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• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, (Part 3) : Adventures in the Dream…

  Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s onward,…

  May 23 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade

  A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

  May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely

  As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

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• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher (Part 2) : Future Gnostic

  In the very first lines of “Exegesis” Dick writes, “We see the Logos addressing the many living entities.” Logos is an important concept that litters the pages of “Exegesis.” It is…

  May 22 2012, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1

  The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

  May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Trouble with Scientism

  The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods into…

  May 17 2012, 3:42am | Comments

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  Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

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  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

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  Bespoke pets: Just press “print” | The Economist

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | 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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  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort to make." "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20 bit (output) multiplier, 10 bit divider, a memory bank and additional circuitry for the graphing…

  March 21 2012, 10:44am | 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

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  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

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  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | 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

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

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  An Arthropod Version of Morlocks?

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

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  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | 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

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  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

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  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

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  Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments

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• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, (Part 3) : Adventures in the Dream…

  Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s onward,…

  May 23 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade

  A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

  May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely

  As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

  May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments

• Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…

  ...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

  May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher (Part 2) : Future Gnostic

  In the very first lines of “Exegesis” Dick writes, “We see the Logos addressing the many living entities.” Logos is an important concept that litters the pages of “Exegesis.” It is…

  May 22 2012, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1

  The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total…

  May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Trouble with Scientism

  The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods into…

  May 17 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bespoke pets: Just press “print” | The Economist

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort to make." "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20 bit (output) multiplier, 10 bit divider, a memory bank and additional circuitry for the graphing…

  March 21 2012, 10:44am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

  March 9 2012, 4:34am | 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

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  An Arthropod Version of Morlocks?

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | 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

• YouTube

  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  January 23 2012, 7:35am | Comments

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