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• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat

  Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

  November 25 2010, 3:36am | Comments

• Bookmark “Escape the Overcode”

  by Brian Holmes ===> INTRODUCTIONS -The Affectivist Manifesto: Artistic Critique for the 21st Century -Toward the New Body: Marcelo Expósito’s “Entre Sueños“ -Recapturing Subversion: Twenty Twisted Rules for the Culture Game…

  October 20 2010, 4:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why like noise?

  The idea of noise is spreading…. From music into art into politics…. Why? As a synonym of avant-garde: noise as the unexpected, the dissonant and dissident. Its transgressiveness, which is mostly…

  September 8 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Uranium Ore

  July 19 2010, 12:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reading in a Whole New Way

  As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the Constitution,…

  July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 22 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Eureka! Neural evidence for sudden insight

  A recent study provides intriguing information about the neural dynamics underlying behavioral changes associated with the development of new problem solving strategies. The research... supports the idea of "a-ha" moments in…

  May 14 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• Hello Grandad First hung parliament for ant-eaters in decades

  May 7 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Bad Writing and Bad Thinking

  Orwell leaves us with a list of simple rules: * Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. * Never use…

  April 29 2010, 2:55pm | Comments

• Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

  April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments

• Hello Grandad The Event

  March 26 2010, 9:55am | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Bookmark No Bones about It: Ancient DNA from Siberia Hints at Previously Unknown…

  For much of the past five million to seven million years over which humans have been evolving, multiple species of our forebears co-existed. But eventually the other lineages went extinct, leaving…

  March 26 2010, 6:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists supersize quantum mechanics

  A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

  March 21 2010, 12:51pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

  March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

  February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than you'd ever want to…

  How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire.

  May 25 2009, 12:21pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Bookmark If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube

  Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards

  April 2 2009, 6:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 23 2009, 1:42am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants mimic liquids to stay afloat

  Rain may seem a harmless nuisance to us humans, but for ants, it's a big deal. They can get trapped by just a single drop and risk drowning. Paradoxically, it's by…

  November 25 2010, 3:36am | Comments

• Bookmark “Escape the Overcode”

  by Brian Holmes ===> INTRODUCTIONS -The Affectivist Manifesto: Artistic Critique for the 21st Century -Toward the New Body: Marcelo Expósito’s “Entre Sueños“ -Recapturing Subversion: Twenty Twisted Rules for the Culture Game…

  October 20 2010, 4:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why like noise?

  The idea of noise is spreading…. From music into art into politics…. Why? As a synonym of avant-garde: noise as the unexpected, the dissonant and dissident. Its transgressiveness, which is mostly…

  September 8 2010, 3:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Uranium Ore

  July 19 2010, 12:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reading in a Whole New Way

  As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the Constitution,…

  July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 22 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Eureka! Neural evidence for sudden insight

  A recent study provides intriguing information about the neural dynamics underlying behavioral changes associated with the development of new problem solving strategies. The research... supports the idea of "a-ha" moments in…

  May 14 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• Hello Grandad First hung parliament for ant-eaters in decades

  May 7 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Bad Writing and Bad Thinking

  Orwell leaves us with a list of simple rules: * Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. * Never use…

  April 29 2010, 2:55pm | Comments

• Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

  April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments

• Hello Grandad The Event

  March 26 2010, 9:55am | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Bookmark No Bones about It: Ancient DNA from Siberia Hints at Previously Unknown…

  For much of the past five million to seven million years over which humans have been evolving, multiple species of our forebears co-existed. But eventually the other lineages went extinct, leaving…

  March 26 2010, 6:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists supersize quantum mechanics

  A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland…

  March 21 2010, 12:51pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

  March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

  February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | 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

• Writing from 3quarksdaily I discovered the ants

  June 14 2009, 11:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than you'd ever want to…

  How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire.

  May 25 2009, 12:21pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Bookmark If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube

  Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards

  April 2 2009, 6:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 23 2009, 1:42am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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