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• Bookmark The First Ever Samples From the Global Seed Vault Have Been Retrieved

  Deep in the arctic, inside over 400 feet of rock, a huge cache of seeds is stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in case of some global emergency. Today, the…

  October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Obfuscation | The MIT Press

  “By mapping out obfuscation tools, practices, and goals, Brunton and Nissenbaum provide a valuable framework for understanding how people seek to achieve privacy and control in a data-soaked world.

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Oil unlikely to ever be fully exploited because of climate concerns – BP…

  The world’s oil resources are unlikely to ever be fully exploited, BP has admitted, due to international concern about climate change.

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Winning the War on Climate Change Will Require a Technocratic Revolution…

  As the 19th century entered its final decade, the War of Currents was nearing its peak. On one side of this war was Thomas Edison, who had invested heavily in direct-current…

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Additivism Il ritorno del futuro

  Il ritorno del futuro A long piece - in Italian - about the current state of the future. With reflections on #Additivism, #Xenofeminism, #Chthulucene, #PostInternet: In true spirit of Marinetti, additivism chasing an ideal post-human to the edge of pornography; technological fetishism in their…

  October 5 2015, 10:40pm | Comments

• Additivism To Print a New Humanity

  In creating a thing, there is implicit a dream of making it appear spontaneously.

  October 3 2015, 7:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Climate Change Means One World's Death and Another's Birth | WIRED

  A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical…

  September 1 2015, 7:09am | Comments

• Bookmark V. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Gynocene: The Many Names of Resistance

  In my past postings, I’ve pointed out how the Anthropocene thesis can be roundly criticized for its assorted failings.

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark 6 Ways to Fight Climate Chaos | Novara Wire

  Climate change is an issue so big it can be paralysing. It doesn’t help with the paralysis that proposed solutions tend to be either hopelessly inadequate (change your lightbulbs! buy local!),…

  May 31 2015, 5:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:22am | Comments

• Portfolio A Shot to the Arse

  August 8 2012, 1:50am | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning

  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade

  A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

  May 23 2012, 9:44am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | 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

  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Delusions of Peace

  October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bibliography The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob

  August 31 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution

  Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

  July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments

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• Bookmark The First Ever Samples From the Global Seed Vault Have Been Retrieved

  Deep in the arctic, inside over 400 feet of rock, a huge cache of seeds is stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in case of some global emergency. Today, the…

  October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Obfuscation | The MIT Press

  “By mapping out obfuscation tools, practices, and goals, Brunton and Nissenbaum provide a valuable framework for understanding how people seek to achieve privacy and control in a data-soaked world.

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Oil unlikely to ever be fully exploited because of climate concerns – BP…

  The world’s oil resources are unlikely to ever be fully exploited, BP has admitted, due to international concern about climate change.

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Winning the War on Climate Change Will Require a Technocratic Revolution…

  As the 19th century entered its final decade, the War of Currents was nearing its peak. On one side of this war was Thomas Edison, who had invested heavily in direct-current…

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• Additivism Il ritorno del futuro

  Il ritorno del futuro A long piece - in Italian - about the current state of the future. With reflections on #Additivism, #Xenofeminism, #Chthulucene, #PostInternet: In true spirit of Marinetti, additivism chasing an ideal post-human to the edge of pornography; technological fetishism in their…

  October 5 2015, 10:40pm | Comments

• Additivism To Print a New Humanity

  In creating a thing, there is implicit a dream of making it appear spontaneously.

  October 3 2015, 7:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Climate Change Means One World's Death and Another's Birth | WIRED

  A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical…

  September 1 2015, 7:09am | Comments

• Bookmark V. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Gynocene: The Many Names of Resistance

  In my past postings, I’ve pointed out how the Anthropocene thesis can be roundly criticized for its assorted failings.

  July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark 6 Ways to Fight Climate Chaos | Novara Wire

  Climate change is an issue so big it can be paralysing. It doesn’t help with the paralysis that proposed solutions tend to be either hopelessly inadequate (change your lightbulbs! buy local!),…

  May 31 2015, 5:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion

  Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

  January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:22am | Comments

• Portfolio A Shot to the Arse

  August 8 2012, 1:50am | Comments

• Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning

  Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

  June 27 2012, 3:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Paradigms Regained

  The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

  June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade

  A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

  May 23 2012, 9:44am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | 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

  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Delusions of Peace

  October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bibliography The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob

  August 31 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark New York - Empire of Evolution

  Dr. Munshi-South has joined the ranks of a small but growing number of field biologists who study urban evolution — not the rise and fall of skyscrapers and neighborhoods, but the…

  July 26 2011, 1:55pm | Comments

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