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  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination

  Written jointly by philosopher of religion Charles Taliaferro and visual artist Jil Evans, The Image in Mind takes up a suggestion of Suzanne Langer that religious thought operates primarily with images…

  April 2 2012, 2:34pm | Comments

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  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it

  17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Knowledge, not the way you knew it 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark The truth is in there

  “I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what…

  June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Finding the Neanderthal within ourselves

  Like a disowned half-brother the Neanderthals keep hammering on our door, forcing us to face inconvenient truths. In the nineteenth century, fossil remains of powerful, thickset, short-necked human-like creatures with massive…

  October 22 2010, 9:12am | Comments

• Bookmark On the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth

  This text was originally delivered by Werner Herzog as a speech in Milano, Italy, following a screening of his film “Lessons of Dark­ness” on the fires in Kuwait. He was asked…

  October 17 2010, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cosmology, Cambridge Style: Wittgenstein, Toulmin, and Hawking

  That headline flashed to all corners of the media universe this month. Of course, we don't know whether a universe has corners. Truth is, we don't know much about the universe…

  September 30 2010, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cancer is something you 'Do'

  We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time.…

  September 23 2010, 5:06am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton - Gloom merchant

  The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends upon a wilful ignorance of history. It also depends upon a wilful ignorance of oneself – a refusal to recognise the extent to…

  June 12 2010, 9:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Cooking With Dexter - Free Bird

  There’s never been anything like the Internet for helping us find what we want. But when it comes to finding what we didn’t know we wanted, print is magic. Back in…

  May 28 2010, 4:23am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: If the past is a palimpsest, what are we? Ten days ago, Slate Magazine conducted an experiment modeled on the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984: they asked readers to look at eight photographs of notable political moments from the past decade and share their memories about each. Over 5,000 people…

  May 28 2010, 1:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Renaissance

  Zombies are “characters” in the sense recently revived by the critic Aaron Kunin—they are a type whose existence extends beyond any one work or even medium. This is why we can…

  May 1 2010, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Separate Truths

  It is misleading — and dangerous — to think that religions are different paths to the same wisdom. At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and…

  April 27 2010, 7:55am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | 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 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

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

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark For The Love Of Culture

  In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

  January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet)

  So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog name)…

  September 13 2009, 8:37am | Comments

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• Twitter Favourites

  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination

  Written jointly by philosopher of religion Charles Taliaferro and visual artist Jil Evans, The Image in Mind takes up a suggestion of Suzanne Langer that religious thought operates primarily with images…

  April 2 2012, 2:34pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Meaning/time=? [e-flux on Coked-Out, Motherless Robots]

  Are we moving too fast for meaning? That’s the argument put together by Franco Berardi in his essay Time, Acceleration, and Violence, published on e-flux. It’s the latest in an expanding…

  September 29 2011, 7:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Knowledge, not the way you knew it

  17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment”…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Knowledge, not the way you knew it 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark The truth is in there

  “I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know what…

  June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Finding the Neanderthal within ourselves

  Like a disowned half-brother the Neanderthals keep hammering on our door, forcing us to face inconvenient truths. In the nineteenth century, fossil remains of powerful, thickset, short-necked human-like creatures with massive…

  October 22 2010, 9:12am | Comments

• Bookmark On the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth

  This text was originally delivered by Werner Herzog as a speech in Milano, Italy, following a screening of his film “Lessons of Dark­ness” on the fires in Kuwait. He was asked…

  October 17 2010, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cosmology, Cambridge Style: Wittgenstein, Toulmin, and Hawking

  That headline flashed to all corners of the media universe this month. Of course, we don't know whether a universe has corners. Truth is, we don't know much about the universe…

  September 30 2010, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Cancer is something you 'Do'

  We make a mistake when we think of cancer as a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Your body is probably cancering all the time.…

  September 23 2010, 5:06am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton - Gloom merchant

  The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends upon a wilful ignorance of history. It also depends upon a wilful ignorance of oneself – a refusal to recognise the extent to…

  June 12 2010, 9:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Cooking With Dexter - Free Bird

  There’s never been anything like the Internet for helping us find what we want. But when it comes to finding what we didn’t know we wanted, print is magic. Back in…

  May 28 2010, 4:23am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: If the past is a palimpsest, what are we? Ten days ago, Slate Magazine conducted an experiment modeled on the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984: they asked readers to look at eight photographs of notable political moments from the past decade and share their memories about each. Over 5,000 people…

  May 28 2010, 1:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Renaissance

  Zombies are “characters” in the sense recently revived by the critic Aaron Kunin—they are a type whose existence extends beyond any one work or even medium. This is why we can…

  May 1 2010, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Separate Truths

  It is misleading — and dangerous — to think that religions are different paths to the same wisdom. At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and…

  April 27 2010, 7:55am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | 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 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

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

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark For The Love Of Culture

  In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

  January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Unveiled Divide

  November 10 2009, 11:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

  November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet)

  So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog name)…

  September 13 2009, 8:37am | Comments

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