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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
Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments
Bookmark "Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe"…
Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. "Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer…

March 8 2013, 3:55am | Comments
Bookmark 'Bigfoot DNA' Study Seeks Yeti Rights : Discovery News
A team of researchers led by Melba Ketchum, a Texas veterinarian, claims to have not only conclusively proven the existence of Bigfoot through genetic testing, but also that the mysterious monster…

March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments
Bookmark The Future Has Arrived — It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed Yet |
William Gibson? Anonymous? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: I work at Google, and a colleague of mine who leads our Search Education efforts pointed out your site as a great resource for…

March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments
Bookmark Rhizome | Using, Using, Used
Within the pages of Digital Folklore Reader, Olia Lialina, one of the book's editors, refers to a claim by the social media researcher Danah Boyd, that some American teenagers identify as…

January 22 2013, 3:51pm | Comments
Bookmark How art history is failing at the Internet
Keeping up with the pace of change in the digital world is challenging, and harnessing its potential can be frustrating. But the biggest mistake many of us in the arts and…

December 31 2012, 7:01am | Comments
Bookmark How scientists recreated Neanderthal man
In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male,…

December 31 2012, 6:48am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: what tools and models do we have for collaboration in the humanities? what tools and platforms exist right now which humanists can use to do collaborative research? what models exist of successful humanities collaboration?

November 26 2012, 7:11am | Comments
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On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."
“Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments
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As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

October 15 2012, 1:37am | 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
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The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement

September 29 2012, 4:15am | Comments
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The ENCODE delusion

September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Million Short: A different way to search the web "Million Short is an experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set. We thought it might be somewhat interesting to see what…

September 20 2012, 1:07pm | Comments
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How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments
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September 5 2012, 10:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Scans of Hoarders’ Brains Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter
Hoarding disorder is categorized as “the excessive acquisition of and inability to discard objects, resulting in debilitating clutter,” wrote the researchers behind the new study, led by Yale University School of…

August 7 2012, 12:24am | Comments
Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

August 1 2012, 8:07am | Comments
Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software
For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments
Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?
We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments
Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?
It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments
Bookmark War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks
A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

June 15 2012, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark On the Natural History of Surveillance
Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a “cephalic sniffer” is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device…

June 15 2012, 5:21am | Comments
Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments
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June 3 2012, 4:01pm | Comments
Bookmark How to Destroy the Internet
The first step on this trip is mental. We need to begin by no longer treating the Internet like a ghost. It's made of more metal, plastic, and fiber than you…

May 30 2012, 2:00am | Comments
Bookmark Google Knowledge Graph
Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children,…

May 30 2012, 1:59am | Comments
Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses
Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments

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