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• Bookmark YaleNews | From Neanderthals to alien life: Q&A with science blogger Carl…

  Science writer and blogger Carl Zimmer '87, a lecturer in Yale's Environmental Studies Program, answers questions submitted by the public via the Yale University Tumblr. The video with Zimmer, a lecturer…

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• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

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• Portfolio An Object Oriented Glitch Ontology?

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  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

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• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

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  "How does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will & human life?" Can cells become little computers? And how does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will, intelligence, and…

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• Bookmark Computing Texas Hold 'em

  About five years ago, Rubin’s father mentioned that Avi’s younger brother, Yaacov, had been winning money playing poker online. Soon after, Avi suggested to Yaacov that they play sometime. “He kind…

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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…

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• 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 The Trouble with Scientism

  The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods into…

  May 17 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

  The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

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• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

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• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

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• 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…

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  The Democracy of Objects

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  The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness

  February 29 2012, 2:37am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

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  Hacking Critical Theory

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  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

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  With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

  January 19 2012, 2:13am | Comments

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  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

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• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

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  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

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• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?

  It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

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• Bookmark YaleNews | From Neanderthals to alien life: Q&A with science blogger Carl…

  Science writer and blogger Carl Zimmer '87, a lecturer in Yale's Environmental Studies Program, answers questions submitted by the public via the Yale University Tumblr. The video with Zimmer, a lecturer…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

• Portfolio An Object Oriented Glitch Ontology?

  December 10 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

  November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark I Like to Build Alien Artifacts

  "How does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will & human life?" Can cells become little computers? And how does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will, intelligence, and…

  July 10 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Texas Hold 'em

  About five years ago, Rubin’s father mentioned that Avi’s younger brother, Yaacov, had been winning money playing poker online. Soon after, Avi suggested to Yaacov that they play sometime. “He kind…

  June 27 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 6 2012, 10:31am | 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

• YouTube

  June 3 2012, 4:01pm | 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 The Trouble with Scientism

  The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods into…

  May 17 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

  The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

  April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Tumblr magnificentruin: detail, Voight-Kampff questionaire

  April 6 2012, 9:41am | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | 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

  The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness

  February 29 2012, 2:37am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Hacking Critical Theory

  February 17 2012, 12:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Man as Machine

  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

  February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 9 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

  With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

  January 19 2012, 2:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?

  November 29 2011, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?

  It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

  November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments

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