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  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | 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

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

• Tumblr “Never grovel. God, or whatever superior being it is...

  March 18 2012, 5:23pm | Comments

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  Interactive Fluid Dynamics Rendered in ASCII

  March 17 2012, 4:54am | 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

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

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  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

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  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

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  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

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  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

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  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

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  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

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  Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled "Visual Theft," Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve

  February 28 2012, 6:35am | 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

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  The return of art manifestos

  February 23 2012, 4:05am | Comments

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  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

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  An Arthropod Version of Morlocks?

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

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  Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

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  Digital tools 'to save languages'

  February 18 2012, 5:35pm | Comments

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  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

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  "Everyone with no experiences can enjoy making the perfectly filtered coffee bring out all the coffee aroma and flavor without bitter"

  February 18 2012, 2:59am | Comments

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  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

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  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

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  February 14 2012, 5:24am | 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

• Bookmark Toxoplasma is creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to…

  Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction…

  February 9 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?

  Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

  February 9 2012, 3:57am | Comments

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  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | 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

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

• Tumblr “Never grovel. God, or whatever superior being it is...

  March 18 2012, 5:23pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interactive Fluid Dynamics Rendered in ASCII

  March 17 2012, 4:54am | 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

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

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  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | 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

• Vimeo

  March 5 2012, 5:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled "Visual Theft," Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve

  February 28 2012, 6:35am | 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

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  The return of art manifestos

  February 23 2012, 4:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

  February 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

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  An Arthropod Version of Morlocks?

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digital tools 'to save languages'

  February 18 2012, 5:35pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Everyone with no experiences can enjoy making the perfectly filtered coffee bring out all the coffee aroma and flavor without bitter"

  February 18 2012, 2:59am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?

  February 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 14 2012, 5:24am | 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

• Bookmark Toxoplasma is creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to…

  Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction…

  February 9 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark The Clock: What time is it where?

  Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute,…

  February 9 2012, 3:57am | Comments

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