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• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 5 2012, 4:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen

  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

  July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?

  It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

  June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Time-Lapse Expressway Into Google Search's Soul

  German artist Sebastian Schmieg has devised a sort of backdoor to understanding, however, in his “Search By Image” project. You can look at a handful of said project’s iterations below, but…

  May 17 2012, 3:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of the past back to…

  "We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the University…

  May 4 2012, 4:47am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

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  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

  March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 28 2012, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

  March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments

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  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

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  March 16 2012, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

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  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

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  February 16 2012, 5:35am | Comments

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  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

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  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

  October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

  September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism / After Humanism

  n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like to…

  August 11 2011, 11:30am | 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

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• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 5 2012, 4:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen

  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

  July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?

  It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

  June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Time-Lapse Expressway Into Google Search's Soul

  German artist Sebastian Schmieg has devised a sort of backdoor to understanding, however, in his “Search By Image” project. You can look at a handful of said project’s iterations below, but…

  May 17 2012, 3:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of the past back to…

  "We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the University…

  May 4 2012, 4:47am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

  March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 28 2012, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

  March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 16 2012, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 16 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Karaoke vs Chicago

  November 8 2011, 12:38pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web

  October 19 2011, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

  September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism / After Humanism

  n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like to…

  August 11 2011, 11:30am | 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

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