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• Bookmark How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - Vox

  No matter how President Trump’s impeachment trial plays out in the Senate, one thing is certain: Despite the incontrovertible facts at the center of the story, the process will change very…

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  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

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• 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…

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  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

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• Bookmark An Archaeologist Writes against the Anthropocene | Open Rivers Journal

  Much of what archaeologists do is study how humans adapt to the environment. After Gordon Willey’s (1953) groundbreaking investigation into the entire history of occupation of a small valley in Peru,…

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• Bookmark The Great Silence - Issue 75: Story - Nautilus

  The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe. But I…

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• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

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• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

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• Podcast Cache Speaking the Anthropocene – Emergence Magazine

  In this interview, writer Robert Macfarlane articulates the consequence and responsibility, as well as the pleasure, of naming the living world. https://emergencemagazine.org/story/speaking-the-anthropocene/

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  The aftermath of the Piazza della Loggia bombing, a 1974 attack carried out by the Evola-inspired group Ordine Nuovo. Debate is a cover-story: never having to be honest about your true…

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• Bookmark Video Games Are Better Without Characters - The Atlantic

  In the mid-1980s, the easiest way to check out the latest computer games was to go to a bookstore in the mall. Past the John Grisham and the bargain history books…

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  Epistemology is the term that describes how we know what we know. Most people who think about knowledge think about the processes of obtaining it. Ignorance is often assumed to be…

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• Podcast Cache Chris Stringer and The Human Revolution

  This week Spencer and Razib discuss the Out of Africa theory, Neanderthal admixture, and The Human Revolution with Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins Research at London's Natural History Museum. http://insitome.libsyn.com/chris-stringer-and-the-human-revolution

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• Podcast Cache #654: Indigenous Futurism & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace with Jason Edward Lewis…

  I talk with Jason Edward Lewis about the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace initiative, as well as the two 2167 Indigenous Storytelling in VR that he helped to produce. How do we reckon the past, present, and the future,…

  November 28 2018, 10:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Horror is a dark and piercing reflection of our anxious times |…

  In Ray Bradbury’s horror short story, ‘The Next in Line’ (1955), a woman visits the catacombs in Guanajuato, Mexico. Mummified bodies line the walls.

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• Bookmark Bones found in Polish cave belonged to Neanderthal kid whose fingers were…

  The bone fragments were found in Polish cave and are believed to have belonged to a Neanderthal child who died 115,000 years ago. They may be tiny, but these bone fragments…

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• Bookmark Prehistoric girl had parents belonging to different human species | New Scientist

  A sliver of bone from a cave in Russia is at the centre of what may be the biggest archaeological story of the year. The bone belonged to an ancient human who…

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• Bookmark Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World…

  RISING Dispatches from the New American Shore By Elizabeth Rush Illustrated. 299 pp. Milkweed Editions. $26. A drowned world: It’s an ancient fear and a very old story.

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• 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…

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• 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.

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• Bookmark The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding

  I lived in Atlanta for six years after college. I only went back to St. Pete twice in that time, and both times I stayed with my aunt Linda. Mom would…

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• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

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• Bookmark How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - Vox

  No matter how President Trump’s impeachment trial plays out in the Senate, one thing is certain: Despite the incontrovertible facts at the center of the story, the process will change very…

  January 18 2020, 7:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

  November 13 2019, 5:17pm | 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 Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history

  Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like…

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | 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

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• Bookmark An Archaeologist Writes against the Anthropocene | Open Rivers Journal

  Much of what archaeologists do is study how humans adapt to the environment. After Gordon Willey’s (1953) groundbreaking investigation into the entire history of occupation of a small valley in Peru,…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Silence - Issue 75: Story - Nautilus

  The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe. But I…

  August 17 2019, 6:04am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

  July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Speaking the Anthropocene – Emergence Magazine

  In this interview, writer Robert Macfarlane articulates the consequence and responsibility, as well as the pleasure, of naming the living world. https://emergencemagazine.org/story/speaking-the-anthropocene/

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• Bookmark What’s yr take on Evola? Some very late words on Nina Power’s…

  The aftermath of the Piazza della Loggia bombing, a 1974 attack carried out by the Evola-inspired group Ordine Nuovo. Debate is a cover-story: never having to be honest about your true…

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• Bookmark Video Games Are Better Without Characters - The Atlantic

  In the mid-1980s, the easiest way to check out the latest computer games was to go to a bookstore in the mall. Past the John Grisham and the bargain history books…

  May 23 2019, 10:58pm | Comments

• Bookmark Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation

  Epistemology is the term that describes how we know what we know. Most people who think about knowledge think about the processes of obtaining it. Ignorance is often assumed to be…

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• Podcast Cache Chris Stringer and The Human Revolution

  This week Spencer and Razib discuss the Out of Africa theory, Neanderthal admixture, and The Human Revolution with Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins Research at London's Natural History Museum. http://insitome.libsyn.com/chris-stringer-and-the-human-revolution

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• Podcast Cache #654: Indigenous Futurism & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace with Jason Edward Lewis…

  I talk with Jason Edward Lewis about the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace initiative, as well as the two 2167 Indigenous Storytelling in VR that he helped to produce. How do we reckon the past, present, and the future,…

  November 28 2018, 10:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Horror is a dark and piercing reflection of our anxious times |…

  In Ray Bradbury’s horror short story, ‘The Next in Line’ (1955), a woman visits the catacombs in Guanajuato, Mexico. Mummified bodies line the walls.

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Bones found in Polish cave belonged to Neanderthal kid whose fingers were…

  The bone fragments were found in Polish cave and are believed to have belonged to a Neanderthal child who died 115,000 years ago. They may be tiny, but these bone fragments…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Prehistoric girl had parents belonging to different human species | New Scientist

  A sliver of bone from a cave in Russia is at the centre of what may be the biggest archaeological story of the year. The bone belonged to an ancient human who…

  August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World…

  RISING Dispatches from the New American Shore By Elizabeth Rush Illustrated. 299 pp. Milkweed Editions. $26. A drowned world: It’s an ancient fear and a very old story.

  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

• 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

• Facebook Cache list: net-art

  Working on a project and am looking for good examples of net art/story telling works. Any suggestions?

  May 1 2018, 4:55am | Comments

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  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding

  I lived in Atlanta for six years after college. I only went back to St. Pete twice in that time, and both times I stayed with my aunt Linda. Mom would…

  March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

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