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• Bookmark Prehistoric girl had parents belonging to different human species | New Scientist

  A sliver of bone from a cave in Russia is at the centre of what may be the biggest archaeological story of the year. The bone belonged to an ancient human who…

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

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  "Weapons, or Other Things the Parents Have Specifically Forbidden" https://t.co/Nwq7NAvMvU

  

  October 26 2017, 8:04am | Comments

• Bookmark How to face the ecocide (Down the Dark Mountain) — High Country…

  In the winter of 2013, I drove up California’s Central Valley to Stockton, to interview Cambodian parents who’d lost children in one of the nation’s many mass school shootings.

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Verbal Tics — Real Life

  The Turing Test has a serious problem: it relies too much on deception… Consider the interrogator asking questions like these: How tall are you?
 Tell me about your parents.

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark We have greater moral obligations to robots than to ...

  Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse?

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

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• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

  For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: "the boomers and their institutions look like parasitic aliens" "Generation Z will arrive brutalized and atomized by three generations of diminished expectations and dog-eat-dog economic liberalism. Most of them will be so deracinated that they identify with their peers and the global Internet culture more than their great-grandparents' post-Westphalian nation-state. The machineries…

  August 29 2013, 6:36am | Comments

• Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of all time

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

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  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

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  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

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• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

  August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Content For Users on the Move

  What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that…

  July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The last stand of the Amazon

  The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that…

  April 4 2011, 12:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Should This Be the Last Generation?

  Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and…

  June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Jesus Is A Dick

  This sort of acting out is typical behavior from somebody whose parents didn't give them enough attention growing up.

  April 28 2010, 1:35am | Comments

• Podcast /noise : You and Your Parents Should Give a Listen

  March 28 2010, 5:41am | Comments

• Flickr Kenner Kane Figure from ALIEN

  July 25 2009, 1:32pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Prehistoric girl had parents belonging to different human species | New Scientist

  A sliver of bone from a cave in Russia is at the centre of what may be the biggest archaeological story of the year. The bone belonged to an ancient human who…

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Weapons, or Other Things the Parents Have Specifically Forbidden" https://t.co/Nwq7NAvMvU

  

  October 26 2017, 8:04am | Comments

• Bookmark How to face the ecocide (Down the Dark Mountain) — High Country…

  In the winter of 2013, I drove up California’s Central Valley to Stockton, to interview Cambodian parents who’d lost children in one of the nation’s many mass school shootings.

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Verbal Tics — Real Life

  The Turing Test has a serious problem: it relies too much on deception… Consider the interrogator asking questions like these: How tall are you?
 Tell me about your parents.

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• Bookmark We have greater moral obligations to robots than to ...

  Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse?

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 23 2014, 6:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

  For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that…

  November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: "the boomers and their institutions look like parasitic aliens" "Generation Z will arrive brutalized and atomized by three generations of diminished expectations and dog-eat-dog economic liberalism. Most of them will be so deracinated that they identify with their peers and the global Internet culture more than their great-grandparents' post-Westphalian nation-state. The machineries…

  August 29 2013, 6:36am | Comments

• Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of all time

  April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

  March 12 2012, 12:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives

  March 1 2012, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents

  These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

  August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Content For Users on the Move

  What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that…

  July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The last stand of the Amazon

  The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that…

  April 4 2011, 12:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Should This Be the Last Generation?

  Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and…

  June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Jesus Is A Dick

  This sort of acting out is typical behavior from somebody whose parents didn't give them enough attention growing up.

  April 28 2010, 1:35am | Comments

• Podcast /noise : You and Your Parents Should Give a Listen

  March 28 2010, 5:41am | Comments

• Flickr Kenner Kane Figure from ALIEN

  July 25 2009, 1:32pm | Comments

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