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  The first dinosaur butthole ever discovered is shedding light where the sun don't shine. The discovery reveals how dinosaurs used this multipurpose opening — scientifically known as a cloacal vent —…

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• Bookmark Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005…

  AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. To mark Black History Month once again, as well as the 25th anniversary of Democracy Now!, we turn now…

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• Bookmark Scientists grow human-neanderthal hybrid 'minibrains' in petri dishes | Live Science

  Sesame seed-size brains created from a mix of human and Neanderthal genes lived briefly in petri dishes in a University of California, San Diego laboratory, offering tantalizing clues as to how…

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• Bookmark Parasite-inspired drug delivery system could be the future of medicine - BBC…

  You based the technology on parasitic hookworms. Where did that idea come from? We’ve been trying to deliver drugs through the gastrointestinal tract, and that is a formidable challenge because the…

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• Bookmark The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American

  Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint…

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• Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria

  Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

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• Reddit What is your personal SF/F Canon? Which authors or books really defined what science fiction and fantasy is for you? What is your personal SF/F canon? And not necessarily which books do you think define science fiction and/or fantasy best, but which ones defined them for you as you grew up or developed your taste in the genre? submitted by /u/ctopherrun…

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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.…

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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…

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  On the eve of the 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest college nationals, six teams gather in Columbus, Ohio’s Center of Science and Industry children’s museum to set up their machines around…

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• Bookmark The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab. Here's how we know.…

  Editor's note: On April 16, news came out that the U.S. government said it was investigating the possibility that the novel coronavirus may have somehow escaped from a lab, though experts…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines | The Verge

  On the eve of the 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest college nationals, six teams gather in Columbus, Ohio’s Center of Science and Industry children’s museum to set up their machines around…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

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• 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 Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests | Science | AAAS

  When humans started to tame dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle, they may have continued a tradition that started with a completely different animal: us.

  December 4 2019, 4:36pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

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• Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…

  Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

  October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments

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  “I don’t care what people say,” asserts Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department and author of one of the most controversial articles in the realm of science last year…

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• 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.

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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/

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• 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…

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• Reddit A single inhalation of vapor from dried toad secretion containing 5-methoxy- N, N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) in a naturalistic setting is related… submitted by /u/-AMARYANA- to r/science [link] [comments]

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• 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]

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• Bookmark 1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says | Live…

  The first dinosaur butthole ever discovered is shedding light where the sun don't shine. The discovery reveals how dinosaurs used this multipurpose opening — scientifically known as a cloacal vent —…

  March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005…

  AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. To mark Black History Month once again, as well as the 25th anniversary of Democracy Now!, we turn now…

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists grow human-neanderthal hybrid 'minibrains' in petri dishes | Live Science

  Sesame seed-size brains created from a mix of human and Neanderthal genes lived briefly in petri dishes in a University of California, San Diego laboratory, offering tantalizing clues as to how…

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Parasite-inspired drug delivery system could be the future of medicine - BBC…

  You based the technology on parasitic hookworms. Where did that idea come from? We’ve been trying to deliver drugs through the gastrointestinal tract, and that is a formidable challenge because the…

  December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments

• Bookmark The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American

  Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint…

  December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments

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  September 17 2020, 10:08am | Comments

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  September 11 2020, 1:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria

  Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

  August 20 2020, 6:13am | Comments

• Reddit What is your personal SF/F Canon? Which authors or books really defined what science fiction and fantasy is for you? What is your personal SF/F canon? And not necessarily which books do you think define science fiction and/or fantasy best, but which ones defined them for you as you grew up or developed your taste in the genre? submitted by /u/ctopherrun…

  August 11 2020, 2:27pm | Comments

• 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 Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines | The Verge

  On the eve of the 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest college nationals, six teams gather in Columbus, Ohio’s Center of Science and Industry children’s museum to set up their machines around…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab. Here's how we know.…

  Editor's note: On April 16, news came out that the U.S. government said it was investigating the possibility that the novel coronavirus may have somehow escaped from a lab, though experts…

  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 Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines | The Verge

  On the eve of the 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest college nationals, six teams gather in Columbus, Ohio’s Center of Science and Industry children’s museum to set up their machines around…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Capitalism is the Total Science of Everything *screams for a thousand lifetimes*

  

  March 8 2020, 3:01pm | 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 Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests | Science | AAAS

  When humans started to tame dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle, they may have continued a tradition that started with a completely different animal: us.

  December 4 2019, 4:36pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

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  November 6 2019, 9:59am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…

  Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

  October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments

• Bookmark If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human…

  “I don’t care what people say,” asserts Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department and author of one of the most controversial articles in the realm of science last year…

  October 15 2019, 7:31pm | 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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  October 8 2019, 7:00am | 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

• Reddit A single inhalation of vapor from dried toad secretion containing 5-methoxy- N, N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) in a naturalistic setting is related… submitted by /u/-AMARYANA- to r/science [link] [comments]

  August 28 2019, 8:25pm | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

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• 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

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