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• Bookmark Language May Have Evolved Way Earlier Than We Thought | Popular Science

  New research suggests our Neanderthal cousins might have been super chatty. Far from the traditional view of Neanderthals as heavy-grunting prehumans, a new theory suggests that our extinct relatives may have…

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  Language May Have Evolved Way Earlier Than We Thought | Popular Science

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• Bookmark How algorithms rule the world | Science | The Guardian

  The NSA revelations highlight the role sophisticated algorithms play in sifting through masses of data. But more surprising is their widespread use in our everyday lives. So should we be more…

  July 3 2013, 2:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

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• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Deal With It: the art and science of creating GIFs | The…

  By T.C. Sottek and Thomas Houston Humans have always lived singularly in the present moment; the internet has only accelerated the pace that we leap from one lily pad of existence…

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Living Computers Possible with Biological Transistor | DNA Computing | LiveScience

  The transistor revolutionized electronics and computing. Now, researchers have made a biological transistor from DNA that could be used to create living computers. A transistor is a device that controls the…

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark YaleNews | From Neanderthals to alien life: Q&A with science blogger Carl…

  Science writer and blogger Carl Zimmer '87, a lecturer in Yale's Environmental Studies Program, answers questions submitted by the public via the Yale University Tumblr. The video with Zimmer, a lecturer…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion: The Case Against Species Revival

  Editor's note: Stuart Pimm is the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke University, and the 2006 laureate of the Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences awarded by…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark New Left Project | Articles |Biology in an Age of Technoscience

  Hilary Rose is a prominent feminist and sociologist and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Steven Rose is a neurobiologist at the Open University and the…

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…

  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

  February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments

• Bibliography Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by SUVIN

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

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  Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It? | Popular Science

  November 2 2012, 4:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

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  New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

  September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments

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  Errormancy: Glitch as Divination – A New Essay by Kim Cascone

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

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  The ENCODE delusion

  September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

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  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

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• Bookmark Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog

  The frontier of science is a wild and lawless place. Like all badlands, it attracts visionaries, charlatans and the dispossessed. Far from the jurisdiction of law enforcers, isolated communities cluster together…

  August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher

  Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given…

  August 14 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing

  In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

  August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

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• Bookmark Language May Have Evolved Way Earlier Than We Thought | Popular Science

  New research suggests our Neanderthal cousins might have been super chatty. Far from the traditional view of Neanderthals as heavy-grunting prehumans, a new theory suggests that our extinct relatives may have…

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Language May Have Evolved Way Earlier Than We Thought | Popular Science

  July 10 2013, 3:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark How algorithms rule the world | Science | The Guardian

  The NSA revelations highlight the role sophisticated algorithms play in sifting through masses of data. But more surprising is their widespread use in our everyday lives. So should we be more…

  July 3 2013, 2:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Portfolio The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 4:16am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

  May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Deal With It: the art and science of creating GIFs | The…

  By T.C. Sottek and Thomas Houston Humans have always lived singularly in the present moment; the internet has only accelerated the pace that we leap from one lily pad of existence…

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark Living Computers Possible with Biological Transistor | DNA Computing | LiveScience

  The transistor revolutionized electronics and computing. Now, researchers have made a biological transistor from DNA that could be used to create living computers. A transistor is a device that controls the…

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Bookmark YaleNews | From Neanderthals to alien life: Q&A with science blogger Carl…

  Science writer and blogger Carl Zimmer '87, a lecturer in Yale's Environmental Studies Program, answers questions submitted by the public via the Yale University Tumblr. The video with Zimmer, a lecturer…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion: The Case Against Species Revival

  Editor's note: Stuart Pimm is the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke University, and the 2006 laureate of the Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences awarded by…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark New Left Project | Articles |Biology in an Age of Technoscience

  Hilary Rose is a prominent feminist and sociologist and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Steven Rose is a neurobiologist at the Open University and the…

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…

  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

  February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments

• Bibliography Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by SUVIN

  January 23 2013, 5:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark A vested interest in palimpsest

  The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave us…

  December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Meaning as gloss

  November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It? | Popular Science

  November 2 2012, 4:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

  September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Errormancy: Glitch as Divination – A New Essay by Kim Cascone

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The ENCODE delusion

  September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 5 2012, 10:27pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 29 2012, 3:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog

  The frontier of science is a wild and lawless place. Like all badlands, it attracts visionaries, charlatans and the dispossessed. Far from the jurisdiction of law enforcers, isolated communities cluster together…

  August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher

  Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given…

  August 14 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing

  In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

  August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

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