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• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments

• Bookmark When The World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies | The New Yorker

  “What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has…

  September 5 2020, 8:13am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as…

  There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

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• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

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• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

  Are.na is a social platform for creative and collaborative research.

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• Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…

  To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

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• Syllabus Cache Towards a Viable Planetarity: The Terraforming Reading List — Strelka Mag

  Applications for the new program directed by design theorist Benjamin Bratton are being accepted until October 31. Find out more about The Terraforming here. Benjamin Bratton’s latest book lays the groundwork for the upcoming research project at Strelka…

  September 24 2019, 1:21pm | Comments

• Reddit Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter on the planet: 4.5 trillion are littered each year. New research… submitted by /u/ratterstinkle to r/science [link] [comments]

  July 19 2019, 7:30pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art - Momus

  We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily, that access to a gun doubles and…

  July 17 2019, 10:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Fungal Hallucinogens Send Cicadas on Sex Binges After Their Genitals Fall Off

  In latest gruesome nature news, scientists have discovered new details on a fungus that compels its cicada hosts to mate long after their genitals have gone and their bodies have turned…

  July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hackers used stickers to fool a Tesla, highlighting the risks of AI…

  Artificial intelligence researchers have a big problem. Even as they design powerful new technologies, hackers are figuring out how to trick the tech into doing things it was never meant to…

  April 16 2019, 11:46am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Science, Technology, and Society Syllabus – Danya Glabau

  Course Description What makes something a scientific fact? What is the social impact of new technologies? Who in society benefits and who is harmed by the rapid development of modern science and technology? These are just some of…

  January 25 2019, 9:09am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Chris Stringer and The Human Revolution

  This week Spencer and Razib discuss the Out of Africa theory, Neanderthal admixture, and The Human Revolution with Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins Research at London's Natural History Museum. http://insitome.libsyn.com/chris-stringer-and-the-human-revolution

  December 2 2018, 12:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Climate and Collapse: Only through the insurrection of civil societies will we…

  Translation of an interview of Christophe Bonneuil, French historian and research director at the CNRS, by Ivan Du Roy for BastaMag, published on October 16th, 2018. [PDF version]

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• Bookmark A groundbreaking study outlines what you can do about climate change. |…

  Researchers in Sweden examined the possible steps that people can take to help tackle the climate crisis. Although a lot of resulting news coverage focused on the most effective action (having…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The macabre world of mind-controlling parasites – Science & research news |…

  The gruesome new field of neuro-parasitology could provide insights into the neurological basis for behavior and decision-making — By Conn Hastings Imagine a parasite that makes an animal change its habits,…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’…

  WASHINGTON — As a teenager, Keoni Gandall already was operating a cutting-edge research laboratory in his bedroom in Huntington Beach, Calif.

  May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards

  Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

  May 18 2018, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark David Reich: ‘Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours’ |…

  For David Reich, research can be a harrowing experience. The 44-year-old Harvard University geneticist says he now goes to bed terrified he will wake up to find his team’s recent, stunning…

  April 15 2018, 10:25am | Comments

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• Bookmark Extinction of human race in a world of cannibalism is pegged at…

  Imagine a world where there is no food for us to feed on, and the only way to survive is to resort to cannibalism. A group of British researchers has envisaged…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Code, Conservation, and Truth – Ben Fino-Radin – Medium

  In a recently posted video, Patrick LeMieux(Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis) describes his own material exploration and investigation of Cory Arcangel’s seminal artwork, Super Mario Clouds…

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• Bookmark Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker

  In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note…

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  September 17 2020, 10:08am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments

• Bookmark When The World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies | The New Yorker

  “What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has…

  September 5 2020, 8:13am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as…

  There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

  August 18 2020, 6:13am | Comments

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  August 17 2020, 11:53pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

  Are.na is a social platform for creative and collaborative research.

  April 23 2020, 7:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Coronavirus & Theory — Are.na

  Are.na is a social platform for creative and collaborative research.

  April 23 2020, 12:34am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…

  To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

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  November 6 2019, 4:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Towards a Viable Planetarity: The Terraforming Reading List — Strelka Mag

  Applications for the new program directed by design theorist Benjamin Bratton are being accepted until October 31. Find out more about The Terraforming here. Benjamin Bratton’s latest book lays the groundwork for the upcoming research project at Strelka…

  September 24 2019, 1:21pm | Comments

• Reddit Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter on the planet: 4.5 trillion are littered each year. New research… submitted by /u/ratterstinkle to r/science [link] [comments]

  July 19 2019, 7:30pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art - Momus

  We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily, that access to a gun doubles and…

  July 17 2019, 10:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Fungal Hallucinogens Send Cicadas on Sex Binges After Their Genitals Fall Off

  In latest gruesome nature news, scientists have discovered new details on a fungus that compels its cicada hosts to mate long after their genitals have gone and their bodies have turned…

  July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hackers used stickers to fool a Tesla, highlighting the risks of AI…

  Artificial intelligence researchers have a big problem. Even as they design powerful new technologies, hackers are figuring out how to trick the tech into doing things it was never meant to…

  April 16 2019, 11:46am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Science, Technology, and Society Syllabus – Danya Glabau

  Course Description What makes something a scientific fact? What is the social impact of new technologies? Who in society benefits and who is harmed by the rapid development of modern science and technology? These are just some of…

  January 25 2019, 9:09am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Chris Stringer and The Human Revolution

  This week Spencer and Razib discuss the Out of Africa theory, Neanderthal admixture, and The Human Revolution with Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins Research at London's Natural History Museum. http://insitome.libsyn.com/chris-stringer-and-the-human-revolution

  December 2 2018, 12:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Climate and Collapse: Only through the insurrection of civil societies will we…

  Translation of an interview of Christophe Bonneuil, French historian and research director at the CNRS, by Ivan Du Roy for BastaMag, published on October 16th, 2018. [PDF version]

  October 31 2018, 5:59pm | Comments

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  August 1 2018, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark A groundbreaking study outlines what you can do about climate change. |…

  Researchers in Sweden examined the possible steps that people can take to help tackle the climate crisis. Although a lot of resulting news coverage focused on the most effective action (having…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The macabre world of mind-controlling parasites – Science & research news |…

  The gruesome new field of neuro-parasitology could provide insights into the neurological basis for behavior and decision-making — By Conn Hastings Imagine a parasite that makes an animal change its habits,…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’…

  WASHINGTON — As a teenager, Keoni Gandall already was operating a cutting-edge research laboratory in his bedroom in Huntington Beach, Calif.

  May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards

  Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

  May 18 2018, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark David Reich: ‘Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours’ |…

  For David Reich, research can be a harrowing experience. The 44-year-old Harvard University geneticist says he now goes to bed terrified he will wake up to find his team’s recent, stunning…

  April 15 2018, 10:25am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Princeton researchers discover #additivism

  

  February 1 2018, 7:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Extinction of human race in a world of cannibalism is pegged at…

  Imagine a world where there is no food for us to feed on, and the only way to survive is to resort to cannibalism. A group of British researchers has envisaged…

  January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

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  November 22 2017, 12:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Code, Conservation, and Truth – Ben Fino-Radin – Medium

  In a recently posted video, Patrick LeMieux(Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis) describes his own material exploration and investigation of Cory Arcangel’s seminal artwork, Super Mario Clouds…

  November 20 2017, 11:06am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 14 2017, 8:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker

  In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

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