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  Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

  October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Must science declare a holy war on religion?

  This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book,…

  September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments

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  In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously…

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• 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…

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• 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 How to fake science, history and religion

  One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true…

  August 6 2009, 1:20pm | 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 Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory

  Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as 'dromology' (the 'science' of speed), Virilio is renowned for…

  July 7 2009, 9:34am | 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 The Gallery as Brain

  At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

  June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists

  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

  June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism

  Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

  June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

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

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…

  Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

  March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

• Wikipedia 42 Things We Don't Know How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? 42* of the biggest questions in science.

  January 30 2007, 9:11am | Comments

• Metafilter The concept of the Transhuman: human, the self, consciousness and their effects on the law Whether or not you believe humans are set to evolve into gods, or AI is destined to achieve self-awareness the idea of the Transhuman is a thought provoking concept. Philosophers have debated the nature of the self, of the human for millennia. Is…

  December 13 2005, 5:43pm | Comments

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• Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur

  Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

  October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Must science declare a holy war on religion?

  This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book,…

  September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments

• Bookmark in Bb 2.0

  In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously…

  September 14 2009, 8:37am | 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 How to fake science, history and religion

  One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true…

  August 6 2009, 1:20pm | 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 Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory

  Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as 'dromology' (the 'science' of speed), Virilio is renowned for…

  July 7 2009, 9:34am | 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 The Gallery as Brain

  At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique…

  June 17 2009, 8:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists

  It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

  June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism

  Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

  June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

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

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

• Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

  April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…

  Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

  March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org Traversing the Altermodern: Tate Britain’s 4th Triennial

  February 18 2009, 6:58pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

  April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

  March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

• Wikipedia 42 Things We Don't Know How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? 42* of the biggest questions in science.

  January 30 2007, 9:11am | Comments

• Metafilter The concept of the Transhuman: human, the self, consciousness and their effects on the law Whether or not you believe humans are set to evolve into gods, or AI is destined to achieve self-awareness the idea of the Transhuman is a thought provoking concept. Philosophers have debated the nature of the self, of the human for millennia. Is…

  December 13 2005, 5:43pm | Comments

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