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Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Video Games And The Philosophy Of Art
The film critic Roger Ebert’s recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet, shows…

July 11 2010, 4:32pm | Comments
Bookmark The Perils Of Progress
Pinker, true to type, opens his piece: "New forms of media have always caused moral panics. The printing press, newspapers, paperbacks, and television were all once denounced as threats to their…

June 29 2010, 11:48am | Comments
Bookmark The Writer Who Couldn't Read
"In January of 2002," writes the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, "I received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist describing a strange problem." Engel's problem was so strange, I decided to…

June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments
Bookmark The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book
In the beginning was the Word. Then came Gutenberg, and it was good. But then came a giddy army of Japanese school girls, writing and “publishing" novels on cell phones. And…

June 20 2010, 11:13am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Michelangelo's secret message in the Sistine Chapel
At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known…

June 1 2010, 2:44am | 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
Bookmark The code within the code
One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

May 7 2010, 2:12am | Comments
Bookmark Chimpanzees Mourn Their Dead
Two reports of chimpanzees tending their dead provide poignant examples of how humanity’s closest relatives grieve for the dead, a behavior once thought unique to humans. In one report, two mothers…

April 27 2010, 6:58am | Comments
Bookmark On The Media: Transcript of "Panoramic View"
Writer Dave Eggers’ publishing house, McSweeney’s, recently released a one-off newspaper called Panorama. The 328-page paper was meant as a celebration of the print form and a demonstration of why newspapers…

April 27 2010, 6:42am | Comments
Hello Grandad Bloated Appendix

March 31 2010, 3:15pm | Comments
Bookmark Chtodelat? / What is to be done?
Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see…

March 9 2010, 10:10am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood…

February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments
Bookmark A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter
In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him up…

February 21 2010, 4:00pm | Comments
Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy
by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark Lunar Archaeology
In a meeting today in Sacramento, commissioners might vote to register items left behind on the moon by Apollo astronauts "as an official State Historical Resource," the L.A. Times reports. After…

January 29 2010, 1:33pm | Comments
Bookmark The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way…
Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and…

January 8 2010, 9:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments
Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark What happened to Second Life?
Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. Once upon…

November 21 2009, 4:20am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?
There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart... Arts & books Who’s…

October 27 2009, 11:53am | 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
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 If zombies actually existed
If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments
Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker
I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Blogosphere Big Bang The Early Days of Blogging - Presented at the 2009 HyperText conference, this paper is an extensively cited and well-researched narrative of the blogosphere's formative period. It delves deep into the involvement of Jorn Barger, Dave Winer, and other A-list luminaries.

July 6 2009, 9:29am | Comments
Bookmark Atlas Obscura
Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular, eccentric,…

June 16 2009, 3:14pm | Comments

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