are usually playful but often perverse. Most of it…

September 29 2016, 7:40am | Comments
Ask Metafilter 'Zones' in science and weird fiction Looking for examples of science/weird fictions that deal with 'zones': intermediate or parallel realms - often forbidden - beyond the normal sphere of law or reason. ...of course there's 'Stalker' or 'Roadside Picnic' & echoes in the 2010 film 'Monsters' and Jeff VanderMeer's…

September 21 2016, 6:22am | Comments
Bookmark Your Data Footprint Is Affecting Your Life In Ways You Can't Even…
Imagine you’re moving apartments and shopping for new furniture at a couple of stores. You see a couch you like, but you’re not sure, so you leave thinking maybe you’ll return…

September 14 2016, 7:51am | Comments
Bookmark Doomsday Preppers Are Planning to 3D Print Their Way Through the Apocalypse…
Jason Ray thinks the culture of “disaster prepping” is misunderstood.

June 18 2016, 7:38am | Comments
Bookmark Are Humans the Greatest Things Made by the Human Hand? - Facts…
What a waste are two thumbs on the space bar. There they sit, nearly flaccid, punctuating the end of each word, awaiting the call to crack stone or to use sharp flakes…

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark Bodyhackers are all around you, they’re called women | Fusion
I have two cyborg implants. One is in my hand, and it lets me unlock phones and doors by waving at them. The other is in my uterus, and it lets…

April 27 2016, 3:38pm | Comments
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"I want to crash into another world."

April 19 2016, 6:47am | Comments
Bookmark The Emperor’s Love of Slime Mold | Popular Science
Slime mold—a living network of tendrils found on rotting wood and other plant debris—is easily one of the strangest things alive. Neither plant, nor fungus, it’s a collection of individual cells…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark All of the Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living in…
“Human activity is leaving a pervasive and persistent signature on Earth.” So begins one of the more depressing scientific papers I’ve ever read.

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Guy Who Wants to Sell Lab-Grown Salami Made of Kanye West…
"BiteLabs grows meat from celebrity tissue samples and uses it to make artisanal salami." So proclaims the copy on BiteLabs.org, right under an all-caps call to action: EAT CELEBRITY MEAT.

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark Brave new world? Sci-fi fears 'hold back progress of AI', warns expert…
Chris Bishop fears concern over Terminator-style scenarios could deprive humanity of one of the most powerful technologies ever created The promise of artificial intelligence could be lost to humanity because people…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Additivism Accelerationist Art

April 14 2016, 3:44am | Comments
Bookmark How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist | Motherboard
Really, really racist. The thing is, this was all very much preventable. I talked to some creators of Twitter bots about @TayandYou, and the consensus was that Microsoft had fallen far…

March 31 2016, 2:36am | Comments
Bookmark The Neanderthals, the Denisovans and Us
It’s been nearly 160 years since we Homo sapiens, or “wise people,” first got an inkling through Charles Darwin and the discovery of Neanderthal remains that we are just another evolving…

March 29 2016, 2:35pm | Comments
Bookmark Ancestors of Modern Humans Interbred With Extinct Hominins, Study Finds
The ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and another extinct line of humans known as the Denisovans at least four times in the course of prehistory, according to an analysis…

March 23 2016, 1:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Should we reimagine our colonial legacy?
You have now reached your allowance of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. Don’t worry—to get another 7 articles absolutely free, just enter your email address in the box…

March 17 2016, 5:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Fascinating Photos from the Secret Trash Museum in a New York Sanitation…
On the second floor of a nondescript warehouse owned by New York City's Sanitation Department in East Harlem is a treasure trove—filled with other people's trash. Most of the building is…

March 17 2016, 5:04pm | Comments
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March 17 2016, 4:10am | Comments
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March 16 2016, 1:30am | Comments
Bookmark Crocheting a Queer Vision of Art History
Caroline Wells Chandler’s “Zack” (2016), hand-crocheted assorted wool, 30″ x 22″, installed at Lord Ludd (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) PHILADELPHIA — Just as you’re rounding the corner,…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark How western art collectors are helping to fund Isis
The appetite for antiquities from the Middle East is being met by Isis, who are looting ancient sites with the market in mind. It’s imperative that this demand – from the…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark The feminist groups disrupting bro-tech culture in 2016 | Dazed
Why has the narrative of computer history come to be defined more by images of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg than by the pioneering work of Ada Lovelace, who is often…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark Growing Marijuana Uses 1 Percent of America’s Total Electricity, Industry Says |…
The problem of massive energy consumption by legal marijuana-growing operations is not getting any better—and it’s poised to get worse. And this already high number is poised to rise along with…

February 19 2016, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark What every dictator knows: young men are natural fan...
Young men are particularly liable to become fanatics. Every dictator, every guru, every religious leader, knows this. Fanatics have an overwhelming sense of identity based on a cause (a religion) or…

February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments
Wikipedia Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

February 1 2016, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark Even Transhumanist Elites Are Worried Only the Rich Will Be Able to…
The story of Z was supposed to be about how biohacking had allowed her to become immortal. She lived in the year 2040, and by most measures her life was happy.…

January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments
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January 18 2016, 2:15pm | Comments
Bookmark We need to talk about TED | Benjamin Bratton | Opinion |…
In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky. But have you ever wondered why…

January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments
Ask Metafilter What different types of visual and written 'instructions' are there? I am working on a project that relies on different ways to present instructions. I want to collect as many ways as possible. These can be visual, written, or otherwise, but each 'type' of instruction must have a design aesthetic or formulaic quality…

January 10 2016, 5:31am | Comments

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