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• Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

  March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments

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  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

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  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | Comments

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  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

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  "The act of writing may be nothing but an act of controlled violence... The book explodes with infuriating legibility." - Edmond Jabes

  March 27 2012, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

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  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort to make." "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20 bit (output) multiplier, 10 bit divider, a memory bank and additional circuitry for the graphing…

  March 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

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  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

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  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

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  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

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  God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

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  When independent thought flourishes

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

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  This is what a week-long car crash looks like

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Free Universal Construction Kit

  Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10…

  March 19 2012, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

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  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

• Tumblr There is a theory of the Moebius

  March 16 2012, 7:19am | Comments

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  the society of the centrifugal pantopicon

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  March 15 2012, 5:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Makes Sushi Great?

  Sushi, of course, is the ultimate in simple food: mostly just rice and a piece of raw fish, it would seem that anyone with a knife and one functioning hand can…

  March 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Tumblr LRJP responds to the HOTDOG challenge

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  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

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  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

  March 12 2012, 12:50am | Comments

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• Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

  March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Twitter

  "The act of writing may be nothing but an act of controlled violence... The book explodes with infuriating legibility." - Edmond Jabes

  March 27 2012, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort to make." "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20 bit (output) multiplier, 10 bit divider, a memory bank and additional circuitry for the graphing…

  March 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

• Twitter

  before the deictic it

  March 20 2012, 3:46am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  When independent thought flourishes

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  This is what a week-long car crash looks like

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Free Universal Construction Kit

  Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10…

  March 19 2012, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription

  by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

  March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments

• Tumblr There is a theory of the Moebius

  March 16 2012, 7:19am | Comments

• Twitter

  the society of the centrifugal pantopicon

  March 16 2012, 7:06am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 16 2012, 5:41am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 15 2012, 5:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Makes Sushi Great?

  Sushi, of course, is the ultimate in simple food: mostly just rice and a piece of raw fish, it would seem that anyone with a knife and one functioning hand can…

  March 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Tumblr LRJP responds to the HOTDOG challenge

  March 15 2012, 3:32am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem

  March 12 2012, 12:50am | Comments

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