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• Podcast Cache Susan Rogers’ catalyst songs - Take 5 - ABC Radio

  Susan Rogers, by her own admission, is a rare bird. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment would land her side by side with Prince as his star soared.…

  July 4 2020, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic - Scientific…

  As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Is DNA Hardware or Software? - Grow by Ginkgo

  In mid-January, a group of computer scientists and biologists from the University of Vermont, Tufts, and Harvard announced that they had created an entirely new life form — xenobots, the world’s…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Podcast Cache When did modern humans first arrive in Europe? – podcast | Science…

  Nicola Davis speaks to Prof Jean-Jacques Hublin about new archaeological discoveries which reveal that modern humans co-existed with Neanderthals for several thousand years https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/may/28/when-did-modern-humans-first-arrive-in-europe-podcast

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• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

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  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics - MIT Technology Review

  Bruce Sterling wasn’t originally meant to be part of the discussion. It was March 13, 2010, in Austin, Texas, and a small group of designers were on stage at the South…

  February 22 2020, 8:46am | Comments

• Bookmark The Labyrinth and the Plague | The Current | The Criterion Collection

  Of all the weird scenes that populate seventies science-fiction cinema, the most bizarre might be in 1971’s The Omega Man.

  January 25 2020, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

  November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Science Fiction and Posthumanism – Critical Posthumanism Network

  Donna Haraway famously pronounced, “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” in her influential A Cyborg Manifesto.

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

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• Podcast Cache AI Is A Growing Part Of The Criminal Justice System. Should We…

  From facial recognition to emotion detection to risk assessments, AI is guiding the decisions of police departments and courtrooms across the country. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/artificial-intelligence-is-a-growing-part-of-the-criminal-justice-system-should-we-be-worried/

  September 15 2019, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’…

  Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

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  I predict this is the year where "fucked" officially becomes a scientific term.

  

  July 27 2019, 4:55pm | 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

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  July 8 2019, 11:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism | Science | Smithsonian

  Scientists, including those who study race, like to see themselves as objectively exploring the world, above the political fray. But such views of scientific neutrality are naive, as study findings, inevitably,…

  May 22 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation

  Epistemology is the term that describes how we know what we know. Most people who think about knowledge think about the processes of obtaining it. Ignorance is often assumed to be…

  May 14 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Towards an anti-fascist AI - danmcquillan.io

  This talk is about some pressing issues with AI that don't usually make the headlines, and why tackling those issues means developing an antifascist AI. When i talk about AI i'm…

  April 17 2019, 7:31am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker

  The science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem was well acquainted with the way that fictional worlds can sometimes encroach upon reality.

  January 26 2019, 6:56pm | 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 Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

  January 3 2019, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Science Fiction and Alterity – the poesy

  Through abjection and “Otherness” theory, Brydie Kosima explores Science Fiction and its status as a genre able to narrate alternate modes of reality.

  November 25 2018, 4:45am | Comments

• Bookmark How it all ends… - Scientific American Blog Network

  Some say in ice. The end of the world may come slowly, but it´s inevitable. Our sun, exhausting the hydrogen-fuel of the core, will successively burn the outer layers and doing…

  November 5 2018, 12:50am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache AI & Culture: Buildings, Cities (and Infrastructures, and Beyond…)

  We’ve long heard a lot about smart: smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, and more. It’s blowing up even more, with a lot of talk about AI these days. It’s all over pop culture, whether in tv, film,…

  October 21 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction | Literary…

  Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling)…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Children Are Easily Peer Pressured by Robots, Study Finds - Motherboard

  The eerie possibility of robots manipulating humans crops up in science fiction tales like Ex Machina or Battlestar Galactica.

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

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• Podcast Cache Susan Rogers’ catalyst songs - Take 5 - ABC Radio

  Susan Rogers, by her own admission, is a rare bird. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment would land her side by side with Prince as his star soared.…

  July 4 2020, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic - Scientific…

  As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Is DNA Hardware or Software? - Grow by Ginkgo

  In mid-January, a group of computer scientists and biologists from the University of Vermont, Tufts, and Harvard announced that they had created an entirely new life form — xenobots, the world’s…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Podcast Cache When did modern humans first arrive in Europe? – podcast | Science…

  Nicola Davis speaks to Prof Jean-Jacques Hublin about new archaeological discoveries which reveal that modern humans co-existed with Neanderthals for several thousand years https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/may/28/when-did-modern-humans-first-arrive-in-europe-podcast

  June 29 2020, 2:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics - MIT Technology Review

  Bruce Sterling wasn’t originally meant to be part of the discussion. It was March 13, 2010, in Austin, Texas, and a small group of designers were on stage at the South…

  February 22 2020, 8:46am | Comments

• Bookmark The Labyrinth and the Plague | The Current | The Criterion Collection

  Of all the weird scenes that populate seventies science-fiction cinema, the most bizarre might be in 1971’s The Omega Man.

  January 25 2020, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

  November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Science Fiction and Posthumanism – Critical Posthumanism Network

  Donna Haraway famously pronounced, “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” in her influential A Cyborg Manifesto.

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 4 2019, 11:36am | Comments

• Podcast Cache AI Is A Growing Part Of The Criminal Justice System. Should We…

  From facial recognition to emotion detection to risk assessments, AI is guiding the decisions of police departments and courtrooms across the country. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/artificial-intelligence-is-a-growing-part-of-the-criminal-justice-system-should-we-be-worried/

  September 15 2019, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’…

  Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

• Twitter

  I predict this is the year where "fucked" officially becomes a scientific term.

  

  July 27 2019, 4:55pm | 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

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  July 8 2019, 11:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism | Science | Smithsonian

  Scientists, including those who study race, like to see themselves as objectively exploring the world, above the political fray. But such views of scientific neutrality are naive, as study findings, inevitably,…

  May 22 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation

  Epistemology is the term that describes how we know what we know. Most people who think about knowledge think about the processes of obtaining it. Ignorance is often assumed to be…

  May 14 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Towards an anti-fascist AI - danmcquillan.io

  This talk is about some pressing issues with AI that don't usually make the headlines, and why tackling those issues means developing an antifascist AI. When i talk about AI i'm…

  April 17 2019, 7:31am | Comments

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  March 20 2019, 10:15am | Comments

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  February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker

  The science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem was well acquainted with the way that fictional worlds can sometimes encroach upon reality.

  January 26 2019, 6:56pm | 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 Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

  January 3 2019, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Science Fiction and Alterity – the poesy

  Through abjection and “Otherness” theory, Brydie Kosima explores Science Fiction and its status as a genre able to narrate alternate modes of reality.

  November 25 2018, 4:45am | Comments

• Bookmark How it all ends… - Scientific American Blog Network

  Some say in ice. The end of the world may come slowly, but it´s inevitable. Our sun, exhausting the hydrogen-fuel of the core, will successively burn the outer layers and doing…

  November 5 2018, 12:50am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache AI & Culture: Buildings, Cities (and Infrastructures, and Beyond…)

  We’ve long heard a lot about smart: smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, and more. It’s blowing up even more, with a lot of talk about AI these days. It’s all over pop culture, whether in tv, film,…

  October 21 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction | Literary…

  Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling)…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Children Are Easily Peer Pressured by Robots, Study Finds - Motherboard

  The eerie possibility of robots manipulating humans crops up in science fiction tales like Ex Machina or Battlestar Galactica.

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

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