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• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

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

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

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  Lars von Trier: the interview

  February 25 2012, 2:20am | 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

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

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• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

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  April 26 2011, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘World Wide Mind’

  Imagine it: a flower blossoming inside the brain, nanometer stalks splitting away from a micrometer stem. Expanding into every available capillary, touching every cubic millimeter of the brain, collecting terabytes of…

  February 17 2011, 3:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Night Waves: Is the Book Dead?

  Philip Dodd goes to one of Britain's largest second hand bookshops and is joined by a panel of publishers, authors and an audience of readers for a public debate that tackles…

  October 21 2010, 3:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants and us

  What do you think about when you think about ants? An aerial view perhaps, looking down at a line of ants moving along a trail. Go closer. If you stay with…

  October 11 2010, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The new wave of retro gaming

  Sometimes it's really hard to let go. Like that vinyl collection you've got stashed away in the attic or those VHS cassettes of movies that you've already replaced on DVD that…

  June 18 2010, 9:37am | 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 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

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Wave is Changing the News

  It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still…

  November 23 2009, 5:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

  October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark GOOD COPY BAD COPY

  A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

  September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers

  To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

  August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared

  In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus,…

  July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss - The Film

  This is the whole of the experimental film, It Felt Like a Kiss. It was the basis of the show [Adam Curtis] did in Manchester with Punchdrunk. The show may well…

  July 27 2009, 5:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss

  It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

  June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia New Scientist Technology Blog: Wiki wave sweeps on While one wiki has become a major feature of modern life, experiments with the medium are still continuing. One is the "wiki novel" started by established, conventional book publisher Penguin. Amillionpenguins is fascinating, chaotic and often perplexi

  February 18 2007, 3:41pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

  RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

  April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

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

  April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Lars von Trier: the interview

  February 25 2012, 2:20am | 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

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

  There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

  July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

• Portfolio Overlapping Magisteria

  April 26 2011, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘World Wide Mind’

  Imagine it: a flower blossoming inside the brain, nanometer stalks splitting away from a micrometer stem. Expanding into every available capillary, touching every cubic millimeter of the brain, collecting terabytes of…

  February 17 2011, 3:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Night Waves: Is the Book Dead?

  Philip Dodd goes to one of Britain's largest second hand bookshops and is joined by a panel of publishers, authors and an audience of readers for a public debate that tackles…

  October 21 2010, 3:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Ants and us

  What do you think about when you think about ants? An aerial view perhaps, looking down at a line of ants moving along a trail. Go closer. If you stay with…

  October 11 2010, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The new wave of retro gaming

  Sometimes it's really hard to let go. Like that vinyl collection you've got stashed away in the attic or those VHS cassettes of movies that you've already replaced on DVD that…

  June 18 2010, 9:37am | 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 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

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google Wave is Changing the News

  It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still…

  November 23 2009, 5:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

  October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• Bookmark GOOD COPY BAD COPY

  A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

  September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers

  To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

  August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared

  In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue. Thus,…

  July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss - The Film

  This is the whole of the experimental film, It Felt Like a Kiss. It was the basis of the show [Adam Curtis] did in Manchester with Punchdrunk. The show may well…

  July 27 2009, 5:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss

  It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

  June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

  April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments

• Wikipedia New Scientist Technology Blog: Wiki wave sweeps on While one wiki has become a major feature of modern life, experiments with the medium are still continuing. One is the "wiki novel" started by established, conventional book publisher Penguin. Amillionpenguins is fascinating, chaotic and often perplexi

  February 18 2007, 3:41pm | Comments

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