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Syllabus Cache Summer intensive science fiction course

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
Reddit Cannabis may have had high origins, with a new analysis of ancient pollen suggesting it evolved some 3 kilometres above… submitted by /u/mvea to r/science [link] [comments]

May 18 2019, 4:02am | 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
Bookmark Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? - The Atlantic
It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last…

December 28 2018, 6:27pm | 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 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
Syllabus Cache Part I HSPS Decolonial Reading List (2018-2019)
The Human, Social, Political Sciences (HSPS) Cambridge undergraduate degree purports to offer students a broad and interdisciplinary understanding of the issues that matter in our world.

September 12 2018, 10:09am | 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
Bookmark Waste-Wilderness: A conversation with Peter L. Galison | FOP
is a historian, writer, award winning filmmaker and the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University. He was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009, he won…

July 24 2018, 7:40am | Comments
Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…
THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: cities in sci-fi and fantasy novels Looking for recommendations of science fiction and fantasy books (or short stories) in which the city settings are central or at least important to the story. Utopias, dystopias, segregated or in space, am looking for all kinds of stories.

July 2 2018, 9:24pm | Comments
Bookmark Speculative biology: understanding the past and predicting our future | Science |…
In 1981, a remarkable book was published: After Man: A Zoology of the Future, by Dougal Dixon.

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark The macabre world of mind-controlling parasites – Science & research news |…
The gruesome new field of neuro-parasitology could provide insights into the neurological basis for behavior and decision-making — By Conn Hastings Imagine a parasite that makes an animal change its habits,…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Colonialism did not just create slavery: it changed geology | Science |…
It brought riches to Britain and many other European nations; played a major role in enslaving more than 10 million Africans; and created the first global markets in cotton, tobacco and…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
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May 22 2018, 1:39pm | Comments
Podcast Cache Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards
Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

May 18 2018, 4:09am | Comments
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April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments
Bookmark David Reich: ‘Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours’ |…
For David Reich, research can be a harrowing experience. The 44-year-old Harvard University geneticist says he now goes to bed terrified he will wake up to find his team’s recent, stunning…

April 15 2018, 10:25am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium
A note on Making Meaning of “Decolonising” — and in relation to that I want to be clear that the original motivation behind the creation of this list was to address a land claim issue: the use of Maunakea by…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium
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March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Men Who Are Convinced We’re All Living in a Simulation
Dale Baker was introduced to simulation theory five years ago as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa. The idea that our reality may be nothing more than a computer-generated…

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
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November 22 2017, 12:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Mating with Neandertals reintroduced ‘lost’ DNA into modern humans | Science News
ORLANDO, Fla. — Interbreeding with Neandertals restored some genetic heirlooms that modern humans left behind in the ancient exodus from Africa, new research suggests. Those heirlooms are versions of genes, or…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…
Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Future is Fungal – Mask Magazine
The future as shown to us by science fictions is almost always shiny. Whether in aspirational daydreams or depictions of dystopia, the vision continues to be one of gleaming metal, stark…

August 17 2017, 6:50am | Comments
Bookmark Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed,…
There is no doubt that Sci-Hub, the infamous—and, according to a U.S. court, illegal—online repository of pirated research papers, is enormously popular. (See Science’s investigation last year of who is downloading…

July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments
Bookmark Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times
When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or…

July 16 2017, 8:15am | Comments
Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

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