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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 Matters of life and death
Trolleyology encapsulates the deepest tensions in our moral outlook. To tease out our moral intuitions, philosophers have come up with ever more ingenious scenarios. The trolley is usually racing towards five…

October 11 2010, 3:39am | Comments
Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype
Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments
Bookmark Speaking Without Words: Dump.fm and Ryder Ripps
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of…

September 11 2010, 4:25am | Comments
Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?
Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments
Wikipedia Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't comprehensive or authoritative, but it serves as a showcase of situations where people lose sight…

August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Limits of the Coded World
In an influential article in the Annual Review of Neuroscience, Joshua Gold of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Shadlen of the University of Washington sum up experiments aimed at discovering…

August 11 2010, 3:07am | Comments
Bookmark The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated…

August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments
Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Reading in a Whole New Way
As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the Constitution,…

July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind
In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that…

June 29 2010, 11:49am | Comments
Bookmark Critical Code Studies
by Mark C. Marino The computer does not understand what it says. Literally speaking, the computer does not even interpret that code. When the function is called, the computer will print…

June 21 2010, 3:30am | Comments
Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers
Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments
Bookmark Smarter Than You Think - I.B.M.'s Supercomputer
For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human…

June 17 2010, 3:31am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments
Bookmark Gottschall's Problem
These are fighting words. But can the scientific model really be applied to literature? Some of the scholars I talked to regard science’s push into the humanities as an intrusion, an…

May 16 2010, 4:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Thinking Again
Then there is the odd privilege of existence as a coherent self, the ability to speak the word “I” and mean by it a richly individual history of experience, perception, and…

May 16 2010, 4:17pm | Comments
Metafilter Projects: HelloGrandad.com Hello Grandad is a collaborative blog between a writer and an illustrator. We duel with each other in an attempt to freak the other one out - responding with words to an image or with an image to a sequence of words. The…

May 1 2010, 9:09am | Comments
Wikipedia Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin…

April 22 2010, 2:50am | Comments
Bookmark Symphony in J flat
What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In…

March 9 2010, 11:55pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments
Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments
Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest…

November 30 2009, 7:12am | Comments
Bookmark A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families
Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?” No.…

November 8 2009, 3:01am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design, perhaps books that use online systems to extend their content value or push their form…

November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments
Bookmark Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful
A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of course,…

October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments
Bookmark Serpentine Gallery: Poetry Marathon - Holly Pester
Holly Pester is a performance poet currently working on a project with the Barry Museum in Manchester. I, raven, the is about the relationship between words and sound, and the title…

October 18 2009, 3:29pm | Comments
Bookmark On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the…

October 12 2009, 9:56am | 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

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