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Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life | New Scientist
The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments
Bookmark Welcome to the age of synthetic biology – it’s all about yeast
Evolution’s retirement plan has been 3.6 billion years in the making. With the appearance of the modern human being, we now have an organism that can take over from natural processes…

October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments
Bookmark The First Ever Samples From the Global Seed Vault Have Been Retrieved
Deep in the arctic, inside over 400 feet of rock, a huge cache of seeds is stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in case of some global emergency. Today, the…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Anarcho-Transhumanist AMA : DebateAnarchism
Hi folks and welcome to the anarcho-transhumanist AMA. The term "anarcho-transhumanism" is a relatively recently one, barely mentioned in the 80s, publicly adopted in the early oughts and only really popularized…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Ferguson is the Future | Nassau Weekly
On September 14, I spent the day in the Chancellor Green Rotunda at the “Ferguson is the Future” Symposium, and I have spent every day since then trying to process the magnitude…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark The Man Who Laughed at Surveillance Technology: Mishka Henner on His Jarring…
The scariest thing about Mishka Henner’s “Feedlots” photographs is that they are so beautiful. In one photograph from the series, a pool of bright red swirls interrupts a field of greyish boxes.

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark There’s a Mystery Machine That Sculpts the Human Genome - The Atlantic
Genomes are so regularly represented as strings of letters—As, Gs, Cs, and Ts—that it’s easy to forget that they aren’t just abstract collections of data. They exist in three dimensions. They…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark THE HUMAN LAYER | More Intelligent Life
Is humanity’s impact on its environment so huge that the planet has entered a new geological era: the Anthropocene? The idea is gaining ground—and dividing scientists. Helen Gordon investigates

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark The AI that writes articles for you is now available for testing
Automated Insights has opened up beta access to Wordsmith, its platform for automating repetitive, time-consuming writing tasks using your data.

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark 'Save the Planet, Kill Yourself': The Contentious History of the Church of…
On September 13, 1993, motorists driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike witnessed an unusual sight: A highway billboard for the Museum of Science in Boston had been covered by a ten-foot-by-ten-foot black…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Collyer Brothers brownstone, 1947 - Photos - Inside the Collyer brothers' brownstone…
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October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
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Bookmark Neandertal Perfume Dark & Neandertal Perfume Light Offer a Contemporary Whiff of…
Confidential and new British fragrance label Neandertal have brought to fruition the central project they've been working on, whose aim is to recreate the possible scents that Neanderthales knew, transposed to…

October 20 2015, 9:35am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: This is a test. This is only a test. The following message is transmitted at the request of North American Aerospace Defense Command. Two nuclear missiles are heading for the United States. Take shelter now.

October 20 2015, 12:56am | Comments
Bookmark She Kills People From 7,850 Miles Away - The Daily Beast
Anne crawled out of bed in her North Las Vegas house around 10 p.m. and started to get ready for her shift. She pulled her chestnut hair into a bun and…

October 19 2015, 9:04am | Comments
Bookmark The Lonely Death of George Bell
They found him in the living room, crumpled up on the mottled carpet. The police did. Sniffing a fetid odor, a neighbor had called 911. The apartment was in north-central Queens,…

October 19 2015, 9:04am | Comments
Bookmark Readers Respond to Article on the Death of George Bell
One person, a self-described “lone wolf,” admitted that dying alone was his greatest fear. Another urged readers to consider the things that give life heft and depth, the things that keep…

October 19 2015, 9:04am | Comments
Bookmark Obfuscation | The MIT Press
“By mapping out obfuscation tools, practices, and goals, Brunton and Nissenbaum provide a valuable framework for understanding how people seek to achieve privacy and control in a data-soaked world.

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark A manifesto for algorithms in the environment
Algorithms – step-by-step sequences of operations that solve specific computational tasks – are transforming the world around us. They support sophisticated search engines, voice recognition software, online transactions, data compression, targeted…

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark Naomi Klein's Radical Guide to the Anthropocene | The New Republic
Last year, Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything laid bare the capitalist economic system’s dependence on environmental devastation. We can’t fight climate change until we properly understand capitalism’s culpability, she argued.

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: INTERVIEW WITH ROY SCRANTON | FOP
LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: INTERVIEW WITH ROY SCRANTON AN INTERVIEW WITH ROY SCRANTON ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK: LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: REFLECTIONS ON THE END OF CIVILIZATIONIn 2013,…

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark Nostalgia for Detritus - The Los Angeles Review of Books
DOUGLAS LAIN’S latest novel depicts an alien invasion set in an alternate near-past where people have been dehumanized by the worn-out specter of consumer-capitalism and electronic media.

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark Oil unlikely to ever be fully exploited because of climate concerns – BP…
The world’s oil resources are unlikely to ever be fully exploited, BP has admitted, due to international concern about climate change.

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark The Artist Who Speaks to Computers and Their Humans | Broadly
Like much of her work, Ashley Zelinskie eludes a one-dimensional definition. She is a Star Trek-obsessed nerd who studies electrical engineering, theoretical physics, and space in her spare time.

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark Why Winning the War on Climate Change Will Require a Technocratic Revolution…
As the 19th century entered its final decade, the War of Currents was nearing its peak. On one side of this war was Thomas Edison, who had invested heavily in direct-current…

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark B.J. Novak's New App: The Perfect Thing for a Moment Obsessed With…
The 10 Commandments. The 95 Theses. The 127 Hours and the 27 Dresses and the 10 Things I Hate About You. The mix tape. The menu. The card catalog. The grocery…

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark How a Hacked Virus Is Bringing Us Closer to Artificial Photosynthesis |…
The question persists: Is a virus alive? Or is it simply a clever organic machine? It lacks most all of things we associate with "life": the ability to reproduce (outside of…

October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments
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