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Bookmark The cognitive benefits of time-space synaesthesia
SYNAESTHESIA is a neurological condition in which there is a merging of the senses, so that activity in one sensory modality elicits sensations in another. Although first described by Francis Galton…

December 7 2009, 5:11pm | Comments
Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley
Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

December 7 2009, 5:08pm | Comments
Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark IMG MGMT: Teen Image
IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. Ritualized Unknowing People keep trying to get a…

November 5 2009, 2:06am | Comments
Bookmark The Future of Reading
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments
Bookmark Monsters and the Moral Imagination
Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release of…

October 27 2009, 12:01pm | 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
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently
The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way…

September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments
Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments
Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

September 28 2009, 9:10am | 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 Fictional Stimulus
Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments
Bookmark Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars
Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No…

September 17 2009, 2:24am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments
Flickr Karaoke Screens (Flickr Pool)

August 29 2009, 11:47pm | Comments
Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments
Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments
Bookmark Gravity Sucks at the BFI
Simon Faithfull's exhibition Gravity Sucks and his recent talk at the British Film Institute focuses largely around his examination of that most elementary of forces we experience. What Wikipedia calls a…

July 27 2009, 6:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Abandoned Places In The World
When starting on this post for some reason I was thinking that there are not many abandoned places in the world, at least the cities. I knew there are many villages,…

July 14 2009, 4:05pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments
Bookmark My Ten Favorite Fetishes
Having studied sexual fetishes for twenty years (which is itself a kind of fetish), I'm long past the investigation of shoes, pain, vomit and rubbing up against people on the subway.…

July 10 2009, 8:46am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: How can you create a communal Yahoo Pipes feed? Can I use Yahoo Pipes to create a feed that contains a bunch of other feeds added by other people?

July 9 2009, 6:37pm | Comments
Bookmark Daniel Everett Debunks the Essence of Human Language
Professor Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, discusses the importance of preserving dying languages. He describes his experience living with the Piraha people in Brazil, and explores what…

July 9 2009, 1:28am | Comments
Bookmark Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance,…
This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change…

July 6 2009, 9:37am | Comments
Bookmark Ant mega-colony takes over world
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related…

July 2 2009, 9:10am | Comments
Bookmark Fifty Books for Our Times
We know it's insane. We know people will ask why on earth we think that an 1875 British satirical novel is the book you need to read right now—or, for that…

June 29 2009, 4:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability and Biases in Spatial…
Empathy involves, in part, the ability to simulate the internal states of others. The authors hypothesized that our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world, including…

June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments
Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article
Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments
Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

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