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• Ask Metafilter What happens in your mind when you read this paragraph? When I read the very 1st paragraph of this article, I had a series of mini revelations about how my mind works, and perhaps the minds of others. I'd appreciate it if you read it first (just the 1st paragraph), and then came…

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• Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

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• Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

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• Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

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• Bookmark Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs

  Vanuatu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, with an estimated population of just over 300,000.

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• Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays

  Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

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• Bookmark If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer |…

  Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our…

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• Bookmark Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind -…

  As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.

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• Bookmark The Circle of Poo | Hakai Magazine

  In the Southern Ocean, surrounding Antarctica, blue whales were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling from the 1920s to 1940s. But now, with whaling curtailed, the whales are surging back: their…

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• Bookmark Game Theory Makes New Predictions for Evolution | Simons Foundation

  In what appears to be the first study of its kind, computer scientists report that an algorithm discovered more than 50 years ago in game theory and now widely used in…

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• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

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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

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• Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

  June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Energizing Futures: How SciFi Fuels Itself

  Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They…

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• Bookmark Methods for Studying Coincidences

  With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician…

  May 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

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  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

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  Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

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  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

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• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

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• Bookmark Bacteria 'R' Us

  A few scientists noticed in the late 1960s that the marine bacteria Vibrio fischeri appeared to coordinate among themselves the production of chemicals that produced bioluminescence, waiting until a certain number…

  October 21 2010, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

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• Bookmark Our Neandertal Brethren

  According to the late Harvard University biologist Ernst W. Mayr, the greatest evolutionary theorist since Charles Darwin, “species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated…

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• Bookmark The gut's 'friendly' viruses revealed

  In the latest exploration into the universe of organisms inhabiting our bodies, microbiologists have discovered new viral genes in faeces. They find that the composition of virus populations inhabiting the tail…

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• Ask Metafilter What happens in your mind when you read this paragraph? When I read the very 1st paragraph of this article, I had a series of mini revelations about how my mind works, and perhaps the minds of others. I'd appreciate it if you read it first (just the 1st paragraph), and then came…

  October 12 2025, 7:01am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

  September 23 2022, 3:33am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

  September 22 2022, 11:33pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

  September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs

  Vanuatu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, with an estimated population of just over 300,000.

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays

  Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

  October 2 2020, 6:13am | Comments

• Bookmark If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer |…

  Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our…

  August 26 2018, 9:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind -…

  As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.

  August 7 2018, 6:32pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 1 2017, 5:30am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 2 2017, 8:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Circle of Poo | Hakai Magazine

  In the Southern Ocean, surrounding Antarctica, blue whales were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling from the 1920s to 1940s. But now, with whaling curtailed, the whales are surging back: their…

  January 9 2016, 8:10am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Game Theory Makes New Predictions for Evolution | Simons Foundation

  In what appears to be the first study of its kind, computer scientists report that an algorithm discovered more than 50 years ago in game theory and now widely used in…

  June 18 2014, 2:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

  June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark Energizing Futures: How SciFi Fuels Itself

  Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They…

  June 2 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Methods for Studying Coincidences

  With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician…

  May 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Hobbit who helped us find our origins

  February 21 2012, 1:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

  November 29 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark North Korea’s Digital Underground

  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the very archetype of a “closed society.” It ranks dead last—196th out of 196 countries—in Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press index. Unlike the…

  March 9 2011, 6:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Bacteria 'R' Us

  A few scientists noticed in the late 1960s that the marine bacteria Vibrio fischeri appeared to coordinate among themselves the production of chemicals that produced bioluminescence, waiting until a certain number…

  October 21 2010, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

• Tumblr SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios

  September 4 2010, 8:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Neandertal Brethren

  According to the late Harvard University biologist Ernst W. Mayr, the greatest evolutionary theorist since Charles Darwin, “species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated…

  August 13 2010, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark The gut's 'friendly' viruses revealed

  In the latest exploration into the universe of organisms inhabiting our bodies, microbiologists have discovered new viral genes in faeces. They find that the composition of virus populations inhabiting the tail…

  July 16 2010, 3:49am | Comments

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