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Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art
In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison
After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]
Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal…

October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments
Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments
Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

September 28 2009, 9:07am | 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
Ask Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the…

September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments
Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers
To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

August 10 2009, 6:27am | 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 The Higher Arithmetic - How to count to a Zillion
Last year the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of digits. The billboard-size electronic counter, mounted on a wall near Times Square, overflowed when the public debt reached…

August 5 2009, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark 'Rosetta stone' offers digital storage for 1000 years
Researchers working in Japan say they might have the breakthrough archivists are praying for - a sealed permanent memory bank that will be easily readable now and far into the next…

July 30 2009, 2:04pm | Comments
Bookmark 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared
In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus,…

July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments
Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker
I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments
Flickr Kenner Kane Figure from ALIEN

July 25 2009, 1:32pm | Comments
Bookmark The Art-Work of the Future
AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved.…

July 22 2009, 4:37pm | Comments
Bookmark How to Change the Song in your Head
You've been singing the theme to The Love Boat for hours now, and you're becoming unmoored. If a song is on an unfinished loop, "sing it through all the way, or…

July 22 2009, 4:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast
The dish contains a variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known in culinary circles as baker's or brewer's yeast. But Cano didn't get this from Whole Foods. Back in 1995, he extracted it…

July 20 2009, 7:01pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments
Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…
What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

July 11 2009, 6:53am | 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
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 Music is Math is Beauty
Glenn Marshall is an Irish computer video artist and musician whose recent work has focused on audio visualization programed in the Processing language. Generally the program is left to its own…

June 28 2009, 4:05am | Comments
Bookmark Michael Jackson's patented "Smooth Criminal" leaning shoes
Patent number 5255452, filed in 1992, shows how Michael Jackson and his dancers could lean at 45-degree angles during live performances of the song "Smooth Criminal". 1. A system for engaging…

June 27 2009, 4:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content
Boston University neuroscientist Patrick McNamara has an interesting evolutionary theory of dreaming. McNamara’s theory draws from the well-known “handicapping principle” in evolutionary biology, where some organisms have been observed to display…

June 27 2009, 4:32am | Comments
Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science
“The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Atlas Obscura
Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular, eccentric,…

June 16 2009, 3:14pm | 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
Bookmark Immortal Information
For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments

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