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  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

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  The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the idea…

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  "We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the University…

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  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

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  The Making of The Rings of Saturn

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  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

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  Marx at 193

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  The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Recordings

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

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  Borges: The Task of Art

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• 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…

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  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

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  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

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  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

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  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

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  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

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  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

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  The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness

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  How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot

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  This Hoarder's House Is So Messy and Dirty You Can See It From Google Maps

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• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

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• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark A challenge to God-guided mutations

  The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the idea…

  May 17 2012, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark “The Self” in the Future: Will it be Extinguished, by Neuroscience?

  I’m more hesitant about the idea that neuroscience will kill the idea of ‘the self.’ I think it might be a good thing if it did, but some ideas are recalcitrant…

  May 17 2012, 3:30am | Comments

• Bookmark The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)

  The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

  May 11 2012, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of the past back to…

  "We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the University…

  May 4 2012, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The animated history of the GIF

  The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of…

  May 4 2012, 4:45am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Just how big are porn sites?

  April 10 2012, 8:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  An Essay on the New Aesthetic

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Making of The Rings of Saturn

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Recordings

  March 29 2012, 12:50pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | 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

  Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

  March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Twitter

  We had a wonderful time with you

  March 9 2012, 6:11am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 5 2012, 5:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

  March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

  March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness

  February 29 2012, 2:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot

  February 26 2012, 9:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  This Hoarder's House Is So Messy and Dirty You Can See It From Google Maps

  February 23 2012, 2:50pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or a damp fizzle? If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from outer space for the next hundred years, on all frequencies, how many soap operas, advertisements…

  February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

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