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• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

  April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad What exactly does OAP stand for anyway?

  April 14 2010, 10:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius

  When a modern person thinks of artistic genius, they imagine an individual. Some have quantified genius by standardized exams – for example, the I.Q. test – but most know a genius…

  April 9 2010, 3:40am | Comments

• Bookmark 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a…

  Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why. I've…

  April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Most likely a remnant of the troubles we’ve been having over at Sandra’s

  April 7 2010, 9:01am | Comments

• Hello Grandad 'The Fox' is most sexier than all other rodents

  April 7 2010, 7:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Manual for Civilization

  We have confidence in our science-based civilization and think it has tenure. In so doing, I think we fail to distinguish between the life-span of civilizations and that of our species.…

  April 7 2010, 6:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Semiotics for Beginners: Codes

  In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The National…

  April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Voyager 1 and 2's Infinite Playlist

  Selected by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan, these songs were etched into a 12-inch, gold-plated copper record that was placed aboard the two spaceships in 1977

  April 6 2010, 12:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science

  This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

  April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hands-on: Sleep Is Death

  A lot of game critics you talk to will tell you that, after making a career of playing games, it takes a lot to impress them. But that's not exactly the…

  April 6 2010, 9:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

  Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

  April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The Soul of the Scientist of Man

  ow does the character of the scientist differ from that of the humanist? The past century has seen an acceleration in the “scientization” of the humanities. The roots of this trend,…

  April 4 2010, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Missing link between man and apes found

  The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week. Scientists believe the…

  April 4 2010, 3:45am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 2 2010, 4:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 1 2010, 6:35pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad The 'Incident'

  April 1 2010, 7:40am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 1 2010, 6:25am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Bloated Appendix

  March 31 2010, 3:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ignoring the mainstream, spreading enthusiasm for difficult music and sustaining sonic subcultures:…

  Chris Bohn is the editor of London-based monthly music magazine The Wire. Subtitled “Adventures in Modern Music”, the magazine has covered the alternative, the underground, the experimental, the avant-garde and the…

  March 29 2010, 8:51am | Comments

• Podcast /noise : You and Your Parents Should Give a Listen

  March 28 2010, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Are Animals People?

  The recent fatal attack of a SeaWorld trainer by the orca Tilikum has led to renewed questions about how humans should deal with potentially intelligent animals. Was Tilikum’s action premeditated, and…

  March 27 2010, 5:18pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad The Event

  March 26 2010, 9:55am | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Hello Grandad He's your hairiest friend with attitude

  March 26 2010, 9:13am | Comments

• Bookmark No Bones about It: Ancient DNA from Siberia Hints at Previously Unknown…

  For much of the past five million to seven million years over which humans have been evolving, multiple species of our forebears co-existed. But eventually the other lineages went extinct, leaving…

  March 26 2010, 6:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Think Globally

  The most familiar ideas of geometry were inspired by an ancient vision — a vision of the world as flat. From parallel lines that never meet, to the Pythagorean theorem discussed…

  March 26 2010, 5:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye

  When the scientists tested the mind’s eye of MX, though, the difference was stark. The researchers gave all their subjects a standardized test called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. They…

  March 26 2010, 5:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 26 2010, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW

  A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

  March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

  April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad What exactly does OAP stand for anyway?

  April 14 2010, 10:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius

  When a modern person thinks of artistic genius, they imagine an individual. Some have quantified genius by standardized exams – for example, the I.Q. test – but most know a genius…

  April 9 2010, 3:40am | Comments

• Bookmark 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a…

  Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why. I've…

  April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Most likely a remnant of the troubles we’ve been having over at Sandra’s

  April 7 2010, 9:01am | Comments

• Hello Grandad 'The Fox' is most sexier than all other rodents

  April 7 2010, 7:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Manual for Civilization

  We have confidence in our science-based civilization and think it has tenure. In so doing, I think we fail to distinguish between the life-span of civilizations and that of our species.…

  April 7 2010, 6:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Semiotics for Beginners: Codes

  In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The National…

  April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark Voyager 1 and 2's Infinite Playlist

  Selected by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan, these songs were etched into a 12-inch, gold-plated copper record that was placed aboard the two spaceships in 1977

  April 6 2010, 12:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science

  This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

  April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hands-on: Sleep Is Death

  A lot of game critics you talk to will tell you that, after making a career of playing games, it takes a lot to impress them. But that's not exactly the…

  April 6 2010, 9:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

  Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

  April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The Soul of the Scientist of Man

  ow does the character of the scientist differ from that of the humanist? The past century has seen an acceleration in the “scientization” of the humanities. The roots of this trend,…

  April 4 2010, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Missing link between man and apes found

  The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week. Scientists believe the…

  April 4 2010, 3:45am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 2 2010, 4:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 1 2010, 6:35pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad The 'Incident'

  April 1 2010, 7:40am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 1 2010, 6:25am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Bloated Appendix

  March 31 2010, 3:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ignoring the mainstream, spreading enthusiasm for difficult music and sustaining sonic subcultures:…

  Chris Bohn is the editor of London-based monthly music magazine The Wire. Subtitled “Adventures in Modern Music”, the magazine has covered the alternative, the underground, the experimental, the avant-garde and the…

  March 29 2010, 8:51am | Comments

• Podcast /noise : You and Your Parents Should Give a Listen

  March 28 2010, 5:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Are Animals People?

  The recent fatal attack of a SeaWorld trainer by the orca Tilikum has led to renewed questions about how humans should deal with potentially intelligent animals. Was Tilikum’s action premeditated, and…

  March 27 2010, 5:18pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad The Event

  March 26 2010, 9:55am | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Hello Grandad He's your hairiest friend with attitude

  March 26 2010, 9:13am | Comments

• Bookmark No Bones about It: Ancient DNA from Siberia Hints at Previously Unknown…

  For much of the past five million to seven million years over which humans have been evolving, multiple species of our forebears co-existed. But eventually the other lineages went extinct, leaving…

  March 26 2010, 6:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Think Globally

  The most familiar ideas of geometry were inspired by an ancient vision — a vision of the world as flat. From parallel lines that never meet, to the Pythagorean theorem discussed…

  March 26 2010, 5:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye

  When the scientists tested the mind’s eye of MX, though, the difference was stark. The researchers gave all their subjects a standardized test called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. They…

  March 26 2010, 5:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 26 2010, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW

  A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

  March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments

• Bibliography A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

  March 24 2010, 10:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

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